Installation was quite simple, the distance from the spoke magnet to the transmitter can now much more magnanimous indeed. The transmitter can also be nice turn inward to the spokes, so the distance is minimized. The O-ring made of rubber but the diameter of a thick suspension fork but quite small, one would have to stretch very badly and I'm afraid sooner or later a crack.
To my surprise, the analogue channels of the RCS Plus works but again, after two days without batteries, maybe a problem of seeping water, after a fairly wet cleaning? So I can now (old analog transmission) compare both bicycle computer with (digital, new) and face in this review.
The feel of 1609 appears to be a little cheap to me, unfortunately, because my old BC 800 acts, however, indestructible (albeit in design now something antiquitiert), which alone has already taken part in many years.
Another disappointment regarding the 1609: The Ablesekontrast is the old BC 800 a little better, the black of the LCD display acts contrast in daylight. When BC 1609 which acts not so, it seems to me the glass (?) Also to reflect a little. For me, in direct comparison Another minor drawback of the 1609th
The main disappointment I experienced when first driving test and, in a direct comparison of the displayed speeds. The new 1609 delays the display of the current speed always respectively to a perceived second, or sometimes much longer. When I drive off, it takes even longer, until a value is shown during deceleration to 0 km / h, the 1609 certainly still for a few seconds continues.
The BC 800 responds immediately to any change in velocity. When I look I see it almost in real time, the driving speed, while on the other hand the 1609 always presents me only values from the past. Since there are at the same time partly in the values in between worlds, for example when braking, or when a rapid acceleration and downhill.
So under a speedometer I imagine something else. I'd like to read what I'm going right now at the moment, and not before 1 to 3 (felt) seconds. In direct comparison, this is for my claims a significant step back.
With disenchantment I read in the manual of BC 1609, that the batteries in the transmitter and the cycling computer should keep only one year in 1609, at an hour use a day. So these are some 350 hours of operation. With my old BC 800 I had the Batt. really change only after many, many years (so far only once in 14 years, AFAIR), the transmitter and receiver according to instructions for the station every 10000 km for the recipient every 50000 km away. These values were not reached me. With an average annual output of 2,000 km every few years were new Batt. due.
I am now really looking forward to the consumption of 1609. At 2000 km / a and an average speed of maybe 20 km / h would be min. 100 hours of service time. I therefore hope that it at least 2 years (about 200 hours).
I can say nothing about the susceptibility of the BC 1609 after one day and 50 km. With the old RCS-Plus system but I was very satisfied. Seldom there were faulty measurements, which, through a false, unattainable Top speed noticeable made. Immediate failures (no display, ect,) were with me a rarity, I can not in any case remember.
I therefore conclude that I with old bike computers can only olduser the RCS-Plus system are advised to stick to their systems, who value measurements is emphasis on robustness and "real time" and if these users this with their old system still are satisfied. I do not know yet whether I can make friends with the much-delayed values of the driven Speed. And not soon the 1609 demo animals, as long as the old RCS-Plus system continues to function.
Therefore In direct comparison to my old system and with respect to the negative qualities to my mind above I give unfortunately only 3 stars.