Handlebar compass?

Has anyone seen a decent handlebar compass that doesn't look like the one
Bell puts out, i.e., a toy?

Pat

Pat Wrote:
Has anyone seen a decent handlebar compass that doesn't look like the
one
Bell puts out, i.e., a toy?

Pat
Have a look at your local scuba dive shop. Amongst other
manufacturers, Suunto makes a wrist mounting version which should
therefore fit lots of handlebar heartrate monitor mounts etc.
They are visible and have a faair amount of tilt movement in the dial
before it jams the pointer.


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Has anyone seen a decent handlebar compass

I had one for a while -- see: http://tinyurl.com/3huy9


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Pat Wrote:
Has anyone seen a decent handlebar compass that doesn't look like the
one
Bell puts out, i.e., a toy?

Pat
Have a look at your local scuba dive shop. Amongst other
manufacturers, Suunto makes a wrist mounting version which should
therefore fit lots of handlebar heartrate monitor mounts etc.
They are visible and have a faair amount of tilt movement in the dial
before it jams the pointer.

Also check the online REI catalog. They probably have the Suunto backpacker
wristmount compass, which may be cheaper than the scuba versions.

Be careful about mounting it near steel parts on your bike, if you care
about the accuracy. Try moving it around the bike, and see if the needle
moves off north in the location where you plan to mount it. If you have a
steel frame, it might be more accurate if you wear it on your wrist, where
you can pull it away from the frame when checking directions.

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Mike Barrs

I put a GPSr on my mountian bike (an etrex, with a bicycle mount). It
has a compass, and shows your speed, altitude, etc.. The main drawback
is cost (the etrex was $100 and the bike mount another $20). Also, the
compas only works if you're moving, as it gets info not from the
magnetic field but from it's change in positoin relative to the
satellites it's traking. However, that lets it show true north as
opposed to magnetic north, and it works GREAT! Does everything a
cyclocomputer does (except cadence) without the wires, plus has a compas
and altimeter.

Pat wrote:
Has anyone seen a decent handlebar compass that doesn't look like the one
Bell puts out, i.e., a toy?

Pat

Rich wrote in message ...
I put a GPSr on my mountian bike (an etrex, with a bicycle mount). It
has a compass, and shows your speed, altitude, etc.. The main drawback
is cost (the etrex was $100 and the bike mount another $20). Also, the
compas only works if you're moving, as it gets info not from the
magnetic field but from it's change in positoin relative to the
satellites it's traking. However, that lets it show true north as
opposed to magnetic north, and it works GREAT! Does everything a
cyclocomputer does (except cadence) without the wires, plus has a compas
and altimeter.

How heavy is this as compared to a cyclocomputer? And does it eat
batteries the way most GPS's do?

gds wrote:
How heavy is this as compared to a cyclocomputer? And does it eat
batteries the way most GPS's do?

I have two eTrex's (the old 2-AA models) on the handlebars, so as to watch
the breadcrumb maps at two different scales; at night, one of them illuminates
at every turn I've marked out, just as an amusement : they keep track even
when they can't see, and it sort of keeps you company in the darkness.

One I've stopped resetting, just to see if the odometer goes over 9999 miles;
an experiment almost completed once, but ruined when I got them mixed up
and reset the no-reset one by mistake.

I get 15-16 hours with 2200 mAh NiMH AA's. That's probably about what
alkalines would get.

You won't notice the weight.

It is, all in all, superior entertainment.

I have two because the page button fell off one - this seems to be the
failure mode in wearing out - and I ordered another eTrex as a replacement.
However, a temporary repair seems to be holding year after year, so now
I have two. Temporary repair - wad up half a packing peanut into a tiny
ball. If it cracks, it's the wrong kind of plastic. If it doesn't crack
but just wads, push it into the missing button hole, and tape it over with
high quality (!) say 3M electrical tape. Very important about the quality.
The result is a super button that apparently lasts forever, and is as good
as the original.
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Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Funny you ask, I bought one last night at a Meijer Store. It was in the
camping gear section of the sporting goods department for $4.95. It is made
to wear on your wrist with a velcro band that is to large for the handlebar
but I removed the strap and used zip ties to mount it with.
"Pat" wrote in message
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Has anyone seen a decent handlebar compass that doesn't look like the one
Bell puts out, i.e., a toy?

Pat

Make sure any compass you buy comes with directions.

Leo Lichtman wrote:
Make sure any compass you buy comes with directions.

This thread just headed south.

Bill "straight" S.