Would like to get a computer for my bike. What would be good one with cadence?

Do you also want a heart rate monitor? What are you willing to spend? Garmin Edge 500 bundle ~ $250.

not interested in heart rate. just want something dependable and accurate.

Agreed on the 500. I have the new 800 and I really like it, but I bought it because I didn't realize that the 500 will do route mapping. In other words, you can download a route from mapmyride or ridewithgps and have the computer lead the way.

Heart rate is more useful than cadence. I use both but if I had to give up one, it would be cadence. I use heart rate to know when it is time to reduce my effort because once I hit max heart rate, I fail and need to stop.

I agree with others, I would look at the Garmin products.

While I have a Garmin and like it just fine.. if you want to spend less I'm a fan of the Cateye stuff. Like the stem mounting and simple functions.

That being said... If you have the money to spend I would suggest any of the edge units.. Including the older 305 that can be picked up pretty cheap(in comparison to the others).

my 3 cents.

Not to sound crazy but i am a long distance runner for a long time and my heart rate is never a problem for me. Were i live there is no hills and for the most part i ride solo have yet to get my heart rate that high. but i notice my cadence slowing over a long ride and just thought that it could keep me more at a steady pace. Now know i am a new rider and i am sure it will come soon enough that i will be gasping.

The Cateye Strada Double Wireless is working out fine for me. Just make sure to make the mounts secure. The first time I put it on, the magnet was sliding all over the place. And then the back computer started spinning around when I went on the MS150's bumpy roads.

Well, everyone is different. Where I live there are a lot of hills and climbing a long steep one can max out my heart rate. I need to watch my heart rate and back off if I start approaching my max. As for as cadence, I need to only watch so that it doesn't get to high. My number cadence is about 95 - 100 but I can easily go higher if I am not watching it.

I think any bike computer that comes with cadence is probably going to come with heart rate too.

I started with a Cateye. What caused me to move to Garmin is that I am at the age where I need to use reading glasses and Garmin has the largest font size of any bike computer I could find. I read it fine without reading glasses.

That is what i mean I know in Hills my heart rate would be very real concern just here I don't have any. On a 80 mile ride we might have 5 foot elevation change and that is going below sea level~!!

I have a Polar CS500 that I will be selling. I've used it for about a year. It has wireless cadence, speed and HRM. Let me know if you're interested.

I was looking at those it seems to have all I need. But have never seen one personally. Does it mount securely and is it accurate?

Yes, +1 on the Strada. I've had these on a couple of my bikes. For me, it's absolutely everything I need in a small, very light set up. Which ever one you get, just take a little time and install it correctly and it will be highly secure.

I'm quite happy with my Garmin edge 705. I was amazed at how much it changed my riding to have a cadence sensor giving me feedback. While I'm on gravel roads with many nasty (20% grade) hills, I rarely pay much attention to heart rate, it usually only tells me what I already know. Having it record it and then graphing it later is interesting, but I would agree that cadence is more useful.

It's a great price, fairly easy to set-up and use, and fairly reliable. If you don't want to spring for the Garmin, it's probably your best option. Unless you have a recent Trek bike that has a slot for the DuoTrap sensor... those are great because they screw right into the frame and you don't have to worry about it being knocked out of alignment.

What....do all you people work for Garmin or something?! sheese!!!

No, but I tried and I couldn't even get an interview. Maybe I should start bad mouthing their products.

Garmin 500 FTW

+1 This was my 1st bike computer and switched it to my wife's bike since she didn't want HR. Good and reliable ~ $80ish

Since you're a runner check out the new Timex Ironmans. They have GPS, HRM, and wireless cadence all in a watch. You can get a mount that attaches to your bar that you secure your watch to. Then when you're running you can use it as well.

I have a Cateye Strada Wireless that I am more than extremely happy with. It gives you speed, time, distance, average, clock, and some other stuff too. I find it accurate as can be and it only cost me $50. It doesn't do routes and elevation like the Garmin does, but I have my iPhone for that anyway.

20%? really?

That's what I have; it does the job.

No, but we go on all the websites and give bad reviews of Cateye products.