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  • Just to check, when routing on the 800, it needs to be set to walking to avoid A roads/motorways? Anything else that needs to be adjusted?

    Walking? There's an option for that?

  • Garmin for you

  • Walking? There's an option for that?

    System settings, routing, calculate routes for, choose bicycle, pedestrian, car/motorcycle.

  • ^Does it need to be set to pedestrian when routing on the Garmin to get better bike routes? Or will it take me down footpaths?

  • ^Does it need to be set to pedestrian when routing on the Garmin to get better bike routes? Or will it take me down footpaths?

    Try it.

  • ^ It will take you down footpaths. There should be a separate option to avoid motorways somewhere, I think.

    Have been struggling to make .gpx files appear on my 705, ever since Garmin Connect started doing .tcx by default (which doesn't give turn-by-turn on my device).

    Tried to upload once last night. Didn't appear. Tried again having removed hyphens from file names. Worked.

    I think I may once again have found a brief window during which the bloody thing actually fulfils its design parameters.

  • I'm having trouble getting 'navigate to start of course' to work. It just tells me to go as-the-crow-flies. Which is particularly tricky in central London.

    I'm using open street maps (routeable, allegedly) from TalkyToaster, on an Edge 800. Google hasn't offered a solution yet. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

  • I'm having trouble getting 'navigate to start of course' to work. It just tells me to go as-the-crow-flies. Which is particularly tricky in central London.

    I'm using open street maps (routeable, allegedly) from TalkyToaster, on an Edge 800. Google hasn't offered a solution yet. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

    Have you actually tried to use it to get you to the start, even though it is showing a straight line it may actually route you along the roads. If it doesn't try as below.

    Make a new route from your current position to the start of the course.
    "Where to" select concentric circle icon at the bottom of screen, this will give you the option to select a point on the map, select the start of your course, it will calculate a route for you.

  • Anyone know if it's possible to delete / re-order the standard screens that you get on the Edge 800?

    I want to be able to scroll straight through from maps to profile to the opening stats page without that annoying virtual partner thing getting in the way. Does anyone actually use virtual partner? It gets on my tits.

    I've read through the guide you get with the unit but didn't see anything about this. High chance I'm being an idiot though

  • Yes, I've done it on mine so only two screens are available - map and data. It'll be in this thread somewhere I guess.

  • Anyone know if it's possible to delete / re-order the standard screens that you get on the Edge 800?

    I want to be able to scroll straight through from maps to profile to the opening stats page without that annoying virtual partner thing getting in the way. Does anyone actually use virtual partner? It gets on my tits.

    I've read through the guide you get with the unit but didn't see anything about this. High chance I'm being an idiot though

    You can choose how many screens, auto scroll or not, how many data fields per screen etc etc.
    Tools, bike settings, training pages, timer pages, user defined, choose
    Tools, training pages, virtual partner, choose

  • ^ Ace, just done it, thanks. Swear I'd tried something similar before and didn;t sort it. But, as I said, I was probably being an idiot

  • ^ Ace, just done it, thanks. Swear I'd tried something similar before and didn;t sort it. But, as I said, I was probably being an idiot

    But surely these settings should be under system settings and not bike settings, but thats garmins crappy menu system for you. The most counter intuitive I know of.

  • Have you actually tried to use it to get you to the start, even though it is showing a straight line it may actually route you along the roads. If it doesn't try as below.

    Make a new route from your current position to the start of the course.
    "Where to" select concentric circle icon at the bottom of screen, this will give you the option to select a point on the map, select the start of your course, it will calculate a route for you.

    Thanks. I'm going to look into this and will report back...

  • Time to graduate from 200, so 500 or 510? 510 bluetooth which only has 1 purpose i.e. "social" that I don't care about. It costs fair bit more than 500.

  • Depend on what you want out of it, there are other Garmin that's less than half the price and last twice as long.

  • I want what 200 does + ant plus support for cadence and HR monitor. What i dont want is full maps style navigation which comes with size and price penalty. I was kind of open to other than garmin brands but, I am used to garmin connect and find it really useful so would stick with it.

  • I wish there was a garmin the size of the 500 that did navigation. I hate how massive the 800 is.

  • I wish the bloody 500 wasnt so ugly and white/blue

    the red/black one was an extra £70 so f that

  • The 800 is hardly massive.

  • I have a 705 and I hardly notice it.

  • 510 (£265) or 500 (£140) ...... decide cant argghh

  • Yeah, the 800 fits quite well on a 100mm stem. I even run it hanging off a little post thing on my aerobars and it might look a little ungainly but it's worked so far.

  • 510 (£265) or 500 (£140) ...... decide cant argghh

    265? You can buy an 800 (albeit sans-maps) for that.

  • and install all the maps you need for free from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

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