GPS advice please.

yep, I use the Garmin Edge 705 (it is expensive, but definitely not a mistake). I got it in order to plan routes on the laptop, upload them to the device to be able to follow en route and have used it when I've had enough and need to find a train station...

You can get it as a bundle deal from places like wiggle where mine came with HRM, cadence sensor and Europe road mapping - note the maps it comes with automatically are useless unless you ride on A roads and Motorways.

I don't use it anywhere near its full capabilities as a training device yet, but plan to it has lots so you can set up interval training for example and "race" yourself over previously completed routes.

I find it useful to use when running as well to map my runs with the heart rate info etc.

Quite frankly I've still got lost with the GPS - I didn't know there was a place near Bath called Box Hill... Luckily I started to get suspicious before it was too late.

But I did have spare tubes (and an emergency peanut butter sandwich).

I use my Garmin Nuvi 765T out of my car on my bike, cycle mount was cheap as chips, works great.

Frank the tank wrote:

GPS are a great tool.

I haven't got one but I have been totally lost and I laugh about it now............infact I laughed about it at the time. I had to else I would've cried, I was seventy odd miles from home soaking wet and still on the outward half of me ride.

Not to mention I'd forgotten to take any spare tubes with me. :roll:

Did you ride all the way home?If you did then that`s some long ride,140 miles in a day,in the rain.You must have slept for a week. :shock:
Anita seems to have lost interest.

I find it rude when people post a question and never come back.

Frank the tank I shall take your silence as a no,you got a lift back {when you got lost}.

antfly wrote:

I find it rude when people post a question and never come back.

Frank the tank I shall take your silence as a no,you got a lift back {when you got lost}.

Not being rude my owd, just was unable to get back on the computer, but now I'm here.

The ride was from home (sunny Hucknall in deepest Notts) via a convoluted route to Waldo's chip shop in Sutton-on-sea and then back in time for supper. My son was driving a back up car should it be required, and I'd arranged to meet him at said chip shop about 11.00am.

I'd set off at 5.00am and realised I had no tubes about three hours into the ride, It had been raining since abot 7.00 then about nineish I got lost. :roll: My map, due to not being plastic coated was steadily disintegrating as it got wetter and wetter Any way to cut a long story short I ended up riding aimlessly around the Lincolnshire country side down all manner of country lanes in rain that was bouncing 3"-4" off the road eventually meeating my lad at Waldo's at 12.00noon.

Had a plate of fish,chips & peas and a couple of teas lovely. Set off back about 1.30pm. I ended up abandoning on the outskirts of Newark after the bike suffered a puncture and I severely cramped up whilst mending it.

The time was 7.00pm. My lad picked me up about 7.15 and I had covered almost 190miles.

Got home about 8.00 had a bath and went to the pub to lick my wounded pride with a couple of pints of Guinness.

Sorry to go on.

I'm going to attempt it again this year only this time I'll "nail it".

Got myself an Edge 205 (Garmin) last October and I have just one word of advice: don't forget to *upload* the course onto it or you'll feel very silly...!

I now use bikely.com to plan the route, but you can use Google Earth or Google Maps (which Bikely.com is based on).

You can also upload your training history to motionbased.com and get a few more details out of your ride, like weather station readings etc.