Various Retailers have select
Garmin Bike Products on sale listed below.
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chi for finding this deal.
Available:- Garmin Varia RVR315 Rearview Radar $119.99
- Garmin Edge 130 Plus Bike Computer $149.99
Key Features:- Garmin Varia RVR315 Rearview Radar
- Rearview radar provides awareness of vehicles approaching from behind up to 153 yards (140 meters) away
- Pairs seamlessly with your Edge bike computer and compatible smartphone as well as select Garmin wearables or the radar display unit
- When used with your compatible smartphone, the Varia app provides graphics plus tone and vibration alerts to indicate approaching cars
- When used with a compatible smartphone, Varia radar integrates with third-party apps such as Ride with GPS to overlay your maps with rearview radar alerts
- Compact vertical design mounts easily to most road-use bicycles
- Battery life: up to 8 hours
- Garmin Edge 130 Plus Bike Computer
- 1.8" display that's easy to read in sunlight or low-light conditions
- Get training guidance by syncing structured indoor or outdoor workouts to your device from the Garmin Connect app or other apps, including TrainingPeaks and TrainerRoad
- Improve your fitness with dynamic performance insights such as VO2 max and heart rate (when paired with a compatible heart rate monitor), and manage your efforts during tough ascents with the ClimbPro feature
- Turn prompts and breadcrumb map
- Get incident detection and assistance which both send your real-time location to emergency contacts (when paired with a compatible heart rate monitor)
- Know how far, fast, hard and high you've ridden with data from GPS, GLONASS and Galileo satellites and an altimeter
- Track jump count, jump distance and hang time with mountain bike dynamic
- Battery life: up to 12 hours
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So when I see deals for products for them I don't fully understand, I keep my mouth shut.
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Navigation is spartan, but if the trails/roads are not all that complex it will get you where you need to go. If following a map is what you want, there are much better options out there. If your type of riding isn't inhibited by a large phone on your handlebars or in your pocket, this is probably a little overkill. Even most smart watches can accomplish a lot of what this does. I wreck enough that a phone doesn't come with me anymore, so a small computer on my bars tracking time and distance, as well as the Climbpro feature is worth it. I've never had an issue with battery life, but I'm doing 12 hour rides either.
There are all types of riders on our roads and trails these days. If you are just beginning to ride, you may start heading down the path towards all things lighter and faster with more info to pour over. Or that stuff may never matter to you. If it does, the 130+ is an easy, inexpensive step in that direction. Either way, bikes are awesome.
When you're running though I think totally fine to keep on trucking and check your watch.
Why do I need the GPS, when it does the same thing my VA3 watch does?
The Edge 130 will not pair with an Apple Watch, so you can't use the watch as a HRM nor for scyncing to Garmin Connect.
The number one reason to get a dedicated gps device over just a phone is the frequency of gps plots. I don't know about the 130 specifically, but the edge 530 can be set to plot one point per second. Strava is going one point per 3-15 seconds at variable rate that is never 1s. You may not run far in 1s, but a road bike or mountain bike (even more) does. Ultimately less plot points means corners and curves miss distance because of chopping them off. Think of an octagon vs a circle... The circle has more distance around since it follows the curve.
Some people don't care about the accuracy. I didn't for years. If you don't care, then don't buy one. Some people do care. Shaving a little bit off of every ride adds up over the course of thousands of miles. I also like that I can get 15-20 hours of battery life out of my garmin and my phone battery isn't a factor. The garmin is more reliable as well.. I used to regularly have runkeeper, strava, and/or endomondo crash mid-ride without any notification and lose that workout's stats.
yep i got the edge 530 as well. it's a neat feature but I don't think the airtime is really super accurate. the crash detection was so annoying that I had to turn it off. I'd do a feature and slam on my brakes to go session it. That would set off crash detection.
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I was wondering why anyone would pay $120 for a bicycle computer.
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Only nitpick is that if you use a saddle bag, you'll probably have to macgyver your own mount - took me an hour messing around and got mine strapped to rear of my bag.
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