Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-banzai!fisher From: fisher@banzai.DEC (Ed Fisher, DTN 381-2377) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Cateye Solar gets wet Message-ID: <3681@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 12:02:53 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3681 Posted: Wed Sep 19 12:02:53 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 07:18:30 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 27 Newsgroup : net.bicycle From : BANZAI::FISHER Organization : Digital Equipment Corp. Subject: Re: computers, wonder lights, foldups >Has anybody had any experience with the so-called bike computers? >What features are good, what are useless, which have the best human >interface, etc.? One more comment on Cateye Solar. I rode about 35 miles in the rain Saturday. After 25 (some of it very heavy) the Cateye refused to respond, no displays no reaction to buttons. My friend's Cateye behaved erratically. After several hours in a warm spot the Cateye came back to life, a few beeps at a time. The time of day clock had lost about 9 hours and the distance meters did not record about 7 miles. My biggest worry had been that it would have forgotten to 2000+ miles and the "magic number" setting but that was no problem. Moral to story: Carry a baggy for your computer with your rain gear. Ed Fisher Merrimack, NH (DEC E-NET) BANZAI::FISHER (UUCP) {decvax, ucbvax, allegra}!decwrl!dec-banzai!fisher (ARPA) fisher%banzai.DEC@decwrl.ARPA