I'm using the one that's part of my Garmin Edge 305 gps. All my heart rate data gets uploaded to my computer along with all the gps data. Cool stuff.

I am using the Sigma 3.
It is cheap with no extras
Johns

Bud is there a screen on the Edge 305 that shows both cadence plus heart rate at the same time?

Quote from Bud_Bent on Jan 26^th, 2008, 11:01pm:

 
 
This Edge 305 sounds really good to me. I currently have a plant bike computer that I like to keep on the screen with the temperature showing.  I wonder if the forerunner is the same way and would be able to show the cadence and the heart rate on one screen too.

The forerunner 305 can show a max of 4 data items on the screen while the edge looks like it can have 6 or 8 data items on the screen.    I dont run at all, but I can wear the forrunner on my wrist and twist it so I can see it.  While Im not certain where I would mount the edge on my barron.
 
Terry

When you say "but I have never hurled" are you talking about Chucking up?  Power Booting? Or just an ole Fashon puke?
 
Terry

Hi Terry,
 
  Should have responded earlier.  When I still used a heart rate monitor I had a Polar RS200.  A very nice unit that I found pretty useful.  But I've since pretty much given up on the things.  I've found the best thing I've ever done for my riding was to ride a lot, no matter what the speed.  As a matter of fact working too hard is counter productive, and I found myself starting to use my Heart Rate Monitor to make sure I didn't work too hard, and now I have internalized the laziness so I guess I no longer need it.  But by keeping the stress level low I don't seem to get sick or break down and can handle much larger volumes of "training".  Dr. Phil Maffetone is the advocate of this approach, and I wouldn't have put much stock in it, but I started following his methods, and I got to where I could run a marathon every other weekend.  Granted they weren't fast, but I derived much more satisfaction out of being able to go out and run a 5 hour marathon and feel great afterwards than hurting after a sub 4.  I approach my cycling the same way.  The events I do now are even longer, and lend themselves to the endurance aspect pretty well.  I'm certainly slower than I was in my racing heydays, but I am 25 years older and in tremendously better shape, and capable of endurance I never dreamed of in my 20's.  
So while structured training can be great, I'm now a big advocate of the junk mile approach.
 
Take Care,
Nelson.
 
Take Care,
Nelson.