Anyone have suggestions for a bike computer with both the primary and secondary readouts in fairly large numerals. And the computer is still pretty small. And in the $50 or less range (I don't care about advanced functions)

I don't want to spend the money ($300+) on new bifocal sunglasses or retrofit my Rx sunglasses with progressive bifocals.

I can read the primary readout (the MPH) with no problem, but the smaller secondary readout (avg speed, odo, max spd, etc) might as well be invisible on the Cateye I currently use

I like my stick-on bifocals, they are cheap and easy to install. Maybe they would work for you.
See this thread posting.

https://www.amazon.com/Sigma-1609-Cad...6046591&sr=1-4

Even before I broke down and got bifocals for cycling (stupid maps made by 20-year-olds), I was able to read the display on my Blackburn cyclometers.

The newer models seem to have reduced the number lines of text in order to increase the size of the text. Even so, I've never had either legibility or electromechanical issues with my older models.

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When I researched this two years ago, the Bike Planet unit had the largest display. My old perscription sunglasses didn't have bifocals and I could read it OK. It costs under $30 and is easy to find online, though none of my local bike shops carried it. Cheers, Dan

These might work with any computer.

I use a $12 Schwinn computer I bought at Target. Works fine, accurate, legible.

This one is also a possibility https://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/...jsp?spid=64408

P2

I use a Toe Peak I got from Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/Topeak-Comp-Fu...6112956&sr=1-8

Good readable read outs and easy to use as well as reasonable cost. With my old eyes the bifocals are a given for me to see and read. I do wish it was wireless but it mounted up easily and I routed along the front brake cable, per the usual means.

Bill

No worries for me I wear bifoccal sunglasses

I also use a Cateye, and agree that the small numbers along the bottom might as well be invisible.

My solution cost me $15.

This site: https://www.readingglassesshopper.com...d-goggles.html sells sporty glasses with a clear (i.e. non-prescription) lens, and a bifocal insert.

I can now read the Cateye and cue sheet with no problem, and I look just as "cool" as the guys with the $300 prescription Oakleys.

Picture:

Another seller of the bifocal safety glasses that I've been wearing for several years: https://www.safetyglassesusa.com/safreadglas.html

Not sure which computers have digits large enough to read in all conditions without optical help. I need that help with my VDO units.

I think they're the same. I go to the 'safetyglasses' site, and it leads me to 'readinglassesshopper'.

Next time get Transitions lenses. No need for "sunglasses".

Bifocals, you don't have to spend $$, seen some advertized on RBR recently but I can't find the ad, under $100
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I'm looking at the Bontrager Node 1

https://bontrager.com/node/computers/

Scroll up. Mine cost $15

I use Trek computers,for the large display,temp,and cheaper than Cateye.

Stick-ons work for me.

Unless you live where the temperatures get below freezing, when cold Transitions don't react to less light as quickly, so they can take a long time to lighten up...

Gonna try the little stick-on bifocal. Just $8 on amazon.

Thanks, Dan

For several years, my wife had photochromic lenses in her glasses. On one pair, the two lenses were not equally sensitive, so she would have this deadeye look for a while after coming indoors when one lens was clear and the other dark(er). I've thought about getting them, but I've yet to see any that darken sufficiently to my liking.

I actually only put one stick-on in the right lens. That leaves more of the road clear because there's nothing on the left lens, and I still can focus just fine when I look down at something close. I thought maybe it would make me cross-eyed or something but it doesn't. I actually started doing this when one of the lefty stick-ons fell off. I realized it works better with only one.

Plus now they only cost you $4

My progressive addition glasses with photochromic properties don't keep the wind and 'stuff' out of my eyes at speed.

I'm using cheap bifocal safety glasses per post #11 above. I use DeWalts...clear, gray, or yellow.

Eventually, I plan to move to some of those $500 gray tint progressive bifocals.