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Nick
a Weekend Warrior
from Kapiti, New ZealandDate Reviewed: December 13, 2006
Strengths: Clear, big display really easy to read. Very customisable. A few cute features like birthday reminders, 100km & 1000km reminders. Solid mounting bracket. Very complex analysis of riding with bar graphs of weekly, monthly, and yearly totals. Overall max speed means your all time max wont be wiped when the trip computer is reset.Weaknesses: Display seems to scratch easier than other products ive seen/tried. Fairly complicated to change settings. Too many buttons (5). Quite a big unitBottom Line: Great computer for the technologicly able, with loads of cool features. If you lyk things simple, give this a miss! Sturdy mounting for this chunky cyclo.
I have been using two of these across my bikes for a year now and after racking up 4000kms between the two i have had no problems with the battery life like others have mentioned.
If you need all the bells and whistles, this is definitely for you!
Favorite Trail: Mungatuks
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$41.00
Similar Products Used: Cateye Tomo XC
Bike Setup: 06 Avanti Lightning; 05 Specialized hardrock
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Randy Rathbun
a Weekend Warrior
from Independence, MO, USADate Reviewed: March 26, 2005
Strengths: Easy to use and set up, plenty of functionsWeaknesses: No cadenceBottom Line: This review is for the OS 1.1, which, from what I have heard, is a big improvement over the OS 1.0.
This thing is pretty cool. Lots of information from it in a small package. It draws graphs showing how much you have ridden, and has a lot of neat little Easter Eggs - it will tell you Happy New Year, Happy Birthday, and tell you when you do things like ride 100 miles, the length of Japan, etc.
It seems to be pretty accurate when comparing the speed to my GPS units. You can adjust your tire size down to the millimeter so you can get it to be pretty darn accurate.
I have only had one problem with it so far and that was shortly after I got it - the thing refused to do autostart. About 1 mile into my ride it suddenly turned on and started working. I have not had any trouble at all with it since, so think the problem was that things were not quite mounted right.
All in all this is one nifty little computer. If you like gadgets, you may want to seriously consider this.
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid:
$59.00
Purchased At: Performance
Bike Setup: Trek 4900
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Taylor
a Weekend Warrior
from Ottawa, CanadaDate Reviewed: December 30, 2003
Strengths: Has lots of statsWeaknesses: eats batteriesBottom Line: Don't bother I put this on my trainer which I did not ride too often and after 6 months I had already gone through two batteries. I cut my costs by buying another different computer.
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid:
$35.00
Purchased At: MEC
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SOYLENT
a Weekend Warrior
from Southern JerseyDate Reviewed: November 19, 2003
Strengths: Has some nifty little announcments like you have just traveled the length of Japan and Happy B-Day (yipee)Weaknesses: Not very reliable, Eats Batteries, crappy display, Product Support is SO-SOBottom Line: The OS1 started out to be a decent Computer on the Raod Bike but soon there were issues with the display fading and then showing black spots where black spots should not be. Then the thing got real cranking and started to eat batteries like they were going for wholesale (and they ain't cheap). I did get a rather good response from the Cats at Cateye but too little too late. There is only a one year warranty (this is probably for good reason). So, in closing you should save your money and by a lesser complex computer and buy TWO or THREE of anything else that will probably last twice as long. The setup is not a piece of cake either, by the by.
Favorite Trail: canton woods
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$60.00
Purchased At: Performance
Similar Products Used: Vette (junk), VDO (ok), Avocet (was good now crap), Specialized (ok)
Bike Setup: C-Dale SAECO, V-1000, and M-900 Cannondale Rocks
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Kyle Louie
a Weekend Warrior
from SeattleDate Reviewed: November 28, 2002
Strengths: Dead easy to setup, nice display. Works everytime. Long battery lifeWeaknesses: I don't have anyBottom Line: Great computor, especially if you can get it at the price I did.
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid:
$30.00
Purchased At: airbomb
Similar Products Used: HR 440 Cateye
Bike Setup: Truth XC
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kent
a Weekend Warrior
from Hong KongDate Reviewed: October 16, 2002
Strengths: Free OS.1.1 upgrade hehee ^^Weaknesses: After spending a month with my os1.0, i experienced some misc. problems such as:
computer won't start up unless i press the reset button.
Bottom Line: Previous to my old comments before, now i got an reply from Cateye Co. (Japan)
The OS1.1 free upgrade is now available.
I will sent my OS1.0 for upgrade
sweet ^^
will report again once i've test through the new OS1.1
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid:
$35.00
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a Downhiller
from gfhfdghdDate Reviewed: September 17, 2002
Strengths: Im gettIN THE NEW OS 1.1 CATEYE OH YA BAYBE. ITS GONNA BE PERFECT THE 1.0 WAS JUST A TESTER COMPUTER. THE 1.1 WILL BE OUT ON THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND I LOVE RIDING ON ATV'S SO THIS COMPUTER MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE ON A MOTORCYCLE OR ATV OR SOMETHING.Bottom Line: THE OS 1.1 IS COMING OUT.
Favorite Trail: fghhfhf
Duration Product Used: Tested or demo'ed only
Purchased At: d h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h
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kent
from Hong KongDate Reviewed: September 8, 2002
Strengths: the os has a clear view and easy to read , contrast adjustable, large display with lots of information showing(elpased time, faster/slower than average speed at your choice)Weaknesses: lack of display lighting. not ideal for 4-6 inches fork(the wires aren't long enough)Bottom Line: looking for better improvement for OS1.1
At US$35 which is a extremely bargain
I'll give it a 4 star product if Cateye will improve the computer with a light then it will be a 5 star product !!
Favorite Trail: urban area, cross country
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$35.00
Similar Products Used: NIL
Bike Setup: freeride HASA 6.0, mainly XT setup
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Rinks
from Gold coast, AustraliaDate Reviewed: September 7, 2002
Strengths: This computer has lots of great features, and is easy to use.Weaknesses: on just a couple of occasions it has failed and stopped reading, but afer i have stopped and had a fiddle with the reader it runs ok.Bottom Line: I dont regret buying it at all, and i seem to not be having as many problems as others say they have.
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Similar Products Used: CATEYE TOMO
Bike Setup: 2002 Mongoose Rockadile AL
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a Downhiller
from gfdhdfhfdhDate Reviewed: September 6, 2002
Strengths: I dont know hot e dg what i have to hgeklp you i am thinking aboyut butyyin did speeeeeeedometer so can someone tell me what this one does i am not getting this 1.0 because i think they made it wrong im gettin the 1.1 the new one.Weaknesses: i dont knowBottom Line: i got a question: does it show kilometers?
Favorite Trail: gfdhfdhfdhfd
Duration Product Used: Tested or demo'ed only
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: fdhgfdhfdhfd
Similar Products Used: what ahhhhhhhh
Bike Setup: kona DR.Dew
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MadD
a Weekend Warrior
from UKDate Reviewed: June 22, 2002
Bottom Line: This is a further further review. I had to change the battery recently, following the instructions in the manual, apparently its supposed to keep all ya data, well mine didnt, it lost everything. full re-set... i was well pi$$ed. nuther chilli gone... almost none now!
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$35.00
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Samuel Tyler Bayles
a Cross Country Rider
from Tucson, AZDate Reviewed: March 11, 2002
Strengths: noneWeaknesses: all. large, cumbersome, difficult to use, lame sensor, too large, short wire. DO NOT BUYBottom Line: terrible item. too many quirks. not easy to set up as advertisements state
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$40.00
Similar Products Used: cateye enduro 2
Bike Setup: specialized m4 comp
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MadD b0mBeR
a Weekend Warrior
from UKDate Reviewed: February 26, 2002
Bottom Line: Further to my earlier review. Now its stopped displaying welcome messages! after it spend all of january saying Happy new Year, come Feb and it just stops saying anything! HA.. getting a bit fed up with it now. wonder if CatEYE have released a newer version that actualy works properly. lost a chilli cos of that.
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$35.00
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MadD b0mBeR
a Weekend Warrior
from UKDate Reviewed: December 28, 2001
Strengths: Big Display, Contrast Adjustable, large memory, multiple trips.Weaknesses: SoftwareBottom Line: Very nice computer, personaly the messages do nothing for me. The adjustible contrast and personal milage i find most usefull. BUT, cateye need to sort out the software in this thing as it has some major bugs. 1: I always have mine on auto, on 2 occasions it has not stopped timing when stationary. 2: on about 3 occasions the unit has compleately locked up and needed a full re-set.
Tip: never try to change any setting whilst riding or timing, it seems to freeze.
5 for value, as i got it for half price 3 weeks after it was released. 3 overall due to the crashes, but its ok as long as u leave it.
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$35.00
Similar Products Used: Cordless 2 (died, transmitter not powerfull nuff 4 6 inch fork)
Bike Setup: Turner RFX, Jnr T, Enduro 4, Bulbs, (functional) porn
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Scott Petiot
a Cross Country Rider
from Calgary, Alberta, CanadaDate Reviewed: December 24, 2001
Strengths: Easy SetupWeaknesses: Lack of instructions to retain historical memory, even when instructions obtained from Cateye memory was still dumped on reset.
Locked-up 2 in 2 days, required a reset.
Extremely cheap and easily broken mounting hardwareBottom Line: Don't waste your time, this computer is way to expensive (for what you get) and does not work properly.
Favorite Trail: Fish Creek
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$65.00
Purchased At: B&P Cycle
Similar Products Used: Cateye Endro
Bike Setup: Specialized Rockhopper
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