Hi Everyone
This is my first posting ever on a forum. I’ve been reading this forum for a couple weeks now, and have received so much good information and motivation. Thank you all so much. My question:
I would like to get an altimeter for my bike so I can know how much climbing I do on a ride. So many of the centuries, will include in their description how many feet of climbing there is. It would be nice to know how much climbing I do on my weekend rides, so I can have some idea of what I would be capable of on a century ride.
It seems there’s a couple of ways I could go. I could get a new computer for my bike which would include an altimeter. I was looking at either the VETTA or the VDO MC 1.0. Or I could get one of the really fancy, (as in expensive) heart rate monitors, that does it all. I was looking at the Polar S720i or the Polar S625X. They are both quit expensive, but I would be able to download all my stats directly to my computer, which would save me manually recording stats from the bike computer and from my heart rate monitor, which is what I do now.
Does anyone use the VETTA or the VDO MC 1.0 and do you like it? Those of you that use the fancy heart rate monitors, have you found them to be worth the money? Are they easy enough to operate, so you really use all the features?