Customer Reviews

VDO Z2 Heart Rate Monitor and Cycle Computer

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This is not an inexpensive computer; and if a good definition of quality is to meet expectations, then I have been let down.

It works well enough but the bugs it has are quite annoying. Maximum speed and maximum heart rate are important metrics, yet sometimes when I push hard I see a speed or heart rate on the display and then I find that the maximum recorded is a couple of units below it. That's simply not good. If the computer captures a top rate well enough to display it, it should not be a problem to record it as the maximum. It's the easiest thing to do in software.

Also, ergonomics could be better. To start the next lap, for instance, you have to press two buttons at the same time. It is error prone and in the heat of the ride it is easy to fail to do it, so you do it a few times and then find that it skipped two laps. It's quite annoying.

I have emailed customer support about this complaints and I got no answer, so there you go. So much for German engineering...