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Motorcycle profile

I would like to reopen the topic of a motorcycle profile.

As we know, there is motorcycle routing (using 3rd party or eg. Fenix maps), and the only thing missing is a profile. I understand trying to sell Zumo and other products, but placing such arbitrary limitations is in my opinion doing the exacly opposite - I curse Garmin in this decision each time I have to delete/change activity type to different one on a couple platforms. And I will never ever buy a Zumo product having CarPlay, and if anything - it's pushing me away from buying any new Garmin products knowing that I may hit some arbitrary limitation (not the same but 'You're holding it wrong' comes to mind) on a quite an expensive device, and knowing that despite several people voicing the exact same sentiment nothing will change. And it's especially frustrating as it's just a matter of changing a singular number in a .fit file - I've tried both hex-editing profiles on Edge and copying a profile from a Fenix but neither work.

So - dear Garmin - will we get some more profiles on Edge devices?

  • The Explore 2 has an arbitrary & artificial Profile limit (3) but other x40 devices allow creation of as many Profiles as you like ( MENU > Activity Profiles > Create New ) apart from my pet dislike of the Map Cursor being too small to be seen (with a quick glance) I can't think of any limitation to using the device for MotorCycles especially as you point out there is a Motorcycle Driving Routing.

  • Yes - it just messes the activity categorization after saving (which I do want to do) and syncing 

  • It might be helpful or not, but I understand, you want to use Edge only for recording, not for navigation, correct?
    I use Garmin Forerrunner watch for this task, FR955 has the motorcycling sport profile since about a year or so, works for me