holux 260 sport

Euros

Does anyone own one of these, would you say they are as good as a Garmin they look great value for money in comparison.

dabber

I've got the Holux GPSport 260 Pro Plus with the ANT+ capability and their cadence sensor and HRM.
http://www.holux-uk.co.uk/holux-gpsport-260-pro-plus.php?it=354&ca=53&p=1&so=0

I've had it a couple of weeks and so far I'm very pleased with it. The software that comes with it is a bit clunky but it does the job.
I've tried following a route that I created on my PC to test that capability and it seemed to work OK.
I haven't got any experience of the Garmin so can't compare but to get the GPS plus the cadence sensor and HRM and two bike mounts for £139.95 seemed pretty good value.

campagone

Theres something Ive been wanting to know about these, I have no experience using gps computers, so please forgive me if I seem a bit stupid
Ive been thinking of getting one (Garmin, Bryton or Holux) for the spring/summer, to go on my best bike, but what I want to know and I can't seem to find out in the descriptions is, do they record your route so you can just upload it to for example Map My Ride?
Currently any new route I ride I have to manually map out and store it, if I could bypass this process and just hook up my computer and upload the data then that would save quite a bit of hassle, if not then they seem a bit pointless.
Thanks.

dabber

With the Holux....
The short answer is yes. You download your ride into the Holux provided software (EZTour Plus) which provides you with analysis of your ride - speed, distance, elevation, gradient etc and if you have the Pro ANT+ model it also analysis cadence and heart rate. Once the ride is in EZTour Plus you can export it as a .gpx file which you can then upload into sites like MapmyRide.
Additionally, you can do theh reverse and create a ride in Holux's EZTour PLanner software (provided) and upload that into the Holux gps and this will provide you a basic route guide. I don't find the EZTour Planner very easy to use and when I wanted to pre-plan a route I created in MapmyRide and uploaded the resulting file into the holux.