Polar Computers

[Jigghead]

Seems I'm squeezing plenty of brain power out of you guys these days.

 

I bought a Polar CS600X and decided to add the cadence sensor and the GPS unit as well.

 

My question is this:

 

If I have the GPS unit and use it whenever I ride, do i need to install the speed sensor onto the bike? Surely the GPS unit will gather all of this information for me and add it to the ride's file? am i duplicating information if I install the speed sensor and use the GPS at the sanme time?

 

As usual, I look forward to the wealth of knowledge that always follows my questions :-)

[bontie]

The Polar computers will allways use the RR data received from either a speed sensor or stride sensor(running) in favour of GPS. So, if you use both - the unit will not register/track/recognise the GPS unit.

 

The reason is that Polar believes the sensors are more accurate than GPS.

This is what I gathered from reading on the polar forum at www.polar.fi

[Jigghead]

The Polar computers will allways use the RR data received from either a speed sensor or stride sensor(running) in favour of GPS. So, if you use both - the unit will not register/track/recognise the GPS unit.

 

The reason is that Polar believes the sensors are more accurate than GPS.

This is what I gathered from reading on the polar forum at www.polar.fi

 

Thanks for the advice, makes sense once it's laid out like that.