Hey Bruco,

Well, I am an engineer, and that should explain it all. But, here is my reasioning.

I am not all that coordinated, and to take the hands off of the bars to try to change display to go from time / speed is somewhat distracting, especially for a non-coordinated sort like myself. Heck, I can crash even without trying to fiddle with a display unit with a small display....

The flight-deck can give me cadence without any extra wires to the pedals., so it keeps things clean without any extra wires running all over the bike.

And I did not find a display on the polar that shows a trip meter that displays while I am riding. So if I go fer a 40-mile backroad ride on a saturday, I have to remember the total mileage on the polar and subtract to get the distance that I have traveled on that day. Same for the weekend organized rides of 50/75 mi.

And the polar mounts OK to the handlebars, but it is a bit hokey to get on & off. If you get off the bike the flight deck snaps off quite quickly, but you gotta fiddle with the polar fer a bit to get it off or mounted correctly on the bike.


On the plus side, the polar does some neat things like plotting heart rate vs speed after a ride on the computer.

I will see - I have not ordered one yet, just looking into it.

Thanks to everyone for all the good advice!