 Manufacturer : Garmin Model : 010-00447-30 ASIN : B000BS4PZW Price : 433$ Last Price : 299$(Discount 30.94688222% See Special Offers   Product DescriptionRugged, lightweight Edge attaches easily to the stem or handlebars of your bike with the included bike mount. Just turn it on, acquire GPS satellites and go. Edge 305 automatically measures your speed, distance, time, calories bu  263 of 264 people found the following review helpful: The Neatest Cyclometer Out There! This review is from: Garmin Edge 305 Bicycle GPS Navigator with Heart Rate Monitor and Speed/Cadence Sensor (Electronics) The 305 is a neat item, and very clean to install. Satellite reception is excellent, even in dense forrests and far superior to my Garmin GPSMAP 60CS. The stem mount is very clean with rubberized mountings, with a supplied wedge for proper viewing angles. The cadence and speed pickups are neatly packaged in one sensor on the rear tire, and the cadence magnet is unobtrunsive. Installation documentation is very clear and accurate. The software for downloading rides is very good, although it lacks some functionality that is available in Garmin's other products (waypoint and route management), and you cannot erase the unit from your PC. No big deal there. Seeing your actual ride or hike track on a map is pretty cool. It has multiple (3) bike profiles, so more than one bike use is possible. If using this only on one bike, then bike 2 can be used as a secondary information screen for trip data, like average speed, average cadence, average heart rate, etc., things that you won't want on your primary biking screen. The one item that is missing, and I was surprised about is that the 305 does not have a persistant odometer. It does have a ride trip meter, and there is no separate data field that keeps track of your total mileage. You can do this in the PC based software though. I prefer a built in odometer function for routine maintenance on my bike, when I hit 500, 1000, 2000, 3000 mile cycles per year. I'm working with Garmin tech-support and they admit they sort of, kind of, missed it. That's the primary reason why I gave this item four stars. Battery life is another concern, especially when the unit is searching to pair up with the heart rate and cadence sensors. If you turn off those features, it consumes less power. For most one day rides, the unit is fine. It would be great if Garmin put a solar cell on the front of the unit where all the black is. If you really like GPS and capturing as much data as possible about your ride, heart rate, cadence, timings, grades, maps ... this is the unit for you! Enjoy! Update: Battery life is a serious issue with the Edge 305! I am getting no more than five hours out of an overnight charge and that is with just the cadence sensor. I have asked Garmin Tech Support about this three times, and the answers are disappointing. If you ride long, I cannot recommend that you go with the Edge 305 until they correct the battery life issue. I'll update you with Garmin's responses! This review is from: Garmin Edge 305 Bicycle GPS Navigator with Heart Rate Monitor and Speed/Cadence Sensor (Electronics) Simply put, I love this product. It's kind of like the Swiss Army Knife of bike computers, employing every metric the serious cyclist needs to tailor and hone their workouts. The only piece of data missing is wattage (you reading this Garmin!) which would be great, but probably very costly to integrate. I love the customization and the complete wirelessness of the computer. It basically makes all other bicycle computers obsolete by comparison. Installation is a breeze without any of the pain in the ass calibration required from virtually every other bike computer on the market. It just works right out of the box. The Edge 305 has a Virtual Training partner that will make you a stronger, faster rider. It also includes interval training and which is a blast to use and for the real tweaks, an advanced training feature where you can set up your own grueling workouts -- a real bonus for the masochists among us! One thing to note is that there are mounts for two bicycles in the box, so there is no need to order an additional bike mount if you intend to make the Edge 305 a duel use computer for your road and mountain bike. This kind of mitigates the relatively high price the computer goes for in that you can have one computer for two different bikes. I haven't experienced any of the battery issues mentioned in some of the other reviews, which I suppose is a testament to my wussy 4 -5 hour rides, so that shouldn't be an issue for most people. And finally, after years of ignoring a huge market, Garmin wised up and is implementing Macintosh OSX support which while not included in the box, will be available on-line within the next couple of months (Thank you Garmin!!). 76 of 78 people found the following review helpful: Better than expected This review is from: Garmin Edge 305 Bicycle GPS Navigator with Heart Rate Monitor and Speed/Cadence Sensor (Electronics) I read a bunch of reviews before buying my Edge. I was prepared for it to not be perfect but went ahead. My impressions are:- Surprised (for good) - Following a pre-loaded course is a really useful navigation feature. I recently did a 60 mile loop on unknown roads without stopping once to look at a map (I downloaded the route from motionbased.com and converted it to a CRS using some software I found on the motionbased forum). - Heart-rate monitor suffers from far less interference than my Polar did. Particularly I found the Polar got thrown by bus power cables overhead and other things. Haven't had an issue with the Edge losing the signal like this. - I really like the ability to customize the screen to show as little or as much data as you like. Also to have multiple setups you can switch between. - I was impressed by just how small the unit is. Bad side - Software is nowhere near as good as the Polar software for recording training activities. Particularly I could find no way to correct bad data points without going in and editing the XML files from the device. Also the Polar software gives week by week graphs showing aggregate training time in different zones, etc which is not so clear with the Garmin software and non-existent in motionbased (as far as I've found). - The calorie calculator seems pretty dubious based on feedback I've read elsewhere. I've ignored it. - Creating new courses / routes is a pain. It's fine if you want to ride a course you've ridden before, using exactly the same directions. For new courses though I had to create a route on GoogleEarth Plus and then convert it to a GPX (using freeware) and then convert it to CRS (using more freeware). The end result was excellent but it took a lot of fiddling. There is also a CRS creator out there but it didn't seem easy to edit / save courses mid-creation with that. On a side note, make sure you use the speed/cadence sensor. Before I mounted it I tried using just the Edge unit for speed. It's fine until you ride through an area with tall buildings and your speed drops to 0 mph. All in all I'm impressed.  If you lust after junk, Garmin can supply it. I purchased a 305 several years ago now for my bike. After about 2 years it started losing its ability to hold the satellite and would go into pause mode and would not hold a... by Celthiker good concept, dangerous product The Edge 305 is a product that was apparently rushed to market before it was fully tested. As a design engineer I've seen people fired for doing this kind of sloppy work. by Steady Obsolete product but serves me very well The Garmin trainer software is very good and with the google earth link you have all the visualization you need. by ToreBj Well... not my best purchess. I did like the product, and if it was working well, I would have be happy with it. The problems are: 1. Battery life to short. by gilk DON'T DO IT Do yourself a favor: Google "garmin edge 305 power shuts off". After a few hundred miles, these power down randomly. by Unhappy Sirius Camper Software kills me What I like: manual stop/start, per lap statistics, integration of features. What bugs me 1: The speed reading can't seem to decide if it's using GPS or the speed sensor... by svud very disappointing product I've found this bike computer disappointing and frustrating to use ever since I bought it a year and a half ago, and I've finally tossed it - no need to try to fix it since it... by MSY A Piece of Junk The screen went totally blue after less than 3 months of use. I had to pay to ship it back to get a refurbished item with less than the original warranty and they wouldn't ship... by Klu Be warned - do not touch this product You have been warned - by all means buy a Garmin 305 today, but don't complain later. This is a worthless, unreliable piece of junk at a top-line price. by John Kolm Recommended gadget! Very nice equipment to take with you on bycicle rides. It makes the training much more fun! by Felipe Reis Antunes |
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Garmin Edge 305 Bicycle GPS Navigator with Heart Rate Monitor and Speed/Cadence Sensor
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