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I'm on my third or fourth one now. First I had a cheapie that died after a while. Then I had a Cateye one that did cadence as well, but loads of wires all over the bike. That was before I was fixed. After that I went wireless. But with the wireless a wierd thing used to happen. It would pick up the flicker from my front light. I had to move my front light further away from the bike computer to stop it competing with the wheel transmitter. Putting the light on steady didn't seem to work either. Strange.
They all try and sell it to you as though more functions are better. But you probably won't use them all. I would get a simple one that just does speed, trip distance and overall mileage, but is also branded like Cateye or whatever. Get one with big numbers so you're not squinting to look at it and then miss the traffic. And also where it's easy to change the battery.
I have this thing of going for a meal every thousand miles - the millenium meal I call it. Mine is a Sigma Sport one. About a tenner from ebay. Fairly cheap and cheerful but quite solid all the same. Just completed 8000 miles on this one.
One more thing to consider, if you do use a heart rate monitor, is to get a computer that also has a bulit in HRM. Then you don't need 2 things strapped to your bars. Again Cateye comes to mind.