Wireless cycling computers

soup said:

soup said:

At £9.99 for Argos cheapies

Addendum:- cheapest "computer" I can find from Argos is £6.99

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3333169.htm

From the item:

Quoted message said:

Features include, speed, time, distance, RPM, K.cal and scan.

RPM? Does this cheapie computer measure cadence? If so that's a pretty good
deal.

Vødkäjéllÿ said:

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.

Theres some here:

http://www.mtbr.com/reviews/computer/

I've found that the cateye are rubbish, shame as the first cateye cordless
was quite good. The aldi one I got has been going for years, and works
well in cold temp's unlike many others.

Steve

Steve said:

Vødkäjéllÿ said:

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.

Theres some here:

http://www.mtbr.com/reviews/computer/

I've found that the cateye are rubbish, shame as the first cateye
cordless was quite good. The aldi one I got has been going for
years, and works well in cold temp's unlike many others.

Steve

Cheers I'll pass it on :-)

Tim Hall said:

And the clock's wrong already, 10 minutes out over a month.

I got one of these too, and found that my clock drifted by about the same
amount. Apart from that I'm quite happy with the thing.

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Tim Hall said:

Jim Higson said:

soup said:

soup wrote:
> At £9.99 for Argos cheapies

Addendum:- cheapest "computer" I can find from Argos is £6.99

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3333169.htm

From the item:

Quoted message said:

Features include, speed, time, distance, RPM, K.cal and scan.

RPM? Does this cheapie computer measure cadence? If so that's a pretty
good deal.

Anyway, as I was saying, if it's the same, RPM in this case is wheel
revs rather than cadence.

Strange - is there any reason knowing wheel RPM might be useful?

Vødkäjéllÿ said:

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.

Thanks

my experinace from a few years ago, was that if wireless the reporter
could shake loose and dispear into the moors, if wired could get tangled
and look messy.

but on the whole seemed good i don't bother so no adivce as such is as
to which ones.

roger

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Jim Higson said:

Strange - is there any reason knowing wheel RPM might be useful?

You're looking at it from the wrong end. The system can calculate wheel
RPM with very little extra effort (it's just a matter of scaling the
revs-per-time that it already needs to calculate speed), so adding it to
the display gives an Extra! Function! to make the thing look good.

(Not as bad as the "20 function" digital watch that turned out to count
"hours" and "minutes" as separate functions, mind...)

R

Roger Merriman said:

Vødkäjéllÿ said:

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.

Thanks

my experinace from a few years ago, was that if wireless the reporter
could shake loose and dispear into the moors, if wired could get
tangled and look messy.

but on the whole seemed good i don't bother so no adivce as such is as
to which ones.

roger

Cheers Roger