Recommendations on a Cycling Computer?

[Nigelnaturist]

@DavidS there are better sites for analysing you ride, rwgps is good its mapping is good, but you need to down load as a tcx course and transfer to the newfiles folder, as been mentioned.
I find that the elevation on strava a bit idiosyncratic a best, another site you may be interested in is veloviewer it will give much more information, dont blame me if you get hooked on all that stuff though.

 

[FlyingCyclist]

@DavidS there are better sites for analysing you ride, rwgps is good its mapping is good, but you need to down load as a tcx course and transfer to the newfiles folder, as been mentioned.
I find that the elevation on strava a bit idiosyncratic a best, another site you may be interested in is veloviewer it will give much more information, dont blame me if you get hooked on all that stuff though.

Thank you. I'll have a look at them soon.

 

[sight-pin]

You could also try 'Map My Ride'. that links with the 200.

 

[Rasmus]

Modern technology for you ,
I have never tried this as I haven't had a Garmin or a tablet ( the O.H. has one, I dont have the need) at the same time, if you can plug a device into i.e. the garmin into the tablet/computer and it sees it as an external device (much the same as a card reader) you should be able to transfer files, with Edge X00 series these are either fit/tcx files, these can be transferred to the tablet/computer (which is no bad thing as they can then be backed up) or uploaded direct from the unit, use the file upload option instead of connecting to the unit to strava/rwgps/endomondo ect..
Not sure but as anyone tried connecting a Garmin to a iPod to see if it is seen as an external device.
Garmin connect sees my camera memory card as a device.

I tried once to upload to strava from my Garmin 200 using my android tablet. It saw the unit fine enough as a USB storage device, but the manual upload still failed.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I tried once to upload to strava from my Garmin 200 using my android tablet. It saw the unit fine enough as a USB storage device, but the manual upload still failed.

Try copying to your tablet then try uploading the file, the transfer of a file on your tablet should be the same what ever you up/down load, as its just data, this cuts out any connection problems during the upload to strava, the only other thing I can think is the protocols between the browser on the android and strava (but I really dont know enough about this)

 

[FlyingCyclist]

When I first connected the 200, it didn't seem to connect, I looked on the net to find a solution and somewhere it said to try and hold the page key (I think this is what it's called) while plugging it into computer and turning it on, seemed to work.

Haven't had any problems so far

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Not sure if things have changed but there is a plug in Garmin Communicator Plugin Once this is installed, it will connect and websites should see your device. It should also detect your device.
http://software.garmin.com/en-US/gcp.html

 

[FlyingCyclist]

Yep I think I downlodaded it 2 days ago

 

[Rasmus]

Try copying to your tablet then try uploading the file, the transfer of a file on your tablet should be the same what ever you up/down load, as its just data, this cuts out any connection problems during the upload to strava, the only other thing I can think is the protocols between the browser on the android and strava (but I really dont know enough about this)

I never really bothered doing any diagnosis, as it's not an important feature for me. Like you say, it could be either a file transfer issue or a strava/browser issue. Just thought I'd let any interested persons know that it does not necessarily "just work".

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I never really bothered doing any diagnosis, as it's not an important feature for me. Like you say, it could be either a file transfer issue or a strava/browser issue. Just thought I'd let any interested persons know that it does not necessarily "just work".

Was this as a file transfer or by connecting strava to the unit, just curious as to know what works and doesn't, I have this wanting to make things work that shouldn't.

I only ever use my computer (beast of a machine it is too) and whilst I am quite knowledgeable about computers ect... my knowledge with mobile devices is distinctly lacking as they hold no interest to me, I don't even poses a mobile phone.

 

[Rasmus]

It was a manual upload to strava, so picking out the .fit file on the unit directly. I never tried copying the file onto the device's internal storage first.

 

[FlyingCyclist]

@DavidS there are better sites for analysing you ride, rwgps is good its mapping is good, but you need to down load as a tcx course and transfer to the newfiles folder, as been mentioned.
I find that the elevation on strava a bit idiosyncratic a best, another site you may be interested in is veloviewer it will give much more information, dont blame me if you get hooked on all that stuff though.

I've signed in to Veloviewer via Strava, but I can't get it to show anything. It just comes up with this

'No activities! If you are an existing VeloViewer user then this is probably due to a major update to VeloViewer that requires you to refresh your data. Just head to the update page and follow the instructions. If you think it should be working then press Ctrl+F5 to refresh the page and flush your cache to see if that helps.'

I have one route uploaded on Strava and I thought this would have shown something?

 

[maroon]

Question for you all.
I've noticed a lot of Garmin 705 on fleabay, are these any good and will they perform the same as a 200.

 

[Boo]

Hello!
If I was just after something quite basic and not-expensive, what do the panel recommend?
Tbh I think I only really want distance travelled. Certainly don't want cadence and so forth, and I don't think I want to venture down the Strava route particularly.
Chap in the CycleSurgery round the corner from work suggested a CatEye Velo wireless which appears to be no more than £35.

Sounds like it would do the job. Anyone got any thoughts on it? Or is it a false economy? Some things are definitely 'You get what you pay for.', while others are 'Why pay more when the cheap option does the job?'

Cheers!