Does such a computer exist?

zimzum42
zimzum42 Posts: 8,294
edited December 1969 in Workshop
One that logs your milage, but doesn't display anything like speed etc to turn you into a commute racing freak, or that turns every pleasant ride into an interval session.....

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  • fluff.
    fluff. Posts: 771
    Could always mount one on the underside of the bars where you can't see it? :)


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  • Cunobelin
    Cunobelin Posts: 11,792
    What you need is:
    one of these

    Don't know where you will get one - and use is limited as they are wheel specific, and cannot be altered to suit tyre changes etc.



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  • photojonny
    photojonny Posts: 382
    Just stick a bit of tape over the display. I do this sometimes when I just want to enjoy the view, but the 'puter still logs the miles.
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  • vermootencp
    vermootencp Posts: 1,298
    Garmin 305 has a kind of main menu screen that I switch to when I don't want to see data but still want to record it.

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  • Rob Sallnow
    Rob Sallnow Posts: 6,279
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by zimzum42</i>

    One that logs your milage, but doesn't display anything like speed etc to turn you into a commute racing freak, or that turns every pleasant ride into an interval session.....

    ?
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    A Cateye OS1.0 or 1.1 is fully customizable in terms of what you can have it display...I'm not 100% sure that speed can be eliminated but everything else can...I only have speed, 24hr clock and trip distance to scroll through on mine. The manuals are usually available on the Cateye website in pdf format.
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  • currieinahurry
    currieinahurry Posts: 2,695
    just get a wireless and put it in your pocket.

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  • walkercp
    walkercp Posts: 1,012
    Mu Polar CS100 can change screen's so you can just see HR or Distance traveled, and blocks out the speed altogether

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  • Flying_Monkey
    Flying_Monkey Posts: 8,708
    On a related topic, is there an inexpensive computer with an altimeter that can measure height gain?
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  • Ravenbait
    Ravenbait Posts: 13,064
    Rob got in there with the CatEye suggestion before I did. I think you can only get the 1.1 now. They chew through batteries, mind, and the first you'll know of it is when they unexpectedly fail to start working when you take the bike out.

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    FM, I don't know of a cheap one that comes with an altimeter. The VDO is about 60 - 70 quid for the wired version. There's this one for 26 on Ebay. Never heard of the make.

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  • terongi
    terongi Posts: 318
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by vermooten</i>

    Garmin 305 has a kind of main menu screen that I switch to when I don't want to see data but still want to record it.
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    Garmin 305 also allows you completely to customise the data display by specifying how many items of data you display and what they are.

    Then you can look at what you want on the ride (eg distance covered, altitude, gradient) omit what you don't want and then you don't just have to look at a menu screen.
  • domtyler
    domtyler Posts: 2,648
    edited February 2011
    The is the new 'NO' computer available now. I have one for sale, I can let you have it for ?60, PM me and we'll sort something out.

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  • Unknown
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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 Flying_Monkey</i>

    On a related topic, is there an inexpensive computer with an altimeter that can measure height gain?
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    My Suunto watch does that.
    But I don't know which buttons to press.

    Best I don't know the truth, because I may find that I haven't done as much climbing as I thought ( feel) I did.

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