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just noticed the asterisks in the thread title ! Perhaps I should have said "wrist watch" !
My apologies if anyone has discussed these on here before, but I did a quick search and saw discussions on the more sophisticated bike GPSs, but not that one.
I just bought one secondhand for £50 and it's fulfilled my needs for GPS tracking perfectly.
The reason for mentioning it on here is because all the web feedback and reviews seemed to be centred on it's use by runners, rather than cyclists, so I wasn't sure if it would do for my cycling. It wasn't even clear if it would show mph rather than just pace (minutes per mile).
It doesn't have any facilities for pedaling cadence or heart rate, nor can you really navigate by it or see much other than speed and distance while making the track.
However, if you just want to record your tracks and speeds as conveniently and simply as possible, it does that really well. It's just a fat digital watch size that has a battery life of 5 hours while recording tracks, and can display speed in mph or kph, distance, elapsed time, and time/date.
To view and save the tracks you plug it into a PC USB port and upload to Garmin Connect - Upload, Analyze and Explore Running, Cycling and Outdoor Activities where you can view ans save your tracks overlaid on Google or Bing maps together with speed and altitude graphs.
You can then export the track as a standard .gpx file, which I then load into Memory Map, and view it on Ordnance Survey maps. That lets you float the mouse over any point on the track to see date, time, speed, elevation, and time from start.
I've used Memory Map for many years, first with a Garmin Etrex handheld, and then with my HTC phone's track exports.
For my usage the Garmin 10 watch GPS is the most convenient, and the most likely to get used. The downside with using the phone was how it hammers the battery life with the GPS running.
I also use it for sailing and canoeing, because it's waterproof to 50m as well...
Quite a good review of it here: Garmin Forerunner 10 (FR10) GPS watch In-Depth Review | DC Rainmaker
just noticed the asterisks in the thread title ! Perhaps I should have said "wrist watch" !My apologies if anyone has discussed these on here before, but I did a quick search and saw discussions on the more sophisticated bike GPSs, but not that one.
I just bought one secondhand for £50 and it's fulfilled my needs for GPS tracking perfectly.
The reason for mentioning it on here is because all the web feedback and reviews seemed to be centred on it's use by runners, rather than cyclists, so I wasn't sure if it would do for my cycling. It wasn't even clear if it would show mph rather than just pace (minutes per mile).
It doesn't have any facilities for pedaling cadence or heart rate, nor can you really navigate by it or see much other than speed and distance while making the track.
However, if you just want to record your tracks and speeds as conveniently and simply as possible, it does that really well. It's just a fat digital watch size that has a battery life of 5 hours while recording tracks, and can display speed in mph or kph, distance, elapsed time, and time/date.
To view and save the tracks you plug it into a PC USB port and upload to Garmin Connect - Upload, Analyze and Explore Running, Cycling and Outdoor Activities where you can view ans save your tracks overlaid on Google or Bing maps together with speed and altitude graphs.
You can then export the track as a standard .gpx file, which I then load into Memory Map, and view it on Ordnance Survey maps. That lets you float the mouse over any point on the track to see date, time, speed, elevation, and time from start.
I've used Memory Map for many years, first with a Garmin Etrex handheld, and then with my HTC phone's track exports.
For my usage the Garmin 10 watch GPS is the most convenient, and the most likely to get used. The downside with using the phone was how it hammers the battery life with the GPS running.
I also use it for sailing and canoeing, because it's waterproof to 50m as well...
Quite a good review of it here: Garmin Forerunner 10 (FR10) GPS watch In-Depth Review | DC Rainmaker
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