How you getting on with it? I was handed a Mio Cyclo 505 to play with last week and must admit I am very impressed with it. The mapping is only open street, but the gps lock and the data recording is perfect and it can upload to the Mio site wirelessly and then automatically updates Strava. Strava still steals shed loads of elevation though (it is gps based elevation). Hoping to get my hands on a new gps unit due out next year soon to play with, this one should have the barometric altimeter on it and then hopefully Strava won't steal so much elevation.
It's very good for it's price point can be had for £49.99 at Fawkes and
Rutland, both with free postage, elevation is gps based, but correct it in garmin and upload that to strava, also hopefully it will keep my data a bit consistent, it doesn't have any sort of mapping, but i know enough roads around here now, though the breadcrumb trial did prove useful more than once on the garmin, I like the site compared with garmin (much more info, i.e. time spent climbing, avg speed climbing ect, none of this is shown on the unit), whilst its a basic unit, the info it records is on a par with units costing much more more than a garmin 200 (ant+ so cad/sp and hr sensors can be used).
I found the 35 I had for month last year, seemed more accurate in tracking than the 500, but both could be wayward if time wasn't allowed for a good fix prior to the ride. Have a look at the track and you will see it very accurate for this first ride. The new Rider 60 looks the bees Knees at about £230 touch screen and openstreet maps I think, it's also blue-tooth enabled to allow turn by turn in a headset. Not sure about auto uploading i would need to look into it, but usually when I have something that works for me I tend to get to know it and not change, a bit like my trusty Canon 40D ( I don't need an all singing and dancing camera as i only use three modes manual TV and Av when needed, and shooting in raw allows considerable exposure latitude).
I think if I had got a Rider 40 last year I might not have change to the 500 as the breadcrumb on the 35 wasn't very good, for example i did one ride where the entry to a loop I did was the same as the exit bit about the first 3-4 miles and the last 3-4 miles, when i got to the same section it was telling me to turn around and do the first section, I cant comment on the Rider 40 in this respect but i suspect it would have been better.
The interface with the unit is also better than last year, you did have to upload to the site first (though like everything there were ways of getting data from it in others ways), know you can download the track in 4 formats tcx, gpx, bdx which i believe is brytons own, and pwx not sure on this one yet.
