Garmin Edge 500

not sane · 24-10-2011 12:54pm #1

Is it worth it.

C3PO · 24-10-2011 12:56pm

Yes

DirkVoodoo · 24-10-2011 1:00pm

"Is it worth it?" depends entirely on what you need out of it.

Do you just want to know how fast you are going? Do you need GPS?

Plastik · 24-10-2011 1:19pm

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

"Is it worth it?" depends entirely on what you need out of it.

Do you just want to know how fast you are going? Do you need GPS?

Yes.

Yes.

Carpenter · 24-10-2011 2:01pm

Get the 800:D

Morgan · 24-10-2011 4:19pm

I think the question is, are you worth it?

cantalach · 24-10-2011 7:10pm

Yes, it's worth it. And once you get one, be sure to join Strava. Makes solo training a lot more fun.

aquanaut · 24-10-2011 8:53pm

cantalach wrote: »

Yes, it's worth it. And once you get one, be sure to join Strava. Makes solo training a lot more fun.

+1 on Edge 500 - get HRM / cadence - as for Strava, any other in agreement? I just use connect, but wondering if mapmyride etc get much good reviews (for Ireland)

Plastik · 24-10-2011 9:00pm

For me, its all about Strava. It makes every solo spin a competition!

aquanaut · 24-10-2011 9:35pm

Plastik wrote: »

For me, its all about Strava. It makes every solo spin a competition!

Just found you all on Strava!

not sane · 26-10-2011 8:43am

Took the plunge its in post. Whats so good about strava?

mfdc · 26-10-2011 9:28am

not sane wrote: »

Took the plunge its in post. Whats so good about strava?

Anyone can mark a segment of road and Strava creates a leaderboard for it. In practice this means marking out all the hills, so you can see how you fare against everyone else on the climbs, but you can also mark out flat bits of road (or descents) and TT along them to try and get the best time.

It's all automatically done once you create a segment, Strava parses out times from all the rides already uploaded. Also whenever you upload a ride it goes through and picks out any segments you've done, and lets you know if you beat your own best time on that segment or if you've gone up the leaderboard. Introduces some incentive to put the hammer down when out on a solo spin

edit: here's an example from another thread - if you rode up Stocking Lane and uploaded your ride, you'd show up somewhere in that leaderboard. Ride up it again and it would let you know if you beat your previous time and moved up the board or not, all automatically.