I totally agree about the instructions! Very bad indeed; something was definitely lost in the
translation from Chinese or wherever it was made. I did manage to turn off the blinking oil can and
wrench reminders, although it may have taken a half hour of poring over the two separate instruction
sheets to finally figure out how.
Byron Simms
"Edward Wong" <
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> "rich westerman" <
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> > anyone using one of these? opinions? would I need the long harness for
my
> > V2?
> >
> > tia
> >
> > rich
>
> I like mine! When this topic started, the Panoram was still in it's original box awaiting to be
> installed on my new bike. The long wire is L-O-N-G! It will definitely be more than enough for
> your V2. I had to coil it several times around one of my brake cables to take up the slack. Now in
> retrospect, I'd like to shorten it to make for a cleaner installation. I actually started a thread
> on this on the BROL "Technical Discussion" message board.
>
> Anyway, like another poster stated, it's like a dashboard for bicycles. Mine is mounted so that
> it's right in the center over the stem. The large numbers are easy to read. Last night, I had the
> chance to use the backlight to read the display. Very, very cool! I remember when I did the
> Moonlight ride at the Withlacoochie Trail this last April hosted by Regis Hampton and Wo Smith, a
> friend of mine who rides a Tour Easy asked me if there was a bike computer that you could see in
> the dark. None of us had an idea how fast we were going due to the darkness on that night. So fast
> forwarding back to last night as I glanced to the display in the dark kind of reminded me of that
> ocassion;-)
>
> Overall, I think it's a high quality unit though it remains to be seen if it will stand up for use
> in the rain. This is on my commuting bike so we'll see.
>
> One more thing. The instructions are way weird! Very graphical but short on words. Take your time
> as it took me over half an hour just to figure out how to set the wheel diameter. Maybe to another
> person the instructions will be intuitive and you may be one of them.
>
> Happy trails, Edward Wong Orlando, FL