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Try Arlene Shaw at SportsWorld

 

http://www.sportsworld.co.za

 

I paid R2150 incl. delivery from Cape Town to PE in March for the Garmin 500. It was not the bundle however, as I already had the HRM & Foot Pod from the Garmin FR60.

 

They seem to be out of stock. Also looking at the edge 500. I am itching but I try holding out till December hoping for some festive specials. Not enjoying the joule 2.0 I have to use till then though

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Wow, I'll scrap the idea of buying one of those then. Strava is as you say far superior to Garminconnect.

Yea for fun strava rocks....I like sporttracks as an analytical tool....and that runs on your local machine. Can't see any reason why they don't allow it...like I said, it would have been a positive instead of a negative. Look still a fantastic piece of kit and not worse than the 500.

 

I need to get a new garmin(wife want one now :rolleyes: ) so I am thinking of giving her my 500 and getting myself the 800 bundle at 3500 zars....

Is it possible to upload a Garmin file then to Strava?

Yes...Garmin Edge devices use a .fit format which you can upload in bulk in fact...works like a charm. Plug your device onto computer, open strava in browser, navigate to device that acts like an USB mass storage....boom. With regards to this it is ahead of bryton which I believe must first go to their bridge online app, and then export from there to strava...so imo

 

garmin 1, bryton 0

 

But I would have liked to see a upload function straight to strava from the app on your phone on the 510, not only to garmin connect. As some pointed out, there are hacks and cracks around it, but I think it should be a native function considering it won't cost garmin anything to implement...hint hint, nudge nudge...if any bryton guys are reading this, this is what the customer wants and a golden oppertunity to make it

 

garmin 1, bryton 2

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Yes...Garmin Edge devices use a .fit format which you can upload in bulk in fact...works like a charm. Plug your device onto computer, open strava in browser, navigate to device that acts like an USB mass storage....boom. With regards to this it is ahead of bryton which I believe must first go to their bridge online app, and then export from there to strava...so imo

 

garmin 1, bryton 0

 

But I would have liked to see a upload function straight to strava from the app on your phone on the 510, not only to garmin connect. As some pointed out, there are hacks and cracks around it, but I think it should be a native function considering it won't cost garmin anything to implement...hint hint, nudge nudge...if any bryton guys are reading this, this is what the customer wants and a golden oppertunity to make it

 

garmin 1, bryton 2

 

Bryton is waaaaaay too far behind to catch up or pass Garmin.

 

Remember their first two units were copies of a certain competitor! :whistling:

 

Garmin 1 000 000 000 000 : Bryton 0 (they are still lost .... with or without it)

If you have an android phone, you can download the Endomondo app, for free!!!

 

I have a cheap computer on my bike and I have my phone in my back pocket with the app running (it's working for me).

 

http://www.endomondo.com/login

Yip phones are getting better and better ito functionality and battery pack...not quite there yet so for the moment the dedicated devices still rule

Yip phones are getting better and better ito functionality and battery pack...not quite there yet so for the moment the dedicated devices still rule

 

If you do the Argus with your phone, the probability is there that you don't have any battery power left to call your friends or family to find their whereabouts after the race (depends on your phone).

 

Samsung have better battery life than Sony Ericsson.

If you do the Argus with your phone, the probability is there that you don't have any battery power left to call your friends or family to find their whereabouts after the race (depends on your phone).

 

Samsung have better battery life than Sony Ericsson.

Yea also if you do stage races you will run out for sure on some of the longer days and you will have to charge every day whereas I only had to charge my garmin twice at joberg2c which is 9 days. Then there is also the way cellphones measure ascent vs the the specialist devices that uses barometric pressure, powermeter integration, display options and customization, and training programs...but for a quick and dirty, phones do an amazing job.

 

Also I want 3rd party software integration like into sporttracks...going to be a ballache of uploading and converting and all of it would need connectivity to the net.

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