Your Garmin help, please

Do you use a speed/cadence sensor?

As above, I knocked the magnet out of position on my speed and cadence sensor and no speed or distance was registering on the head unit and it did not record any either.

If I have two separate bikes: one with a power meter and speed sensor, and one with a cadence sensor and speed sensor - with all sensors signed up to the same garmin, am I going to rinse the battery searching for the sensors of one bike, while I'm out riding the other?

Them Garmins have lots of bikes you can set up no?

Just had a look at the bike and the magnet from the crank arm is missing. So that would explain the lack of recorded data.

Would of thought if the Garmin doesn't pair with a sensor it would default to gps signal, oh well.

If I have two separate bikes: one with a power meter and speed sensor, and one with a cadence sensor and speed sensor - with all sensors signed up to the same garmin, am I going to rinse the battery searching for the sensors of one bike, while I'm out riding the other?

In a word, no. I have four bikes with sensors that I use the same Edge 1000 with.

Them Garmins have lots of bikes you can set up no?

No bike profiles any more, just a sensor 'pool'.

No bike profiles any more, just a sensor 'pool'.

Yep. My Fenix even looks for a powermeter whilst I'm out running. Doesn't seem to affect it - it probably stops searching after a couple of minutes of activity.

Nah. Apparently there were "bike profiles" on older Garmins. No such luck here.

Do the units actually do anything when 'searching'? It's the powermeter that's actually transmitting the signal.

I've got that on my 510. Set up a new one for Brompton and changed the stuff on the screen (so no cadence, moved stuff ar0und etc). Got back on the kinesis, switched bike profile to find that the changes carried over to all bike profiles and I had to change it all back to cadence etc and re-arrange everything. So profiles only seem to have anything to do with sensors.

The magnet on the crank arm is just for cadence so can't see why that would prevent speed / distance being recorded.

I've had mine not pick up hrm and or cadence and still record the GPS track, but I've never bothered with a magnet speed sensor so don't know if that'd make a difference.

I had some problems with a loose spoke magnet on my previous Garmin (500). I assumed that it would just fall back on GPS for speed when the magnet wasn't picking up, but this didn't seem to be the case. In the end I had to set up a new bike profile to get the thing working again.

TL,DR: buy a Elemnt.

TL,DR: buy a Elemnt.

They're rather good, aren't they? I like mine a lot. I really ought to start switching my mounts over from Garmin to Wahoo ones more.

I'm down to one bike left with a Garmin mount....

I've got too many which don't have replaceable inserts to get that low (mostly Tilquist mounts) but I'm aiming to have those mounts mostly on hacks and winter bikes. All new bikes will have Wahoo mounts except for the P5 which is going to be SRM.

I made an adapter by bonding a female Elemnt mount to a male Garmib mount.

Any way to stop my Edge 810 using barometric pressure for altitude? Other than throwing it in the sea. Beginning to understand Hippys hatred now.

I recorded todays ride on garmin and phone, garmin used pressure and got 410 m elevation, phone got 700 odd from gps.

If I strip the elevation data from the file (dunno if that's possible), will strava just assume it from the topology of the land?

There's a 'correct elevation' button on strava. Amazing!

I recorded todays ride on garmin and phone, garmin used pressure and got 410 m elevation, phone got 700 odd from gps.

Barometric is more likely to be accurate than GPS. GPS is not good on elevation. Not good at all...

^This

Hargroves Cycles are doing the 820 bundle for £349.
http://www.hargrovescycles.co.uk/garmin-edge-820-gps-computer-performance-bundle.html

Anyone know of cheaper?

Why not u Wahoo Elemnt? :)

I get that, but the data was wrong. A bumpy ride had a completely smooth and basically flat last 2/3 and I needed to fix it.