Jarrett2

Mine is bulletproof now. Can't remember the last time I had an issue with it.

It blows me away all the stuff it does. I jump on either bike and take off and it picks up the correct sensors. It syncs up with my HTC One via BT and gives me phone and text notifications along with weather info. If my Garmin VIRB camera is on the bike, the Edge 1000 tells it to start recording when I pedal off. If I pause the ride, it pauses the recording. When the VIRB battery is low, it tells me on the Edge 1000 screen.

The other day I was in the middle of a ride and was not using my heart monitor, so I wondered if I could change the display during the ride. Yep. You just hold your finger down on the tile you want to change, it pops up the list, you pick what new data field you want, click ok. Now I have % grade instead of heart rate in that tile. All while pedaling along and recording the ride.

Last weekend I was on a T-shirt ride and thought I might have gotten off course. I had downloaded the TCX file from Ride with GPS to my Edge 1000, so while I was riding (and recording the ride and recording via the VIRB) I navigated to courses and loaded the course that I was already half way though. Edge 1000 figured out where I was, asked me if I wanted to recalcuate the course, I said no, it told me I was on course and then a few minutes later told me a rest stop was coming up because someone had entered it in the TCX file.

When I stop and hit end/save ride, the ride is auto uploaded to Garmin Connect, Strava, MyFitnessPal before I can even get my phone out of my jersey pocket to check. The thing continues to blow me away with its concurrent functionality.

etw

I have read of numbers problems in the latest Garmins. Perhaps recent updates have fixed the problems, I don't know. At the same time the Magellans looked promising. There were some problems with a recent firmware update, but they stepped up and fixed that pretty quickly.

metalheart44

That is an encouraging report. I am going to upgrade my 500 soon and the 1000 looks as if it is a good option, especially the Di2 integration and the ability to use a Virb with it. I have not yet decided on the basic or elite Virb. The idea is to use it for potential problems on the road and not for anything else. Which Verb do you have?

Jarrett2

The basic. Here's short vid with GPS overlay from the Edge 1000:


It also makes good pics:

Snapperhead

And update to my Cyclo 505 woes.

At the end of last season I was pretty happy with how my Cyclo was operating due to the firmware updates. It seemed to be recording my mileage more accurately and uploading without problems.

I didn't ride much over the winter but when the weather started to warm up I started riding and my computer simply refused to upload via the USB cable. I was able to uploaded via wireless though. No idea why, didn't change a thing. Recently, when I connected my computer via USB, I got an error saying that I need to recover my device. This died about halfway thru the update and when I tried again I got a message saying I needed to contact support.

Long story short, I contacted support and received a brand new replacement today. Fingers crossed.

Mansram01

Had no idea there was an update available for the Magellan Cyclo 505. I just downloaded it and see if it's any better. I stopped checking months ago as the firmware updates were unpredictable and poorly handled. At least I was able to find the improvements documented online.

CYC11_01

Marcus_Ti

Yea...last Edge 1000 update broke pairing of older 705 style heart rate straps. Pretty pissed about it...finally up and bought a 4iiii strap that works way better than the joke that is the "premium" Garmin strap

TCR Rider

My understanding is that there is no more "bike profiles," which means you now have to add each sensor in individually. If you have multiple bikes like I do, this is a real hassle. If that is the case I can't see any reason not to go with the 810. Thoughts?

Athens80

The 1000's profiles cover a wider range of features than just which sensors each profile will use. The profiles also control the display screens, alerts, auto-lap and auto-pause, etc.

If the selected profile uses a specific sensor, and that sensor is sending data, then the profile will use the sensor. No selection or no data, then the profile won't draw on that sensor.

Marcus_Ti

Not really.

There's no bike specific-sensors. There's a sensors pool, which the Edge will draw data from whichever sensors it connects to when said sensors wake up.

You could have a stable of 20 bikes and each with a unique speed/cadence/powermeter sensor...load them all into one Edge. You turn on your Edge, take your chosen steed out-and when the sensors on that bike wake up the Edge will use those on that bike automagically out of the 60 sensors in the on-device pool. Which is nice in such a scenario as you don't have to spend 5 minutes scrolling through bike profiles to find the right one. You select a profile of data screens and go, with no mucking around.

MileHighMark

Been quite happy with the Cyclo 505. Battery life could be better, but it works flawlessly with my Mio Alpha and FUSE and uploads via wifi (and pushes the info to Strava). Lack of 3rd-party mounts is a drag, but Tate/Bar Fly is supposedly coming out with one.

TCR Rider

Thanks for the clarification. That's the info I was looking for.

David Sowden

Can overseas maps, with turn by turn directions, now be downloaded to the 505?

Drew Eckhardt 

The 810 software crashes much more frequently and less predictably than the 800. I returned mine and bought a refurbished (new screen, new battery) Edge 800 after crashing it on my usual ~25 mile daily ride and losing data within the first week.

I crashed my 800 once 140 miles into a ride, although that's avoidable by splitting rides into smaller pieces, always starting a new ride if you power cycle it, and joining the multiple .fit files afterwards.

njkayaker

I don't believe so.

The only source for Mio maps is Magellan (as far as I know). I don't think Magellan offers alternative maps.

There are numerous sources for Garmin maps based on Openstreetmap maps (most of these use one program, mkgmap, to do that).

Jarrett2

I forgot about this thread

Wonder if the OP is still using his computer.

Using aluminum mounts broke the ears off of my Edge 1000. I sold it and got a new 820. I like the size a little better with it.

Also using it with the Varia rear radar dealio now. Hate to ride without it.

Seattle Forrest

What's wrong with all the leaves and other fine detail? Is that just from saving it as a jpeg?

Steve B.

Drew, this is your stock answer. Do you have any other example other then roughly 3 or so years ago your 810 crashed a few times in the course of a week and you then returned it ?. I'm thinking that outside of your individual and very short experience, you have little to base your continual bashing of the 810. I'm not stating that the 810 is perfect, but I've a years usage, had 2 crashes last April and the unit has worked perfectly since, including a few rides now on OS 6.1.

I browse the Garmin forums on occasion. Seems there are many complaints that date back to 2013 but a lot less since then, of course maybe folks got tired of complaining, it is Garmin after all. There are zero posts on your beloved 800, as it's so old they've deleted the posts ?, I assume.

Would I recommend an 810 over an 800 over an 820 ?. 820 hands down now that they've seemingly fixed the issue where the touch screen was changing screens when it got rained on. The 810 next as it has BlueTooth, which is a very useful function. The 800 next, but only if a really good deal but good luck finding one and certainly not new.

Seattle Forrest

FYI, Garmin used to have a forum for the Edge 800 but they removed it about a year ago. It's just too old.

My 800 still works, but nobody is buying them these days.

David Sowden

Thanks

BBassett

The Edge 1000 IS overkill. it's nice, it does what its suppose to do, looks good, is expensive. The screen is too small to actually follow streets (for me - old eyes) and the battery is pathetic. I like how Garmin and RidewithGPS sync up. They all seem difficult to program for a specific route, more difficult than it should be anyway. But I will say the Garmin has the WORST consumer contact of any company I have ever used. Good luck getting anything answered from them. They also sell through a vendor that can't answer anything more than is written in the unit description.