Polar CS300 Cycling Computer and Heart Rate Monitor
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Polar CS400 Cycling Computer
Get It: $225.00
- Handlebar-mounted cycling computer for advanced riders with included heart rate monitor
- Measures incline with uphill or downhill steepness in percentage or grades
- Cycling Economy/Intensity enables you to predict your calorie expenditure
- Wireless cycling measurements: speed (current, average and max); trip; distance
- Estimated Time of Arrival feature based on your cycling speed
Polar CS400 Cycling Computer
Polar CS300 Cycling Computer and Heart Rate Monitor
| US $135.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Monday May-21-2012 17:28:25 PDT Buy It Now for only: US $150.00 Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list |
Polar CS400 Cycling Computer
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My recommendation: just buy the cheapest bike compute you can find, and leave it at that. The computer software for this thing is just pathetic, and the fact that they choose to us IRDA as the transport is ridiculous. Everyone pretty much has to plunk down the money for a USB IRDA adapter to get anything into the computer. Granted, given that their previous method was “Sonic Link” which was, no joke, beeping at the mic to your computer to transfer data. I bought Polar thinking it was best-of-breed. Wow, was I wrong.
The main reason I’m giving it a bad review now is it worked for a week or so, then it blue-screened trying to download a workout. Now I can’t get it to upload any data any more. No error messages, nothing. It just no longer works. How much time am I expected to devote to getting this to work?
This thing is pretty much going to turn into a speedometer and a stopwatch.
Rated: 2 / 5 Stars
Does not come with wrist band nor USB IR connection device. That would be helpful.
Rated: 3 / 5 Stars
This is my first cycling computer, having graduated from a Polar heart rate monitor watch. It’s a fabulous product – easy to use and read while on a ride. I haven’t used the software yet, but the idea of paying nearly $60 to buy an IrDA USB device with the poor ratings received to date is a real stretch. I’ll stick to manual data transfer until they decide to use a sensible transfer method and support Mac OS X.
The CS400 computer is easy to use and even allows you to tailor the information it displays for you. The installation instructions that come with the product, however, are absolutely atrocious! If they could spend a bit more time on those instructions and use actual photographs instead of drawings the product would be a breeze to install. A note of caution, the product as described herein already contains a speed sensor and bike mount, so there is no need to purchase those separately. The one option to consider is the cadence sensor.
In summary a product worth buying!
Rated: 4 / 5 Stars
I’ve used this cycling computer for about 300 miles now and have found it to be both accurate and easy to use. The unit is compact and set-up is simple. This is my first and only cycling computer, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I have been completely pleased with this product.
Rated: 5 / 5 Stars
After this device wouldn’t report speed properly (speed would be reported inaccurately or would not exceed a certain too-low speed), I contacted Polar customer service by email, but they were unresponsive to my request for help. I eventually fixed the problem myself by removing the battery for 30 seconds or so and then placing it back (in effect rebooting the unit). That did the trick; so I’d raise my review to 3 or 4 stars, but Amazon doesn’t let me corect that rating. This computer works fine, and I like the enhanced features (altitude, degree of ascent, temperature, etc.), but its inability to store multiple long rides is a real downside, as I often don’t have time to download one ride before proceeding to the next. The CS200 stores at least 5 rides (but with less data than the CS400). If this downside is not a concern, then this unit is a nice upgrade of the CS 200, but with memory so cheap, Polar needs to really needs to provide more memory for the CS400.
Rated: 1 / 5 Stars