Well, I deliberately chose the cheapest one available because my requirements were very minimal - I wanted to be able to put a GPX file on it so that it can draw a line on a screen. No maps, no colors, I just don't want to navigate with my phone. The BSC200 is alright for that.
One thing that's not great about it is that it often gets confused as to what direction you're going - if you select a route that goes somewhere and back, it will occasionally think that you're on the way back and give you the opposite directions - despite "knowing" that you're only 10km into a 120km route. It works best when your route doesn't overlap with itself.
One feature that I found myself to be oddly missing has to do with the elevation map - it can show you the history of your elevation as a nice little graph, but it can't tell you where the nearest climb is, how log/steep it is etc. Knowing the history of your climbing is much less interesting, and the data is there in the GPX file, just not utilized. If I was looking for a bike computer now, that's something I'd take note of.
That said, I paid about about 30€ for this one (not 20 I originally claimed - I checked and apparently I only paid 20 in my head :)). Knowing what I know now, and with how much use I'm getting of it, I'd be happy to pay 50 or 60 for something slightly better, but not more than that. It does the job, it's good enough for who it's for, it's never going to be perfect anyway and I have better ways to spend a garmin of money on.
Problem was resolved by a shop – but it took them a few days too. They diligently took everything apart and back together again, turns out everything was installed correctly, yet the rub persisted.
In the end, turned out that the top adjusting cone (part #3 on the chart) was actually crooked from the factory. They replaced it and it's now running smoothly as it should be.
Be careful with these cheap Neco headsets folks :)
I'm using an iGPSport BSC200, which I got new for about 20€. It has some sort of an app that I never used. It can be plugged into a computer (when turned off), to put .gpx files onto it and pull .fit files off of it (they can be converted to gpx later).
I store GPX files in a FitoTrack app on an android phone or a self-hosted fittrackee online when I remember. I plan routes with bikerouter.de.
I just checked that it seems to work with Gadgetbridge too, and files can be synced to and from. Neat!
Well, I deliberately chose the cheapest one available because my requirements were very minimal - I wanted to be able to put a GPX file on it so that it can draw a line on a screen. No maps, no colors, I just don't want to navigate with my phone. The BSC200 is alright for that.
One thing that's not great about it is that it often gets confused as to what direction you're going - if you select a route that goes somewhere and back, it will occasionally think that you're on the way back and give you the opposite directions - despite "knowing" that you're only 10km into a 120km route. It works best when your route doesn't overlap with itself.
One feature that I found myself to be oddly missing has to do with the elevation map - it can show you the history of your elevation as a nice little graph, but it can't tell you where the nearest climb is, how log/steep it is etc. Knowing the history of your climbing is much less interesting, and the data is there in the GPX file, just not utilized. If I was looking for a bike computer now, that's something I'd take note of.
That said, I paid about about 30€ for this one (not 20 I originally claimed - I checked and apparently I only paid 20 in my head :)). Knowing what I know now, and with how much use I'm getting of it, I'd be happy to pay 50 or 60 for something slightly better, but not more than that. It does the job, it's good enough for who it's for, it's never going to be perfect anyway and I have better ways to spend a garmin of money on.
Problem was resolved by a shop – but it took them a few days too. They diligently took everything apart and back together again, turns out everything was installed correctly, yet the rub persisted.
In the end, turned out that the top adjusting cone (part #3 on the chart) was actually crooked from the factory. They replaced it and it's now running smoothly as it should be.
Be careful with these cheap Neco headsets folks :)
I'm using an iGPSport BSC200, which I got new for about 20€. It has some sort of an app that I never used. It can be plugged into a computer (when turned off), to put .gpx files onto it and pull .fit files off of it (they can be converted to gpx later).
I store GPX files in a FitoTrack app on an android phone or a self-hosted fittrackee online when I remember. I plan routes with bikerouter.de.
I just checked that it seems to work with Gadgetbridge too, and files can be synced to and from. Neat!