Your Garmin help, please

damn, beaten to it + new page...

Send it back to Garmin.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/05/garmin-edge-820-review-cycling-battery-life-group-tracking-touchscreen-navigation

"Garmin Edge 820 review: the cycling aid you'll want to hurl off a mountain "

LOLz

We already had that. How did you do your 800 not crash around the 200 miles?

Letting the battery drain seemed to work.

Alternately plugging it into the computer then out again, then try and turn it off.

My 800 has made it through all my 24hr races.
It's only when you use navigation that it fails (in my case at ~450k)

Garmin connect is helpfully telling me it can't connect to my device. No surprise, it's in another city.

Is it possible to delete a bit out of a .fit file? I had a mechanical on a training ride today and thought I'd paused the Garmin while I sorted it. However it was on and so power data etc is skewed. I'd like to remove that bit of off bike time if possible. I'm on a mac if that makes a difference.

You can try one of the online tools here https://www.fitfiletools.com/#/top

Nice one, worked a treat.

I'm considering a cycle computer with the main purpose of navigation. LEL has prodded me into thinking about buying something, but it's something I've considered for a while.

My main interest is navigation, but riding with a cycle computer for the first time it is quite nice to know how you're doing in a heads up display.

I've got three things in mind:
Garmin edge tour
Garmin Etrex 30
Wahoo Elemnt

I have a dynamo on my main bike, but I also like the idea of being able to use the unit on other bikes and with the etrex30, even for hiking and off road.

As the cheapest of the lot, and being able to navigate in all situations, I'm looking at an etrex30 as my first port of call. Can anyone suggest why this is a bad idea/what else I should consider.

Etrex isn't a cycle computer, it's more a trekking GPS.

I have an etrex 30 and use it for hiking and cycling. Whilst not specifically a cycling gps it has ant+ therefore enabling things like heart rate monitors etc. to be used.

Only HRMs, cadence and the tempe sensors. It doesn't handle/record readings from an ANT power meter.

I want an AA battery powered Garmin that can display a map (with a track overlaid), don't care about routing, that will also record HR, cadence and power from ANT sensors.

Edge 705 with external battery packs with AA batteries is closest I have to that.

I have a Garmin Edge Touring for exactly this. It works fine, although I don't use the turn-by-turn navigation whatsoever (give it a .tcx file with built in cues and it works nicely). Battery will last a day of riding but you probably don't want to run it off a dynamo directly, it (and I think all other rechargeable garmins) has a stupid 'feature' where it will turn off when you stop charging it (ie when you cycle too slowly). I've found no way to turn it off so I charge it from a battery pack that I then charge off the bike.

Generic question, what do you people use to merge multiple segments of a route together when planning it? I created a route in segments, and now want to merge it to see the big picture before breaking it down again in day by day stages.

If you have .gpx/.tcx track files then you can tack together the trackpoints in a text editor (ie copy/paste anything you find between the

<track> and </track> or </trk> and </trkseg> 

tags) and then reupload that as a route. Best to do that into an existing file so you get the preamble correct.

I've used gpsbabel for that. It's not the easiest to use though.

I would recommend the Elemnt over a Garmin Edge, especially if navigation is the main priority.

I've not used an etrex so can't comment, but they seem to have a reasonable rep.

I was just watching some videos about how you load maps from basecamp. Would it be annoying to get all the maps on it for London-Edinburgh-London, or would a gpx go straight on?

Other auduxers seem to say the same. Not heard anything negative about Wahoo.

if you use ridewithgps then as long as the different "stages" are all uploaded to your routes there, then you can add them all to one map to see the whole tour in one place, while still keeping the separate stages.

Not too sure exactly what you are asking, if you mean load parts (tiles) of an existing map in basecamp onto your device, this is possible but a bit of a pain. Used to be easier in mapsource ,but is rather more convoluted in basecamp.
I do not really understand your question about a gpx.
If it is a gpx track, this can be used on a device with no underlying mapping, if a gpx route file it will look for a routable map on the device.
The image is a gpx track on a device with no maps.

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I created them in RWGPS, so there they are. How do I combine them as stages? Also, can I then merge it in one route? I will need to split it down again in smaller segments, not necessarily related to the original longer ones.

You've answered it, even if I wasn't clear.

I didn't realise you could use a track without underlaying mapping. I thought you might have to load the surrounding maps.