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From: blb@cbscc.UUCP (Ben Branch)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Cateye Solar Beef
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 08:26:49 EDT
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My wife has had a Cateye Solar for about two years, and I just got one
a couple of months ago. We don't really have any complaints about the
mounting brackets; if you use the plastic strips that go under the mounting
bands, you can tighten it pretty darn well. It has gone out of adjustment
only once, and that was the cadence meter after putting the bike on the
back of the car for about 100 miles. It readjusted fine.

The cables aren't very aesthetic, but they haven't been a problem. There
is a plug-hole in the mounting unit attached to the handlebars (the one
the computer itself slides onto) for keeping the cadence cable jack out of
harm's way when the unit's not there.

We haven't ridden in a lot of sloppy weather, but there has been the usual
thunderstorm or two, and we haven't had any troubles (yet anyway.)

I particularly like the fact that the unit records your max speed, and keeps
your average speed to the tenth of an mph. I used to have a Pacer 2000
that kept average speed only to the nearest whole mph, which doesn't mean
much. Plus the Pacer's pressure-membrane buttons often had to be hit *just
right* to register, which was a big bore.