of cadence meter 24 is shown in the preferred embodiment all elements of cadence meter 24 are contained in a unitary enclosure which is rigidly clamped or otherwise affixed to bicycle 10 an acceleration sensor 32 to be more fully described hereinafter produces one narrow output pulse each time the longitudinal acceleration of bicycle 10 changes from negative to positive a clock 34 of any convenient type such as for example a 555 integrated circuit timer produces a continuous sequence of equally spaced clock pulses which are applied to the input of a counter 36 which counts these pulses a digital number representing the number of clock pulses counted by counter 36 is periodically transferred to and stored in a buffer store 38 the digital number stored in buffer store 38 is applied to a display driver 40 which drives a conventional display such as a three element 7 segment display 42 display 42 displays a decimal value representing cadence the narrow acceleration pulses from acceleration sensor 32 are applied to a store input s of buffer store 38 and to an input of a delay 44 such as for example a one shot the output of delay 44 is applied to the reset input r of counter 36 when an acceleration pulse is generated it immediately enables buffer store 38 to receive and store the digital number then existing in counter 36 after a short delay enforced by delay 44 to permit the above transfer to be completed counter 36 is reset to predetermined initial condition and to thereafter again begin counting clock pulses in.