Rode the Ty Hafan Taff Trail Challenge on Sunday, and my old Sigma bike computer must have flipped off the mount....(annoyingly I know roughly where, but haven't had a chance to take a look around)
Anyway, it's an out of date wired model, and earlier in the year I was looking for an excuse to get a Garmin Edge 500...
So, search old stock and shell out £30 for a direct replacement or spend lots (too much really) for a new gizmo that doesn't work when it can see the sky....
Pros to same again - have already bought mounts for my various bikes, already have cheap but functional HRM, use Cyclementer on iphone to track routes, oh and £30 is a lot less than almost £300
Pros to Edge 500 - None of my existing bits have download connectivity to analyse rides, iphone GPS wanders in position and elevation, iphone battery doesn't last on longer rides.
Any additional pros - cons or alternatives...?
isn't it closer to 150 pounds for the edge 500? it will come with 2 or 3 mounts anyway.
personally i'd stick with the simple bike computer or get the 605/705/800 and ues the openmtbmaps as it makes it much more useful. I think the 500 is a pure training device designed for comparing lap times and performance, probbaly more suited to road riding?
I have an older Garmin and it works a treat only lost a signal twice and then it was cloudy , in a wood and a steep valley. Easy to swap between bikes and cheaper than having a computer for each of your bikes [if you own loads]. DO
I've got an Edge 500 with cadence and HRM setrap for £180 (Evans price match). It's brilliant for the road, haven't used it offroad yet.
I often pop my 500 in my back pack and it still works, so any worries about it not being able to see the sky are false.
I'd rather have the 500 than the more expensive units as I have no desire to view less than great maps on it. You can still follow a breadcrumb trail with the 500 but you cannot beat an OS map when off-road.
I love my Edge 500, you can upload routes to it, but only breadcrumb type.
As has been said, comes with 2 mounts as standard, and additional ones are very cheap.
Cheers, Rich
Try Amazon for Garmins or www.heartratemonitor.co.uk
I'd agree with keeping it simple. Get a cheap but rugged speedo and then maybe get a basic heart rate monitor. Or you can get a combo of the two but ends up more expensive. Personally I'm always more interested in how hard I've worked and for how long (which is why I use an HRM) than the distance I've covered... But then I'm geeky like that.
I've always wanted a Garmin Edge...one of the good things about the 500 is it is half the weight of the 750!