Simonb <sbennettatwiderworlddotcodotuk> wrote:
>No wires!
Anyone have any info on which cordless models are better at rejecting 'noise'? I broke my last
computer a few months back when I went over the handlebars[*] and forget offhand whether it was a
Cateye or Sigma... Overall it seemed pretty good, but it did suffer from obviously bogus readings
from time to time. For example whenever I stopped to swipe my (cordless) pass at work the pulses
from the doorpad would make it read something ludicrous like 95mph, which would persist even after
I'd moved past the pad, until it got a 'real' pulse from the wheel magnet. Doesn't take very many
seconds of that kind of reading to screw your averages and trip lengths up.
It could get into the same state while I was waiting at the lights too, if I was rocking back and
forth and the magnet happened to be near the sensor...
Pete. [*] 3 causal factors to that spill, 2 of them my own fault, so a Valuable Lesson to me... Lazy
maintenance meant my back brakes weren't very effective, then I was in the wrong place at the wrong
speed and then a black cab driver opened a door right in front of me. I overreacted, locked the
front wheel and somersaulted "gracefully" past the elderly cabbie. Damage limited to pride, a bit of
road rash and a bruised thumb, for some reason my bell got utterly destroyed, the computer was
damaged but struggled on for a few weeks in a "Westworld" kind of fashion. The records in my
backpack were fine though.
