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incident detection -- how to say "no, I'm OK" without reading glasses!

Former Member over 7 years ago

I have an edge 520 and I love it but I can not read the smallest text on the screen when I'm wearing my riding glasses and not reading glasses.

I want to use incident detection but I've have a few false incident alerts and I'm not able to read the instructions for how to disable sending out an incident alert.

Has anyone made a youtube video with a walk through of how to disable a false incident alert? I could probably manage it without reading glasses if I knew ahead of time what the instructions were.

0 Eugene_WMC over 7 years ago

Hello Funkiestj, I've the same problem, reading the smallest text. Maybe a tip, I use sometimes my mobile telephone in photo mode as magnifier.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions. The long game is indeed to get some bifocal cycling glasses. OTOH, I think garmin should work on reducing the number of false incidents. Pretty much anytime I stop somewhat vigorously (e.g. I was going to roll through an empty intersection but wait, a car is coming so I do a quick FULL stop) I get a bogus incident report.

0 GooseRider_ over 6 years ago

I second the request. I prefer to ride without reading glasses to have unobstructed peripheral vision. One of my cycling glasses has bifocal inserts. I use those outside with the Xert player. I bought the bifocal inserts on Amazon and attached them with a drop of water. Work very well.

I still want to be able to stop the incident detection easily without reading small text!!!

0 mtsarpilot over 6 years ago

Yes, our aging eyes have trouble reading the small print. The darn Incident Detection goes off quite often when mountain biking on technical trails with notable drops so I've just memorized the sequence. I hit:

Enter (upper right button)
Up (middle left button)
Enter

0 tim32fly over 6 years ago

...OTOH, I think garmin should work on reducing the number of false incidents...

Complete agreement here.

An arrow next to your choice of yes/no to cancel (instead of the blue/white highlight) would at least make it intuitive.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

Complete agreement here.

An arrow next to your choice of yes/no to cancel (instead of the blue/white highlight) would at least make it intuitive.

yes, and most importantly, keep in mind that many of us can read the large font of a 4 item numeric display but can not read the tiny font used to tell us how to escape from a false incident without sending an alert.

My last false alert was:

fast downhill descent
incline levels out as I gradually slow to a stop for a red light.
unclip and wait for the light to change -- false alarm

I've just turned it off. I can't take the aggravation of false alarms anymore. It is a great idea and I would love to use it since I ride solo a lot. Perhaps in 5-10 years they'll figure out how to make it work.