what happens when the 200 hour activity limit is reached?

Thanks, but the specifications say 200 hours for history, is it definitely activities? Trying to work out how I can test it, guess I need to try adding a bunch of old rides back in and see what happens. 

I verified yesterday that there's no warning on my 1050 when the 100 course limit is reached, it just doesn't sync any until some are deleted, unlike my Garmin watch (Epix Gen2) that pops up a warning that no more routes can be synced until some are removed.

I also looked through the 1040 manual, there's no mention of the limits or advice on how to manage them.

The longest regular Audax rides are 2,100 kms and have a time limit of 210 hours, eg Netherlands ran the Hanze 6-9-6 last year and Sweden the “Length of Sweden”. Many riders will record these as one activity and the world hasn’t imploded. 

Fair point. I have a mate who does these kind of rides, will ask his experience. Goal is just to understand what the 200 activities/hours limit actually means. Have you done these yourself?

jgforrest said:

Have you done these yourself?

No, I dream about being good enough to just finish the qualifying rides, realistically improbable (at my age) but I can dream. The most impressive are the riders who don't have the genetic predisposition to blitz the ride finishing in half the allowed time but who plod along, always pushing the time limit but who finish via shear determination , they are described as being "full value".

The "HISTORY: Up to 200 hours"  in Garmin specs, (I had a look at both 1040 & 1050 on garmin site), has been there for devices as long as I can remember certainly back to 510s maybe 200/500, devices with far far less capacity than current,  perhaps it just gets copied for each new device as garmin doesn't remember what it means either, a single activity or all activities (many riders would have over 200 hours in their saved activities)?

jgforrest said:

Thanks, but the specifications say 200 hours for history, is it definitely activities?

It’s clearly not hours. 

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Regardless…

These are very slow computers and limiting to actual 200 hours would be a lot of work and risk (the device would have to constantly process (edit files)). All for no good reason for doing so.

Why Garmin refuses to fix the specs after so many years is a mystery.

If it isn’t hours then Garmin have made the same mistake on most of their bike computers which is strange. According to the manual a message will appear on the history screen if memory is full, but my 1050 is only on 112 rides and 181 hours so I’ll have to wait a bit longer to see if it puts a message up

www8.garmin.com/.../GUID-D59411F0-644D-4112-9955-44FCB5B1F2D5.html

jgforrest said:

If it isn’t hours then Garmin have made the same mistake on most of their bike computers which is strange.

As far as I know, it’s the same mistake on all of them.

You aren’t the first person to run across this.

Awhetherall said it was activities.

It’s not hours.