Frozen Cateye Computer... help!

[westtexas]

Morning ladies!

Sooo the roads out here in west Texas are crap. Because of all the heavy machinery hauling for the oil drilling equipment, the feeder roads for the highway where I ride are always torn up and pretty bumpy. Not normally an issue. However, due to extreme road vibration, my wireless Cateye Strada often fades in an out and if the computer isn't hitting a spoke then it's too far away for the cadence sensor to read. Usually a quick fix.

Well today I was riding in what was supposed to be an 8-10 mph SSE wind that actually turned out to be a 15-18 mph E headwind on the way back and I noticed that it continually said I was going 18mph. I thought, wow, I'm doing pretty good, but this really doesn't feel like 18! It kept up for a while, never wavering from 18. The cadence sensor wasn't reading, but I was having issues with it all morning. Eventually I stopped pedaling for a moment or two.. and it still read 18. None of the screens worked and you couldn't even flip between modes.

So... my computer is frozen. Anyone know how to unfreeze it? It's not like a regular PC where you can turn it off and on again (my usual strategy). I don't want to reset the whole thing because 1) I don't know how to pair it again and 2) I don't know what my last odometer reading was (~2k I think).

Any advice? TIA.

[Melalvai]

The most common culprit is the battery.

Unfortunately if it is the battery, and probably if it's not, you'll have to reset it. Bike computers do fail so it's a good idea to keep an eye on your mileage so you know what to set it to when you have to reset it. I have looked up the circumference factor so many times I have them written down-- and I actually know WHERE it's written down. I also know where the instructions are, because I've had to dig those out again and again. Typically well over a year later when I have no clue what logical place I stored it last time.

I'm not overly concerned with my total mileage so just knowing the ballpark is good enough. I like to keep track of how many miles ago did I get a new chain, a new cassette, that sort of thing. It's fun to know that in a week or so I'll be hitting 9000 miles on this bike. But it's not terribly important so when the battery does go (like it did a few weeks ago), it's not a huge deal that my estimate was possibly up to 50 miles low or high.