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Old 04-13-14 | 10:11 AM
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Bikes: Too Numerous (not)

Not intentionally adding to the negatives --but I fail to see the attraction of backlit displays on bicycles. Sunlight so totally overwhelms them that near total washout is the best case for viewability (and if they made a backlight that could compete favorably with sunlight, its battery would either weigh a huge amount or would die in a few hours). I use electronics, but my GPS is tiny, used for routing and trip computer functions, and has a transflective display that only gets clearer with brighter sunlight. Backlit in sunlight makes no sense to me.

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