New Bike Computer!

Got a new bike computer in the mail today. The old one had been failing for a while, and I finally gave up on resetting it again and again a few weeks ago.

The new one is a Sigma BC 1009. Whereas before I got the cheapest bike computer I could find, this time I went with a manufacturer which had many models and got the second one up (as I've seen how much I used the old one).

Setup took about an hour between adjusting the default settings on the device and actually fiddling with the hardware. The display is very crisp, and the mileage seems a bit more accurate than the old one (which I thought might have been as much as 10% low, but I was never sure whether to trust it or Google's mileage). It has a few features that I like better than the old one (like the fact that average and max mph are recorded per trip, not per forever). And I was also able to enter the mileage from my old computer (something like 4427 miles, including all the recent resets). Oh, and where the old computer would have turned over after 9,999 miles, this one is good to 99,999.

To test it out, I took a ride out to Solano and back. And visited Pegasus Books there, of course. A bit too cold to be a really nice ride, but still a good excursion (totalling 5.47 miles, according to my computer, which is slightly longer than Google says, but I wouldn't be surprised if various inefficiencies resulted in that).

Apparently, I can also buy a "dock" to connect the bike computer up to my desktop computer and save data there. I may do that at some point in the future.