Garmin 705 Edge HR + Cadense

BIGplumberon2wheels

My new Garmin 705 Edge HR+Cadense has just arrived via courrier from those friendly Amazon lot.
It seems such a cracking bit of kit!!
Can not wait to trial it not sure when I will get my next ride in.

Anyone else got one?

Shezzer

Yes, love it.

nferrar

Yeah although the novelty soon wore off for me, I'm too lazy to use it properly so it's mostly just a glorified bike computer If you're prepared to put the time in with routing, virtual partners and using the training centre then it should be a great training tool.

GavH

Yep, I've got one and love it. I use it primarily for the navigation capability which enables me to ride new routes every week. Route plotting is super-easy with sites like BikeRouteToaster although I don't go into the realms of virtual partners or pre-programmed workouts. For me its a computer, HRM and nav tool to keep me from getting lost or having to use 'the force' to find my way home!

APIII

Yes, a good bit ok kit. Works well as a powermeter head unit.

bikeboff

Tremendous. I use it with the Ascent software on my Mac, which works a treat.

cougie

Not got one but riding partner has - I'm not impressed by it really. One time we got lost - it couldnt find the wy back - and it was an out and back route too - ok it was a tricky little estate to get through, but it let us down.

Last week he had downloaded the gps track of the route that i'd done a few weeks back.
his garmin kept telling us that we should have been over 'thataway'.

fuzzynavel

I've had mine since the end of January and I wouldn't be without it now...

Mister W

I've got a 605 and I love it. I can plot and ride routes on little country roads that I wouldn't try without it. The only problem I've found is that if you miss a turn then it will recalculate the route to your finishing point by the quickest route, and that may be down busy dual carriageways.

I assume you bought a good map to load onto it as the base maps are rubbish.

BIGplumberon2wheels

Yeah well I hope so ....purchased City Navigator NT

t0ny

I love mine and Garmin Connect is the dogs dangles!

themightyw

Love it to bits, though still need to get the cadence meter working :oops:

Easy to use as a beginner but you get the sense that it will grow with you also. Hadn't found the bike route toaster site before. I use Map My Ride and Garmin Connect - anyone got any other suggestions for sites / freeware? The training centre software is decent enough, but I understand there are some great open source apps around.

Chris Swansea

For free maps check out this thread...
http://www.tritalk.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52482
I am chuffed to bits with the maps I have downloaded (inc. cyclepaths too). A lot of people put a lot of effort into getting these maps as good as they are
Sport Tracks is great too...
http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/SportTracks/

a_n_t

Mister W wrote:

if you miss a turn then it will recalculate the route to your finishing point by the quickest route, and that may be down busy dual carriageways.

you can always tell it to not reroute you.