Garmin 800 or Bryton rider 50

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A bit ott I realise but I can get lost in my own house so imagine how bad I am on my bike lol
In all seriousness considering one of these and as much as the rider looks very impressive,the screen size does niggle me for navigation purposes. Also kinda unsure of build quality.
Can get a 800 for £305 with maps and a rider for £230, so is there 75 quid of a difference?
In all seriousness considering one of these and as much as the rider looks very impressive,the screen size does niggle me for navigation purposes. Also kinda unsure of build quality.
Can get a 800 for £305 with maps and a rider for £230, so is there 75 quid of a difference?
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The Bryton Rider 50 isn't as easy/simple to use as a Garmin. And the maps are not as clear. Got a bit lost on Saturday and they weren't a lot of help to be honest. Had to use my phone for google maps...
Only reason I bought the Rider 50 was that it was the same price as an Edge 500 but came with the added bonus of mapping. If I could get the 800 for that price I would go with that!Custom spec Scott Scale
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You can get a Rider 50 for a sight less than £230 and use the change to buy a second unit like a Garmin 500 or Bryton 35 so that, for most of your riding where you aren't getting lost, you don't have a big lumpy thing on your stem!
If you are only going for one unit, then the 800 is a more polished package but the 50 is very straightforward and solid.
I have a 50 and just use the base maps - they are as clear as any maps could be so I donn't really see how campbellrae1 managed to get lost with one. There is a marker line that shows you the way back to the route if you go off track.Faster than a tent.......0 -
It wasn't getting lost following one, we were on a ride with no specific route and wanted to see where we were in relation to a town that we knew. But when we zoomed in far enough to get the singletrack lanes to show up on the map the town names disappeared, then when zooming out to get a better view the small lanes were no longer shown. Just an annoying scale.
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I bought a Rider 50 on its own with no HRM or cadence sensor new for £144 and I think it is great, really easy to use and the bryton website is good for planning rides. I did buy a garmin 800 but sent it back as couldn't justify the additional costs over the bryton 50.0
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I can vouch for both functionality / reliability of the Bryton Rider 50. I went through a similar selection process to you around 1 year ago and went for the Bryton and very happy with the choice.
The Bryton Rider 50 came with all of the full Navigation features of the Garmin 800 (except touch-screen), but for a much lower price - and also included 2 sets of European Maps (OSM and Navtech) included in the price.
On navigation using the Bryton Rider 50, if ever you get lost and stray off track, there is a function to navigate to either an address or a POI that you just key in (just like on a car gps) and this can get you back to familiar territory.
Also, in using this function, it has a 're-calc' or back-on-track feature - so that even if you ignore what the gps is saying and choose a different road from that suggested by the Rider 50, it will recalculate another route back to your destination - which can be nice if you want follow a quieter road....
Recommend the Rider 50...
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Maybe I haven't figured out how to use it properly yet then lol. Only had it for a couple of weeks so it's looking that way!Custom spec Scott Scale
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Ended up buying the Garmin and after a week, very neat and works well. Will come into its own when I use it next month for my 200mile cycle across the country, but already used nav and I found my way home so all good.
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look for offers - I got the garmin 800 with all the sensors for £230 at cycle surgery last christmas0
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gb901 wrote:Why would someone want two cycle gps' as advocated by Rolf F?
In addition to the reasons I said in my post which you don't seem to have read () - because stuff can go wrong so not relying on one unit is handy. And, repretitiously, because 99% of the time, most of us don't need navigation so two units avoids having an unneccessarily bulky, clunky unit on the stem for that 99%. Obviously, it presumes that you aren't necessarily paying out more than the cost of one but it works for me. I certainly appreciate full mapped navigation when I need it but I wouldn't want either an Garmin 800 or a Bryton 50 on my stem all the time.
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