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@hippy
First Ride with Edge 1000:
Pros
It didn't crash
You don't need to set turn by turn for every course individually (once I found it)
Cons
It's heavy and long so rotates on my TT mount.
It's slow calculating and recalculating, actually seems slower than 800 but maybe that's because I used the recalculate on route option?
When it's calculating or telling you you're off course it doesn't redraw the screen, so it looks like you're still on the course - cue extra mile detour to get to next RAB for a uturn.
The screen didn't respond well to my gloves - lucky they're full of holes so finger tip works better.
Probably more but I'll get used to it I guess.
Oh battery life down to 60% after a couple of hours. I'm going to disable Glonass to see if it's any better. Nothing else like WiFi or Bluetooth is on.
Second Ride:
Got 180k out of it today. Found a few more annoying things, like it tells you about a turn that's 2k away and then stops drawing your position while it shows this junction that's 2k down the road.
Recalculation of an as hoc route is actually faster than 800s. Maybe yesterday was slow because I'd selected recalc of a planned route.
Battery life bit worrying. 3.5hr then slept it a few hours then it gave me low battery warning at 5hr mark. I turned backlight off and stopped navigation and it lasted the 7hrs I needed.
Even though it's set to auto, it didn't go to night mode after dark. Odd.
Oh, had to set it to Car mode because it kept sending me down cycle paths.
Also recalc doesn't chose optional route. It would go from 20k to go, I'd ignore it and then it would go to 9k to go. Stupidb thing trying v to get me doing extra miles!