computer-less commute

[Red Light]

I find it strange not using a simple cycle computer. I see it as driving a car with a broken speedo. I only glance at it occasionally but I like to know it's there. It is also of great benefit when following a route that gives directions in distance (after 200 meters turn right.....)

Driving a car with a broken speedo is illegal and you could end up breaking the speed limit. Cycling without a speedo is perfectly legal and you can't break the speed limit except in certain rare conditions.

I just found that I ended up watching my speedo and whether my speed was higher/lower than average/last time leading to me competing with myself. Now I'm going as fast as I'm going and I just listen to my body telling whether the effort I'm putting in is just right or not.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Driving a car with a broken speedo is illegal and you could end up breaking the speed limit. Cycling without a speedo is perfectly legal and you can't break the speed limit except in certain rare conditions.

I just found that I ended up watching my speedo and whether my speed was higher/lower than average/last time leading to me competing with myself. Now I'm going as fast as I'm going and I just listen to my body telling whether the effort I'm putting in is just right or not.

I agree with 1st paragraph completely. As I said in a later post it is irrational but I find riding without a computer strange. Am not going to demand compulsion

 

[Digital_Cowboy]

Driving a car with a broken speedo is illegal and you could end up breaking the speed limit. Cycling without a speedo is perfectly legal and you can't break the speed limit except in certain rare conditions.

I just found that I ended up watching my speedo and whether my speed was higher/lower than average/last time leading to me competing with myself. Now I'm going as fast as I'm going and I just listen to my body telling whether the effort I'm putting in is just right or not.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree with ya on that. There are a few roads around me that I'm able to get up over the speed limit without "breaking a sweat." Even if it's only by a couple of miles over the limit. But it isn't much of a problem to do.

 

[fenfirsttimer]

Having just got a simple computer to tell me how far I am going rather than how fast, I met someone last night who said DON'T use one.

When he was young and keen he had been cycling at just below 40 mph and put his head down and all his energy into trying to get up to 40mph and ended up going into the back of a car and having a nasty accident as he was so transfixed on the mph on the computer . I have no reason to disbelieve him but thought 40mph was VERY fast.

Don't think I will ever be doing that but it did remind me of the importance of looking where you are going!

 

[Digital_Cowboy]

Having just got a simple computer to tell me how far I am going rather than how fast, I met someone last night who said DON'T use one.

When he was young and keen he had been cycling at just below 40 mph and put his head down and all his energy into trying to get up to 40mph and ended up going into the back of a car and having a nasty accident as he was so transfixed on the mph on the computer . I have no reason to disbelieve him but thought 40mph was VERY fast.

Don't think I will ever be doing that but it did remind me of the importance of looking where you are going!

I'm sorry, I'm going to have disagree. I want to know both how fast I'm going (but when one is flying down the street at 30MPH on a bike, that is NOT the time to be looking at one's computer. And how far I have traveled.

Such as the other day I was traveling down the road and was doing 30MPH (actually more like 29.7MPH), yes I was hammering, and yes I was tucked so as to be as aero as possible. And I very carefully positioned myself so I could glance at my computer and then resumed my concentration on the road.