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Cadence is funny in that it's hard to get a precise feel for it, even counting and timing it, until you have a cadence sensor. But when you do have the sensor, after maybe even just a week of that you've got it and don't need the cadence any more! So it's overkill to look for something that specifically monitors your cadence.

For what it's worth, there is no difference in the computers between cadence and speed except for a setting, so you'd think you could take the cheapest $8 Bell computer and adapt it - and you'd be right! You cannot set them to show "108 mph" for 108 cadence - the setting doesn't exist - but you CAN set it to show "10.8 kph" for 108 cadence. A number is a number, that's good enough for a week or two. I worked out the magic setting for this.

Just set the computer to use metric, set the magic number 1667 for the wheel, put the magnet on the crank arm and that's it. You have cadence.
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