Recommendations for GPS for cycling

Hardmansurfer

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a decent GPS/Sat Nav for cycling ?



My priority is having having a clear route to follow, one that I can plug in myself beforehand from the PC. Am not that fussed about heart-rate, lap-times etc



Did London to Brighton, via back-roads, recently and spent a lot of the time either lost or fiddling around with a map. Other than that it was a great cycle.



I have done some research, which lead me to Garmin but then read on 'Which.co.uk' website that the Garmin 605 isn't that great for navigation !!



Cheers all

jellybelly

Don't have one myself but my mate was banging on about a brill one called a garmin edge which sounded like it did everything, other than pedal the bike.



You could have a google and see if it meets your needs?

jibby26

I have the Garmin edge 705 and love it. Having spent £257 on it along with a cadence sensor from Handtech (the cheapest), I couldn't afford the maps but found you can download free routable street maps for it from www.openstreetmap.org (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download). To make a route I use www.mapmytri.com and then export the route as a GPX file which I then just put on the onboard memory. If you want to do long routes then the better way of doing it would be to buy the Garmin City Navigator DVD (£80), install their Mapsource program and then you can make the routes on your computer but it must be the DVD version to do this. The routing can be a bit awkward, it told me to turn right in 10m whilst doing 30km/h - needless to say I was past the junction before it finished giving the instruction - but having the map with a breadcrumb trail on screen is useful enough. I think the wealth of data it collects from your rides outweighs any minor issues with the routing however.