Wireless v wired

[Iainj837]

I am looking into replacing my computer on my Defy and I unsure weather to stay with a wireless or go for a wired one like on my Dawes.
What's your preference ?

 

[ColinJ]

GPS! (Effectively a very good wireless computer and it can guide you round unfamiliar roads too.)

 

[Herbie]

I am looking into replacing my computer on my Defy and I unsure weather to stay with a wireless or go for a wired one like on my Dawes.
What's your preference ?

Wireless...less fiddly

 

[ColinJ]

Wireless...less fiddly

Except when the battery goes in the sensor, when it becomes more fiddly!

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Wired is my personal preference. Cheaper to buy, only 1 battery to replace*, no interference worries and I don't have to think about wheel orientation when parking up (I prematurely flattened the transmitter battery a couple of times on the wireless set by putting the bike away with the magnet next to the reed switch).

Edit:
*every 1 to 2 years

 

[Herbie]

Except when the battery goes in the sensor, when it becomes more fiddly!

Aye...never happened to me yet but thats a bit fiddly

 

[HovR]

Wireless. Never had any interference or the issue mentioned above. Batteries last months if not a year, and they're dead easy to replace, so that's not an issue. Looks neater and is easier to fit than a wired model.

 

[ohnovino]

Wired. Having had problems before with a wireless computer that would randomly stop working from time to time, I went back to wires. I also find the big wireless sensors really ugly, and prefer a little wired sensor with neatly cable-tied wires.

 

[mr_hippo]

I have a Garmin Edge 705 and a wired CatEye Enduro as backup. I have found that the Garmin sometimes gives a duff reading and wireless CatEyes are prone to interference from radio and TV transmitters and also mobile phone masts.
A added bonus for a wired computer for me is that I cycle alone and if I push the bike from a cafe to a toilet in a service station, I can just break the contact andwould not record but if I use a wireless even if I took the computer head off the bracket and put it in my rear pocket, it would still record and bring my average speed down not by much but would still affect my overall average speed