Me. Love it. Every time I used the Garmin I had to look up how to stop recording.
Things that are good about the Mio
Battery life
Surprise Me function
European map package affordable
Handlebar attachment surprisingly secure if I do use it on the MTB
Instinctiveness of use
I’ve used it in the car as a sat nav in Belgium and nothing terrible happened
If you upload a GPX, it takes a bit of getting used to to understand the commands but once you have a grip of that it’s pretty good.
Customer service – when I had a tram line / cobbles interaction in Ghent and managed to chip the slots that go into the handlebar mount they were pretty quick and pretty no quibble in sorting it out.
Things that are not so good about the Mio
No button you can press to lock it, and you can only set it to sleep after 15 minutes of non activity. I don’t use it on the handlebars of the mountain bike as I keep picturing how it would look embedded into my chest on a crash. Stached in a pocket because you can’t lock it, then you’re in the hands of fate as to whether it gets touched by something and stops recording or does something else weird. Got over that by buying it a proper case.
Can’t download it direct to Strava. Got to plug it into computer, and go find the file to upload
Surprise me routes great for cyclocross but wouldn’t want to use it for the road bike as it likes to find interesting lanes, and it doesn’t have good coverage for MTB at all.
If you don’t get the settings right it tries to connect to every passing cyclists’s heart rate monitor or cadence sensor. Took me a while to figure that out.
Screen – buy a protector. Mine gets really scuffed.
It’s a bit of a brick but that doesn’t bother me.
