ok.... i'll make a thread to talk about the edge...

obviously... if you've read my other thread... you know i'm no longer that happy with the edge.... since i've had it i've been REALLY irritated with the HORRIBLE calorie count (they base it on speed... so if you are going 30 mph with a tail wind... according to the edge you burn a BIZZILION calories... but if you are going uphill with a headwind... working like a fool.... because you are going slow... you don't burn hardly any calories!) i have taken to wearing my polar f11 (fitness HRM) so that i can get a decent calorie count.... most especially when doing hills! (saturday... before my edge died... i was 2000 calories short of what the polar was reading... because there was LOT of climbing!)

my second issue is reliability.... at borrego.... the unit locked up mid ride.... i was able to get it back.... but after "loosing" a couple of miles of the ride.... saturday.... i lost it somewhere around the 94 miles mark.... the "sad" part... i probably could have made it to the end without my battery pack... but i decided to plug it in a the top of piuma.... i had tested the battery pack shortly after getting it... and it worked. fine... but for whatever reason.. plugging it in saturday... killed the edge and it will NOT come back... even with calls to tech support and their secret little button pushing combos... nothing... zilch... nada... so i have no data of the 1st of three VERY important rides! so ya... i'm TICKED! the only saving thing is i only had about 15 miles to go... you see.... i'm a "slave" to my computer.... i use the miles to motivate myself.... "X miles to the next stop" or "X miles to the top of the hill".... i shudder to think what would have happened to my motiviation had i attempted to plug it in sooner!... i'm a BIG proponent of the X miles to go! and you can tell me not havin the information/computer is no big deal... well maybe to you it isn't... but to ME it is!

garmin support has been good... they did send a new one out overnight.... i called monday... i had the new one yesterday... they are even sending a return label via regular mail so i don't have to pay return shipping.... (their warranty states the consumer pays return shipping)....

i have read a LOT of reviews both good and bad.... motionbased is full of complaints about locking up.... the calorie issue.. and dead edges... i'm sure just like anything... there are more complaints than praise because most people don't think to go praise a product.. they look for outlets when there are problems.... i always symapathized with those with problems.... even before mine broke.... now i know how they feel...

i'm not sure i would return it even if i bought it at rei or performance... only cuz when it does work... i LOVE it! i LOVE uploading to motionbased and seeing where i've been.... getting all the info.... but both times i've had issues.. it's been "rides" and not just neighborhood rides.. that's FRUSTRATING to me!

so now i'm doing the next best thing... getting a back up... that why if or when it dies or locks up again.... i will still have at least the mileage so i can continue to say "X miles to the next point i'm trying to get too!" and i'm leaning more and more toward a polar that i can get a good calorie count without having to wear another device (the f11) since garmin is in no hurry to fix the calorie issue!

any other edge owners..... your happiness... or frustration..... opinions... questions from non-edge owners... people who are thinking of buying edges?

let's talk edge!