Like the good old days…. And if you can do it on rim brakes, mech shifting, tires with tubes, and no-wax chain, then you’ll really be stylin’ 
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I’ve got an old bike in the garage that checks all those boxes just for that reason. 
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Well, let me know if you want to go for a old-school ride anytime. I’m all set up too (except I still need to roll back my chain to oil based lube) 
Oh, no aero socks, please!
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The Garmin straps were only lasting me about 6 months before dying. I sweat a lot, and rarely wash them. Then I switched to the cheap Coospo ones from Amazon, and they last about two years each. I’m on my third now, and they’ve been great.
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I have 4 straps that I use for a few rides then I wash them. They are all the cheap generic straps from amazon or Alix. After every ride I rinse the strap and hangout to dry. I pop the hrm off and give it a quick rinse to get all the sweat off. I’m still using my first gen wahoo hrmfrom 2018. I eat a fair amount of salt in my diet too.
Just wanted to update, the Magene has been working great for this first month of using it. Doesn’t necessarily look cheap and also seems like it has a faster refresh rate when using it on Zwift which is cool.
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Keep us updated. I’d love to know if it lasts a year. Thats a great price if it does.
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Gulf Wax is definitely old school.
And to the OP, training with power means we don’t need HR anymore, right? Although I feel like I’m not really working out without my HRM.
I had a few HRMs die randomly, especially Wahoo, and never found chest straps comfortable (had to really crank on them for MTB) but my Polar Verity Sense has been great so far. If anyone is looking for an alternative. Highly rated by DC Rainmaker as well.
I find HR really important for my training. Power targets are the prescription, HR is a monitoring tool. Power is purely quantitative, HR tells a story 
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Good way of putting it. I can see HR drift on endurance rides, or see when my HR is getting above LTHR. I also like seeing how high I can rev during races. But I don’t believe the TR workouts or progression levels care about HR recorded. I suppose I might cut a workout short if my HR wasn’t climbing as I thought it should and my legs were heavy–indicators of fatigue.
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Polar H10 here, it’s done more than 100,000 miles so far and apart from new straps is still going strong.
I have an H10 currently, and have used a Polar for years. I find that you have to go into the H10 setttings in your phone’s Polar Flow app, and adjust the bluetooth settings. I think it’s more reliable when it’s set to just one bluetooth connection, if set to two it sometimes seems to hunt around until it finds the original connection again.
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I’m gonna respond to this post even though my response is definitely untimely…and even though I’ve already posted this exact some info several years ago.
In March of ‘23 I posted on this forum that I was using a CooSpoo HRM & had been using it for 4 years. Today, that HRM still works fine although the elastic on the strap has fatigued somewhat.
But the secret is not how robust a coospoo HRM is! The secret is exactly what I wrote in that post: when you finish your workout, pop the pod off the strap, give the female/male sockets a quick wipe, and let them dry separately.
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