Example screenshot for following a mountainbikeroute?

Anyone :confused:

Nothing for your issue but check mantel.com. They have the Edge 520 in stock.

http://www.mantel.com/garmin-edge-520

Mantel.com in Germany offers actually 10% discount and delivery within two days after order.

Not a whole lot of 520s in peoples hands yet to provide your screenshot, fwiw.

here ist the link of mantel webshop in germany -> http://www.mantel.com/de/garmin-edge-520

I made the order and the device should be delivered on friday. During the weekend i will make the set up and within the next week i test the navigation through my daily ride from my work back home.

thx Dirk!
strange that mantel germany is cheaper than the shop in their homeland, not 10%, but... every euro is one ;-).

Too bad we have to take a Strava premium account as well, because other than live segments there are no real advantages over the free account for me :rolleyes:

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Does anyone have a screenshot of a ride in the forest so I can have a look?

It's not in a forest (I guess the background would be green?), but here's an image from my ride yesterday.

Note that you can choose the colour of the track, purple worked fine for me. I had course points in the file (and displayed), and the turn instructions came up as expected. I have tones turned off, but I doubt I'd hear them with the wind whistling in my ears :). I find the map very readable. Also, because I have it set to "track always up", if you do start to go in the wrong direction it becomes apparent very quickly (even if you've turned off the "off course" warning).

The only problem with forest riding (as with any GPS device) is that it might be hard to lock onto the satellites.

thx!
what do you mean with "track always up"?
and the course points come up, as expected... but you have edited a tcx/gpx file before uploading it to the 520 to get that?
(yes, i'm quite new/noob in the navigating world).

and for gps-reception: i read a review of someone having very poor reception in the forest with the new garmin 25.
I hope the 520 will do better! how are the experiences with the 520 riders in the woods?
and do you keep gps/glonass both enabled or 1 of the 2?

and another question i can probably find in the manual (i promise to download and read after posting this reply):
can i have the map as a screen, combined with cadence+heartrate fields and wil the map be big enough to follow a track/course/route?

and for gps-reception: i read a review of someone having very poor reception in the forest with the new garmin 25.
I hope the 520 will do better! how are the experiences with the 520 riders in the woods?
and do you keep gps/glonass both enabled or 1 of the 2?

and another question i can probably find in the manual (i promise to download and read after posting this reply):
can i have the map as a screen, combined with cadence+heartrate fields and wil the map be big enough to follow a track/course/route?

Yes, you can have two fields displayed. I use power and speed. They're displayed on the bottom of the map and work well.

Regarding coverage, having access to both GPS and GLONASS should help with riding in the forest but you're still more likely to have issues if the sky is blocked by lots of leafy trees. GLONASS provides more satellites but it doesn't eliminate issues with an obscured sky.

When you navigate you can choose to have North at the top of the screen (North Up), or your direction of travel at the top (Track Up), or 3D mode (like a car sat nav, but I haven't tried that yet).

I did not have to edit the TCX, it is as created by bike route toaster (but you have to request the course points before you create it). If you don't do this, I think the Garmin has to try and work out where the turns are itself, which is apparently much less reliable.

I went through a few woods and only lost contact once, but it was very dense foliage (no view of the sky at all). The rest of the time it was fine, even under tree cover. I used both GPS and Glonass (why wouldn't I, to save battery perhaps?). You can't just have Glonass, but you can just have GPS.

You can have 2 data fields on the map page (with cadence and heart rate if you wish). They occupy the bottom fifth of the screen and are semi-transparent. There is still enough map left on the screen to navigate (though it really depends how good/bad your eyesight is). One irritating (to me) is that it wastes the top fifth of the map to tell you which compass direction you're going in, I'd rather turn that off, but I haven't found a way to.