The wire is coaxial (small wire inside a conductive outer shield) and is so fine that I found it impossible to work with. I can solder, and have built numerous electronic kits up to and including a 25" color TV kit (in a former, much younger life). My 63-year-old eyes are just not up to such fine work these days. (Perhaps I should buy one of those expensive, fancy huge illuminated magnifiers for a work station?)

I use the Cateye Astrale 8 computer on my recumbents, as it comes with a long wire. Other Cateye models can be special ordered with longer wire kits, but that can be a nuisance. My gripes about the Astrale: it is NOT possible to set a starting odometer value - you always start at zero on a new computer/battery, and when switching to clock mode, it always jumps one regular mode (distance to elapsed time, for example), requiring you to cycle through all the remaining standard modes to get back to showing distance when you drop out of clock mode. Otherwise it has been a very high quality, reliable computer - though a bit expensive.

Recumbent web sites? Try http://www.bentrideronline.com

I have also found http://www.bikejournal.com to be so valuable as to consider it life altering, in a very good way.




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