jon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Gingerich) (12/24/85)
a Regarding the discussion of the Cat-Eye cyclometers recently, I saw a neat mounting job in a local bike store. You have to buy a rear wheel speedometer adaptor, which is a new mounting bracket for the handlebars with an extra long wire to a sensor for the speed functions. Bikecology has it for $10. You mount the sensor the chain stay as it used to be mounted on the fork. Then you take the wires of the speed sensor and that of the cadence sensor, which is also on the chain stay, and wrap them around each other. If you start by wrapping the cadence sensor around the speed sensor until the length have evened out, then wrap each around the other simultaneously, you will do a better job. Once the entire length of wire is in a tight spiral, you can use a couple of cable ties to mount it beneath the down tube and then mount the bracket on the bars. The wires are almost invisible, and the ties minimal, but the wires are held taut enough to stay out of trouble.
fish@ihlpm.UUCP (Bob Fishell) (12/26/85)
> You have to buy a rear wheel > speedometer adaptor, which is a new mounting bracket for the handlebars > with an extra long wire to a sensor for the speed functions. Bikecology > has it for $10. Actually, you can make do with the existing front-fork mounting setup. All you have to do is splice in a piece of wire, secured with solder and some heat-shrink tubing, and turn the sensor mounting clamp the opposite way, so as to hold the sensor close enough to the wheel. The magnet is mounted further away from the hub than on front wheel installations. I worked this setup when I mounted a wind trainer on my Miyata, and it's worked out fine both in the living room and on the streets. It's too bad that Cateye doesn't give you the option of choosing a front or rear wheel setup when you buy the kit. For that matter, they could just integrate the cadence and wheel sensor wiring into one harness. Oh well, who listens to me....? __ / \ \__/ Bob Fishell ihnp4!ihlpm!fish -- __ / \ \__/ Bob Fishell ihnp4!ihlpg!fish