Polar CS200cad Heart Rate Monitor with cadence

[Richard (Apples)]

Crap you cant ride underwater with it...

[tel]

Sean,
I have one of these. I got it from Phil S (Mosquito)
I find it a bit tempremental (s) and wouldn`t recommend it really.
Nothing I can put my finger on, just occasional funny readings.

Sigma do something similar, you might want to check them out.

Good luck

Terry

[mlocke]

Yep I got one.

Does everything I want and never really had any problems with it that weren't my own fault like putting my front wheel bakc on the wrong way round

I've had mine about 6 months and when I was looking there wasn't many otheres at the price that had all the features of the polar

[adrian]

[quote]
Anyone interested in a year old Cateye Micro Wireless for £15?

I'll throw in a fresh mount set as I'll need to cut the current straps of the set up.

[Graham O]

sean,

I bought a Cateye Strada from Google and had no end of problems trying to get it working. I have just sent it back and got a fancy cateye CW200 Heart Rate and Speedo for £53, again from Google. Anyhow, it looks cool, but again I'm having problems getting it working. It will only record speeds of up to 8pmph at the moment....

I think that the moral of this story is, that buying from a shop nearby is worth it for some items where set up is key..£10 is not that much for the service...

ta,

graham..

[Matthew Ives]

I had the CS100 and it was terrible.
The first one I had was dead on arrival, so I returned it for a replacement.

On the replacement one, the speed sensor was dead, so I went out and bought a new one. It worked ok-ish. However, the HR readings were totally unreliable. Sometimes they would just cut out and other times they'd give wildly inaccurate readings. Very annoying.

In the end I returned it.

I was speaking to Kevin Rynne the other week and he has a better CS version than me and he said his had never worked properly.

[David Lombari]

Sean, I hope it works ok and you don't have to rely on Ribbles after sale 'service', as I had to!

[Phil S]

[quote="tel"]Sean,
I have one of these. I got it from Phil S (Mosquito)
I find it a bit tempremental (s) and wouldn`t recommend it really.
Nothing I can put my finger on, just occasional funny readings.

[Andrew G]

HRM tend to go a bit mad occaisionally with power lines or other radio interference. If you ride close to a load of automatic doors they can zero as well, I think it's the same with cordless computers (poss not the newer digital ones). My HRM always goes to zero when cycling up to Selsdon and that road is a well known black spot for signals (phones etc).

I've also got a Strada, no problems great little machine.

[Snoop Doug]

Humiliation mate...? Forget ye not - ye have a 10 time about which I can only dream.....

I'll be helping out next Tuesday so get on down and ride! I'll either give yer a speed boost push, or else me Jolly Roger'll waft ye round the turn double quick.

Arrrrr

Snoop

[Andrew G]

I'd just look at the display and find the cadence figure telling me I should be spinning quicker, and the heart rate figure simultaneously telling me to stop PDQ.

[Phil L]

Hey Sean, have you considered something a bit more fancy such as a GPS based cycling computer. Before you assume they are too expensive, they have come down quite a bit in price ... [url=http://www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/garmin-edge-305hr-description.html?PHPSESSID=e9cc0d9e3f4b6166c758cc8f056912c1]click here for an example[/url]. Considering the features, £180 is not bad compared to some of the Polar offerings ... and for an extra £35 you can add a cadence sensor. You will be able to spend hours analysing your rides and races, plotting them on Google maps/earth, along with your speed, HR, cadence, altitude, etc ... just a thought.

[Rob C]

having used both polar and garmin products I'd say that I prefer the garmin. you don't get such an in depth analysis of your session with garmin but if you use it with motionbased you'll see that this doesn't matter.

[Stu Merckx Man]

cheers for the speedo sean, it really sets off the bike ....


but whats this about wheel settings???

stu

[Matthew Ives]

[quote]The polar chart says that for a 700 wheel or a 23X622 the setting for the wheels ize should be 2070, but for the cateye it was 2096!