anyone still use Polar cs500 ?

[masking_agent]

so with the advent of Garmin , CycleOps and SRM what have swamped the market, I wanted to know if anyone was still using the polar cs500 ?

I currently have the garmin edge 500 on my race/training bike. But wanted to go back to polar as I like the cs500's design. I like it and was thinking it may not be bad for my daily commuter ?

thoughts ?

 

[Master50]

I had a perfectly good 710 but when I got a 64 bit computer the interface wouldn't work on the new OS and polar's answer to a driver request was isn't it time to upgrade? Like I should toss a perfectly good HR monitor so I can continue to download my workouts? The arrogance floored me.
I did have to upgrade in the end to a Garmin 500.
I have nothing good to say about Polar now.

 

[Fatclimber]

Since you already us it on your other bikes, why not just put another mount on your commuter and use your 500?

 

[masking_agent]

^ spoken very wisely. I think I'm going to do that. Buy just the mounting kits

 

[Notso Swift]

CS500! crikey I still have a CS200

I am actually leaning towards de-computering entirely except the only thing I really want is a heart rate monitor and I don't want to wear a watch

 

[Bala Verde]

CS500! crikey I still have a CS200

I am actually leaning towards de-computering entirely except the only thing I really want is a heart rate monitor and I don't want to wear a watch

lol me too. The only thing that bugs me is that I never got the uplink to work again (the beep beep beeeeep bip bip bip beeeeep) on different comps. What a painfully annoying system that was. Even when it "worked", I had to try it dozens of times, because the transfer status got stuck at 96% and then failed lol.

Good times.

To OP. If it works, it works right? So why not use it. No need to buy a new thing that does exactly the same as the old thing that's still working.