- Electronics Color: Champagne, Electronics Model: RT277
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Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
Track and record your speed, cadence, and cumulative and trip mileage, and track your bike's service schedule with the Vetta RT277 Cycling Computer. This handlebar mounted computer helps you track your cadence, speed, and mileage with multiple functions including current cadence, average/maximum cadence, speed comparator and current, average, and maximum speeds, as well as cumulative and trip odometers. With a large LCD display with three screens, the computer is easy to use and read. And the computer also helps you keep track of important bicycle maintenance schedules with the service reminder function. Auto-awake and start-up help prolong battery life and EZ tire setup with wheel circumference setup make it a snap to use the computer.
Vetta RT277 Computer features include current cadence, average and maximum cadence, speed comparator, current speed, average/maximum speed, ride time, cumulative odometer, trip distance reader, 11 multi-freeze frame memories, 10 laps, a 12/24 hour clock, and auto awake and start-up. The computer is water resistant and can be used in varying weather conditions. Built to last, the computer has replaceable cover, and an extra clear front cover is included.
Specifications:
- Large LCD display with 2 screens
- EZ tire setup with wheel circumference setup included
- Service timer
- Auto awake and start-up
- Cumulative odometer
- Trip distance
- Heavy Duty, Metal Braided Cable
- Large LCD Display with 3 Screens
- Speed comparator
- Current speed
- Average/maximum speed
- Ride Time
- 11 Multi Freeze Frame Memories
- 10 Laps
- 12/24-hour clock
- Extra clear front cover included
What's in the Box?
RT277 Head Unit, Bladed Spoke Magnet, Composite Cadence Magnet, Spacer, Bracket Rubber Pad, Extra Clear Front Cover, Head Unit Battery (CR2032, 3-Volt), Wired Speed and Cadence Sensor with Mounting Bracket (with Heavy Duty Harness, for Rear Wheel Pick-up), Bracket Rubber Pad (Riser Handlebar), Zip-Ties, Wire Securing Tape
Manufacturer's Warranty
Three-year limited warranty
Product Description
Heavy Duty, Wired Speed and Cadence with Laps, Replaceable Front Cover.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The RT277 is one of the very few computers that will display cadence along with speed and trip distance. Cadence is the only other function that I care about most of the time. The other functions like ave/max speed, ave/max cadence are nice to look at once in a while and record in a log.
Installation was straight forward. The heavy duty wires are overkill and a bit bulky. They were long enough for a rear wheel mount on recumbent.
The included distance gauge MUST be used to set the gap between the magnets and pickups. The gap is less than other computers but works through wheel covers.
Programming setup was straight forward. Circumference is the way to go for wheel size.
The computer has been in service for 6 months and is reliable while commuting in all types of weather.
Only two disappointments - no back light for low light viewing and no two bike function. Both are features on other Vetta models which I mistakenly assumed were included with the 277.
Installation was straight forward. The heavy duty wires are overkill and a bit bulky. They were long enough for a rear wheel mount on recumbent.
The included distance gauge MUST be used to set the gap between the magnets and pickups. The gap is less than other computers but works through wheel covers.
Programming setup was straight forward. Circumference is the way to go for wheel size.
The computer has been in service for 6 months and is reliable while commuting in all types of weather.
Only two disappointments - no back light for low light viewing and no two bike function. Both are features on other Vetta models which I mistakenly assumed were included with the 277.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The Vetta RT277 is a bike computer that provides cadence, still can't get it to work right, and distance and speed (all ok here). I use this on a trainer in my basement...that is proabably all I would recommend it for. IF you plant to use it on the road, buy your own plastic zip ties. The ones that come with the computer are about as cheap and poorly put together as the instructions and the device itself. Altogether, it works but I'm relatively disappointed with the quality of engineering and thought into actual installation and use that went into this device.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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As a basic cycle computer, I really like the Vetta RT277. However, as some others have also noted in their reviews, the cadence feature does not work correctly for me. In my case, it registers too high a value - reporting my cadence as 240 (the apparent maximum) even when my actual cadence is only 60.
At first, I thought I might have mixed up the two (unfortunately unlabeled) sensor cables, so then swapped them, but with the same results as before.
All the other features work well for me, so I'll be keeping the unit anyway, but I really prefer having a working cadence, so hope the problem can be resolved. I have an Email support question in to the vendor about this, and will update this review if I learn anything useful from their response.
One more thing: the PDF manual posted on the manufacturer's site (listed here as a sponsored link) is quite a bit easier to read than the paper manual in the package.
Update 9/3/10: I've sent 3 Emails to customer service at Vetta this week, 1 asking for advice, and 2 asking for an RMA#, as required by their Website to obtain a warranty repair, and have received no response, so I've cut my rating for this product down to 2 stars.
I've now confirmed that passing either magnet next to either sensor cable registers as both cadence and speed/distance. Most likely there's a short somewhere between the two cables, causing them to both sense what only one should. Since the cables are not user-serviceable, I'll be returning the unit, either to Vetta (if they ever respond), or to Amazon.
Update 9/7/10: Vetta never responded, so I've just arranged to RMA the unit to Amazon for a refund, rather than replacement, due to the non-response from Vetta.
At first, I thought I might have mixed up the two (unfortunately unlabeled) sensor cables, so then swapped them, but with the same results as before.
All the other features work well for me, so I'll be keeping the unit anyway, but I really prefer having a working cadence, so hope the problem can be resolved. I have an Email support question in to the vendor about this, and will update this review if I learn anything useful from their response.
One more thing: the PDF manual posted on the manufacturer's site (listed here as a sponsored link) is quite a bit easier to read than the paper manual in the package.
Update 9/3/10: I've sent 3 Emails to customer service at Vetta this week, 1 asking for advice, and 2 asking for an RMA#, as required by their Website to obtain a warranty repair, and have received no response, so I've cut my rating for this product down to 2 stars.
I've now confirmed that passing either magnet next to either sensor cable registers as both cadence and speed/distance. Most likely there's a short somewhere between the two cables, causing them to both sense what only one should. Since the cables are not user-serviceable, I'll be returning the unit, either to Vetta (if they ever respond), or to Amazon.
Update 9/7/10: Vetta never responded, so I've just arranged to RMA the unit to Amazon for a refund, rather than replacement, due to the non-response from Vetta.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Works Good - But...
This little RT277 works very well - but...has several flaws when it comes to installing it. Number one has to be BOTH the speed sensor & the cadence sensor look the same! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Old Hippie
great computer instructions, not so much...
once i decoded the installation instructions, well once i put them aside and used logic, this is a fine cycle computer. Read more
Published 9 months ago by alevans
Love it
I won't go into the nitty gritty with this review. Basically the product is great and easy to use. It does exactly what you expect it to. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Howard W. Meister
Gone!
Do not buy if you plan on mountain biking. Use it 200 miles on the road, then about 1/2 in the woods before it fell of and GONE! Never to be seen again. The mounting bracket sucks. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Sting
cycling computer
This cycling computer gives me what I want (cadence, speed, distance, average speed and average cadence) in a format that is easy to read and which is simple enough for me to... Read more
Published on November 4, 2009 by David Rempel
Great bike computer with cadence
It took a good amount of searching before I was able to find the Vetta RT277, which also has cadence and under $30. Read more
Published on June 27, 2009 by E in CA
Vetta RT277
The installation was more complicated than any other cadence computer I have ever installed. The heavy duty cables are unwieldy, and the separate runs to the chainstay and... Read more
Published on May 27, 2009 by Archibald Currie
Great cyclecomputer
This computer works great. The wiring for the pickup is even long enough to mount the wheel speed on the rear wheel. Read more
Published on November 29, 2008 by Chris Cunnington
POS
I have had this for several months and still can not get the cadence to work. Don't waste your money on this POS. Read more
Published on July 20, 2008 by eBuyer Dave
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