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Bike Computer

tcooley · 2019-06-10 11:03:06

Hi all, I am looking for a relatively cheap bike computer. Garmin too dear for all the cycling I do. I have seen Bryton rider 10 E, VDO and Sigma brands. All roughly between 50 and E100 Could anyone tell me if these are worth getting? I just want to record the ride and upload to strava. Very basic use. Cheers.

10-06-2019 11:03am

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tcooley

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Hi all,

I am looking for a relatively cheap bike computer. Garmin too dear for all the cycling I do.

I have seen Bryton rider 10 E, VDO and Sigma brands. All roughly between 50 and E100

Could anyone tell me if these are worth getting?

I just want to record the ride and upload to strava. Very basic use.

Cheers.

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#2 10-06-2019 12:02pm

TGD

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I'm selling this stuff in case you would be interested - price has been lowered considerably.

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#3 10-06-2019 12:05pm

ED E

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Use your phone (turn on airplane to save battery).

The €160 Bryton got destroyed by GPS Llama for some mission critical flaws. There are also a few rebadges of the same unit. Something worth getting starts at about €240 new. Even looking at second hand the Elemnt Bolt from wahoo sells for €160 used.

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#4 10-06-2019 12:32pm

Cionn

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When I started off I used a Garmin edge 25, it cost me €80 in Aldi, can be bought for a about 60-70 second hand, ticked all the boxes for me initially, sold mine for €10 less than I bought it for and never had any issues with the battery. I would suggest something like that secondhand or go with the phone suggestion above

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#5 10-06-2019 3:12pm

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On android, try OsmAnd with downloadable maps, trip recording and navigation. Dunno about strava upload, might be a manual thing.

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#6 10-06-2019 3:26pm

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Cionn wrote: »

When I started off I used a Garmin edge 25, it cost me €80 in Aldi, can be bought for a about 60-70 second hand, ticked all the boxes for me initially, sold mine for €10 less than I bought it for and never had any issues with the battery. I would suggest something like that secondhand or go with the phone suggestion above

€90 in Halfords now if OP is stuck.

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#7 10-06-2019 5:15pm

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Somedaythefire wrote: »

€90 in Halfords now if OP is stuck.

There was 15% off two weeks ago too. Edge 130 gets good reviews too though for something very basic, although 140€ or so from Amazon Germany is probably the cheapest you'll find that

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#8 11-06-2019 7:14am

tcooley

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Thanks all for the help. I have a 2nd hand Garmin located so I think I will go with that.

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