Your Garmin help, please

City Navigator for the UK

(and Garmin 810 FWIW)

As you can see from this image city navigator is missing many cycle paths and detail as say compared to Openstreetmap. If you have them both on your device you can benefit from the post code search etc of the garmin maps and the detail of OSM.

Huh. So they charge £35 for... what exactly???
Does having the official maps fix the random shutdowns with OSM maps

Top left button (perhaps hold 1 sec)

Get a FR920 or 910. With the QR kit fitted, I use mine for everything and I've found it really reliable. If you wanna go cheap, you could even go FR310 which doesn't really have much less in terms of functionality. I have a spare one on sale for cheap (but missing a charger (~£10 on eBay)) #spam

Huh. So they charge £35 for... what exactly???

Much better routing.

Routing with OSM maps is either non-existent or utterly hopeless. It's getting better though.

Thanks @Pifko and @Dammit.

If I extended my list to include 'ideally still looks like a watch so I can wear it a bit day to day' and 'I already have a garmin 800' would your answers change?

Not sure if I'm missing something with the fr920 but it is incredibly ugly and expensive.

I've stopped using osm on my 800 and 810 and the crash rate dropped markedly.

Also, postcode search is a must have for me.

Yeah, the same. But its a bit useless having postcode search if it won't actually give you a decent route to the postcode. Although I guess you're pretty used to hammering it up and down A-roads anyway

What's a 'decent route' though? I would prefer the fastest and most direct usually but other people would prefer the least traffic. I know my units always try and send me off the A40 and A413 when I'm quite happy to ride them so it's not just choosing main routes.

Not sure if I'm missing something with the fr920 but it is incredibly ugly and expensive.

It's for slvlss so ugly and expensive is almost a requirement.

(I'm waiting for it to be <£350 with the HRM Swim&Tri bundle before I get mine.)

I have a couple of Garmin devices to sell, they will be on the classifieds soon but I thought I'd give a heads up here in case anyone is interested:

• Garmin Edge 800, very good conditions, £150 - Add £20 for a new (never used) latest version speed/cadence sensor to go with it
  
• Garmin Forerunner 620, very good conditions, with HRM Run, 150£
  
  

Please let me know if the prices look too off. I had a quick look on eBay/gumtree and they seem reasonable.

All in London.

Thanks @Pifko and @Dammit.

If I extended my list to include 'ideally still looks like a watch so I can wear it a bit day to day' and 'I already have a garmin 800' would your answers change?

Not sure if I'm missing something with the fr920 but it is incredibly ugly and expensive.

I wear my Fenix II as a watch, especially if I am travelling, it doesn't look out of place, it's just a bit big maybe.

Cheers.

@howard any fenix 3 thoughts to share?

It's goooooooodt actually. Will post more this w/e when I have time, but headlines

No crashes
Finds signal crazy quick
Bluetooth-iPhone is stupid useful
Easy to navigate around if you are a nerd, and only nerds want a F3, so that's cool

Someone at work said it looked nice, which surprised me

^They want to wear your skin

Thanks, this does sound good, and I am a nerd.

Interested to hear your further thoughts if you have a moment.

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/03/garmin-fenix3-detailed-review.html

Another question, I've got a GSC 10 sensor which I've just fitted to my road bike and it seems to be really inaccurate. Do some sensors have their own smoothing algorithm in them?
It would jump by >1 mph without any change in PRE or terrain, and made TrainnerRoad fairly unusable. Even then, with 3s smoothing turned on it still showed more variability than the Giant branded sensor it replaced.
(it doesn't seem to be missing or gaining readings, the ave speed seems fine, just the fine detail seems off)

Interested to hear your further thoughts if you have a moment.

Feels like a nice combination of stable softs and well crafted hardware. Very un-garmin like. Connecting it to the phone via bluetooth simplifies everything - no dicking around with the cradle trying to get it to sync and means no crappy Garmin Express to worry about. The basic smartwatch features like call answering, weather and music control are nice freebies and more useful than they sound.

Despite being quite hefty you can run with it without feeling like you have a deadweight attached to your arm. You can wear it whilst you sleep and it will guess the quality of your zzzz by the amount you move which is interesting and not as uncomfortable as it sounds.

It picks up sensors quickly although you can't seem to enable / disable them by profile - or I haven't found out how yet.

The only thing I haven't managed to find / get it to do is HR zone alerts and I assume power zone alerts are also AWOL.

Battery life is great but I'm not doing a whole load of training at the moment so there you go.

Thanks. Your first two sentences is pretty much what I was after :)

HR zone alerts sounds like a good idea, if possible, and something I hadn't thought about. Popping it into google brings up someone in the comments on DC Rainmaker saying "settings>system>user profile>heart rate zones", so that could be worth a look.

Are you using the fancy HR strap? I was thinking of just using the bog standard one I already have from my 800.

So I'm still waiting for my repair of my garmin 510 with speed, cadence and HM. It's been a month and I'm not too sure if I want to keep the 510 or ask for an upgrade with Evans cycles and get the 520 or 810. Is it worth it or shall I keep using the 510 as it is?

No just using a bog standard strap

The easiest way to set HR and lower zones is in Connect, then send them to the device.