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Route Planning

Garmin Shaun
over 4 years ago

Hi Everybody. I know climb pro doesn’t work if your riding an unsaved route, but if you ride a route and then save it as a course on the Garmin 830 should climb pro now recognize the climbs. I ask the question because mine doesn’t work on any of my saved courses. Everything is turned on, on the unit.. Thanks in advance 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    You have to be navigating a course.  That way it knows what's ahead and what your intent is.  If you're just out riding, it doesn't know what your intended route is so can't know which climb is ahead and if you intend to ride it or not.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to looigi

    I am navigating a course, I’ve ridden the route previously and then at a later date I’ve downloaded it as a course to follow. The unit navigates me around the course as it should but climb pro doesn’t recognize any climbs. The climbs are quite long and steep, so they should pop up as a climb.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin Shaun

    I rode a course last week with 1 climb on it, created a course and rode it yesterday and my 830 didn't recognise the exact same climb. I also couldn't go down one lane doe to flooding and my garmin had a hissy fit. 

    What the hell is wrong with all these devices? Are there any satisfied customers? Time to get my edge 800 back out.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin Shaun

    Have you looked at the excellent ClimbPro explainer document contained in the pinned thread at the top of this forum?

    https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/cycling/f/edge-830/168010/understanding-climbpro-on-the-edge---updated-for-build-5-50

    In particular, does your climb qualify based on the rules (> 500m at >3% avg grade), and is your Garmin set to detect that level of "climb score"?  

    Did you save/create your course on Garmin Connect and then download to the 830?  I only use Strava for routes, and that always seems to "work".

    I suppose it may also depend on the map data you are using. 

    ClimbPro works fine for me -- or, at least, it does whatever it does.  I rarely find it useful, but then I am rarely navigating a course.  Once I've been someplace I don't need to navigate and I find the nav bits distracting.