AR7E - Alcester Racing 7's Equipe
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Right, Step Three in the quest to install a Sigma BC1200 bike computer in a 7 is to finalise the sensor mount.
<Click Image for Full Size> You can do this while the glue is drying from Step Two - but it makes life easier if the magnet is securely attached to the wheel so that clearances can be checked. We are going to attach the sensor in a belt-and-braces kind of way. The sensor already comes with a choice of three rubber mounting bands (designed to hook around different diameters of bicycle forks). It would be nice to tie-wrap the sensor on directly - but there generally isn't enough clearance between the sensor and the tire/wheel. It might also have been nice to glue the sensor in place - but this stops us fine tuning the sensor position in cases where there are clearance issues. What we ended up doing is three-fold:
You should try to mount the sensor as far down the wing-stay towards the wheel hub as possible - such that the magnet will ideally pass the middle (rather than an end) of the sensor. Having said that, the mounting arrangement above works fine for us - the magnet only passes one end (the 'MA' in SIGMA) and still works... If the glue has set, you can really fine-tune the position now. Once you are happy, arrange the sensor wire along the wing-stay and then suspension into the engine bay. Tie-wrap it down making sure that there is sufficient slack for any wheel and steering movement. When you are happy, we can move onto Step Four:
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