{"id":34436,"date":"2026-06-09T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34436"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:27:42","slug":"bike-computer-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34436","title":{"rendered":"Bike computer died&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;darn, my bike computer died after the first ride today and for the first time, I can&#8217;t fix it&#8230;so I ordered the exact same one but instead of 18 bucks, it is now 25 bucks but I guess it should have gone up after tariffs and inflation..I looked at others but came back to the Cat Eye 7 since I already know how to program it and I know the battery lasts a couple of years&#8230;all of the others I looked at use GPS to measure speed instead of a sensor on the wheels and they all said that trees, buildings, and fog can make it stop reading and that describes my rides every day&#8230;and I don&#8217;t want to have a cloud account where they have all of my information about my rides and you need to download a smartphone app to be able to program the damn things&#8230;so, I guess I&#8217;ll stay old school as I have the past 7 years&#8230;and that is pretty damn good for an 18 buck computer&#8230;and the new one will be here today between 5 and 10pm so I can install it for tomorrow&#8217;s rides&#8230;might even go down and do an indoor ride so I only lose 5 miles today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;darn, my bike computer died after the first ride today and for the first time, I can&#8217;t fix it&#8230;so I ordered the exact same one but instead of 18 bucks, it is now 25 bucks but I guess it should have gone up after tariffs and inflation..I looked at others but came back to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bike computer died&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-34436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34437,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34436\/revisions\/34437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}