Garmin Edge Explore Bike Computer
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Discover new routes via the preloaded maps and stay connected—with other riders or folks back home—wherever you ride with the Garmin Edge Explore bike computer.
Shop similar products- High- resolution, glove- and rain-friendly 3 in. touch screen is visible even in direct sunlight
- Preloaded Garmin Cycle Map offers turn-by-turn navigation and popularity routing so you can find the on- and off-road routes most-traveled by cyclists
- Built-in GPS tracks how far, how fast, how high and where you ride
- Compatible with ANT+™ technology enabled sensors for monitoring heart rate, bike speed, bike cadence and more
- Pair with your compatible smartphone to use LiveTrack and GroupTrack, smart notifications, rider-to-rider messaging and built-in incident detection
- Compatible with Android phones running 4.4 OS or later and Bluetooth 4.0 or later; iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 10.0 or later
- Compatible with Varia™ cycling awareness devices (all sold separately), including smart bike lights and rearview radar to detect cars and alert drivers
- Download free apps, widgets and data fields from the Garmin Connect IQ™ store
| Best Use | Cycling |
|---|---|
| GPS Tracking | Yes |
| Current Speed | Yes |
| Maximum Speed | Yes |
| Average Speed | Yes |
| Odometer | Yes |
| Trip Distance | Yes |
| Auto Start/Stop | Yes |
| Countdown Timer | Yes |
| Clock | Yes |
| Lap Timer | Yes |
| Cadence | Yes |
| Altimeter | No |
| Exercise Log | Yes |
| Illumination | Backlight |
| Smart Device Notifications | Yes |
| Low Battery Indicator | Yes |
| Batteries | Lithium ion |
| Battery Life | 12 hours |
| Wireless | Yes |
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Great Bike GPS for newbie
So far so good with this device. I tried the Wahoo Elemnt Bolt and the Garmin 520 Plus. I liked the Bolt but the Navagation was just OK when I compared it to the Garmin. With the Garmin 520 Plus, the screen was excellent but the button placement is awful compared to the easy buttons on the Bolt. But the Edge Explore makes it even easier. The touchscreen is very responsive. Easy to swipe between pages. Start button on the bottom is just ok but the screen more than makes up for it.
Great price-point, with one trade-off
Garmin came up with an amazing cycling GPS, the Edge 1030. Then against all odds, someone must have said, "What if we offered the same thing, only without the stuff for power meters, digital shifting, and live Strava? And charged half the price for it?" Which makes the Edge Explore the almost perfect GPS for me. I've been a geocacher for years, and for the last 3 years have successfully used my GPSMAP 62 on the bike. But with the Edge Explore, I got these terrific bonuses: - Easy to start a ride, and it sends results straight to my online Connect account and RideWithGPS account as soon as I finish. No more cable to hook up! - Can load pre-planned routes from RideWithGPS to the Explore easily. Again, no cables needed. - Turn-by-turn route directions are terrific! - Cool display options with free add-on apps (MY EDGE2 from the IQ store) - Temperature display! - Weather screen shows the forecast - Battery level indication -- no more guessing. - Touch screen that works very well. The one BAD thing about this unit is that it does not have a built-in altimeter, but uses the GPS signals to estimate the elevation. This is very inaccurate. So there are cool features on the Edge Explore like "Elevation Gain" and "Elevation Lost" that would be so fun, but they're constantly off by about a third. When I finish riding and the stats are sent to Garmin Connect, it automatically updates the elevations with map data, so it's fixed there. But while riding, it's totally bogus. If you can live without live elevation data, then this GPS is a sweet deal for anyone but the most hard-core rider. Or if Garmin updates the firmware to allow the use of map elevation instead of gps-calculated elevation, then this becomes a 5-star device.
Garmin gets it right
Great display and features at a lower price point for the cycling enthusiast who is more interested in riding than training. No opinions yet on the Garmin route planning as I am a huge fan of RideWithGPS.com and this device works well with routes I plan on that service. Was glad to have an option to upgrade from my 810 for less than its original cost.
I’ve had this for a week and love it
I got this about a week ago and love it. The navigation screen is the best out there. I watched all the YouTube videos and read so many reviews on google on it and more expensive ones. For me it’s pretty much perfect. I really like doing the round trip function and setting how far I want to ride (it only works for 5 miles or more btw). But I really like it. It gives me three chooses and I can view the map of each route and if I don’t like any of them, I just redo it and it will give me 3 mew ones I’m not a racer. I just like to ride and want to get in better shape. Before I got this I never rode 4 or 5 miles in one ride since I was 21. Now I’m riding them every night. I pick they route I want and just enjoy the ride. The navigation always tells me in words at the top of the screen how far till the next turn and the street name I have to turn on and the direction. When I get close it beeps several times to get my attention so I don’t miss my turn For the people that complain that the warning for sharp turns are annoying and cannot he turned off, there is a setting on the app to turn that off. Someone else also complained that they stopped riding at a light or to get water and when they started riding again they had to press a button to have the computer continue. Well again just go in settings to the “auto” section. There’s a bunch of choices and one is to turn on auto start and stop. I love it and I’m finding out more and more features every day
Reliable, good battery life, easy to use
I've been using this for a year now and am very pleased with how easy it is to use. I am able to connect a cadence sensor and heart rate monitor to it and also connect it to my phone via bluetooth and the Garmin app. I am able to get weather notices, see incoming texts and the turn-by-turn guidance is very useful. I also enjoy using the Garmin website to create my own routes, which I download to the device from my laptop; I love having a stash of various routes of varying lengths that I can bring up from a list and start riding at any time. The visibility of the screen during the day is not an issue at all and at night it automatically goes into a 'dark mode'. Overall, I've found this device to be a worthwhile purchase.
Bought For Road
So far, so good. Bought specifically for my road bike. Used on my mtb and learned about gps fall out under tree cover - shorted me on miles. Bought a speed sensor which did the trick. Not a complaint, paying forward what I learned. Connected easily with my Galaxy and speed sensor.
Disappointing
This has by far been the most disappointing Garmin product I have ever purchased. First off, there is no way to disable this sharp bend alerts which are annoying at best and dangerously distracting when there actually is a sharp bend. Second, the altimeter is WAY off. One ride that every other unit has read as 1,100 feet, this unit read at almost 2,000. That is unacceptably inaccurate. I have tried calibrating elevation, but the unit resets to whatever incorrect reading it had beforehand. From reading the Garmin forums, no effort has been made in over 6 months to fix these bugs. This had the potential to be an amazing device, but until they get these bugs fixed, don't waste your money.
Love it!!!
I love this thing. Easy to use, and good mapping. I'm coming from the standard edge 520 to this and feel it's a big upgrade. I was a little worried about the negative reviews you find online for it, but figured it's from REI...I can return it if I hate it. I definately don't hate it. There are setting to turn off all the annoying stuff like the sharp bend warning, so don't let other reviews scare you off. I've yet to find anything it does that annoys me during a ride that I couldn't easily turn off before the next. By far my favorite feature is the out and back route creator. You enter the distance you want to go, and it gives you 3 options to pick from. Just for fun 3 days in a row i selected routes for a 40 miles round trip. Glanced to get a general idea where it was going to send me, and then off I went just following the guidance of the device. Obvously, this would be more handy in an area you aren't familair with more so than from your home. I wanted to see if it actually kept me off busy freeways and on all paved roads (setting you can specifiy withing the device). I also wanted to see if I went off course if it could re-route to get me back on course, or to come up with another way to an end point. On one ride I purposely didn't take a turn a few miles from home, and went a different way with no chance of getting back to the orignal road it had me going to. Intead of insisting I get back to that point it just re-routed me home the easiest way in the direct I was going. Super handy especially if you are in an area you aren't familiar. I really only have one minor complaint about this thing. Compared to me 520 it loses GPS signal a lot easier on hills/heavy tree coverage. You'll definately want to use a speed sensor with it. I don't feel like I lost any actualy distance/data from the lost connection, but once I synced my speed sensor problem solved. I used it for a mountain bike ride that was pretty deep in the woods as well. With speed sensor I had no issues. Another person with me that had a different brand computer lost out on almost a miles worth of cycling due to his losing GPS durnig the ride. All in all I love this thing, and am happy with the purchase. I had considered a couple other computers before buying (wahoo & Karoo), but in the end am extremeley happy I went with the explore.
Good, clear navigation; lots of data.
Good, visible display with lots of information. Navigation is clear, and ability to obtain routes by simply indicating desired distance is neat. Some dubious route choices; for example, no need for the first choice for a 10+ mile trip in our mostly rural area to be routed through a heavily-trafficked industrial zone. Bought this after losing my Edge 520, but it's a definite improvement. Glad that the Explore fits in the same bike mounts as the Edge 520.
Pathetic Amount of Memory
No SD card slot. To load Europe Maps you have to go in and manually delete all the US files (.img, .gma, .unl) and then repeat the process when you want to re-install US maps. This would be a great device if Garmin had either built it with more memory or included a SD card slot.