> Tell ya what I would like to see. I ride w/o a cycling computer, only a
> wrist watch. I would love to see a SIMPLE, wrist watch based wireless
> computer. A watch most of the time, when ya get on the bike, push a
> button, and now it shows speed and distance. Off the bike, push button,
> it's a watch. Small, simple,
>
> NOT heart rate, or GPS or power or anything else...anybody heard of
> such a thing?
Peter: What you ask sounds so simple, and yet is so difficult.
The issue is wireless. It takes four times the power to transmit a signal
twice as far, so the distance between sending unit and your wrist is a major
issue; every time you remove your hands from the bars, you'd probably lose
the signal. Plus, they conserve power by attempting to transmit in a
fairly-narrow beam, and this only works when you have a fixed position for
the receiver (wrist watch).
Heart monitors don't have quite as much trouble because the max distance
from transmitter to wrist watch... well, trying to figure that out now, but
it's not much more than two feet. Plus, when you lose the signal, you're not
messing up your distance figures (which may be important to some).
And finally, perhaps you're a lot younger than I am, or, as an ex fighter
pilot, have exceptional eyes? I'd have a difficult time reading the numbers
on a wrist watch. Easier to focus on something that sits in one place.
I'm going the opposite direction (why don't I think that comes as a surprise
to you?) and getting one of the Garmin 305s when they come in.
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
