Originally Posted by
Foldable Two
I have been using a Garmin Foretrex 101 for the last 2-3 years. It is wireless, is moved easily from bike to bike and does everything but Cadence and Heart Rate.
It can also be used for hiking and in the car - even plugged into my laptop as a sensor for Microsoft Streets and Trips. (We got lost driving through Virginia on vacation in 2008 and used that last feature to figure out where we were.) It also doesn't interfere with folding either the Dahon or the NWT.
It's not a slick cycle computer, but doesn't seem to have the problems many folks have with them.
I noticed they are available now for $110 on Amazon, likely lower elsewhere.
Interesting - I wonder how much power they use though. I have two gps devices, one an old early Garmin GPS that literally EATS 4xAA alkaline batteries in about three hours and the other, a small bluetooth GPS receiver which I use with my PDA, which uses less, but most of the work is being done by the PDA and the battery doesn't last long on that when in navigator mode. So how long does your battery last?
I just got my first wireless bike computer and fitted it onto my strida copy. It seems to work very well, even though it is pretty far between the sensor and the device. Like others have said, you do need to 'wake up' the computer by pressing a button, but that's no big deal, since I notice it isn't on within a few yards of beginning a ride.