I said this, in part, earlier:
Originally Posted by
BarracksSi
I'd say it just depends on what you like to do with the data after the ride.
The only feature I might want to add is HR, but I do so much exercise off-bike that it's pretty pointless to have a bike-only HRM.
Two things that I've been thinking about since then:
Post-exercise data needs to be useful, and it ain't useful if it can't be imported to my computer (a Mac laptop, that is). My Blackburn Neuro was at least interesting to look at after a ride, but I didn't want to create my own spreadsheet and enter everything manually. Polar's Mac support is nonexistent, Suunto might be okay, but it appears that Garmin takes the win. So that's one category win for Garmin.
I had forgotten that several of Garmin's GPS watches also read bike sensors. So, on-bike, I wouldn't have to use a 500.
For me, it's pretty much settled. IF I get another bike/exercise computer, it'll be Garmin.