Today's Joke

[Mark G]

[QUOTE=Graham Breeze;683313]

Just remember the little mechanical bike distance recorders with a little cog wheel on the end that clipped to your forks with a little spike on your spokes that hit the cog on every revolution? Click, click, click, click....
Or in some cases click.........click......
click...

Yep. Told you all you really needed to know...and even allowing for inflation they didn't cost upwards of £500.

Yes, but it's weird. Buying a new bike in about 93 I splashed out on one of the early electronic bike computers. If I remember correctly it would display speed and elapsed distance and cost about £20. Or you could pay a little more for one that also gave you average speed and a pace arrow. And they were wired of course. £20 seemed like a lot of money back then - I think Walshes were about £30. So a (very) basic bike computer cost about 2/3 the cost of a decent pair of fell shoes. Now shoes are £100+ but you can buy an incredibly sophisticated bike computer for less than I paid originally.