Garmin 800 help

kierhanlon6

hello looking at buying the garmin 800 but got a few questions hope someone can help
1st one is I want to plan a route on my pc can I draw it on a map and then get directions off the garmin for this route?
2nd how does the training work do you cycle a route and then save it and race against your previous time and try and beat it the screen is a pic of 2 bikes.
3rd how easy is the pc side of the garmin easy enough?
4th is it worth the money?
Hope this all makes scence if it don't then say and i will try am explain better

piquet

kierhanlon6 wrote:

hello looking at buying the garmin 800 but got a few questions hope someone can help
1st one is I want to plan a route on my pc can I draw it on a map and then get directions off the garmin for this route?
2nd how does the training work do you cycle a route and then save it and race against your previous time and try and beat it the screen is a pic of 2 bikes.
3rd how easy is the pc side of the garmin easy enough?
4th is it worth the money?
Hope this all makes scence if it don't then say and i will try am explain better

1 - yes, it easy in a range of on line free resources

2 - I think that's how it works but i don't use that feature

3 - Trivially easy. Garmin Base camp and Garmin connect do everything you need.

4- Yep!

kierhanlon6

Piquet

Thanks alot mate cheers for the help. With the planning route can u use garmin software for this? And can u use the garmin at night? Cheers

Secteur

kierhanlon6 wrote:

With the planning route can u use garmin software for this?

Yes, but it's crap. Use one of many other free sites to do it (I prefer ridewithgps)

kierhanlon6 wrote:

And can u use the garmin at night?

Yes, it has both day/night display modes

Wrath Rob

Day/Night mode automatically changes based on your location and sunset time. Just one of those little things that I noticed and thought it was a pretty cool feature.

The change is that the background goes from white to black and the text/numbers change from black to white.