Originally Posted by
CompleteStreets
Can anyone recommend a decent quality mechanical bicycle speedometer/odometer?...
Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Mechanical? Sorry, You're 50 years too late…
Originally Posted by
Little Darwin
Agreed. There is no such thing today as a quality mechanical speedometer/odometer. Even when they were around they usually wouldn't have gone well with QR wheels... but I was always partial to the odometers that hooked to the axle and had the little tab that was mounted to a spoke that would advance the odometer a partial turn for each revolution of the wheel. I think that type would be the least cumbersome on a QR wheel if you can find one…
Early in my adult cycling career in the 1970’s mechanical odometers were the only devices around. The most high tech innovation I knew of was by a nuclear engineer who fashioned a hard plastic striker to silence the constant
“click…click…click…” 
