Speedo's and Mountain Bike Computers

The speedo on my rangie is knackerd. It wanders all over the place. Probably
needs new unit and cable.

My question is:

As I have a spare bike computer in the garage. As a short term thing, would
it be possible to fit this to the rangie? I would need somewhere to fixed
mount the sender unit and somewhere to put the magnet on the wheel.

Has anybody done this before? or is this another one of my 'stupid'
ideas.........


Mark.,

"Mark Solesbury" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> The speedo on my rangie is knackerd. It wanders all over the place.
Probably
> needs new unit and cable.
>
> My question is:
>
> As I have a spare bike computer in the garage. As a short term thing,
would
> it be possible to fit this to the rangie? I would need somewhere to fixed
> mount the sender unit and somewhere to put the magnet on the wheel.
>
> Has anybody done this before? or is this another one of my 'stupid'
> ideas.........
>
>
> Mark.,
>
I think your problem would be attaching the magnet reliably. The pick up
will could be mounted off the caliper mount. You'd need to get your wheel
rebalanced after adding the magnet.

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:47:34 GMT, "Mark Solesbury"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>The speedo on my rangie is knackerd. It wanders all over the place. Probably
>needs new unit and cable.
>
>My question is:
>
>As I have a spare bike computer in the garage. As a short term thing, would
>it be possible to fit this to the rangie? I would need somewhere to fixed
>mount the sender unit and somewhere to put the magnet on the wheel.
>
>Has anybody done this before? or is this another one of my 'stupid'
>ideas.........
>
>
>Mark.,
>

I've used a bike computer on a motorcycle before and it worked OK.
I'm not sure they're designed to go above 50 or 60 mph, but that was a
while back and I don't remember so well!

My suggestion -- get a cheap GPS receiver. It makes a great
speedomoeter (used one for years in my rustbucket Ford Escort), and
you can use the GPS for lots of other things when not in the vehicle.