Garmin Edge 800 Infomation
Description
At Your Fingertips
Edge 800’s touchscreen display is rugged enough to stand up to the elements, yet sensitive enough to respond to the tap of your gloved hand. Switch training pages or pan and zoom the map with just a tap. The bright, sunlight-readable colour display is easy to view in all lighting conditions. Just don’t let its good looks fool you Edge 800 is waterproof to IPX7 standards and can withstand hard knocks and scrapes it might endure in mountain biking environments.
The aerodynamic Edge 800 has a carbon fibre construction with either blue or white accents and attaches to the stem or handlebar of your bike with the low-profile mount. A quarter-turn mount design holds unit securely and lets you easily swap it between bikes using removable, reusable bands.
Know Where To Go
Whether your bike is a means of transportation or escape, having maps at your fingertips makes every ride easier, more clued-up and more fun. Edge 800 comes with a built-in basemap that shows major roads and cities, plus it’s compatible with our range of microSD™ cards to add your choice of street¹ or recreation maps³. Select your destination and Edge 800 provides turn-by-turn navigation prompts on the screen to guide your ride there.
Edge 800 is available with Garmin GB Discoverer™ 1:50,000 scale
Ordnance Survey mapping for the whole of Britain. With contours, elevations, summits, paths, routable roads and more, it’s ideal for biking anywhere in Britain on any terrain. Or choose optional plug-in 1:25k scale GB Discoverer maps for OS Explorer Map detail of your favourite National Parks (19 titles) or National Trail (17 titles).
Other Edge 800 bundles available to suit your style of riding include mapping options for navigation on and off-road and performance options with heart rate and speed/cadence sensors.
Edge 800 can also guide you along routes recorded by other cyclists. Explore our Garmin Connect™ site and choose from millions of rides uploaded by other users. Any activities you upload to your Edge 800 are stored as courses. You can follow the course with navigation prompts or, for a little competition, race it and try to beat previously set goals. Don’t waste precious time planning your adventure when you’re already outside. Our free BaseCamp™ software lets you create routes on your computer and then transfer to your Edge 800 in incredible detail with 2D, 3D and elevation views.
Edge 800 records your every move with a high-sensitivity GPS receiver that stays locked on to a signal, even under tree cover. The receiver features HotFix® satellite prediction to calculate your position faster, plus it has automatic time zone adjustment ideal for a European cycle tour holiday.
Data, Any Way You Want It
Edge 800 tracks a variety of data from your ride and lets you customise up to three training pages so you can see as much or as little ride information as you want. The barometric altimeter provides extra-precise climb and descent data and records temperature changes.
If you’re a performance cyclist, you can pair Edge 800 with a third-party ANT+ enabled power meter to display your power output in watts as you ride. This valuable data shows you how hard you're working, regardless of conditions affecting your ride, so you can train smarter. Some versions of Edge 800 also come with a speed/cadence sensor and heart rate monitor.
Training Tools
Need a little motivation to push your performance? See how you measure up to the Virtual Partner® a digital depiction of your goal speed vs. your speed in real-time. Other training features include detailed workout planning, Auto Pause®, Auto Lap® and Courses, which helps you compare successive rides over the same route.
Analyse Your Ride
You logged the miles, now it’s time to review, replay and share your ride. Just upload your data to Garmin Connect™, our website for free data analysis and sharing. You can upload from your PC or Mac using the included USB cable. At Garmin Connect™, you can see the route you’ve ridden on a map, view a summary of your ride, create goals, share rides and data with others and much more.
Edge 800: The ultimate touchscreen GPS bike computer for training, touring and on the trail.
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