cycle computer

Like the others, it was fitted with a cycle computer.

Almost all cycle computers include digital clocks and stop watches.

I've taken more than a few spills while using my iPhone as a cycling computer with no damage.

As a bonus, the radio incorporates a cycling computer.

It released its first cycle computer in 1981.

It is a manufacturer of cycle computers, lights and reflectors, which sell worldwide.

In fact, if your cycling computer has a heart monitor built in, you'll actually be losing functionality.

A standard wireless cycle computer is what, $20?

The cycle computer is compact - usually no larger than an inch and a half square and weighing a couple of ounces or less.

If you already have a cycling computer, there's not much in LiveRider to justify the $99 price tag.

Transmitters strapped around their chests radio a running heartbeat count to their cycle computer or a wristwatch-style receiver.

Count how many times per second and the dimensions of the wheel etc. add a bit of basic maths and you've got a cycle computer.

I stopped to replace the punctured tube and somehow, while handling my bike in the process, I reset my cycle computer to zero.

Much like palm-size television sets and talking bathroom scales, the cycle computer is technological overkill, giving most consumers more functions and uses than they really need.

WHY NOW: Since their introduction in the mid-1980's, cycle computers have grown increasingly smaller, smarter and less expensive.

Most of these computers also serve as all-around cycling computers and can measure and display heart rate as well as riding speed, distance and time.

I was thinking of getting a cycle computer when I get my new bike on Monday, but this article reminded me I can just get a phone app.

He is well known as maker of training schemes that he writes for his clients as well as use of the SRM cycle computer.

And on his handlebars was a red cycle computer perhaps twice the size of Mr. Armstrong's in-season model, about the same size as the smallest of cell phones.

If you're a cyclist with an iPhone or iPod touch but without a cycling computer, you should check out the LiveRider from New Potato Tech.

HOW IT DOES IT: At their most basic level, most cycle computers simply count the revolutions of the bicycle's front wheel.

If people interested in getting an even more advanced (and expensive), iPhone cycling computer, check out the iBike dash (no relation to Apple, they just apparently also like iThings).

Cadence is nice if you're pacing yourself or training to race (assuming you can't keep a good 50-90 pedal RPM yourself), but any cheap "cycling computer" which you should already have will give you that.