Garmin Edge 305 Question

[SouthernBelle]

Before you buy the 305, check out the newer models!

[li10up]

The REI price is $399.00! I like ordering from REI because of their replacement policy...they just gave me a brand new replacement tent on a 2 year old tent! with NO hassle! But the price on Amazon is soooo much better.... If you get a lemon from Amazon would you have to deal with someone there or would you just go through Garmin, anyone know?

[SadieKate]

I've dealt directly with Garmin but you should read the Garmin site for the best source of info. Register the product on their warranty page.

[easterbird]

I can get it to display while I ride? perverse,yes? AND I can get it to show up as a graph that is barely readable vs elevation in GTC. Is there any way to get the data in tablular form. I know there's a lot of data in there but it doesn't seem all that easy to find istructions(Ha) on how to retrieve it.

Suggestions(other than that I am braindead in retirement )are welcome!

[SouthernBelle]

Are you using Garmin Training Center or MotionBased? I find the info easier to find and understand on MotionBased.

[Mr. Bloom]

I can get it to display while I ride? perverse,yes?

Yes, you can display it and NO, it's not perverse (Silver says "obsessive, but not perverse")

I think this is what you're trying to do:

Hit MODE until you come to Main Menu

Hit SETTINGS /enter

Hit DATA FIELDS/enter

Choose the number of BIKE COMPUTER you want to program

Hit enter...I choose 8 fields here, but this makes all 8 smaller to read

Choose your fields...GRADE is one of the fields you can choose.

Motionbased is awfully cool. I didn't see the value at first, but now I'm hooked.

[7rider]

Beware of "TMI" with the Garmin display.
Sure, you can display 8 fields, but can you safely *read* 8 fields while you're riding down the road?
I used to have a bunch of fields open, but found I spent too much time looking at the display and not enough time looking at the road! I've whittled it down to - I think - 5: Speed, distance, cadence, HR, and Time of Day. It's still too much, really, but I'm a junkie and can't give up any more! I keep extra displays of all those cool things I'd LIKE to know on the 2nd computer display: average speed; ride time; grade; and something else I forget. I toggle b't the 2 when I can safely do so or at stops.

[easterbird]

I have been viewing it as I ride (that's what I meant about perverse ); however, I can't find out how to look at the % grade data in a table in either MB or GTC. I'm very new to this so may have missed it but I haven't found either site to be (my kind of) intuitive.

On the idea of too many screens(8 or whatever). I am using five but still had a problem because I have fine long distance but poor close distance. I bought a pair of those plastic magnifer thingies made to put on sunglasses(little half moons really that adhere via a little water and surface tension) and use ONE of them in my goggles for my right eye to be able to easily read the computer.Doesn't impact looking up the road or in my mirror

[Mr. Bloom]

I was just playing with motionbased and didn't see anything that showed maximum grade except the charts

[jobob]

Before you buy the 305, check out the newer models!

Eh, I looked at the 605 & the 705, but it'll be a few weeks before they come out & then there are bound to be software quirks to work out. And I hate paying top dollar for electronics.