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Moskito: an analogue watch and bike computer in one

New design is easily swappable from a wrist strap to a bike mount

A Kickstarter campaign is up and running for Moskito, an analogue watch that doubles as a bike computer.

Moskito provides a stopwatch function and, when paired with a smartphone, informs you of calls, messages and emails. It fits to a wrist strap and to either a special headset cap or an out-front mount, and swapping between them takes seconds.

“In addition to its function as a chronograph, Moskito is an analogue tachometer that tells you everything you need to know: your current speed, the distance travelled, and your average speed,” according to its designers. “Would you like to know if you have set a new personal best on a specific section of the route? Your Moskito tells you in real time in the challenge mode.”

Your data is uploadable to Strava or Garmin Connect after the ride.

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Moskito is made in Switzerland and it’s rechargeable with a claimed runtime of 6-24 months. It’s available in mph and km/h versions. The Moskito Fly has an aluminium case while the Classic is stainless steel. Each has a diameter of 44mm and is water resistant to two metres. 

The various hands on the clock provide different functions depending on whether you’re in time mode, speed mode or chrono mode. 

Go to speed mode, for example, and the watch’s hour hand gives the hours you’ve been riding, the minute hand gives your distance and the second hand gives your current speed. 

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The designers are aiming to get a final prototype made by February 2017 with shipping of the finished product expected in October.

The project has a goal of CHF 150,000 (about £118,000). Assuming Moskito meets its targets and makes it to full production, you need to pledge at least CHF 535 (about £420) to be inline for a Moskito Fly (the aluminium one), or at least CHF 735 (about £578) for a Classic. 

All of the usual Kickstarter rules apply. Check out the Moskito Kickstarter page here.

www.moskitowatch.com

Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.

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jollygoodvelo | 7 years ago
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Surely this is just a ripoff of the Omata?  www.omata.com

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me replied to jollygoodvelo | 7 years ago
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jollygoodvelo wrote:

Surely this is just a ripoff of the Omata?  www.omata.com

I knew it looked familiar!  Though I'd assumed it was one of the billion kickstarter advertorials that appear on here every year.

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step83 | 7 years ago
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While very pretty as others said that price is insane, you could buy a Garmin 520 and a fair few addons an still have enough to get a couple of pints after.

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Colin Peyresourde | 7 years ago
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Hipster nonsense.

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CycloTron07 replied to Colin Peyresourde | 7 years ago
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Colin Peyresourde wrote:

Hipster nonsense.

Absolutely, there is a market for these things, but it will generally not be for those who ride their bikes for sport.

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Yorkshire wallet | 7 years ago
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Looks like the sort of thing that would grace a custom made fixie just to add to the pointless expense. 

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beezus fufoon replied to Yorkshire wallet | 7 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Looks like the sort of thing that would grace a custom made fixie just to add to the pointless expense. 

do Lidl sell replacement parts or do you just buy a new bike from them?

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Yorkshire wallet replied to beezus fufoon | 7 years ago
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beezus fufoon wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Looks like the sort of thing that would grace a custom made fixie just to add to the pointless expense. 

do Lidl sell replacement parts or do you just buy a new bike from them?

You have me mixed up with someone else. Halfords Apollo all the way for me.

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beezus fufoon replied to Yorkshire wallet | 7 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:

beezus fufoon wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Looks like the sort of thing that would grace a custom made fixie just to add to the pointless expense. 

do Lidl sell replacement parts or do you just buy a new bike from them?

You have me mixed up with someone else. Halfords Apollo all the way for me.

haha! - gotta be the cupcake 12" model - now at 50% off! :o

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mxmill25 replied to beezus fufoon | 7 years ago
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beezus fufoon wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

beezus fufoon wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Looks like the sort of thing that would grace a custom made fixie just to add to the pointless expense. 

do Lidl sell replacement parts or do you just buy a new bike from them?

You have me mixed up with someone else. Halfords Apollo all the way for me.

haha! - gotta be the cupcake 12" model - now at 50% off! :o

Nice..

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Butty | 7 years ago
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Looking down at those fiddly little dials and pressing buttons will be no different than using a phone while driving - bloody dangerous.

 

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The _Kaner | 7 years ago
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"Moskito provides a stopwatch function and, when paired with a smartphone, informs you of calls, messages and emails"

erm...so does my smartphone...

and my garmin520 does that too...and has heartrate/cadence/etc....generally all on the one screen at the same time without having to toggle/footer about with tiny watch sized buttons...and costs considerably less...

maybe I'm missing the point of how much use an analogue watch face is to most people...

 

In the words of Andy Pipkin.....

I don't like it!

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ConcordeCX | 7 years ago
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It seems like rather a clever idea, but I have my doubts about what looks to be a modal user interface - rarely a good way to design an interface, particularly if there is no clear, unambiguous indication of which mode you're in. Mode errors have caused air accidents, among other bad things, so it's a serious consideration. 

http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/commercial/Reducing-Mode-Errors-Through-...

The description of speed mode above, for example, suggests to me that I'd probably crash while trying to figure out what mode I was in, and which hand was telling me what, and which button/s to press how many times to get the mode I want. 

And then we'd get drivers calling us hypocrits because we criticise them for driving while fiddling with their mobiles. That wouldn't do at all.

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Mat Brett replied to ConcordeCX | 7 years ago
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ConcordeCX wrote:

It seems like rather a clever idea, but I have my doubts about what looks to be a modal user interface - rarely a good way to design an interface, particularly if there is no clear, unambiguous indication of which mode you're in.

Hi ConcordeCX

I've now stuck a new picture in at the bottom of the story that shows there is a little dial that indicates mode on the left of the face. Granted, it's quite small, which is why you can't really make it out on the other pictures.

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DrJDog | 7 years ago
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Paying £600 for half the information that my phone or garmin provides in a prettier package? Not for me.

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nappe | 7 years ago
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I thought that looked lovely until I saw the price...

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