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Model: Garmin Edge 1050®, Premium Cycling Computer, Vivid Color Touchscreen Display, Built-in Speaker, Advanced Training and Group Ride Features, Road Hazard Alerts
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If you're an occasional cyclist check out igpsport. I bought two of them for my kids and they've been fantastic. I have the bottom 2 models (bsc100 and bsc200). Paid $20 and $50 for them. My wife and I have Garmins. The Garmins are better but not by a landslide.
Phone GPS is weak with start/stop time at stop lights, keeps counting away when at a full stop making you look slower when comparing time among your peers. Battery life is way longer on these devices, GPS and display just eats away at the phone battery. And in a crash? Good luck calling for help if your phone's in pieces.
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7th year with the Edge 520 and all the sensor accessories on my bikes. No issues. No reason to upgrade. Solid device. If I was looking now I would get the 540 Solar and not look back. Still getting regular updates on the 520 as well. Great devices and of course Strava compatible.
Phone GPS is weak with start/stop time at stop lights, keeps counting away when at a full stop making you look slower when comparing time among your peers. Battery life is way longer on these devices, GPS and display just eats away at the phone battery. And in a crash? Good luck calling for help if your phone's in pieces.
so the phone is competely destroyed but this little doobert will be fine in a crash?..
couldnt tell you lol. its about 50$ worth of parts at best and no proprietary technology. garmin has always had a steep cost on their products vs the competition
Because they're the industry leader, and they're charging what the market will pay.
Dedicated GPS units beat a phone app in a lot of ways -- sure, a phone app may work for you if you're not a serious user, but a dedicated GPS unit wins once you get past that.
But even then, these things don't have to cost $600 -- there are off-brands that cost a whole lot less that do really well, and if you are willing to give up features like maps (your phone can do that in the cases where you need it), you can get good units for under $100. Bryton is a good brand to check out.
But Garmin does have the best stuff, though you can easily find yourself paying double for 10% more features.
For a cyclist on a budget, keep your eye open for older Garmin units -- you can often find a unit that's fairly new and has most of the new features for a whole lot less money.
Pretty much every cycling GPS that is able to record your track (which is pretty much all of them, even the low-end models) integrates with Strava.
Anything that came out in the last 10 years or so will talk to your phone via Bluetooth (or will just use WiFi) and will have an app that can get an update to Strava (perhaps going through some intermediary like Garmin Connect), and even before that you'd plug the device into your PC, download the .gpx file and could upload that to Strava.
I got my Garmin Edge 205 back in 2008 -- before Strava even existed -- and even then I was able to upload my historical data to Strava when I discovered it sometime later. But modern units typically make it all automatic.
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Dedicated GPS units beat a phone app in a lot of ways -- sure, a phone app may work for you if you're not a serious user, but a dedicated GPS unit wins once you get past that.
But even then, these things don't have to cost $600 -- there are off-brands that cost a whole lot less that do really well, and if you are willing to give up features like maps (your phone can do that in the cases where you need it), you can get good units for under $100. Bryton is a good brand to check out.
But Garmin does have the best stuff, though you can easily find yourself paying double for 10% more features.
For a cyclist on a budget, keep your eye open for older Garmin units -- you can often find a unit that's fairly new and has most of the new features for a whole lot less money.
Anything that came out in the last 10 years or so will talk to your phone via Bluetooth (or will just use WiFi) and will have an app that can get an update to Strava (perhaps going through some intermediary like Garmin Connect), and even before that you'd plug the device into your PC, download the .gpx file and could upload that to Strava.
I got my Garmin Edge 205 back in 2008 -- before Strava even existed -- and even then I was able to upload my historical data to Strava when I discovered it sometime later. But modern units typically make it all automatic.
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