I also use the Garmin 1000 Explore for longer rides and touring, and the Strava app on my phone for toodling around. I don't care about the numbers for training purposes or pushing myself to go faster, but I do enjoy knowing what my mileage was at the end of a long day on tour, seeing how much distance I put on one bike vs another, keeping track of how much distance a chain/cassette has on it, what my annual mileage is etc. All just for interest sake. I used to find that having a computer on my bars really hampered my ability to relax and just ride. I'd always be like "17km/h??? I need to go faster". It was a buzzkill for sure. I stopped using any computer for a while, but missed knowing what my mileage was, so I started using the phone app. that solved the issue, as it was always stashed out of sight in my pocket. Plus I convinced myself to just stop caring about what speed I was going, to let the commuter who flew past me go un-chased, etc...
The Garmin 1000 Explore is great for touring as well as it runs off dynamo power (not all Garmin's will do that), has decent pre-loaded maps, and lots of free maps online you can add on. I used it on the Divide every day and it was extremely useful on the trail for navigation, understanding elevation profiles for certain areas, etc. On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 8:32:39 AM UTC-5, RJM wrote: > > Whatever lowest level Garmin (Edge 20 or 25?)has will do everything you > want it to and it will do it without having to add sensors or wires....plus > you will get gps. They are super simple to use. > > I use the Garmin 1000 Explore and find it to be great except I've come > across a bug when out mountain biking. When sweat hits the touchscreen it > will think I'm trying to change that data field and go to a menu of > choices. I'm always sweating while mountainbiking and I'm always moving > around on the bike so sweat is flying exactly where the garmin sits, so it > has been bumming me out. Garmin customer service can't solve the issue. > I've been thinking about picking up an Edge 20 or 25 just so I don't need > to take the 1000 with me and those have push buttons instead of > touchscreens. Plus, they are smaller. > > I dig data on the road bike, even have a power meter but on the mountain > bike not so much. I do like to look at a gps map of where I went though, > and garmin saves all that in one convenient place. > > On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 10:18:51 AM UTC-5, bluebirdonabicycle wrote: > >> Maybe its my age but its a confusing world looking at the many different >> cyclometers (or whatever they are called) >> Im looking for something wireless, simple that has the basic (important) >> features like....How fast? Distance? Total miles? >> But well built. >> Most I look at seem cluttered with endless features. >> Any opinions from those who have traveled this road? >> >> BBOB >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
