Is it still possible to buy ANALOGUE bike milometer?

[night cycler]

I`m interested in an analogue type milometer for the bike. Years ago (before the digital age kicked off ) you could buy them. The thing about digital is the pratting about setting them up etc. I’d just like to get one that clicks over the miles, no batteries, no messing . Any companies doing them?

 

[simon.r]

Google 'cyclometer'. Example - http://www.sdjsports.co.uk/retrospeedo1.html

 

[ianrauk]

Wow.. that sure takes me back.

 

[simon.r]

I've just noticed that the link is showing as out of stock. Here's one on eBay: http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/MILEOMETER-...0s-RACING-BIKE-CYCLE-/181872506578?nav=SEARCH

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I inherited one off my father's bike but the click-click-click got on my nerves. It ended up being posted to @User9609 . I suspect it may well be in one of those boxes for things that you don't really want to throw away but will never use again....

 

[Pale Rider]

The ticking noise as the wheel went around used to annoy me.

No adjustment, so it may not be very accurate, or it might be accurate enough, depending on the user's view.

 

[simon.r]

I'll confess to turning my bike upside down and spinning the wheel round for ages in order to get the mileage up

 

[Milkfloat]

I'll confess to turning my bike upside down and spinning the wheel round for ages in order to get the mileage up

You were not the only one, mind you this was 30 years ago.

 

[nickyboy]

Man, the pleasure of gazing at it (hopefully not cycling into the back of a parked car at the same time) when it was on 999.9 miles

Similarly, youngsters only familiar with digital odometers in cars have missed out on the real pleasure of watching the dials all roll over when you got to 10,000...20,000 and so on. I remember we would all watch it in the car.....what entertainment!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'll confess to turning my bike upside down and spinning the wheel round for ages in order to get the mileage up

Ha ha. You see, these days you can buy a cheapissimo computer from LiDL and then just leave it by the laptop and it'll do at least 45mph just sitting there. More confusingly, I put it down on a worktop in the kitchen this afternoon and found it doing 75 mph and it was nowhere near any electrical device. It didn't click though....

 

[winjim]

I had one of these that I found on the street as a kid. I spent ages twiddling the twiddler, trying to get it back to 00000. Never did manage it. I've a feeling I may have been twiddling it one way one day, another way the next...

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I've just noticed that the link is showing as out of stock. Here's one on eBay: http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/MILEOMETER-...0s-RACING-BIKE-CYCLE-/181872506578?nav=SEARCH

That one isn't all that retrro It has a plastic wheel. Mine had a little star-shaped metal wheel.

 

[Crackle]

Get with it, Grandad.

 

[snorri]

Do remember you have to buy the model built for your tyre size, there is no adjustment!

 

[stephec]

Man, the pleasure of gazing at it (hopefully not cycling into the back of a parked car at the same time) when it was on 999.9 miles

Similarly, youngsters only familiar with digital odometers in cars have missed out on the real pleasure of watching the dials all roll over when you got to 10,000...20,000 and so on. I remember we would all watch it in the car.....what entertainment!

Cars with those were easier to wind back as well.