Last week was a great ebaying week - I sold the Cross Trainer that has sat gathering dust in my bedroom for the last 2 years (since I started cycling) for a whopping £450! Other assorted items brought my wealth to £635. So, feeling a little less guilty about buying the saddle and all sorts of other kit, I started wondering if I should treat myself to a new 705, seeing as the 305 is on the blink. I didn't think about this for too long and got my order into Wiggle on Monday. It was delivered yesterday and I'm spending this evening getting to know this lovely new gadget.
So far I have the cadence sensor installed. The magnet for the speed sensor doesn't fit around my fat spokes so I'll have to see if Garmin supply an alternative. The Garmin unit is on my stem and the map on the micro SD is installed. What I need now is to get some routes plotted in bikeroutetoaster and get them onto the unit. I'm going to plot a very often used 20 mile route, just to familiarise myself with the process. On Sunday, I'm hoping to try a ride into the peaks - most of the roads are familiar but there is one part where I always make wrong turns with the 305 or a map. It'll be a good test.
BTW, weather is looking great for this weekend.
Thursday, 21 May 2009
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You lucky thing. Very jealous. I really want one as I'm so sick of my usual cycling routes and using printed maps is such a pain. My mate has one and it did take him months to figure out all the option but he loves it. His favourite is to have the profile on so he can see all the big hills approaching and how far he has left to climb.
ah, I didn't even realise that I could do that. That sounds like an excellent function - I sometimes print off a profile and carry it with me on a sportive - now I don't need to :-)
I keep looking at upgrading to the 705 because the mapping on my older Garmin Ledgend with it's grey screen isn't exacltly clear. I tend to muddle up the line representing my route with 'A' roads as they look exactly the same.
I will be watching your blog to see how you get on!
They're great gadgets - especially for recording your rides and training. Check out the virtual trainer where you race against yourself. The magnet should be for the cadence sensor, not the speed sensor, but you probably meant that anyway (apologies if so!) I ended up taking my cadence sensor off after a few weeks - the information seemed pretty useless. You'll love your 705 - they're great for loading up routes in advance of sportives to use in case the organiser's direction arrows get taken down or switched by idiots. It gives you peace of mind that you are heading the right way and saves you when you aren't. One tip - the timer has an autostop for when you come to a halt at traffic lights etc. It's a good idea to turn it off for sportives because otherwise it'll stop when you stop for refilling bottles etc. i.e it stops, but your timing chip recorded time won't have and you'll get a misleading timing from your Garmin. Blah blah - sorry about the rambling!
Hi Jez and Redbike - thanks for your comments :-)
I'm going to post about how I'm getting on so far with the 705 later on. Jez, I have two magnets - pedal magnet for Cadence and spoke magnet for speed (I guess for when GPS isn't working - useful for me on my rollers rides indoors).
I checked that autopause is off - I want to make sure that my clock and the broom wagon clock are in sync :-)
My garmin shows the "overall time" (same as the timeing chip) and the "time moving" (Pauses when you stop).
Perhaps the 705 displays both of these too? In which case there's no need to disable the auto pause.
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