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Sports
Instruments Circut 3
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Submitted by
sonny da
a Weekend Warrior
from antipolo philippines
Date Reviewed: March 27, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | pinugay | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | local sports shop | | Strengths: | inexpensive, replaceable batteries | | Weaknesses: | nada so far | | Similar Products Used: | first time user | | Bike Setup: | Wilier road/DA 8spd, Battaglin D/A 8spd, Marin pine mountain/cromo lx/xt | | Bottom Line: | just bought it over the weekend, this stuff's great. Been considering a polar but pissed off by having to send them back unit for battery change,(this is asia) luckily i walked in to this athlete's foot store. checked out the item, works great! anybody want a HRM consider this much cheaper and user servicable than polar!!! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bill
a Cross-Country Rider
from Austin, TX
Date Reviewed: November 9, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Strengths: |
Easy to read, big numbers
Easy to set up and change your upper and lower ranges
Accurate measures, no gaps or unexplained fluctuations (although I have never used it with a wireless computer, which may affect it) | | Weaknesses: |
Difficult to change screens (between HR and time) when it's bar-mounted. bar mount is not easy to use.
Not as many bells and whistles as others | | Bike Setup: |
late 80s raliegh technium with a mediocre Shimano group | | Bottom Line: | This is a no-frills HR monitor, but I don't think I would have the patience or really need to figure out the features of other more complicated monitors. If you're basically interested in how long you spent within your target range, it's a good monitor. The bar mount is just a big piece of rubber that wraps around your bar, and you have to buckle the monitor around it. It's a little trickier than it sounds, and not as easy as just clicking the HR monitor into place or something like that. Not a big deal, though, since you probably have so much junk on your bar there's no room for anything else. You'll appreciate this story: about the time I first started using the monitor, I locked my bike up one day, downtown, careful not to leave anything disattachable on the bike, except for that rubber bar mount, a non-descript black piece of rubber. When I came back, it was gone. | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Riddler
a Racer
from Montreal
Date Reviewed: October 11, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Strengths: |
Inexpensive
Easy battery change
Many features | | Weaknesses: |
None | | Similar Products Used: |
Manp Polars | | Bike Setup: |
Rocky Equipe
DeVinci Moonracer | | Bottom Line: | This heart rate monitor is much, MUCH better than any Polar unit. The price is about half, the readout is clearer, the batteries are easily changed! Man! You gotta be nuts to buy a Polar! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Adam
a Cross-Country Rider
from Australia
Date Reviewed: July 11, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
6 months | | Strengths: |
Value for money
Good looks | | Weaknesses: |
Strap | | Similar Products Used: |
Polar | | Bottom Line: | Great HRM, Has everything I need and nothing I don't. Batteries can be changed in transmitter by anyone (unlike Polar), Waterproof and not bad looking (unlike cheaper Polars). The bike mount also works really well. I used a friends top of the line Polar last week and it didnt perform as well as mine, gave erratic readings and reading dropped off a lot. The only thing I didnt like was the strap, but thats personal taste and something cheap to replace. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David P
a Cross-Country Rider
from Vancouver, BC
Date Reviewed: July 5, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Whistler | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
low cost and ease of battery change | | Weaknesses: |
none so far | | Bike Setup: |
Olmo (Columbus G) racing bike with full campy
Giant ATX-780 with Marzocchi Z.3 lite | | Bottom Line: | I bought this HRM for $98 canadian, which I noticed a company was selling from their ad at the back of TV guide. The reason I bought it was because, it came with a bike mount and is water resistant! And you can change the battery on the transmitter, something you can't do with Polar easily. And besides, it's MUCH cheaper than a comparable Polar or Cardiosport HRM unit. I took it mainly for cycling and the high/low limit is a great addition for training to improve my cardio zone. I will definitely recommend this to anyone as best value for the buck. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom
a Weekend Warrior
from Newark, CA
Date Reviewed: June 12, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
Inexpensive, good support, still works | | Weaknesses: |
none | | Bottom Line: | I've used this monitor swimming, biking and running. It has always worked well. I recently lost the chest strap at a race. I called Spors Instruments and they are sending a replacement for free. Great customer service never broken down. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Willy
a Racer
from SLC, UT
Date Reviewed: June 10, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Wasatch Crest, UT Cottonwood Canyon, LV, NV | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Inexpensive | | Weaknesses: |
None as yet | | Similar Products Used: |
Polar | | Bottom Line: | I've had this only a few months but it has worked great. I used it during a stress test with my doctor and it registered within 4bps of their equipt. Last week I had a race on Sat and when I got to the small town that the race was in I noticed the battery for the HRM was dead. I had an hour so I thought I'd try a local grocery store to get a battery. They had the battery(very common) and it only cost $1.83. The batteries can go dead every other month for that much.
Great HRM, great value. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mikael
a Cross-Country Rider
from La Ronge
Date Reviewed: May 16, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
6 months | | Strengths: |
good inexpensive heart rate monitor, you can set the upper and lower limits | | Weaknesses: |
none yet | | Similar Products Used: |
none | | Bike Setup: |
cannondale f700
sports intruments circut 3 | | Bottom Line: | this heart rate monitor is worth the money, i got it from a catalog for only 105$(cdn). well worth it. same features on a polar are like 100$ more
this was well worth the buy. if you buy a heart rate monitor watch, look into this one, or go buy it now. you won't regret it | | Overall Rating: |
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