Advice Needed For A New Cycling Computer

Personally, I'd spend œ20 on a wired computer with cadence (e.g. cateye astrale) and use the rest of the money for something else (like a nice track pump).

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Unless you're willing to fork out for a gps or power output enabled computer then i don't see any reason to spend more than about œ20. In which case i would also suggest the Cateye astrale 8.

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i got a blackburn delphi 4.0 and i highly recommend it, i got mine off ebay for around œ20 so it wasnt too expensive!

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Hiya, I got a blackburn delphi 2.0 - œ20 from Edinburgh Bikes. I like it but I wish I'd gone for one with Cadence function as many of the training plans I look at tell me to train at particular cadences. I'm almost three months into cycling but I'm consumed by it and want to know and record all the details of my rides. I'm already thinking of upgrading my computer at some point in the future.
Good luck choosing.

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Hiya, I got a blackburn delphi 2.0 - œ20 from Edinburgh Bikes. I like it but I wish I'd gone for one with Cadence function as many of the training plans I look at tell me to train at particular cadences. I'm almost three months into cycling but I'm consumed by it and want to know and record all the details of my rides. I'm already thinking of upgrading my computer at some point in the future.
Good luck choosing.
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If you're a data freak you'd love the garmin edge 305. After a ride you can download your route and view your cadence, speed, heart rate, height, gradient for the entire ride. There's loads of other data on there as well, whether or not it is useful to know is a different matter.

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just checked the price of the garmin - I think I'd better start saving :-(

I find the navigation is a useful feature as you can preplan your route and just follow a black line on the map page. This is great for training as you can find varied routes without stopping to look at maps, helps to keep the ride 'flowing'. The use of the rest of it is debateable, it would be quite easy to ride into a ditch at the side of the road because you were lookingat all the information on your computer. Not that i would know of anybody who's done that of course.

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dearo</i>

Gary,

Do you preplan the route on your PC and then down load onto Garmin ??

What if you take a wrong turn does it re-calculate ??

Please excuse my ignorance !

Dearo
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Yes, the route needs to be preplanned as it works by displaying a 'track' on the map screen. It is only the most basic of maps though as it is just a track on a blank page, although you can zoom in or out as much as you like near junctions.

You can either leave the unit on the 'map' page and just follow the black line. Or on the compass page a pointer will just point towards your next waypoint. I find it easiest to just skip to the map page when i am approaching a junction i am unsure of, it is easy enough to work out which road to take as the map aligns itself with your direction of travel.

In case you want this feature (the really useful one) and are not really interested in the others you can buy GPS units that can do this for much less than the edge 305. For navigation these units are actually better as you can download road maps which will make it easier.

I think the edge 305 is well worth the money however, especially with H/R and cadence sensors, and would happily buy another one tomorrow if i broke it.

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Dearo,

Take a look at the updated pictures at the link, now YOU have my bike LOL ;0) the 'puter on the stem is a Polar CAD 200 CS, it has cadence facility, is wireless and will store data which allows you to track your progress, you can download/upload, search on google and you'll pick one up fotr œ70 worth every penny.

Have you been out for a spin yet?

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Martin,
You should have said, I've get a brand new still in their packing, pair of Red Deltas, which are no use to me as my new bike (which I collect tomorrow) is having Keo Sprints which have a slightly different cleat.

Don't blame you for not wanting to get her wet, she wouldn't like it, not one little bit!

Ride report expected tho' soon as!

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stretching the budget a bit but you might get lucky with an Ebay bid on a garmin edge 205 GPS unit. i got one for just over œ70 (retail is œ169!) i have looked at the items the seller i used had sold in the past and the lowest sale was œ60. this seller is registered in USA but ships from Nottingham and seems to sell tons of these units everyday!



Wot, get up early and ride to work.... are you mad?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Hi, did it really ship from Nottingham? I've been looking at the same dealer on ebay, and I wasn't sure if it was actually shipping from the UK or the US. I didn't want to risk being hit with import duty. Also, are these UK or US models? Any problems?

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