What do with my ODO in the NY?

[summerdays]

I didn't have this problem last year as I didn't have a bike computer, but what do you reset on the computer at the beginning of the year?

At the moment I have been resetting the Trip Up each month (and the trip daily). Do you normally reset the entire computer at New Year or is the ODO a running total of the bike from the time that you get the bike computer?

Sorry it may seem like a daft question for the middle of the night but I was lying in bed awake... and it suddenly drifted into my head. Hopefully the hot toddy that I'm drinking now will help it to drift out again until morning time.

 

[Keith Oates]

Everyone has his/her own idea on this but for me I keep the total ODO reading going regardless of the year so I know how much I've done on the bike in total. I keep the daily total running just for each day and reset it at the start of each day. Depending on which computer you have there is a secondary total that you can use for a month total or for a trip if you are touring for example. I also use cyclogs to record what I've done each month but have been running my own design for an excel spreadsheet which has been going now sincce 2002!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dudi]

I dont have a cycle computer...
Another thing to add to the shopping list this year...

 

[Iainj837]

I keep the total ODO reading going regardless of the year so I know how much I've done on the bike in total.
I have distance 1 which I use daily or long rides, distance 2 for yearly mileage.
I got to 1064 miles then accidentally reset it all to zero but i had not long replaced my tyres so I had written down how many miles I'd done before changing them and i had worked out I'd done 52 miles on the new tyres

 

[Amanda P]

I don't think I've ever managed to have a computer actually work for over a year, so the question's never arisen!

If you're really lying awake worrying about this, throw your computer away. You don't need that kind of stress!

 

[Plax]

I reset the whole computer. I make a note of the years milage and the milage for each bike in my diary for that year (usually in the notes section at the back). I usually transfer all my diary information over into my new diary each Xmas (addresses etc), so I keep a running total. I use Cyclogs and Bikejournal too which has all the information on my rides logged. Sad I know!

 

[wafflycat]

Odo is for life, not just for Christmas..

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I have one computer that gets used on two bikes and I reset the entire computer at christmas. I just make sure I have noted the wheel size and remembered the miles, 4700 this year, about normal for me. Annual miles usually between 4000 and 5000, though I might have done more than average this year but I had 3 months when I did hardly any cycling.

 

[hackbike 666]

Keep the ODO mileage.I keep the mileage total in the calender section on my mobile every now and again.

Just in case I lose the mileage if the battery goes flat.

Reminded me I could fit a second spare ODO computer fingy.

 

[summerdays]

If you're really lying awake worrying about this, throw your computer away. You don't need that kind of stress!

I wasn't worrying over the computer and milage... just if I wake at night (quite often), I'm hopeless at going to sleep - my brain wakes up and just wanders from one topic to the next... so after half and hour or more I usually get up and resort to the hot toddy instead. (That was ingrained into me as a child - if I couldn't sleep or a cold I would have one... one of my sisters hated the whiskey but my parents believed in them - as I do). Put it this way Mr Summerdays doesn't drink whiskey, and I only drink it in the middle of the night - but we still need to buy a bottle or more a year. Now I feel like I should be going to AA.

And as I can claim work milage I need a computer.

I am keeping a spreadsheet - just in case I loose the thing. So maybe I will reset the whole thing.

 

[hackbike 666]

my brain wakes up and just wanders from one topic to the next.

I have done that and it winds me up,so I try and relax and not do it.

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

I reset the whole thing yesterday. I have my running total of "for ever", with breakdown per day / month / year / whatever, in a little MS Access DB I knocked up one evening. I use it to see when I last did various maintenance bits and bobs and so on as well.

Raises hand and confesses to being a geek and working as a programmer.

 

[summerdays]

I still haven't decided yet what to do... I've reset everything except the ODO, and probably won't be on the bike before mid next week (so a few more days to ponder over it). I've noted everything down.

And I even went out and took down all the details off Mr Summerday's computer much to his amusement (he wasn't bothered) - and I reset his to everything but the ODO. But I'm a bit more obsessive than him, and like to log my milage. I have just joined upto Cyclogs so I assume I will get in the habit of logging the details on there.

 

[hackbike 666]

I just like seeing those little numbers tick over to 10000 yet again.