Every computer is different. The manufacturers are generally pretty good about keeping instruction manuals on their web sites.
If you log at bikejournal.com, the site will track both lifetime and annual mileage for each bike without needing to reset your cyclo-computer.
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01-02-2007, 12:50 PM #1
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01-02-2007, 01:06 PM #2
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I just updated my bj info - I didn't use it at all in 2006 (sorry!). So I'll need to add up all 3 computers to see what I did last year. That's why I thought it would be easier to reset them all - all 3 different computers. Then I'd know what I did at a glance versus having to be at a computer to know my miles. Thanks, though. Guess I need to look it up.
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01-02-2007, 01:17 PM #3
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On many models you have to press two buttons at the same time for a few seconds...
Be aware that you'll have to re-enter your wheel circumference...
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01-02-2007, 01:20 PM #4
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On my computers that resets the trip distance but not the total odometer distance.
Taking out the batteries on any computer probably resets the wheel circumference to zero.Frends know gud humors when dey is hear it. ~ Da Crockydiles of ZZE.
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01-02-2007, 01:32 PM #5
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hmmmm ... If you underestimate the wheel circumference, would that make you appear to be going faster than you really are?
yes I'm that desperate
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01-02-2007, 02:49 PM #6
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Quoth jobob: "hmmmm ... If you underestimate the wheel circumference, would that make you appear to be going faster than you really are? yes I'm that desperate"
Ummm, is there a solution there for me too? ... nope. darn. But since distance is number of rotations times wheel circumfr., a circumfr. of 0 would give you a distance of .... zero. Too bad. That won't get me to my goal either. And anyway, I use a gps.Half-marathon over. Sabbatical year over. It's back to "sacking shirt and oat cakes" as they say here.
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01-02-2007, 03:02 PM #7
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I think if you set the wheel circum. at smaller than your actual circumf. is, it would make you appear to be going slower than you really are, and it would also make you appear to have travelled fewer miles than you really had.
Originally Posted by jobob
hmmmm ... If you underestimate the wheel circumference, would that make you appear to be going faster than you really are?
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01-02-2007, 03:29 PM #8
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Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.
So 700 c wheels really are faster than 650B or 26"!
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