Originally Posted by
Trek75
+1. A few years ago I bought enough Cateye Velo 2s for all our bikes. Nashbar was blowing them out at the time, $12 or $15 apiece if I remember correctly. So each bike has its own computer but I can always take a spare from another bike if need be.
As another poster said, I use computers primarily as odometers in order to know when maintenance is due.
+1+1 I have a Cateye Mity 3 on 3 of my bikes, also Nashbar $12 items many years ago. They have almost the same features as the current Mity 8. Great bike computer, very reliable and rugged. Many Cateyes have a dual trip feature which lets you use one trip measurement for the present ride and the second trip measurement to track miles or km between maintenance events such as swapping out chains. Having the same computers on different bikes also helpful for trouble shooting. If a bike computer is not working right, swap it out with the computer on another bike and see if the problem follows the suspected bad computer unit or if the problem is with the mounting unit or magnetic sensor. I prefer a wire connection from sensor unit to base unit to avoid the RF issues on some wireless units.