Gps info

[Scuba-phil]

At the minute yes I'm just looking for navigation and basic computer like speed, distance, time ect.
Will have a look at the etrex

 

[Scuba-phil]

Can the garmin etrex be used with bikeroutetoaster and the like for planning routes?

 

[kedab]

Kedab with yours if you go off route will it guide you back on again?

i don't think so mate, it just picks up that you're off the route you plotted and lets you know. once you've returned somewhere close to the course it picks that up and resumes.

 

[kedab]

If you go off route from the breadcrumb trail it will tell you. It leaves a trail of where you are going. So you can just follow the trail back to the route.

^^^ you can tell that i don't plot courses all that often

 

[ianrauk]

^^^ you can tell that i don't plot courses all that often

Once you have done a few, it's easy peasy. Honest.

 

[kedab]

Once you have done a few, it's easy peasy. Honest.

i've got a few pounds to shift in the new year (just as well i shifted a few on the turbo before christmas!) so i'll be sure to have gotten the hang of the 500 by the end of the week. i'm just hoping the weather calms down a bit!

 

[Scuba-phil]

Right starting to get my head round it now I think.
So the 200 is like glorified cycle computer
The 500 and upwards can be used with bike route toaster to plan routes and you download the maps to use like a car sat nav

Please correct me if Iv gone wrong

 

[ianrauk]

Right starting to get my head round it now I think.
So the 200 is like glorified cycle computer
The 500 and upwards can be used with bike route toaster to plan routes and you download the maps to use like a car sat nav

Please correct me if Iv gone wrong

You have got it wrong.
The 200 and 500 are basically the same machine except that the 500 has extras like HRM, Cadence, ambient temperature etc. They are glorified cycle computers. But with gps. You can add a route from bikeroutetoaster but it will be a breadcrumb trail, not maps.

If you want sat nav for the bike then you need the 705 or 800

 

[Talc1976]

Buy yourself a Bryton 500, much cheaper and has all the maps,GPS,cadence,speed,altitude,heart rate etc.
I have one and its been excellent.

 

[ianrauk]

Buy yourself a Bryton 500, much cheaper and has all the maps,GPS,cadence,speed,altitude,heart rate etc.
I have one and its been excellent.

Garmin have their connect website which has some great resources for all the recorded information.
Does Bryton have a similar site?

 

[HLaB]

Garmin have their connect website which has some great resources for all the recorded information.

OT, I've lost a bit of faith recently in GC its been reporting consistently stupid top speeds (that even a jet fighter would struggle to reach) when other sites like RWGPS and strava are reporting sensible numbers. The GC numbers have been a wee bit more realistic more recently, but still too high for this time of year (eg 40mph +) and compared to other sites (circa 30mph).

 

[Talc1976]

Garmin have their connect website which has some great resources for all the recorded information.
Does Bryton have a similar site?

Bryton has a site, you can plan your route etc and then upload to your unit, look at your ride details etc when you plug your unit in to the laptop. Its got everything i need on it, very impressed. There was an article in one of the cycling mags a couple of months ago and the Bryton just pipped the Garmin 800 to top spot.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Garmin have their connect website which has some great resources for all the recorded information.
Does Bryton have a similar site?

It's pretty much the only way you get your info of the unit, is via the web site, for the brief time I had the 30 it does store a gpx file somewhere, though I can't remember where on your system, but its only a copy of whats on the unit at the time you connect, so if you delete any rides of the unit they get deleted from there too, its best to copy them to another folder so you always have a backup of original data. The garmin you can just drag and drop when you plug the unit it, not sure about the Bryton 50 (not 500, typo I suspect).
So if the bryton site is down for any reason you can't access your ride data, which at the moment, means they have to stay in business, unless things have changed since Sept-Oct.
Though to be fair I think the rider 35 was more accurate than the 500, ( though in recent days I have got the garmin doing pretty well).
I did like there web site though.

 

[ufkacbln]

i don't think so mate, it just picks up that you're off the route you plotted and lets you know. once you've returned somewhere close to the course it picks that up and resumes.

There is some confusion here I think

The breadcrumb trail that you follow when you are using a route is simple. You assess which side of the route you are and then navigate in that direction until you are back on it. The direction arrow will point in most cases to the nearest trackpoint which helps


The other option is an "emergency" feature called Trackback or similar.

This one takes the track (record of where you have been) and reverses it - that then becomes a new route. The idea is it gets you out of trouble if you decide you canot proceed

 

[ufkacbln]

Most GPS (and I suspect that the Bryton is the same) will have a "Mass Storage mode"

This mode simply puts the unit as a drive on the computer and you can then drag and drop files including the GPX tracks to the computer and upload into third party software