Bike computer w/ GPS?

[maillotpois]

Yeah, but I think the consensus on MB was that you couldn't download to a key. How do you tell the key to pull the data off the garmin? Neither device has what you need to initiate the data transfer. I don't think it can be done. That being said, losing a day or so of data on a multi day trip wouldn't bug me because I would still have way more available to me than I did with my HAC 4.

So there!

And you saw how cool it was to be able to copy my route!! (User error on my end notwithstanding.)

[MomOnBike]

One word of caution on the GPS devices. Don't get so carried away with watching the display that you forget to keep an eye on where you are going. Just ask my DH. (Both he and the bike are fine....)

[SadieKate]

Yeah, but I think the consensus on MB was that you couldn't download to a key. How do you tell the key to pull the data off the garmin? Neither device has what you need to initiate the data transfer. I don't think it can be done. That being said, losing a day or so of data on a multi day trip wouldn't bug me because I would still have way more available to me than I did with my HAC 4.

So there!

And you saw how cool it was to be able to copy my route!! (User error on my end notwithstanding.)

Not for the price, it isn't. Another year and Garmin might actually turn it into a real GPS with decent data storage.

[SouthernBelle]

After getting incredibly lost today, I came back and found this thread. & I'm still not really clear, will the garmin tell me where I am?

I had to go find some poor guy in his barn.

[Veronica]

The Garmin 60 CSX will tell you where you are and how to get home.

V.

[SadieKate]

SouthernBelle. Garmin is a brand. To which Garmin are you referring? The Garmin Veronica has is a mapping GPS. It will tell you where you are and how to get back to your starting point. An Edge will not. It will record the route you are on and, I think, allow to upload routes previously ridden routes or routes mapped elsewhere. It will not tell you how to get unlost.

[Veronica]

Mine will also tell you where the nearest coffee shop, bar, or bike store is.

V.

[snapdragen]

Veronica's wins!

[SouthernBelle]

SouthernBelle. Garmin is a brand. To which Garmin are you referring? The Garmin Veronica has is a mapping GPS. It will tell you where you are and how to get back to your starting point. An Edge will not. It will record the route you are on and, I think, allow to upload routes previously ridden routes or routes mapped elsewhere. It will not tell you how to get unlost.

That's what I wondered. I got really, seriously lost.