Originally Posted by michaelnel
I have one too, and like it. But it pisses me off sometimes. When I'm starting a ride I hate sitting there in one place and waiting for it to acquire the satellites. Sometimes it takes five minutes, and I'm itching to get riding... but if you start riding it takes even longer to sync up.
Sometimes it goes nuts and shows I did 2500 feet of climbing when I did a basically flat ride.
The software it comes with is pretty lame.
It's a neat tool, but it has some warts.
I had a Forerunner 201 I was annoyed by the fact that the "stopped moving" detector was always turning off and on. How it's supposed to work is when you stop moving, your moving time stops, and so does your moving averages. When you start moving again, it starts counting again. How mine worked was, it would toggle to stopped but apparently the distant to travel to get started again was so tight that it would constantly toggle from moving, stopped, moving, stopping .... It annoy the heck out of me especially if you had the beeps turned on. Never did work right.
Also the ForeRunner was NOT capatible with Garmin's map source so you had to figure a different way to plot your data. Also, the ForeRunner was mainly for runner's, it didn't provide any more info to cyclists than any other GPS receiver. The only thing "cyclist" related about the receiver was Garmen makes a handle bar mount for it. It's actually a universal mount so it's really not sprecific to the forerunner.
I abandoned use it and went back to my GPS V. It's big and heavy but it's capatible with Garmin's MapSource and Topo software.
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