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Old 03-27-11 | 10:45 PM
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From: Royal Palm Beach, Florida

Bikes: 2006 Co-Motion Roadster (Flat Bars, Discs, Carbon Fork), Some 1/2 bikes and a couple of KTM's

We have been running the etrex up front. With our recent switch to a Sigma ROX 9.0 the GPS may be installed on the frame water bottle mount and used for emergency know where you are and GPS calculated (non barometric) amount of climbing.

Our navigation skills from route sheets has been less than awesome. A lot has to do with mileage differences from the master computer (car) or internet maps. We have always struggled with no easy way to do rapid resets for point to point distance on a route sheet, or had any luck with going off total mileage on the sheet compared to the bikes computer.

After a bunch of looking around, I could not find a bicycle computer that was easy to read without glasses and had the ability to do a single button reset.

Going back to my off-road moto fun, I convinced myself we needed an ICO checkmate enduro computer. Yes it's big and heavy compared to a cycling computer. But along with a whole bunch of racer data info, and having a large display, you can do single button resets and it will also autocalibrate itself to the route sheet totals during a ride very easily. Until she learns more about all the unit can do, she can currently see speed, total distance and distance from last reset, and time from last reset, plus time of day.

LMAO...If she figures out it's other functions she can program our start row, and keep us on our minute for checkpoints.

Sebring rally is this coming weekend, we'll probably be 100 miles in on a 60 mile route by the time we finish.

PK

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