I have a Garmin 500 that gets used on road bike to record my rides. I don't do Strava but do load up some rides to Garmin Connect for future reference.
Have just got a new Defy which has a built in ANT+ thingy on the frame, and a wee bag of things - a spoke bit and a crank cadence bit.
The manual seems simple, but I haven't yet explored the Garmin setup for it - I guess I will just set a 4th custom screen for Cadence. I can't see me needing the spoke speed sensor as won't be using that bike on my rollers.
any top tips, experiences ?
Cheers
I got a giant TCR with the Ant+ kit. Dead easy to set up with my 500:
Go to Menu>Settings>Bike Settings>Bike 1> Ant+Spd/Cad>Yes
The spoke magnet will give you a better speed readout than GPS so I'd use that too.
It's worth using the speed sensor as well - the Garmin picks up your speed/distance from it and uses that until the GPS signal is locked.
great, thanks for that, will have a play with it tonight 🙂