When Garmin announced a new model, the Edge Explore, they claimed it to be even better for touring. There’s lots more info as well – some of it quite useful, such as cycling time, speed, average speed, distance already travelled, distance to destination, compass points, altitude and much more. I could start riding, follow my progress along my route and, best of all, get plenty of turn-by-turn information for intersections (complete with graphics).
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Mind you, it was a struggle to understand how to use it at first (I’m a real ditz when it comes to tech), but the Garmin Edge Touring was a godsend. And when I did that three years ago, it was a revelation. Changing from one road to another much more frequently means lots of map consultation. Nowadays, I usually need to consult the map to see if it is at this point that I need to turn onto another road. So now I use a much wider variety of roads so I can try and stick to quieter and – hopefully – more interesting ones.īut to do this, it usually means I often arrive at an intersection which, in the past, I would have most likely just pedalled on through. And then there are the C roads, which are almost always quiet and being used more by farm machinery than cars. While that was a perfectly good way to tour a few years ago, today not all D roads are good cycling roads, and others that weren’t are now wonderful.
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When I would do my route planning before setting out, I would just look for whatever D roads connected the places I wanted to get to and then set off with full confidence that those roads would be just fine. UK list price is £219 but priced lower at many online outlets.įor years, I always toured using a map, sometimes a compass and usually a willingness to get lost. On 19 April 2019 Bob Zeller has recently started using the Garmin Edge Explore GPS unit on his cycle tours.
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