New Potato Technologies LiveRider Cycling Computer for iPhone/iPod Touch Retail Packaging - Black

New Potato Technologies LiveRider The Good:Great box, great service department, it does what it actually does very well meaning, speed, max speed, ride distance, avg speed, cadence, avg cadence, ride time, calories, nice ride graphicsThe not so good;1. No instructions - $3 box but no 10 cent instructions.2. Deceptive and disingenuous marketing: e.g., "GPS features providing location and tracking, and accelerometer features to record inclination" from their website.3. The pretty screen says "Ride Map". The LIveRider does NOT map or "track" the ride. It shows your curent location. Accelerometer does not record anything for a user to view. This website statement is disingenuous crap.4, The ride record is in a useless .txt format. Service dept told me it's a CSV but it is not and there's no way to alter the file that is emailed.5. There is no cumulative odometer....just individual rides so useless as replacement for conventional cyclometer6. Speaking of which my wireless cyclosport suffers massive intereference from the iPhone....a fact LiveRider knows but has not revealed on their website. Your wireless cycle computer may be worthless when the iPhone is on.7. The "lifetime battery" they fail to mention except in the fine print has no specs (remember no instructions) so no way to know who's life is the measure for lifetime or how to replace the battery.8. In use the LiveRider appears to suck down the iPhone battery about as fast as being on a phone call. For my iPhone that's about 4 hours so the LiveRider won't handle a long ride. This is another fact that is not specified or revealed by LiveRider but they must be aware of it.9. The warranty is different if you buy direct from LiveRider vs buying from one of their recommended partners on their web site. This is not revealed unless you have an issue.....worst practices for a company that wants to provide great customer service. I had to fight LiveRider accounting for postage...not a big deal but the ethics bothered me.10. The cradle rotates no matter how tight I made the zip ties. For $100 they might have included a 10 cent antifriction shim. I've had to fool with this a lot.11. The website doesn't bother with simple points like the green light on the dongle must flash or the connection is not being made. A bunch of zeros means the connection is not made. If the chain link doesn't say "start" the connection is not made. It would take 10 minutes to write this up but remember - no instructions in the pretty box and darn little but marketing hype on the website.LIveRider is planning upgrades and new features. They just don't bother telling us unsuspecting customers. We'll see if they decide to give us new features that should have been included at no additional cost. I wish I could rate this thing higher but it is hugely disappointing. If it had been $20 or $30 with the features honestly described, real instructions and specs etc, I'd rate it higher. I would not spend $100 until this product evolves a lot. I'm a marketing guy and I wish New Potato well. My recommendation to them is to put their service man in charge of marketing and fix their whole program.

Hooked up all the sensors(pain in the A**). Not compatible with my Ipod touch, just judging from how well the sensor install went I doubt it would have worked anyhow. If you want nice with all the options- spend the cash, if you want cheap- go to walmart. don't buy this junk.

I was also totally psyched about this purchase for training with it, but it left much to be desired.1. To start, there were no set up instructions included. After a quick google search I found some on the New Potato website.2. Mounting bracket on rear chainstay is far from being versatile. If you don't have the exact frame that they modeled this thing on, then you can forget about it mounting correctly.3. Even when I finally did get the dang thing mounted, it still would not read cadence or speed on my iphone.In the words of Jim Cramer, a definite "DON'T BUY".

i was all psyched up to get this LiveRider product to use wih my IPod Touch while training for my Triathlon. It has been a DISASTER since I have received it and am now demanding a refund. I have already contacted the company twice and sent the itme back with a mysterious return of the same BROKEN unit from the company with NO explaination from them.Problems1) Ipod holder does not mount on the handle bars of my bike. I had to jimmy rig it with 7 zipties to fix it.2) Cycle sensor does NOT fit on most road cycles. Again jimmy rigged it with double stick tape and more zip ties.3) ipod sensor only works with Older ipod touches or older iPhones. Does NOT work with the latest 4th gen iPhone or iTouch.4) No instructions. Even the ones downloaded afted a 3rd page Google search are HORRIBLELY LACKING.5) software does Not give you any more info compared to a regular $50 cycle computer. The $50 cycle computer is MORE RELIABLE! the sensors keep goin put on the rides.6) Customer service does NOT explain anything. Cost me $20 in shipping fees to just try to get this thing fixed with NO result.Do yourself a favor and just buy an regular dedicated cycle computer for $50 to $100 and save yourself the headache.

I am completely satisfied with the LiveRider bike computer. Installation was not difficult, although the instructions could have been more complete. It took me about a hour because I wanted to get all the items in place before I fixed them in place. Even so, I ran into one surprise. The magnet on my pedal crank moved when I tightened the straps. Had to adjust the position of the other components as a consequence. The set screw on the spoke magnet never did stop turning, but it is holding the magnet in place. I communicated with New Potato about this, and they were very friendly and helpful.

Excellent little device. A bit fiddly to set up, but works fine. Slightly annoying that you can't see all the important parameters (speed, average speed, cadence) at the same time, but I can live with that. I use my iPod, and frankly the battery life is so poor that it only lasts 2-3 hours, so not great for a long bike ride, but that is not the fault of this device. An iPhone should be better.

C'est SUPER.Pour ma part, j'ai commandé cet appareil pour remplacer le compteur d'un vélo ancien d'appartement.Ma difficulté a été de trouver un bon paramétrage en fonction du diamètre de la roue d'inertie.Je n'ai pas réussi à placer correctement, l'aimant de repérage de la cadence sur la pédale. le récepteur est positionné trop loin.L'ensemble est excellent, dommage que je n'ai pas pu faire autrement qu'une installation de bricolage !

Erst mal unabhängig vom Produkt: Die Lieferung dauerte sehr lange, habe bei amazon dann mal eine Meckermail verfasst, dann kam das Produkt wenige Tage später an.Zum Produkt: GPS schwächelt in unserer Gegend schon sehr, bzw. geht gar nicht, d.h. also Routenanzeige = Fehlanzeige in meinem Fall.Amerikanische Radgrößen finde ich sehr verwirrend, habe aber mit Hilfe von Tante Google die passende Einstellung gefunden.Einen Gesamt-Kilometer-Zähler vermisse ich, wäre toll, wenn dies in einem App-Update mal integriert wäre.Keines der Umdrehungsmagnete habe ich an meinem alten Trekkingrad befestigen können, aber mein Hauptaugenmerk liegt ohnehin mehr auf die erreichte Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit. Nur allein dafür ist der Beschaffungspreis allerdings recht hoch, wenn man bedenkt, dass die Technik, die damit verbunden ist, recht simpel ist und die Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit sich während der Fahrt nicht aktualisiert. Den Sender für Geschwindigkeit habe ich noch mit ein paar Tupfen Kleber befestigt, da die Kabelbinder an der stark konisch zulaufenden Stange nicht halten.