|   What year and brand was the first cyclocomputer? | STEELYeyed
Jan 30, 2002 7:10 PM | | |
| Long Ago | grzy
Jan 30, 2002 7:18 PM | | Used to be a little mechanical counter that clicked over everytime the wheel went around. Then there was a mechanical speedometer/odometer device. These were computers in the sense that the abacus was a calculator. this was back in the 60's but I'm sure there was something before then for measuring speed & distance.
I seem to recall that Avocett (Palo Alto, CA) was amoung the first electronic devices around the 70's. |
| yeah but | bn
Jan 30, 2002 7:24 PM | | Avocet merely made them smaller. electronic ones were around, but they were quite large by today's standards. Before that, even banana seaters had speedometers and odometers. |
| Before the Avocet | Straightblock
Jan 31, 2002 3:57 PM | | I can't remember who made it, but back in the mid to late 1970's someone made an electronic speedometer/cadence meter that used 2 analog VU meters from a tape recorder as its display. One of my teammates had one & used it for several months until it died the first time it got wet. |
| They were around in the 1890s | guido
Jan 30, 2002 8:11 PM | | I have a book on bicycle history. It's got a pix of a mechanical counter that fit on the front axle, like the one described above. |
| Avocet C10 | BipedZed
Jan 30, 2002 9:00 PM | | First one I really remember was the black Avocet C-10 that came out around 1984. There may have been electronic computers before that, but the Avocet was the first one to gain mass popularity. |
| Anyone remember the giant Cateye Solar? | Tig
Jan 31, 2002 5:56 AM | | That thing was about 4 times larger than the ones we have now. You had to put it under a lamp to charge it back up unless you rode everyday. Mine came with a used bike so I didn't toss it out until it completely died one day. |
| Anyone remember the giant Cateye Solar? | nothatgullible
Jan 31, 2002 11:34 AM | | I used to have the Cateye Solar in the mid 80's. I even bought the heart rate monitor attachment but it wasn't very accurate. Good computer though. |
| Tossed mine a couple of years ago. Lasted15 years. nm | Brooks
Jan 31, 2002 2:15 PM | | |
| Avocet C10 | MikeC
Jan 31, 2002 6:32 AM | | I have one on my bench. Still works! |
| Wagon trains used crude odometers to measure miles. nm | Brooks
Jan 31, 2002 2:16 PM | | |
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