Jdsk wrote:Garmin Edge 1000.
Very pleased with it. Battery life is a bit short but I've now got my workarounds.
I'd buy an Edge 1030 if I were looking now.
Jonathan
My only gripes with my Edge 1000 were, firstly, that if you were doing a long day's ride it needed careful management of settings (turn off backlight, etc) &/or a mid ride charge to last. Secondly, the rubber cover of the power button disintegrated. As the physical switch was still working underneath, I managed a temporary fix with a cut to shape blob of rubber & electrical tape.
Eventually I succumbed to a deal that I spotted on a 1030 Plus (that I suspect may have been a pricing error) & have not been disappointed.
No more rubber buttons.
The screen is much better & more of the top face is used as the display.
Battery life is a whole different ballgame. It logs the battery level in the .fit file & I reckon, in real life use with the backlight on auto, it uses around 3% of charge per hour (maybe up to 5% as the temperature gets down near freezing). Whereas with the 1000 I would charge pretty much after every ride, now I'm probably charging up about fortnightly doing about 70 miles a week, at around 12-13 mph moving average speed, at the moment. With the (also pricey) clip on battery pack you could probably do a LEJOG record attempt with charge to spare!
The other thing I've found it can do when following a route is to give audio turn-by-turn when linked by Bluetooth to a smartphone.
I don't know if it was on by default, or whether I switched it on fiddling in settings, but I had been doing some virtual tandem rides (while the rule didn't allow the real thing) with my regular sight impaired stoker - going for a ride & giving her a running commentary by phone while she used her turbo. I have some Aftershokz bone conduction headphones that let me hear what's going on around me as well as there is nothing actually in my ears (conversation levels seem broadly similar to a real tandem ride). One time we had ended the call when I suddenly started getting directions, much like any other satnav. It doesn't appear to interrupt if you've got somethings else on the go on your phone in the way that, say, Google maps navigation does (when I use that in the car I mostly set it to alerts only).
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