First Ride Review

Thanks for posting!

Thanks for the review. How are you finding the battery usage?
one of my reasons for getting a 1030 (which is on pre order, delivery end of Oct (ugh)) is that my 520 is now using around 19% per hour. I'm hoping the 1030 is significantly better.

2nd road ride observations:

• After about a 1.5 hour ride the unit appears to have consumed about 6% per hour. Connected were: Garmin HR strap, Bontrager Speed/Cadence Sensor, iPhone running Connect app and a Powertap G3 hub.
  
• Did not use the Varia HUD. Looked last night to see if there was an update I was missing and found none.
  
• The recovery adviser alert beeped however the actual screen never appeared. Guess I wont know how well I recovered from yesterdays ride where it said I needed 72 hours.
  
• At the end of today's ride it said I only need 68 hours to recover. I appear to be getting stronger much faster than I realized!
  
• At the end of the ride after hitting the stop button there is no discard button as there was on the 1000 and other units.
  
• On a segment today I pulled ahead of my personal best. Next thing I know there is a beep that the virtual partner had finished. Once I finally reached the end of the segment it showed I was 45 seconds behind my personal best. Upon looking at the ride on Connect it shows that I set a personal best today.
  

Any ride above 5 minutes will not have a discard option, under that it gives the option on the end screen.

The recovery advisory is a learnt metric and the unit needs about a weeks worth of data before it starts to giving useful values.

Third ride in. Unit working great with the exception of the items noted above. Only new issue today is that about 45 minutes into the ride I paused for about 5 minutes. I did not hit stop on Edge, just let auto pause engage. When I resumed riding the Edge would not connect to the PT G3 hub. I tried deleting the sensor and repairing however would not find it. After my ride I rebooted the Edge and it found the PT immediately. Not sure if in my stop the PT went to sleep and the Edge refused to reconnect or if something else was up.

"With the start/stop and lap buttons moved to the perimeter of the unit I found it hard to hit the lap button with the unit mounted to my K Edge mount. Going to pull the Garmin mount out and look to see if it gives more clearance. You can see the clearance in the photo somewhat."
Unbelievably, what aggravation improvement; now you have to use the Garmin mount that slightly increases the Edge mount. And the expensive and beautiful mounts of the Edge 1000, in the extension of the stem, can be thrown in the trash.

"With the start/stop and lap buttons moved to the perimeter of the unit I found it hard to hit the lap button with the unit mounted to my K Edge mount. Going to pull the Garmin mount out and look to see if it gives more clearance. You can see the clearance in the photo somewhat."
Unbelievably, what aggravation improvement; now you have to use the Garmin mount that slightly increases the Edge mount. And the expensive and beautiful mounts of the Edge 1000, in the extension of the stem, can be thrown in the trash.

If it is the case that the button placement is actually making it difficult for people to access them with an out front mount either garmin has dropped an ergonomic bollock with the design or its a cunning marketing ploy to get people to buy a remote. :rolleyes:
Personally I can't understand why they've chosen to put them where they are even the L&R sides would have been better. It'll be even more difficult if you use a silicone case.
I can only guess its for manufacturing reasons & not the woolly garmin response to dcr that it was to keep the form factor as small as possible.

@hotdogpartysausage
You can now reach the keys with your thumb without letting go of the handlebars, was a statement by Garmin

Finally got around to putting the Garmin out front mount on the bike. Turns out it is no longer than the K Edge. Guess we will need to wait for K Edge to come out of a "new" longer mount.