by Stooge

I promised a couple of weeks ago to add these details to the blog. In summary, the home-made connector cable plugs into your PC serial port (or parallel port). The very simple software shows your speed, cadence and distance travelled on the PC screen, and saves the details to a file for your later scrutiny (if you can be bothered).

The beauty of the arrangement is twofold:
– It’s cheap. Cost of hardware is $10-$15 to build the cable. Software is free
– Quick setup on your back wheel – use blue tack

It’s not perfect, but it’s not bad. Recommended.

Get the software and instructions here.

If building the cable is too difficult for you – I’ll make you one for $20.

Enjoy 🙂

Stuart