Garmin Edge 500 Reviews
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Description
Sharpen your cycling performance with Edge 500, a lightweight GPS-based cycling computer for performance-driven cyclists. Loaded with data, Edge 500 tracks your distance, speed, location and elevation with high sensitivity GPS. Add an ANT+? compatible heart rate monitor, speed/cadence sensor or compatible power meter for a finely-tuned analysis of your ride.
The Edge 500 attaches easily to the stem or handlebars of your bike with its low-profile bike mount. The Edge attaches easily to the mount with a simple quarter-turn. When you're ready to ride, just power on your Edge, acquire GPS satellites and go. Edge 500 features a high-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFix? satellite prediction to calculate your position faster.
During your ride, Edge 500 measures your speed, distance, time, calories burned, altitude, climb and descent, and records this data for your review. For extra-precise climb and descent data, Edge 500 also incorporates a barometric altimeter to pinpoint changes in elevation.
All Edge 500 versions work with third-party ANT+-enabled power meters to display your power output in watts as you ride. This valuable data shows you how hard you're working, regardless of conditions affecting your ride, so you can train smarter. Some versions also ship with a digital heart rate monitor and speed/cadence sensor.
Other helpful training features include a Courses feature, which helps you compare successive rides over the same route, as well as Auto Pause, Auto Lap and temperature readings. Edge also alerts you if you?re moving but the timer is not running.
When paired with a Garmin heart rate monitor, Edge 500 tracks heart beats per minute and uses your heart rate for advanced calorie computation, so you know how many calories you're burning. Train in a certain heart-rate zone to improve your fitness level or compare your pace and heart rate to past performance over the same ride.
Sharpen your cycling performance with Edge 500, a lightweight GPS-based cycling computer for performance-driven cyclists. Loaded with data, Edge 500 tracks your distance, speed, location and elevation with high sensitivity GPS. Add an ANT+? compatible heart rate monitor, speed/cadence sensor or compatible power meter for a finely-tuned analysis of your ride.
The Edge 500 attaches easily to the stem or handlebars of your bike with its low-profile bike mount. The Edge attaches easily to the mount with a simple quarter-turn. When you're ready to ride, just power on your Edge, acquire GPS satellites and go. Edge 500 features a high-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFix? satellite prediction to calculate your position faster.
During your ride, Edge 500 measures your speed, distance, time, calories burned, altitude, climb and descent, and records this data for your review. For extra-precise climb and descent data, Edge 500 also incorporates a barometric altimeter to pinpoint changes in elevation.
All Edge 500 versions work with third-party ANT+-enabled power meters to display your power output in watts as you ride. This valuable data shows you how hard you're working, regardless of conditions affecting your ride, so you can train smarter. Some versions also ship with a digital heart rate monitor and speed/cadence sensor.
Other helpful training features include a Courses feature, which helps you compare successive rides over the same route, as well as Auto Pause, Auto Lap and temperature readings. Edge also alerts you if you?re moving but the timer is not running.
When paired with a Garmin heart rate monitor, Edge 500 tracks heart beats per minute and uses your heart rate for advanced calorie computation, so you know how many calories you're burning. Train in a certain heart-rate zone to improve your fitness level or compare your pace and heart rate to past performance over the same ride.
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Reviews
Model/Year: 2012
Pros: Setup is a no-brainer. All my workout data is available on my pc, the Garmin site, my smart phone or all three. Love the customizable screens. My eyes are going so I can make the numbers I need to see during the ride very large and the lesser info smaller.
Cons: No wi-fi so you need to use a cable to upload the data. It does lose a little of the distance in the woods. I think it's because it can't track all the subtle ups, downs, lefts and rights that happen in the woods.
Recommendation: Get it, use it but keep in mind that it's going the more tight and twisty the trails you ride the more distance loss there will be.
Pros: Setup is a no-brainer. All my workout data is available on my pc, the Garmin site, my smart phone or all three. Love the customizable screens. My eyes are going so I can make the numbers I need to see during the ride very large and the lesser info smaller.
Cons: No wi-fi so you need to use a cable to upload the data. It does lose a little of the distance in the woods. I think it's because it can't track all the subtle ups, downs, lefts and rights that happen in the woods.
Recommendation: Get it, use it but keep in mind that it's going the more tight and twisty the trails you ride the more distance loss there will be.
Pros: works great on the road. Clock and timer work well.
Cons: Doesn't work in the forest. Always about 20% off the distance. can't figure out how (if even possible) to display HR as opposed to calories. When downloading to the web doesn't auto delete so over time, gets super slow
Recommendation: Old fashion mounted one that counts wheel turns and a HR rate watch.
Cons: Doesn't work in the forest. Always about 20% off the distance. can't figure out how (if even possible) to display HR as opposed to calories. When downloading to the web doesn't auto delete so over time, gets super slow
Recommendation: Old fashion mounted one that counts wheel turns and a HR rate watch.
Model/Year: 2010 edge 500
Pros: everything! easy to mount,tough,good battery life
Recommendation: I love this GPS it works well elevation is always very close,tough and I ride 6 days a week with it!
Pros: everything! easy to mount,tough,good battery life
Recommendation: I love this GPS it works well elevation is always very close,tough and I ride 6 days a week with it!
Pros: Great size and easy to read display. Customizable display (3 screens to play with) to pair the information you want on the fly. Quick satellite uplink and maintained signal well. Solid and easy mount means easy transfer between bikes. Great add-ons (cadence, power, HR).
Cons: none
Recommendation: This is an amazing unit. Got the bike package (with HR and cadence) and the data this thing turns out is just sweet! Syncs real easy with the cadence and HR monitor. A super bike computer with the addition of mapping out your ride. No map display - but not necessary when riding in the woods, Garmin has other models with that feature if that is what you are after. If you are looking to step up your riding this may be the gadget to help you fine tune things to get you there.
Cons: none
Recommendation: This is an amazing unit. Got the bike package (with HR and cadence) and the data this thing turns out is just sweet! Syncs real easy with the cadence and HR monitor. A super bike computer with the addition of mapping out your ride. No map display - but not necessary when riding in the woods, Garmin has other models with that feature if that is what you are after. If you are looking to step up your riding this may be the gadget to help you fine tune things to get you there.
Pros: Very fast Sat link up and capture with "hot fix". Easily swapped between bikes and will capture Powertap/SRM watts plus cadence/speed.
A plethora of information available depending on how you format the screens. Mount is sturdier than prior formats.
Cons: .fit files aren't compatible with other training software and you must convert within Training Center to .tcx first. I wish there was a sturdy GSC-10 cadence/speed sensor for MTBing. Motionbased.com was swallowed up by Garmin Connect and there is no longer data point correction and accurate altitudes (ascent-descent) being generated.
Recommendation: If you know where you're going...no need for the map aspects of the 705/605. This unit I swap between a Felt DA TT rig with Powertap carbon wheels and my SC Blur LT. You can dump the data into Training Center easily and then deal with converting files from .fit to .tcx so you can upload to Poweragent, WKO+ or Physfarm training software.
You can almost be overwhelmed by the data being collected.
If you eventually go for MTB Powertap hubs/wheels...this comp is the one to have.
A plethora of information available depending on how you format the screens. Mount is sturdier than prior formats.
Cons: .fit files aren't compatible with other training software and you must convert within Training Center to .tcx first. I wish there was a sturdy GSC-10 cadence/speed sensor for MTBing. Motionbased.com was swallowed up by Garmin Connect and there is no longer data point correction and accurate altitudes (ascent-descent) being generated.
Recommendation: If you know where you're going...no need for the map aspects of the 705/605. This unit I swap between a Felt DA TT rig with Powertap carbon wheels and my SC Blur LT. You can dump the data into Training Center easily and then deal with converting files from .fit to .tcx so you can upload to Poweragent, WKO+ or Physfarm training software.
You can almost be overwhelmed by the data being collected.
If you eventually go for MTB Powertap hubs/wheels...this comp is the one to have.
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Pros: Easy setup. Highly customizable display and options. optional heart rate and power meters, Very accurate dependable, easy to read. Small. easily attachable to the bike.
Cons: Does not have a map display for navigation, but that wasn't the point of this particular model. Not real cheap.
Recommendation: Highly recommended. If your not using the gps for actual navigation finding, this is absolutely the one you want.