posted by betagirl wrote: "Wanted to get your opinions on bike computers and heart rate monitors."

I use a cateye wireless, and a Polar HRM. The HRM mounts on the bars of my roadbike when not on my wrist of course. I don't want tooooo much info while I'm riding. I use a hightech workout tracking softwear called a wall calender, compatible with pencil and post-it technologies ;-)

My ol' Trek had Flightdeck, which I miss for the sole reason it gave me both cadence and gearing. Cadence not so much, I have a feel for RPM (knees hurt-too low, knees feel good-just right) but I truly miss gearing, nice to know "I've never been able to take this hill in this gear before" or "wow, I've got one more gear". But it doesn't work with Campy Record.