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Assumed that my new Garmin edge 130 plus would show external temperature, but I do not see it in the menu. Am I SOL? Any help appreciated.

Polaris OBark

It can be done. Link to Garmin

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Thanks! After making sense of it all, I got it!

noimagination

I'm curious: why would you need to know the temperature during a ride?

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For me, having an on-site temperature reading takes the emotion out of clothing selection. Having ridden numerous early morning brevets, races etc., it is nice to know the temperature. My experience has told me if the Weather Channel says 45°, there is a good chance that the actual temp could just as well be 35°. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who has began a ride feeling cold, made an emotional clothing choice, and 3 miles in had to shed a layer. I have a tried and true clothing list for various temps. Of course some adjustment is needed for wind speed and direction and even humidity to an extent. A longer stop for a meal may require some re-adjustment before getting back on the bike. Just helps to have a (hopefully) accurate temperature reading to simplify planning.

tomato coupe

Some people find various bits of data useful or interesting, and others don't.

UnCruel 

Garmin's temperature sensors aren't particularly accurate. It takes quite a while to adjust to temperature changes, and if the sunlight hits it, the temperature goes up at least ten degrees.

Iride01 

Takes my Garmin Edge about 4' 30" to stabilize from indoor air conditioned temps and outside air temps of about 12°F difference. So maybe not the fastest at determining the actual air temp. I sure wouldn't use it for comparing temps while moving.

gif4445

With my old Garmin Touring edge, I saw the 5-10° increase from sun exposure. I just take that into account. And not too concerned on a hot sunny day, as I'm down to the basic kit. The most important reading is the first one, which is sometimes in the early morning dark. It seems to be fairly accurate.

gif4445

Outside of the direct sunlight situation, my old Garmin was pretty accurate.

The Chemist

I'd say that's likely true of all GPS units on sunny days. My Bryton tends to read 2-3 degrees (Celsius) higher than my home outdoor thermometer does, though it's generally more accurate on cloudy and cooler days. It's up/down to actual outdoor temperatures within a few minutes of starting a ride.

The Chemist

Living up to your user name, I see. 😁

CAT7RDR

Heat Index might be a useful data set to have relative to effort and hydration.

prj71

For me it helps with future clothing selection on rides.

prj71

That's true for any thermometer. That's why an outdoor thermometer is always placed on the north side of a home in a shaded area. Temperatures taken in direct sunlight are almost always somewhat skewed, but at the same time if YOU are are in direct sunlight then it matches your gps thermometer which is also in the sunlight.

noimagination

If it works for you then that's great, but it doesn't make any sense to me. I guess you keep your bike outside, since once you're riding you've already made your clothing choices. I don't see that the temp. in your garage, or whatever, is more accurate than anything else, especially since, if you ride any distance at all, the temperature is going to vary anyway. It seems to me that a regular old thermometer outside your kitchen window would be more "accurate". Me, I just look at my phone and go outside to see how the temperature feels, and make choices based on that.

I used to commute from a town on the Hudson river up and over a ridge to work. Some mornings, when the air was still, I could feel the temperature dropping as I descended the ridge. It felt like sitting in a warm bath and running cold water into it. I don't know what the absolute difference in temperature was, but on some mornings it was quite a bit, maybe 15°F or more. It's hard to dress for all of the microclimates you might encounter, so I just try to dress in layers and adjust on the fly. I don't really obsess over what I'm wearing, I make my choices and live with the outcome.

Polaris OBark

Do you really need to know what the time is, what your speed is, what your 3s power average is, what your altitude is, what the gradient of the hill you are on is, what your heart rate is, what your average speed is, what distance you have traveled, or any of the other display options for any of the internal or linked sensors?

The Garmin records temperature. For some reason the 130 doesn't have a display field for it by default, so the OP was simply asking if it is possible to get it to display the readout of the sensor. Why anyone would want to do this is irrelevant.

I wanted to do this simply because it was there.

Why are some people so pre-occupied with what others want to do, especially given that displaying the temperature can't impact anyone else in any reasonably conceivable way?

Polaris OBark

On the other hand, what good is the internal temperature sensing on my Garmin watch?

The only use I can think is measuring room temperature when I have taken it off for awhile.

tomato coupe

If you had a bike computer with temperature readout on those commutes, you would know how much the temperature actually dropped.

Ogsarg

As mentioned above, sunlight has a dramatic effect on the temp reading. Looking back at a recent ride I noted a max temp of 108F, when in reality it probably never exceeded low 90's. When the sun isn't hitting it, it seems to be reasonably accurate.