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Routing behavior as car in a highway

moremoresp
over 2 years ago

Hi, I wonder why the edge 1040 re-routes (for instance when I miss a turn) as if I were driving a car. 
I am riding an MTB on mountain tracks. If I miss a turn, I would expect the edge to ask me to turn around to get on track again.  However calculates a new route that separate from the original one for 2 or 3 kilometers. 
This kind of routing can make sense if you are driving a car on a highway, but in the mountain riding an MTB…it seems crazy to me. 

Any ideas? Is there a way to adjust this behavior? 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Set it to prompt you rather than auto recalculate.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Rogls

    Sorry should also have said select profile then navigation then routing then course recalculation 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Well, thanks for your answer. 
    However my point is that the recalculation of the route should be adapted to an MTB use, in which if you miss a turn and continue 15 meters, the obvious option for the Garmin should be to tell you to turn around, rather than finding an alternative track to get you home.

    Today I missed a turn and the Edge 1040 told me to continue 500 meters to the end of the track and then it asked me to turn around to undo those 500m. The edge doesn’t understand that with an MTB you just turn around wherever you want. That would make sense for a car driving use, for example waiting for the next roundabout. It doesn’t make sense in a device designed for biking. 

    Does it?  

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to moremoresp

    Totally agree with you, I  think Garmin TBT routing is not optimized for MTB as it doesn't consider a 180° turn, does it?. IMO, MTB routing and "Off course" routing is more of an inconvenience than an advantage. For what I want a second pink line that does not follow 100% my premade course, which I can see it drawn in the map? Why do I need big turn arrows if my course have chevrons? Also, if you use TBT routing, you will mess up your custom course points distances (in the roadbook and in the next point data field) with loads of turn messages that from time to time will take you out of your custom course.

    For me, following your purple course and following Garmin associated pink route at the same time is a mess when mountain biking

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to dasorsan

    Why not turn off Turn Guidance (TBT) then? No big turn arrows and still keep the chevrons.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Because I am happy with the big arrows. My complaint is about the edge route re-calculation logic.  It doesn’t seem adapted to cycling usage, or at least not to MTB. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to moremoresp

    TBT's during riding MTB tracks disturb more than they help, at least for me. If TBT is Off also Recalculation is Off, so this will not annoy you. You also can set Off Course Warning to Off. What remains is the course line with the chevrons - clean & mean.