Frame integrated bike computer mounts

[eucryphia]

Even the cheapest bikes have built in screw mounts for bottle cages, how come the frame and component manufacturers haven't provided mounts for bike computer sensors?

You fork out $$$$ for some ultra lightweight CF frame with top of the range components only to vandalise it by strapping on black plastic bits with cable ties.

Surely it's not too much for all left hand cranks to have a tiny embedded magnet in the right spot?

Is someone sitting on the patent?

[Hawkeye]

Even the cheapest bikes have built in screw mounts for bottle cages, how come the frame and component manufacturers haven't provided mounts for bike computer sensors?

You fork out $$$$ for some ultra lightweight CF frame with top of the range components only to vandalise it by strapping on black plastic bits with cable ties.

Surely it's not too much for all left hand cranks to have a tiny embedded magnet in the right spot?

Is someone sitting on the patent?

Probably more to do with the fact that the sensors are all sorts of different shapes and sizes, and have differing requirements for the magnet-to-sensor gap.

[sogood]

That's competition...

[winona_rider]

my trek 1.7 has a pad designed to accommodate a "trek" computer on it's right fork. is this what you are talking about?

[toolonglegs]

nice mount...

[toolonglegs]

also i think zipp cranks and wheels have embedded magnets

[Mulger bill]

nice mount...

Good bit o' McGyver that is. What's that hanging off it?

Shaun

[HAKS]

Cool idea..........but as mentioned then all the manufacturers would have to adapt a common standard which they may not be willing to do in a real hurry.

[eucryphia]

Cool idea..........but as mentioned then all the manufacturers would have to adapt a common standard which they may not be willing to do in a real hurry.

And once that standard came out there'd be this undignified scramble to comply.

Couldn't some German/EU bike quango just issue a standard?
i.e. small tapped lug 164.5 mm from crank centreline, etc, etc...
Then just stand back...

[eucryphia]

Well, who would have thought...

...integrated wheel magnet

[kukamunga]

Just picked this up off a Huffy today:-

Integrated or wot!!!

[eucryphia]

Is that a little compass at the bottom...

[Caelum]

Just picked this up off a Huffy today:-

Integrated or wot!!!

See, if a high quality brand like Huffy can do it, surely it wouldn't take much for a lower quality Giant, Canondale, Scott, etc could do the same.... maybe a little less aggressively styled, however

[kukamunga]

Is that a little compass at the bottom...

'Ken oath mate! "You'll never get lost on a Huffy" they used to say..... Why do you think I grabbed 'em?

[MichaelB]

Just picked this up off a Huffy today:-

Integrated or wot!!!

Until it stops working ....

[sogood]

The other way to look at this is, cycle computer is a piece of electronic gadgetry and is subjected to a much shorter life cycle. It would be a pain to have to upgrade the bar/stem every time a cycle computer gets upgraded. And we all know, companies can't stay on a same standard for long ie. No permanent standard. Just look at the computer industry. Standards fly out the door before they are even in the door.

So I am not whinging about the present arrangement.