The Cateye Velo 9 has arrived today and I am in the process of setting it up. As of now, the unit has been configured to show km, the wheel size has been set to 700c and the time has been adjusted. The unit is sitting on the handle bar. The zip ties are yet to be fastened. Some of the wire has been wound up around the front brake cable. The magnet has been loosely attached. And the sensor is just hanging loose.
The unit looks very well built. But there is no screen protection though and it will be quite exposed to the elements. The unit's two adjustment buttons are like tiny dots on the back. One is AC, that is, all clear. The other is "Set". They are so tiny that you need a pin head to press them in. I used the head of a wooden toothpick to operate them. Setting the km/mile option or the wheel size was pretty intuitive. But it took me quite some time to understand how to adjust the time. Finally I managed to get it. I have still not been able to understand how to adjust the minute though. So I adjusted it at exactly 8 pm ;-)
After about ten minutes.
I set up the magnet on the spoke. Nearer the hub. The sensor has been fastened with one zip tie on the front side of the right fork. I am in two minds whether to have the unit sitting on the handle bar or on the stem. If I put it on the stem there is just one angle in which it can be set. Vertically looking up. But on the handle bar it can be set at an angle to make reading easy. I have checked that the sensor to magnet gap is sufficient and the unit is working fine.
Tomorrow is a holiday. So I will go out to field test the unit. It is a Japanese company but the unit is obviously made in China.
Today I also got a tripod kind of stand for the bike. But I am not too sure how to place the bike on it.
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