Originally Posted by Russ9000
In the market for a new bike computer (mine doesnt have cadence) just wondered what you guys were using and if you were buying a new one what would you buy?
Didn't you have a skeleton avatar last week?
Anyway Russ, you could go all out and buy a Polar, Ciclosports, Garmin, or Timex cyclocomputer/HRM for megabucks ($300-800) and get features like HR, speed, cadence, altitude, temp, data downloads, etc
Or, you could save a few bucks and buy a cheaper HRM. Echowell make one with wireless cadence & wired speed ($160) and a cheaper one with wireless speed and no cadence.
Cheaper again you can get the HRM from Aldi which doesn't have cadence I dont think, but is a steal at $50.
From there you're into cyclocomputers that don't have HRM functionality. They range in price from $10 to $80 and all offer the same basic features: a clock, speed, return trip time, odo, distance, max speed, & avg speed. Only some models will have cadence, and the more expensive ones might offer wireless kits. But essentially they are all the same, and use the same technology that's been around for 20 years.
In the old days there were a few that had problems with water, but doesn't seem to be a problem these days.