Just wondering if anyone else shares my feelings. I've been using my old Lezyne Mini for 2-3 years and have had mixed feelings. First of all the battery life just sucks now. I have to recharge it full after every ride to be sure it lasts the whole way. The user interface, the way the buttons work has been kinda awkward the whole time, not intuitive to me at all (probably a personal thing). I've also had a couple inconvenient freezes. Just a couple, but enough to have lost confidence of its reliability. It's really easy to transfer across bikes though, that's for sure.

I enjoyed Strava for a while but as I don't race a lot anymore and I'm not that light, chasing those seconds for the KOM's on those crazy short steep climbs we have over here is not my idea of fun anymore and I just don't see any other value in it for me. I can time myself on these climbs if I want to and compete with friends riding with me. Navigation would be nice, but then again I really don't need it, as I usually have my phone with me. Tracking rides is nice, but do I really want to spend time looking at my rides and places I've been and the routes I've taken? Not sure. My couple years worth of Strava history is all there to see but the time that I've spent looking at my rides (or other peoples rides) is close to zero minutes.

I've been looking for a new GPS to replace the Lezyne but I can't find anything that I like. Most of these computers are needlessly big, with poor battery lives. It seems a lot of people have had all sorts of issues with reliability, especially with Garmin but also other brands. I kinda like how small and industrial the Lezynes look, but even they actually sit quite tall and look a bit clunky to me now. It's not that I can't afford these but none of these are cheap, some of them really expensive.

Cycling should be simple anyway. So I'm going back to a basic cycle computer. I'm looking at the Cateye Strada Slim. Beautiful, simple machine with batteries that probably last for years on me. Sensor sits unobtrusively inside the fork. The thing weighs 12 grams (I guess not including the sensor, road.cc says 25 grams total). I can just go out and ride and see all the data I really need, and if the magnet has not moved around, I can be pretty sure it's going to work. I have 4 bikes that I ride and I could buy every bike it's own good quality Strada computer and it would still come out cheaper than a mid-range Garmin. All this just sounds too good to be true! Which highlights how stupid I might have been wanting things I don't really need...