I'm planning on doing LEJOG in June and am looking for a GPS sat-nav type device to help with the navigating.
The Garmin Edge Touring and Edge 800 keep coming up.
Does anyone know if the Garmin basemaps that are already installed are any good or will I need to buy further sd card maps for this journey?
Cheers
I've got a touring,its a good bit of kit. The maps it came with are not the best, but there's a thread on here somewhere with free os style maps, and they're a lot better.
And over that period of time, you will need to charge it, which will be easy in b and bs but not so easy camping.
I've got an edge 800, great bit of kit, as above basemaps are useless but I use free open street maps in mine and it's as good as my mates paid for official maps.
I'm starting my LEJOG in 5 days time using a newly purchased Touring. I really liked the 705 I had before but the battery life was beginning to drop off. If you can wait till May 12th I'll let you know how I get on with it but first impressions are good.
The other prompt to replace the 705 is that my eye sight isn't what it was, the screen on the Touring is certainly a lot easier to read.
Ian
I bought a garmin oregon for long distance trips. It's not as slim as the either of the edge units but it takes AA batteries so I don't have to worry about charging it if I'm on an extended trip.
+1 for the Edge800, I have not long returned from a 5 day mini tour in Brittany, we used open mapping and a route created in map my ride then uploaded and it worked perfectly the whole time.
Just seen the OS Map download post-looks good 🙂
I know the Edge 800 is compatible with a heart rate monitor and cadence sensor. Is that the only difference between the 800 and touring?
Want to beable to sync my stats with PC - distance/speed etc and look at them after the ride.
Bianchi-Boy, did you consider the 800?
You can certainly load your stats from the touring to the PC.
Not really, no.Bianchi-Boy, did you consider the 800?
Having owned the 705 (the 800 was a direct replacement for the 705, it just had added touch screen) for the last 4 or 5 years I started off using the HRM and the cadance quite a lot but haven't used either for at least 2 years So the touring at £169 would do everything I wanted. I can make up courses on BikeHike save to the Touring and then follow them as courses. Post ride they can be uploaded to the Garmin site via Garmin Connect so you can see mileage, route, elapsed time, ave speed, max speed etc etc.
Ian