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Garmin edge 705

  • 02-10-2012 3:48pm
    #1
    fondriest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭


    Just seen garmin edge 705 with hr strap and cadence in the bike shop Wexford for €285 . Looks like a good deal to me but I could wrong .


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  • #2
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    fondriest wrote: »
    Just seen garmin edge 705 with hr strap and cadence in the bike shop Wexford for €285 . Looks like a good deal to me but I could wrong .

    Not a bad price. Slightly cheaper from handtec albeit for a refurbished model.


  • #3
    Stokolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭Stokolan


    fondriest wrote: »
    Just seen garmin edge 705 with hr strap and cadence in the bike shop Wexford for €285 . Looks like a good deal to me but I could wrong .

    Just to note the 705 hasn't got the maps pre installed. you need to buy them aswell.


  • #4
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Stokolan wrote: »
    Just to note the 705 hasn't got the maps pre installed. you need to buy them aswell.

    Or if you don't mind a bit of fiddling around, you can put an open street map on;

    https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/3606/map-to-edge-705


  • #5
    doozerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    As far as I can remember, my 705 came with some basic maps pre-installed. That was a few years ago now so perhaps things have changed. I bought a set of Europe maps for it at the same time, but my experience of them is that they are muck (for parts of Ireland) - for example, while on the road leading to the Shay Elliot several months ago my Garmin swore blind that no such road existed. It was kind enough to draw in the road as far as I'd travelled along it to that point though, presumably it thought I was some kind of steam roller laying roads as I go. It has also refused to recognise the existence of some of the roads on the outskirts of Roundwood, maybe it just doesn't like Wicklow.

    If I were buying a 705 again (which I wouldn't, incidentally, I'd go for the Edge 500 instead, or the Edge 800 if I wanted to take a chance on the mapping function having improved), I'd look at putting something like OpenStreetMap on it as smacl suggests. Maybe it wouldn't work any better, but free muck is preferable to expensive muck.


  • #6
    brian_m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭brian_m


    I recently bought the edge 705 from Handtec, delighted with it so far although I haven't used the mapping much. The mapping does look a bit sh1te tbh. I loaded up the open street map which is a bit better than what comes on it standard from what I can see and it is easy enough to do. For a mtb marathon race a few weeks back I had loaded the GPX of the course onto the device beforehand, this allowed me to view an elevation view of the course as I cycled it so I had a good idea of where I was on the climbs and what lay ahead etc, found that useful.


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