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Cycle computer
19 August 2022 06:35 pmI acquired a new (unused from charity shop -- looks like a cheap Chinese piece of kit) Blusmart Bike Computer for a few pounds to replace my old Cateye Velo model with the damaged wiring. This one happens to be a 'wireless' model, which means that you don't have to worry about cracks in the wires, but that the sensor/transmitter unit which fixes to the front fork has to be much larger and heavier than before, and includes a battery. ( Read more... )
I managed to remove the old model with all its cable ties, but struggled to fit the new one due to the fact that the plastic cable ties provided kept snapping when I tried to tighten them. The kit comes with two spare cable ties, and I thought I could see why... then the third one broke as I was trying to fix the sensor to the front fork, and I was a bit stuck :-(
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Final reading on the old odometer: 4081.9, representing a pessimistic total of 2390 miles since Covid, ignoring the various miles that failed to register because of the damaged wiring ;-p ( Read more... )
I managed to remove the old model with all its cable ties, but struggled to fit the new one due to the fact that the plastic cable ties provided kept snapping when I tried to tighten them. The kit comes with two spare cable ties, and I thought I could see why... then the third one broke as I was trying to fix the sensor to the front fork, and I was a bit stuck :-(
( Read more... )
Final reading on the old odometer: 4081.9, representing a pessimistic total of 2390 miles since Covid, ignoring the various miles that failed to register because of the damaged wiring ;-p ( Read more... )
