Yeah, but @rsed doing that, to still have a massive phone mounted on my bike with a battery that gets drained in no time...
GPS Things
- Thread starter sazzaa
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Tyke
Senior Member
Agreed that`s why I got the Garmin 800 my reply was just regarding your post about no signal might help others who use phones.
Just to add my 2p worth . The Garmin edge 500 also has the breadcrumb trail that beeps at you for no reason and has you going up and down the road when you where already going the right way 
I got lost yesterday and used my iphone to pinpoint where I was , locate the roads I needed and then I was set to go again . No need to keep it running unless you have a very bad memory .
I was thinking of upgrading to the 800 as it has maps but are the maps any good ? Can you expand them to see road names and the local area like on the iphone ?
I got lost yesterday and used my iphone to pinpoint where I was , locate the roads I needed and then I was set to go again . No need to keep it running unless you have a very bad memory .
I was thinking of upgrading to the 800 as it has maps but are the maps any good ? Can you expand them to see road names and the local area like on the iphone ?
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Phones in back pocket, i would only get it out if i were lost .
smokeysmoo
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
You daft sodSo am I and im not even going
Spoked Wheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bournemouth
Just to add my 2p worth . The Garmin edge 500 also has the breadcrumb trail that beeps at you for no reason and has you going up and down the road when you where already going the right way
I got lost yesterday and used my iphone to pinpoint where I was , locate the roads I needed and then I was set to go again . No need to keep it running unless you have a very bad memory .
I was thinking of upgrading to the 800 as it has maps but are the maps any good ? Can you expand them to see road names and the local area like on the iphone ?[/QUOTE]
You can expand the map a bit and see road names but not as much as on the iphone.
Just to add my 2p worth . The Garmin edge 500 also has the breadcrumb trail that beeps at you for no reason and has you going up and down the road when you where already going the right way
I got lost yesterday and used my iphone to pinpoint where I was , locate the roads I needed and then I was set to go again . No need to keep it running unless you have a very bad memory .
I was thinking of upgrading to the 800 as it has maps but are the maps any good ? Can you expand them to see road names and the local area like on the iphone ?
You can see road names, this includes B roads on the city navigator sd card.
Peteaud
Veteran
- Location
- South Somerset
Bought my Edge Touring on Friday, used it yesterday for the 1st time.
I am pretty happy with it, and would like to know what the OP thinks as a 1st time out user.
I am pretty happy with it, and would like to know what the OP thinks as a 1st time out user.
Found it brilliant to use, set up a route on Garmin Connect which I found really user friendly, sent it to the Touring and drove out to my start point. Since I had put in the longest route I was likely to do, and ran out of energy after about two thirds of the way round, I asked the Touring to take me back to my start point. Now I don't know if it was me who had pressed something in error or not but it had my start point as a few miles away from my actual start point? So had to start a new route to get me back to my car! I'm going to put this down to it being new and me not being used to using it. Apart from that I found the map clear, the two sets of beeps before a turn were well timed, the controls super easy to use, and I could follow it no problem at all.
On a side note, I've never been so in love with my local countryside. Quiet roads, stunning scenery, rolling hills, plenty wildlife... Such a huge change from city cycling, it actually made me feel a bit emo! And passed a few friendly cyclists on the way. Everyone looked super happy
Dangers of the countryside noted - long roads lined with trees make pothole spotting difficult (tree shadows hide everything). And a peacock tried to kill me. A f***ing peacock!! Darted out from the side of a river road then zig zagged in front of me as I screamed and slammed my brakes on, then flew off as if to say "owned".
On a side note, I've never been so in love with my local countryside. Quiet roads, stunning scenery, rolling hills, plenty wildlife... Such a huge change from city cycling, it actually made me feel a bit emo! And passed a few friendly cyclists on the way. Everyone looked super happy
Dangers of the countryside noted - long roads lined with trees make pothole spotting difficult (tree shadows hide everything). And a peacock tried to kill me. A f***ing peacock!! Darted out from the side of a river road then zig zagged in front of me as I screamed and slammed my brakes on, then flew off as if to say "owned".
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Another convert to GPS! 
I was talking to someone about hazards hidden in shadows on a ride just last week. It is so hard to spot stuff when there is the equivalent of a camouflage net draped across the road.
I was talking to someone about hazards hidden in shadows on a ride just last week. It is so hard to spot stuff when there is the equivalent of a camouflage net draped across the road.
Nigelnaturist
Guru
- Location
- Pontefract
Nothing wrong with the Brytons used a 20 and 35 both easy to use, however the breadcrumb on the 500 (so I presume the 200) are much easier to use, just create a route download this as a tcx course and copy to the newfiles folder on the garmin unit, once you turn it on it then converts it to a course file (which will then be found in the course folder), load this as the course you want to do and just follow the breadcrumb trial, the 500 warned you if off course (though it did have a habit of doing this on a straight road with open fields if the gps signal was off).
I never had the 35 long enough to fully test it, though it worked, and the 20 doesn't have it, but is Ant+ so has H.R. and Cad which were more important for me whilst I can save up for another garmin my 500 being stolen by a family member so not really available for an insurance claim, also it was cheap at £45.
For the price, I think the Teasi units are very good - short thread on them up at http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/teasi-sat-nav.152834/#post-3012623
Still not used it massively, but each time I do I like it!
Not so good at uploading routes yet - a new release of s/w is due out any day which should help with that, but in general use, looks nice!
Still not used it massively, but each time I do I like it!
Not so good at uploading routes yet - a new release of s/w is due out any day which should help with that, but in general use, looks nice!
