Antique Speedometers, Odometers & Computers

1980 Entex cycling computer, as big as a shoe box

Greg LeMond endorsed the Avocet 20

The Avocet 30 came in about 12 colors

The first wireless computer. Early ‘90’s

Cateye’s first computer

Cycling “computers” have been around for quite a while.  We have a collection of vintage cycling odometers and speedometers going back to the 1930s.  

Come check out the first cycling heart rate monitor (the chest strap had wires that led to the computer monitor).  We have an Entex cycling computer that is the size of a small shoe box.

If you’re over 50 you may remember Greg Lemond and how some of his product endorsements were so groundbreaking. Way back in the 1980’s he endorsed and rode with an Avocet cycling computer, the first bit of electronics in the pro peloton.  In the early ‘90’s he was also one of the first riders to wear a heart rate monitor in competition and later to ride with an SRM powermeter crankset on his bike.

Lucas cyclemeter 1950s Velorite 1960s Schwinn 1960s

Schwinn approved speedometer, late 1960s

Huret speedometer, predecessor to the Multito and Mutitronic

Stewart Warner Cadet, U.S. made in the ‘40’s

Sting-Ray speedometer

Even powermeters have been around long enough that we have a couple of “antiques” on the shelves. There is an old SRM crankset on one of the mid 1990’s national team road bikes. We also have a couple of the early Powertap hubs, a first generation model with wires going up to the handlebar-mounted display unit, as well as one of early wireless models, the one with the big yellow computer that went on the handlebars.

Early heart rate monitor with wired strap

Powertap hub

Dura-Ace/SRM powermeter crank

Waterproof used to be as simple as covering a sofa

Pre-WWII odometers

Cateye is well represented with their first computer, the first model (only?) bike computer that operated partially via solar power, and the first digital cycling computer that came without sensor wires.