Wearable Garmin?
06-24-20, 05:10 AM
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Garmin is great. I use mine to send my HR signal to my Edge 1030. I use an older model watch the Vivoactive 3 and it has been great. I also wear it daily as a watch and use the other functions as well.
06-26-20, 12:16 PM
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I am hiker and just started biking. My previous garmin watch battery died around 8 or 10 hours when I hiked half dome. So I went with the fenix 5 which supposedly has great
battery in gps mode.
I have the fenix 5 paired with heart rate monitor and power pedals on a handle bar mount. Works fine but I am probably going to buy garmin 530 or garmin 1030 plus if they ever come on sale.
I did not care for the navigation and the screen is a little small for my 50's eyes.
At least for me the handle bar mount made the watch more usable on the bike with the only downside I had to buy a heart rate monitor strap.
battery in gps mode.
I have the fenix 5 paired with heart rate monitor and power pedals on a handle bar mount. Works fine but I am probably going to buy garmin 530 or garmin 1030 plus if they ever come on sale.
I did not care for the navigation and the screen is a little small for my 50's eyes.
At least for me the handle bar mount made the watch more usable on the bike with the only downside I had to buy a heart rate monitor strap.
