Anyone using one of these? I bought one with my new bike and it's driving me crazy. It cost a lot of money (well, AUS$140), and I thought I was buying the best quality I could. Instead I have a cycle computer that works when it feels like it. It is a remote head wireless type, I have checked the sensor gap -seems all within spec, the computer body has a small cylindrical shape extruded in the back of the casing, that may be the sensor reading point (I don't know because the instructions are useless) and that can be obscured by the STI shifter cable at the handle bar. I tried tilting the body forward slightly so this point would have a clear view of the sensor and that worked for a while. But now it is back to its intermittant ways, regardless of position. Very frustrating, as I bought this computer with my new bike in the hope it would be a like an odometer. So far it's recorded about 85 percent of my rides...Great.
It never reads a change in speed without a 2 or 3 sec delay no matter what - maybe that's normal (not with my other cycle computers), but then when it's playing up it goes to zero, or sometimes it reads 199km/h. Often it doesn't like going over 20km/h, and decides it's too fast and stops working. Other times it'll stop mid ride, and just won't start working again. I have tried adjusting every which way, resetting the computer etc. It might work for a while, then suddenly doesn't. It seems to happen more often when the front wheel has been off, but then other times it's unrelated. Happens 10km into a ride.
Now I am no tech head, but I bought a wired BC-1 computer at Kmart, fitted it to a bike, got a Giant wireless for $90, fitted to another bike. Both recorded every turn of the wheel without fail. This VDO was fitted by the bike shop, but I can't see that they've done anything wrong with the install.
Aside from throwing the VDO in the bin and installing the Giant computer from my other bike, does anyone have any suggestions? VDO is well known in the auto industry, so are they just incompetant making cycle computers? I will take it back to the bike shop, but if it recovers itself and works, then the bike shop isn't really going to be able to do anything, are they?
It never reads a change in speed without a 2 or 3 sec delay no matter what - maybe that's normal (not with my other cycle computers), but then when it's playing up it goes to zero, or sometimes it reads 199km/h. Often it doesn't like going over 20km/h, and decides it's too fast and stops working. Other times it'll stop mid ride, and just won't start working again. I have tried adjusting every which way, resetting the computer etc. It might work for a while, then suddenly doesn't. It seems to happen more often when the front wheel has been off, but then other times it's unrelated. Happens 10km into a ride.
Now I am no tech head, but I bought a wired BC-1 computer at Kmart, fitted it to a bike, got a Giant wireless for $90, fitted to another bike. Both recorded every turn of the wheel without fail. This VDO was fitted by the bike shop, but I can't see that they've done anything wrong with the install.
Aside from throwing the VDO in the bin and installing the Giant computer from my other bike, does anyone have any suggestions? VDO is well known in the auto industry, so are they just incompetant making cycle computers? I will take it back to the bike shop, but if it recovers itself and works, then the bike shop isn't really going to be able to do anything, are they?
