"Vødkäjéllÿ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Please could someone recommend one, or give me a link to a forum where things are discussed. I'm not having much luck on google for reviews for them. Lots of adverts, but not many reviews.
Are they as good as wired ones? This is for a bike that will be doing off road mountain biking type work.
Why on earth would one want a computer for cycling, we used to have a trip counter and a watch!
That is in fact what cycle "computers" really are, electronic trip counters with a built in clock. One might actually argue whether a microprocessor that calculates current and average speed, cadence etc. and indicates top ditto should qualif as a computer. After all, calculators are still called calculators.
For the same reason that someone wants inflatable tyres on bikes, it may soon become fashionable to have GPS navigators on bikes!
That is in fact what cycle "computers" really are, electronic trip counters with a built in clock. One might actually argue whether a microprocessor that calculates current and average speed, cadence etc. and indicates top ditto should qualif as a computer.
But it probably has many time the computing power of the first computers. However in the OED the two words are interchangeable except calculators don't count :-):
Compute: To estimate or determine by arithmetical or mathematical reckoning; to calculate, reckon, count.
Calculate: To estimate or determine by arithmetical or mathematical reckoning; to compute, reckon.
-- Tony
"...has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate..." Douglas Adams; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
At £9.99 for Argos cheapies and ten mins work to fit it is an inexpensive way of telling the time on the bike (yes you can look at your wrist watch but any I have are much more than £9.99), oh and they give speed and distance as well.
Ditto - and in this weather (aka 'winter'😉 it can be hard to see a wristwatch under several layers. I also don't like a watch banging about on my wrist whilst crashing about rocky slopes on my MTB.
So I think I'll stay in the 21st Century rather than the 19th :-)
Alan Holmes wrote: you have heard the expression, 'there
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was a computer error'?
Very seldom does the computer make a mistake per se, usually it has been programmed badly or is working outside its parameters (wireless computer and overhead rail lines).
Why on earth would one want a computer for cycling, we used to have a trip counter and a watch!
You mean the old mechanical thingies circa 196notverymuch? A cam mounted on a spoke used to knock a star-wheel on the device mounted on the front hub. OK until hurtling down a hill where the star wheel woulg get nudged a little too far so the next time the cam would meet the star wheel end-on causing great twanging noises from the spoke.
Please could someone recommend one, or give me a link to a forum where things are discussed. I'm not having much luck on google for reviews for them. Lots of adverts, but not many reviews.
Are they as good as wired ones? This is for a bike that will be doing off road mountain biking type work.
I've got the cheap 9-function wireless one from H******s on my MTB
Given that Vødkäjéllÿ appears to be new on here I thought I'd better point out that H******s means Halfords.
Please could someone recommend one, or give me a link to a forum where things are discussed. I'm not having much luck on google for reviews for them. Lots of adverts, but not many reviews.
Are they as good as wired ones? This is for a bike that will be doing off road mountain biking type work.
I've got the cheap 9-function wireless one from H******s on my MTB and the wired version on my tourer. They're pretty much the same apart from the wireless one costing twice as much for batteries. I've got a Topeak wired one with cadence sensor on the road bike (50% off from H******s last summer) and I've found that really useful.
Chris
I asked this question for my bloke and I am pasting all the answers onto a word doc for him :-)
Please could someone recommend one, or give me a link to a forum where things are discussed. I'm not having much luck on google for reviews for them. Lots of adverts, but not many reviews.
Are they as good as wired ones? This is for a bike that will be doing off road mountain biking type work.
The early models suffered from interference. Current models have improved a lot, and shouldn't give you any problems. If you by one with a 'proper' brand name on then all should be well (I'm wary about cheapo no-name ones).
One thing to add is that I've lost two expensive Sigma units - the 'twist lock system' makes it to easy to cycle away with the unit not properly seated.
We lose ours because we take them off and put them somewhere safe ;-)
Why on earth would one want a computer for cycling, we used to have a trip counter and a watch!
You mean the old mechanical thingies circa 196notverymuch? A cam mounted on a spoke used to knock a star-wheel on the device mounted on the front hub. OK until hurtling down a hill where the star wheel woulg get nudged a little too far so the next time the cam would meet the star wheel end-on causing great twanging noises from the spoke.
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"Vødkäjéllÿ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Hi > > Please could someone recommend one, or give me a link to a forum > where things are discussed. I'm not having much luck on google > for reviews for them. Lots of adverts, but not many reviews. > > Are they as good as wired ones? This is for a bike that will be > doing off road mountain biking type work.
Why on earth would one want a computer for cycling, we used to have a trip counter and a watch!
Good for you - why not go back to your pre-internet lifestyle?
What has that to do with cycle computers?
Whoosh!
And?
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When a trip counter and a watch will do the job as accurately, why get something which may not be accurate, you have heard the expression, 'there was a computer error'?
Luddite!
Whatever that is?
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Cycle computers work and they're cheap, and they're less effort to use than a trip counter and a watch.
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Alan Holmes said:
Why on earth would one want a computer for cycling, we used to have a trip counter and a watch!
You mean the old mechanical thingies circa 196notverymuch? A cam mounted on a spoke used to knock a star-wheel on the device mounted on the front hub. OK until hurtling down a hill where the star wheel woulg get nudged a little too far so the next time the cam would meet the star wheel end-on causing great twanging noises from the spoke.
I don't ever remember that happening to anyone I knew!
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Peter Grange said:
Alan Holmes said:
Why on earth would one want a computer for cycling, we used to have a trip counter and a watch!
You mean the old mechanical thingies circa 196notverymuch? A cam mounted on a spoke used to knock a star-wheel on the device mounted on the front hub. OK until hurtling down a hill where the star wheel woulg get nudged a little too far so the next time the cam would meet the star wheel end-on causing great twanging noises from the spoke.
"Vødkäjéllÿ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Please could someone recommend one, or give me a link to a forum where things are discussed. I'm not having much luck on google for reviews for them. Lots of adverts, but not many reviews.
Are they as good as wired ones? This is for a bike that will be doing off road mountain biking type work.
The early models suffered from interference. Current models have improved a lot, and shouldn't give you any problems. If you by one with a 'proper' brand name on then all should be well (I'm wary about cheapo no-name ones).
One thing to add is that I've lost two expensive Sigma units - the 'twist lock system' makes it to easy to cycle away with the unit not properly seated.
We lose ours because we take them off and put them somewhere safe ;-)
That's funny I keep doing that as well, I must have thousands of things in a safe place!
