Originally Posted by
PeteHski
Yeah, it was never advertised much. I guess there wasn’t enough demand. But it shows that they were aiming at a market for the Varia beyond racers who would have a dedicated head unit as a matter of course. I guess the phone app was preferred by the more casual Varia users or simply that it is only racers and club cyclists who are actually buying the Varia. It is a fairly expensive gadget that many casual cyclists will be totally unaware of.
So, the Varia was originally created by a company Garmin ended-up buying.
That company also created the display unit because, of course, they didn’t have head units of their own (their device needed the display unit).
When Garmin bought the company, they quickly released the device as it was originally designed.
It’s fairly likely that if Garmin created it, it would not have also created a display unit for it.
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