How To Use A Garmin Cycle Computer | A Beginner Guide
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- Cycling computers have progressed massively in the past few years, and whether you are looking to see how one works or have recently invested your hard-earned money it can be easy to feel overwhelmed with the many features that modern bike computer head units have! In this video, Anna Cipullo shows you how to navigate a Garmin.
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00:00 - Intro
01:50 - Profile Screen
03:36 - Data Screen
05:17 - Pairing Devices
07:43 - Using Garmin Maps
10:36 - Bonus Tips
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Big fan of the 130 Plus, mounted on the stem cap. It’s ultra compact yet very capable, including navigation (design a course on your PC, load it on the device and follow it).
Thank you so much for this walk through. I have been needing some help unlocking my garmin edge
Great video! This is the exact Garmin device I just bought, and I'm pretty happy about it. I've changed from Edge 1000 to the 530 and I don't regret.
Really enjoyed your video! Super informative!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching! 👊
Another great job on the details Anna! Thanks!
Cheers, Larry! Anna knows her Garmins! 😂
I just got the Edge 530 for Christmas with the remote control, still getting used to it, there's so much information, but the mapping is super useful.
Thank you, really helpful and useful, i think GMBN should give you Your Own show.
I really didn’t know to much about the Garmins and didn’t know if I should get one or not but after this super helpful vid I’m definitely getting one!! Thanks gmbn tech always making such useful vids👍
yeah these gizmos are ok & well worth investing in, great for back packing on the bike to exspecially if your on your own for that extra bit of remoteness
I own 530 for more than a year now and it is good value for money. Works excellent with 3rd party SPD and CAD sensor, work with my elite turbo trainer, i can transmit my HR from garmin watch and with some rubber additional cover is quite armored
If you change the automatic loop settings you can make it choose more off-road and less used tracks, might be worth packing a folding saw because I've come across a fair few downed trees on one line it picked out for me
Garmin also links with Outdoor Active which I think has a better route planner and makes a good repository for your planned routes and ridden rides I rode for years using a phone to navigate and record tracks and there are disadvantages; you need to ride with a supplementary battery attached to stop the phone from going flat and if you put phone inside a protective case/mount they can overheat and turn themselves off in warm weather. A phone makes a decent way to start planning and navigating routes but a purpose designed unit is loads better.
I‘m using my Garmin for over a year but I think I have only scratched the surface. I‘d love to learn more about navigation and the differences between letting the Garmin calcualate a route or just displaying/following a route. This is rather confusing for me.
I’ve had my garmin over a year and still don’t know what it does. This is really handy
We're glad you found this useful, Jamie! Hopefully, this helped explain a lot of things to you!
should mention the ability to install 3rd party apps too, I find the "Enduro Timekeeper" is great paired with a pre-set course for enduro racing, came in very handy for pacing myself in an enduro race in Portugal
You are way ahead of me.
How do I turn it on?
And then what?
I find myself pressing random buttons
And don’t know how to go back to where I just was
Maybe you could set up a ride and then go out and do it and show us from start to finish if that’s not to much to do. I know y’all are busy so thank you for the great content I’ve learned a lot from you all.
I’ve paired my Garmin with a speed, cadence sensors and the hr monitor but it keeps loosing connection and auto pausing, basically collecting no data. Any ideas why? Thanks for the vid thought very helpful!
Does anyone have a link to the video she references about Blake pairing a Garmin Watch and Edge Device? I currently have them "paired" but I do not think I am using them correctly. Thank You!
As a Karoo2 user, I don't think there is as much data for a Mountain Biker on it then the Garmin. Makes me wonder now if I should switch to a Garmin as I have transitioned to more of a MTBer than a Roadie. Karoo2 for my gravel bike and a Garmin for my MTB. Something to think about. Thanks Anna for this video. Very informative
Alerts my phone!! Am sold... gonna get one for definite. That plus my heavy duty bike lock and high decibel bike alarm I think my bike will be okay while I do a quick Walmart stop
Love my edge explore. Saves my more expensive phone, saves its battery, connects to satellite better in the Uk especially when you're out in the woods, peaks etc and is just a better tool designed for the job. Can't understand the negativity.
Could u use the watches instead? I tend to crash enough to be scared to break them
Sure. The only thing there is that the small screen makes it hard to follow a course or see any of your data. Dangerous even when moving. It just depends how you are going to use it.
Don't listen to the smart phone addicts in the comments. This is still tech that is very handy and could even save a life!
So true, Tivon! Bike computers like the Garmin Edge are way more accurate with data collection than mobile phones. 👍
Which garmin watch ⌚️ is ideal for mtb
Fenix series is good. I used a 5x for a while but finally decided on the Edge 830 MTB kit when it was on sale since I was biking so much. If MTB dynamics are important check the watch supports that. Watches may not show jumps.
I bought a bar mount for the Fenix but it broke on a crash. I hate the Garmin watch mount which emulates a wrist on your bars. I’ve heard of people pushing buttons or hurting themselves wearing the watch on a ride.
If you get the bar remote the touchscreen isn’t so important.
We'd suggest the Garmin Fenix as well! It's one of the more rugged watches Garmin make. There are also solar-powered options and it has an in-built GPS!
@GMBN Tech thank you for the reply. There are various versions of the Fenix like the smart and outdoor
The 830 will be the best?
Personally, edge 530 is the best for the money, the 830 is substantially more expensive for just a touch screen, and the buttons are easier to use with gloves, and dirt and muck can effect touch screens
@PaulPenalver thank you so much for the advice appreciate it
I’ve heard the touch screen on the 830 isn’t a great idea for mountain biking because when you’re using your fingers on it, it makes the screen very dirty when biking.
@Troy Esch thank you for the advice 🙏
Nobody's got questions about that FTP and watts per kilo?
Thanks for the great video, but will you consider a more "expert" version of it ? thanks in advance.
After my second Garmin Edge 520 died unexpectedly I decided to try something different - the Wahoo ELEMNT Bolt instead of the Garmin 530. Boy! I'm glad I did. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxXZCtB-wGdHVTBSz8RswePK5vllHNi06N The display on the Wahoo Bolt is much easier to read. I like the configuration of the display more (up to 7 items visible on page 1 without scrolling and the first item chosen is larger characters than the next 3 rows that have pairs of items (still very readable). I also like the configurable item selections. The Bolt synced with my Garmin ANT+ Speed sensors on both bikes easily so no additional investment was required there. While the rated battery life is a couple hours less than the Garmin 520/530, I easily get a weeks worth of 1+ hour rides before recharging (and it's never really low on charge). At the end of a ride syncing to the Wahoo app, Strava, and Apple Health app is painless.
Touch screen from the 90s lol nice lol 😆😆😆
Those devices are really smart but it tooks away some things for me. I dont wanna look at my computer when riding. I have bought a little sigma gps which records my basic data and where I ride. It also has some primitive navigation for safety if you go somewhere unknown. I ride, enjoy it and when I go back home, I send the data to my strava to review it. Absolutely enough for me. And it was cheap. Another thing I dont get is the fps of those devices. All of their menus are choppy like a 2010 android phone. Cmon, they are expensive, why not 60fps animations? It hurts my eyes.
Or just use Google maps 😆😆😂
Well the thing about Google is that they love to spy on people....same as Amazon, Facebook...err, I mean "Meta" (🙄), pretty much all of the big tech corporations do it. And what if your phone dies? That Garmin seems handy to use if your phone dies.
You could just buy a beater phone with much better specs for 10% of the price of these laggy Cyclo computers made from recycled 90s hardware.
they have these things called cellphones now, you guys should try them
The phone stays in the pocket while I'm out riding. Try it sometime
@@gazzas28 why? so I can waste money on something I don't need when I already have something that does literally everything it can do and more? There's this thing called a brain, you should try using it some time
I did, and found that using a phone for navigation means it usually drains the phone within a day of riding. As I also like to do some bike-camping trips it's just so much better with a gps and the phone in the bag on plane or low-power mode. That way I only need charging once or twice a week.
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I've used a phone for navigaton for years and just got a Garmin. It's got a HUGELY better battery life, this model works in the rain, and can be left always on so I don't make a wrong turn that I missed as the phone was blank at that point (happened so many times), then have to back track. Oh and maybe trying to backtrack using a phone with a screen that doesn't work in the rain, which not a great experience. Using up data of course.
Garmins are imho overpriced but there are definite advantages to a phone, and I've navigated quite a few hundred miles using a phone. Smartarses like Catalist are not nearly as clever as they think they are...
Of course if you know the route then these things are not relevenat but for me navigation is the main reason I want one of these things, otherwise I can just track my ride with a phone in my pocket or on my watch.
I have noticed that these bike computers are increasingly suffering from the TOO MANY app s phenomenon! Like cell phones. You don't need jafl of these ridiculas apps on a cycle computer!