Originally Posted by
stevel610
Perhaps a Joseph Lucas Mileometer or a similar one?

Finally a response that belongs in this forum. All the rest of these responses would get you banned for life if I was king o' the world!
Huret Multito would also qualify. Bulkier than the venerable Lucas, and plastic (ugh) but it has a resettable trip odo, and it's quiet. Belt drive!
The only spoke I can recall breaking on a front wheel had the striker of a Lucas screwed to it. Coincidence? Coulda been a one-in-a-million fluke I guess. The spoke didn't break where the striker was attached, it broke at the first thread where it went into the nipple. I think it was fatigue from all the tick-tick-tick. It was on that spoke for at least 10,000 miles before the spoke broke. Has anyone else ever heard of that?
Mark B