Changing the battery in a wireless Cateye Strada is a fiddly task which normally needs doing about once a year. Having said that, this is now the second time this year – either crap batteries from Wiggle or the effect of continuous sub zero conditions affecting the batteries. In spite of the frequency, I can never remember how to do it without a little extra help.
Here’s a couple of useful hints before you start:
- Buy two CR2032 batteries
- Make a note of your total mileage and then you can re-enter this once the new battery is installed
- Replace the battery in the sender unit at the same time
These are two useful places to get the information you need:
- The Cateye website – click here for pdf
- You tube – click here – useful for visual people; lasts just over 10 minutes
Mind you, that’s all very well but I managed to get a freak speed reading a couple of days later. For some unknown reason it briefly read 65.9mph. I can assure I didn’t hit anywhere near that, especially if my wife ever reads this! This has happened once before, must be a glitch in an otherwise useful cheap little cycle computer.
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I have received freaky speed readings like that with this unit sometimes when waiting on a stoplight. Especially if standing near the electronics box that controls the light. Something in there messes with the magnetic sensor.
Dude if your worried about battery talk the it sounds like you got the ball n chain. I have an older CATEYE and cant fiure out how to get battery out.
Yeah, me too. I have chewed up the cover to the point I think it is useless. So these are basically one-use batteries: you don’t buy a new battery, you buy a new sensor.
Me too, any ideas on what to do to open the panel once it’s chewed up?
I had the same problem with the battery cover on my sensor. Called Cateye and they sent me a brand new sensor with a new and improved battery cover. Guess they’ve been having problems with the plastic.
This is a fantastic product. It’s simple, straightforward, easy to install and use, and has been, in my many years of experience, tremendously reliable. I’ve got one installed on all of my bicycles, and have been used one every day for at least the last seven years. None of these units have ever wronged me in the slightest. The only thing I’ve ever had to do is replace the batteries intermittently as per heavier/lighter use of certain bicycles, and reset each one once it hits 10,000 miles on the odometre. They perform as expected: consistently and adequately. In short, they are my go-to cycle computers and they perform as expected.