Originally Posted by
rl249
... I'm having a hard time trying to find the one that isn't insanely expensive. All I want my bike computer to do is work as a gps.... What bike computer would be best purely for gps?
Your mobile phone. There are cases and mounts to put your phone onto your handlebars.
A separate, GPS-enabled, mapping cycling computer costs $200 to $500; it sounds like you already consider that range insanely expensive.
There are portable GPS devices which are not bike computers specifically for under $200, such as Garmin eTrex.