...and not mega expensive. Just to follow .gpx files, show speed, distance etc.
Any recommendations? Don't need colour screen really, but must great battery life, longer the better.
Don't mind niche Chinese stuff, consider anything that does the job basically.
Lezyne mega GPS has a huge battery life. So much so I rarely charge mine.
^^ what's it like for off road navigation?
Cheers!
Just watched a YT video and the guy says it needs to be connected to your mobile for rerouting etc? That seems odd. Want it independent of the mobile you see.
If that isn't the case, it might be a contender depending upon it's off road routing ability.
I've only ever used it connected to my phone and don't use the reroute feature. Your routes live in their web site. You use your phone to load the route to follow (though I think there is a way of starting one already loaded on the device). You can download map areas of your choosing to the device. Might be that it will reroute using saved maps but needs the phone when routing into areas it doesn't have downloaded.
Off-road navigation has been good. I don't have any issues following it on the bars. I've used it for SDW, long new forest rides, road and into the fells away from any phone signal in the lakes. Also have the follow function setup so that when I start recording it sends a tracking link to my wife. For the SDW I set audible waypoints for the tap locations (and one to warn I was approaching that rutted downhill you crashed heavily on). Again those worked well and I didn't miss any.
The phone connection is btle so not battery heavy.
One thing I can do it compare to other devices as this is my first GPS. My watch does routing but that is breadcrumbs only and no map (plus only last 7 hours).
I've just bought a secondhand etrex 20 for this sort of thing. Have uploaded the £11 talky toaster maps, stuck a couple of rechargeable batteries in there (AA) and it should be good to go for a couple of multi day epics.
I used to have the most basic of garmins that did this. Edge 200. Load a GPX and it just shows a black line on screen and beeps at you if you veer too far off it. Battery lasted ages.
Then I got a 530 which does the same but with a map which I find a little easier (I loaded free open maps) as at a junction it sometimes wasn't entirely clear on the 200 which path to take, and when you stop the 200 would revert to a zoomed out view that wasn't much use when trying to work out which way to go. Battery doesn't last as long.
As per jimdubleyou - Take a look at Garmin eTrex - I still sometimes use a 14year old HCX which does the follow trail fine and with AA batterys the life is all day long and spares are easy to drop in
I’ve got an old Vista HCx I’m not using if that’s any use, for—I dunno—£35 posted? Not sure if I have a handlebar mount for it, but if it I’m sure you can still get them.
Battery life = wahoo
Doesn't appear to be on their website (so may be store-specific) but my local Halfords had the Edge 130 on display for £99. Tempted to get one to supplement my rather bulky Edge Explore for rides where I mainly want to record stats..