Your Garmin help, please

I'd be interested in the Edge remote with the road bar mount for the remote - I think that's the one in the bag at the bottom right. £20 sound fair? They're 35 new.

Works for me: @amey wanted the sensors but I don't think he wanted that. Pickup in Farringdon in the week? Alternatively I'm near Catford.

Cannondale are now fitting some of their super duper black inc bikes with stems that have an integrated garmin holder that's a plastic moulded thing stuck through the faceplate. Quite smart really, although my LBS wouldn't sell it me :(

also, what's the most reliable HR strap? Mine keeps crapping out

One of these has been very reliable for me, never missed a beat!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-4G-Sports-Wireless-Heart-Rate-Monitor-ANT-Smart-Sensor-Chest-Belt-Black-41JW-/131679473178?hash=item1ea8b54e1a:g:vIUAAOSwNyFWc93G

What about the Edge Touring? more reliable than 810.

If you want to follow a pre-plotted course, then the cheaper 520 is fine for that. Not had any issues following courses so far, and it's how I explore new areas. Replace the base map on the 520 by following these instructions. If you want ad-hoc navigation then it's the 810/1000, although read Hippy's posts regarding Garmin's ad-hoc navigation.

Thanks for info, appreciate your help.

520 and 810 were the two I was comparing. Lack of memory on the 520 sounds like an issue to a lot of people? and Garmin website says 520 'not able to add maps'. I take it you can then? After comparing some videos of the nav on both, the 810 seems much more effective at actually navigating you, with audio cues for turns etc, 520 more just up to you to follow the route?

Also I'm not really after any of the phone connectivity / strava live segments features and feel like i'm paying for those with the 520...

What about the Edge Touring? more reliable than 810.

Will check these out in a bit more detail. Cheers

Farringdon works nicely for me - I'm in Lincoln's Inn during the week. I'm never around Catford. Are you in Farrigdon on Monday?

charging socket on my garmin 1000 has melted and it wont connect to a computer or recharge. it is 14 months old, are garmin likely to offer to repair/replace it? what is the likely cost?

Had issues with using live track on Saturday. When my signal was poor (which was most of the ride, I was out in the sticks) it refused to update. Does it have to run through your phone - I had sorta hoped it would be enough to just run it through the GPS of the unit.

can you resize the fields on the 520? I only want to show two data fields on a certain screen but it's only using half the real estate for some reason

also is there a quick way to set all live segments to track my PB? I know you can go in individually and do them one by one but sack that

The older, plastic, non-soft strap ones are indestructible. ('classic')

The soft straps get killed by sweat over time.

I suspect Garmin might have removed disable power meter auto-zero in a firmware update on Fenix III.

Bugger

Classic here is 8years going strong (yuk)

What have you been plugging it into?!

GPS is a satellite system that just tells your device where you're at. There's no communications with it. For live tracking the GPS sends location via bluetooth (I think - I don't use it) to your phone which then uses its internet connection (2G, 3G, etc) to fire off that location data to Garmin servers (via NSA, GCHQ, etc).

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Yeah, it's bluetooth. I guess I was wondering what level of data connection you need to use it. If I just have 2g, will that be enough to send location data?

Damn, something's wrong there! Maybe see Apple for a warranty too.

Any data connection should do it, 2G is fine, just slower if your phone is doing other stuff too.

don't think either of my issues can be got round. dumb

Ah, so fubar'd for fixed Powertap use?

Maybe. Even with autozero I've never had the mad increasing power over time error that you did.