Not like you needed an excuse. Right?

I used to have a CatEye CC-8000 "ATC" (All-Terrain Computer |8^) on my hardtail/hardnose MTB. It was a nice computer... it even had 10 memory slots. But the best part was that it was pretty well armoured and the sensor cable was really thick. It survived many crashes... one which had even sent it flying into the bushes and took me a half-hour to find it. I think the modern equivalent is the Enduro 2. Downsides to the 8000 was that it was fairly expensive ($80 at the time as I recall), didn't have cadence and only supported one bike. Currently I have a Flightdeck (3 years old) with the wired kit for my MTB and wireless on my RB. The sensor wires (on the wired bracket) and the head unit itself don't seem as rugged looking as my old 8000 but it's also come through the crashes on my MTB fine. I will have to say that for mountain biking and unless you care about the special Flightdeck features (gear indicators and whatnots), I would go with the Enduro 2. It's cheaper and provides all the other functions. For a basic computer or for RBs, I would also suggest the Velo and Mity series. A friend of mine has a Cateye OS which she found for a really good price and is pretty happy with it. Now if you're looking for all the bells and whistles, I'm certain you can spend a few hundred on ones with HRMs, PC interface kits and more gizmos you can shake a stick at. I've also seen people using their PDAs as bike computers. I think there's a few companies that sell sensor attachments for Palms. I'm not sure I'd ever go that far though.

I used to have an HB 100, for three yearsm and after about 25,000k on it, i have to throw it away , its a good computer while it lasted, now looking for a good one, haven't find any yet

I use the Cateye OS1 on my road bike and like it a lot. The display is quite large so there is no having to squint to see it or shade it from the angles of the sun. It keeps some nice data for you so you can log your mileages over the last day, week, month and year and you can turn features on and off depending on what you like to use and can get rid of the things you don't.

If that wasn't enough reason.

The fact that the weather has been great, but I haven't been able to ride my bike for 9 days is more than enough.

35,320miles slave to the 'puter,
I grew to love my CatEye CC8000.
I reckon you couldn't get one beauter.
It didn't wear out though I wore out many trousers.
Then I hit oily tarmac in Venezuela
Landed on my hip and slid for thirty meters.
So slippy nothing ripped so I didn't need a tailor.
But CatEye disappeared and I broke my femur.
Two heros put me in their cab and bike upon their trailer,
Took me to hospital, where I was the loudest screamer.
Private jet to Caracas, where they pinned my bone together.
Morphine morphine morphine and more and more morphine....errrrrr
A little blood short, I returned to Britain paler.
Now all I want is another CC8000 CatEye meter.

I know they don't make them any more, but can anybody find one for me?

Keep the rubber side down.
Richard

I got a Supergo branded wireless computer. No problems w. it yet. had it for about 4 months.

Thread is three years old..................

Please thank cogrotator, heh.

As a side note, to those of you who have computers going bad real quick, make sure the magnet's not directly over the sensor when you store your bike.
The magnetic reed switch makes a contact everytime the magnet passes over the sensor. But if the magnet rests over the sensor, it's a constant short and will drain your tiny battery like nothing.

My computer has a 17" flat screen monitor. I love it.

Good one. Stop being so darn smart.

Wow, never thought of that... interesting.

Interesting of you to find that out. Do work in the industry or something? I don't think it's ever happened to me or my cc, but then again, I almost never store my bike with the main unit still mounted. So now I'm thinking that that's good, because I won't have to go all anal and check that the magnet and sensor aren't lined up whenever I leave the bike for a while.....
Please forgive me for my resurrection job on this string. Have people just stopped having problems with their cc's, or have they just stopped using them all together, as some people advised earlier in the string?

The metal horse be with you.
Richard

I too have always made sure to never leave my magnet and sensor lined up when storing the bike partially because I knew how the sensors worked and also because I think I recall seeing that warning in early CatEye manuals.

My how time passes!! And I still haven't found a replacement for my long, lost CatEye CC8000. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!

Love the Cateye Strada

I was actually thinking about going to a wireless computer before reading the horror stories on this thread. Now that little, thin black wire does not look so annoying. Maybe when the technology has been perfected, I will reconsider.

My wireless friends don't have such horror stories if you exclude the occasional 100 km/h display, but they certainly eat more batteries than I do.

My wired commuter, a Cateye Mighty, has been running on the same battery since I bought it in 2002 or 2003. I run the wire along the brake cable so it doesn't look bad. Not perfect, but between that and the huge sensor/transmitter of the wireless systems, I'm not sure which is uglier.