Cateye had already done the offroady thing by repackaging the old Mity 2 (a Mity mk1 but with average speed and clock) in a new curvaceous case and calling it the Tomo (CC-ST200), then giving it the thick cable treatment and calling it the Tomo XC, which later became the limited run, go-faster-striped Enduro (CC-ST250), which was the progenitor of the silver Enduro 2 that used a new case. By then you got a 12/24hr clock and average speed, two trip odometers and a programmable total odometer for when your battery ran out. Cateye leapt on the translucent plastics bandwagon (courtesy of the original Apple iMac) so you could buy the Mity 3 in Clear, Strawberry, Tangerine, Grape, Lime and Blueberry colours, as well as Black.
The Enduro 2 was good because it came with a great big thick sensor cable for gnarly mountain bikers, and also ideal for folding bikes and the Mity 3 was actually exactly the same inside but came with a microscopically thin, fiddly cable. The Mity still works perfectly internally, but the metal contacts on both the unit and its bracket have worn down too much. I made do by adding my distance and time into a matrix on my programmable calculator, each day, and having it do the maths (and produce the excessively nerdy graphs).
In 1991, when the Mity was brand new, you got a clock instead of average speed the Cateye Vectra of a year or two previously gave you average speed but no clock! You had to buy the Cateye ATC (which cost as much as a pair of Oakleys) to get both.
Through a combination of 22 years, a lot of weather, a little unreliability, and some super-cheap auctions I seem to have amassed, at the time of writing, nine cycle computers.
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