Originally Posted by Froze .
Your right, I'm wasn't intending to put down those that buy them, I just don't have a need or a desire for one. And while I was confused about the two different type of GSP's, the one your talking about is even more expensive and it doesn't really do a whole lot more then my $30 job other then being a GPS and maybe a HRM.. I sometimes take my 6 piece fly gear and do fishing (catch and release, little difficult carrying a fish home on a bike!), and then I may get off on a beaten path , but again I've had no need for a GPS to that either since I can find the fishing spot(s) again. But I understand why you want it, you may want to go back to a particular site during a different season to get a different picture of the same place. But for most cyclists when just cycling a GPS just seems more like a toy then a necessity. Some may argue that they have an HRM in it to, so what? You can pay $75 for a HRM and $30 or so dollars for a bike computer and still be at least $300 less then a GPS with HRM and bike computer. I also don't use an HRM in case your wondering, never had them back in the days when I raced, so don't see a need for them today especially since I'm not racing but mostly because I know where my body and heart rates are from 40+ years of experience. Could I improve with an HRM? Probably, but again I'm not racing anymore so I don't have a need for peak power.
Please don't anyone think for one minute I'm telling any of you that you don't need a GPS, or an HRM, it's just what I do. And I'm sure there are some here who know they don't need it and don't use one now, in fact I know there are some here who don't even use a bike computer...and that's ok, I ride a bike sometimes without a computer myself. Personally I don't really need the bike computer! But I like to keep track of the miles on the bike/components/miles ridden on that ride etc, thus it's entertaining.