There are mainly three different styles to do bicycle touring: there are those who devote themselves on Sunday with excursions, those who go for a few weeks of carefree vacation and those who travel in adventurous journeys in remote lands.
Generally, however, these three different cyclists are all interested in keeping track of the kilometers traveled. Knowing how much road you have traveled on your own vehicle is a source of pride and an incentive to pedal more and more.
For decades there has been a small and compact tool made for this purpose: the bike odometer. Despite the same functionality available today on gps navigators, smartphones, high tech clocks, the bike odometer has not lost its charm.
The bike speedometer is powered by a battery that often lasts for many months as the tool’s activity consumes very little energy.
The cost of a simple odometer for bikes is around 10-20 euros, the wireless version can cost about 30 euros.
1. Functioning of the bike odometer
Each instrument is equipped with a magnet to be mounted on the front wheel radius and a sensor that detects the passage of the magnet and then sends data to the control unit with a display attached to the handlebar via a cable.
The control unit records and processes the data by returning kms, current speed, average speed, maximum speed, and partial distances.
2.Mounting a bike odometer
This is a very simple operation, which takes just a few minutes. Just attach the sensor to the bicycle fork with electrician clamps. It must be fixed in such a position as not to hinder the passage of the magnet attached to a radius. The sensor cable is then rolled up, not too tight, along the fork to the handlebar where the display will be placed.
3.Setting the bike odometer
The only data he needs is the circumference of the wheel. Once inserted, following the model instructions at your disposal, the tool is ready to be used.