Your Garmin help, please

Upload both to Garmin connect, export as tcx, join in a text editor - you'll need to strip the trailing tags on file 1, and the leading tags on file 2.

Or use one of the infinite fit tool websites out there.

Excuse the newbie question or if it's been covered earlier in here, I'm new to the Garmin game. Can I plot a map in Ride with GPS and import it into the Garmin? I have the Edge Touring. Cheers.

After you have plotted the ride, you can then export a gpx file. If your garmin is plugged in, put the file in the newfiles folder either on your garmin internal memory or the micro sd card.

Thanks for that.

If you're using a an Edge Touring with RWGPS then I'd suggest you use a .tcx file and turn off the turn-by-turn navigation (that's what I do anyway). The Edge Touring is lacking the horsepower to do TBT convincingly, but does brilliantly with a .tcx file.

So, same process with RWGPS, then just export it as a .tcx file?

Yup. You'll want to put the 'Course Point Distance' field on your map screen, that'll tell you a distance to the next turn as well as an icon, a brief description (accordingly to RWGPS anyway, sometimes if will confuse a change of road name for a turn) and will beep if you want it to.

Thanks mate. I'll give it a try tonight and may give you a shout if I'm having any problems.

Done! Thanks for that.

You're welcome!

Will the POI I am adding to a tour route on RidewithGPS show up on my Garmin?

If you choose "Include POI as waypoints?" when you export, they appear as, guess what?

oh yeah, somehow missed that. Will have to succumb and pay them some money now. Assume that'll show up on a map, and not just the cue sheet?

They'll behave like normal waypoints. Depends on your Garmin.

Odo reset on a 1000? Someone remind me. I've done it before TABR but now can't fuckign remember how.

Totals. Device Totals. Delete.

Hi all, every now and again I come on here and ask the same question just in case there's an answer yet... so, here's me asking the million dollar question for the millionth time...

Is there such a thing as a bicycle sat nav yet?

I want to be able to start from wherever I happen to be and just type in a postcode / address and then get taken there by the most direct (relatively bike-friendly) route with turn-by-turn navigation, like with a tomtom.

I don't need performance data but am happy to ignore it if it means I can live this dream.

I got slightly excited when the Garmin Touring came out, but apparently it takes you on time-consuming round-the-houses routes instead of direct routes that use bigger roads.

What are the options, if any?

Thanks in advance.

I think even now your phone is probably your best bet. I have seen nothing in the bike gps genre to persuade me otherwise as yet.

Google Maps or whatever machine learning / AI / cray cray thing + send to wahoo device is probably the closest to this now

as @andyp will no doubt come along to tell us, bicycle route generation is frickin hard

It is quite difficult but if you had the right tools for the job you could do it.

The problems we had were quite simple to fix; limited processing power and memory, a small battery and no dedicated network connection (we were using BLE to a phone to get access to the network).

If you address those then the problem is surmountable. But is there enough of a market to justify the investment in building such a product?

The problems we had were quite simple to fix; limited processing power and memory, a small battery and no dedicated network connection (we were using BLE to a phone to get access to the network).

There's a bunch of thorny user experience issues too;

• unlike roads [generally], the viability of cycle routes changes over the year
  
• cycle access to certain paths and roads can change quickly
  
• some will trade elevation gain against duration, some will not
  
• some will trade time to destination against fuzzy 'pleasantness' of the route
  
  

not insurmountable either, but coupled with the lack of market...eugh

I suspect market size has a lot to do with why Garmin cycling devices are crap, and their running / multi-sport are much less so

We'd barely started on the routing issues, but I think we'd identified most of what you raise. The killer problem was always, how do we re-route if the user has gone off route?

The killer problem was always, how do we re-route if the user has gone off route?

Put them on an A-road as punishment, obvs.

Sickos like @hippy and @umop3pisdn would probably like it though

For all the usual reasons, i'd like something that is cycle-specific rather than using my phone: proper weatherproofing, longer battery life, secure mount, etc etc.

But on top of that, people spend a lot of time and money putting together pretty bicycles and it would be nice to have a sleak-looking garmin type thing instead of a clunky plastic phone-holder type thing.

Dammit, I wanna stare lovingly at my bike whilst I pose around in French villages!