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Rode many miles with one in the late 70's early 80's. BRAN, RAGBRAI and many centuries. How did we ever survive ??

Fast forward to 2017. How can we live without our smart phones, smart watches, GoPro cams, cyclocomputers, GPS devices and should I even mention , wired and wireless shifting systems ???

How the bike cockpit has advanced. :love: KB

Yup. Had one of these, too.

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loved those odometers. made maps much more useful.

OMG ! I had a similar one, before I got the odometer , thanks . KB

I had one of those and loved it! Now I have a Garmin with sensors on two of my bikes. The more I use it though, the less I care about all the data it supplies. More and more I just don't care and just want to go ride.

Absolutely. Cycling was so simple. Just peddle and enjoy the scenery. KB

Speak of data, I kept a little 3x5 spiral notebook, with miles , ride time and any incidents. KB

Never used one, nor a Huret Multito, and not until the Cateye Micro did I use a cycle computer (still do). However, I did run a Cadet speedometer on my Schwinn Corvette 3-speed in the '60s.

In '77 I got a new yellow Schwinn Scrambler for my birthday. I ended up buying one of those speedos for it with money from my paper route (back when kids had jobs). One day the bike got stolen right out of the garage and that was the first time in my life I said a cuss word. But I ended up getting a new red Mongoose with motomags so it worked out.

I never used one because I am from the year 1984. I find myself grumbling about and immediately removing any odometers, cadence meters, etc. from used bikes I buy. I have a Strava app on my phone and have never used it. I love a clean looking bicycle, free of clutter, and that includes a fork blade with a wire coiled around it and a sensor zip-tied to said fork blade. Is my bike beautiful to behold? Yes. Does it ride nicely? Yes. Then let's get out there for a good ride!

It's fine if people employ meters and apps into stuff, and smart phones certainly have benefited me. Data is good/fun and I collect it and think about it elsewhere. You'll just never see something like that mounted to my bike.

Yep. At about 7000 miles it got tight. I finally removed it.

Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick....I had one.

That was the worst part. Like listening to a faucet drip. I have a couple in the drawer, but I doubt they ever go back on a bike.

Yep, agree. over the years, I've been stripping wires and zip ties off all my bikes. All but 2 bikes, have wireless, stem mounted computers. The stem mounted ones, keep things clean and neat.

Now that I'm 70, my wife insists that she knows where I'm at, on the bike. SO, I wear a smart watch, connected to my smart phone, stored in my rear jersey pocket.

Data is downloaded, stored in my laptop, for future analysis. KB

Somewhere in one of my spare parts bins, I have one of those.

Frankly, my early experience with mileage counters (Sachs/Huret Multito) was not that good as I ended up constantly looking at the thing while I was riding and ended up being so frustrated how it seems like it was counting the miles out sooooooooo sloooooowwwlyyyyy.....y.......y....y....y....y...y..y.y.....:twitchy::D
The not so used Mulltito ended up in my junk box after maybe only a year and a half on my bike. My Avocet 20 computer that came after it, was was a much better experience as speed was much more interesting to me than miles back then.....:thumb:

The good ones were made by Veeder (later Veeder and Root) in Hartford CT. This one came to me on a 1950 Norman Rapide (now in the hands of [MENTION=172428]photogravity[/MENTION]).

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That's probably the bike's original mileage:

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I still have a couple of the Veeders, including this very snazzy double one that logs total miles and trip miles (resetting it is a bit of a pain, though).

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They're incredibly well made and bombproof, but hard to calibrate. When I ride with people, they eventually ask, "what's that ticking sound?"

Thank you all for your responses. Very interesting subject. KB.

Yup. Some of them came with some kind of fiber striker wheel to make the ticking quieter. The Multito changed everything, but I never owned one. Avocets were my first computers.

I had one fitted to my bike in the mid 60's. Riding to school one crisp morning, peddling fast down hill, it suddenly got tangled-up in my front wheel spokes bring the front wheel's rotation to a sudden stop.

I think my head was buried 2" to 3" into the road surface. Boy it hurt!

A watch with GPS makes everything simple once again. No wires. No settings to fuss with. No need to ensure there are synchronized cyclometers on multiple bikes... Can definitely keep one if it helps you track speed and distance, but why not simplify?

Yep, that's what I'm using now, Garmin Smart Watch, and a Gamin app with my phone, couldn't be simpler, and I have 5 bikes. Also keeps track of individual mileage on each bike. KB.