Jaco-fiets Posted October 21, 2013 Share 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 Curbie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmarc Posted October 21, 2013 Share Will see what they have but eish, need to stare to the left on their home page a bit longer.... Eisssssh, gonna ditch the MTB and buy myself some running shoes :devil: RudoJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez-O Posted October 21, 2013 Share No, only garmin connectWow, I'll scrap the idea of buying one of those then. Strava is as you say far superior to Garminconnect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rouxtjie Posted October 21, 2013 Share 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 ) so I am thinking of giving her my 500 and getting myself the 800 bundle at 3500 zars.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cippo Posted October 21, 2013 Share No, only garmin connect Is it possible to upload a Garmin file then to Strava? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V12man Posted October 21, 2013 Share Is it possible to upload a Garmin file then to Strava? Sure -no problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rouxtjie Posted October 21, 2013 Share 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 Edited October 21, 2013 by rouxtjie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted October 21, 2013 Share I have the 800 and loving it, the virtual partner is like having your own strava on the go without the bragging. NotSoBigBen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigghead Posted October 21, 2013 Share You can get the Red bundle on Fittrack for R3150. I was at Garmin a few weeks ago and they had the red in stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted October 21, 2013 Share Neh, in that case I'm gonna go with a 510. I have a red K-Edge mount as well. Stiek yt!510 - nice nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted October 21, 2013 Share 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! Garmin 1 000 000 000 000 : Bryton 0 (they are still lost .... with or without it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rouxtjie Posted October 21, 2013 Share Bryton is waaaaaay too far behind to catch up or pass Garmin. Remember their first two units were copies of a certain competitor! Garmin 1 000 000 000 000 : Bryton 0 (they are still lost .... with or without it)Sure and agree, as it stands now...its garmin everyday of the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Sywurm Posted October 21, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rouxtjie Posted October 21, 2013 Share 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/loginYip phones are getting better and better ito functionality and battery pack...not quite there yet so for the moment the dedicated devices still rule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Sywurm Posted October 21, 2013 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rouxtjie Posted October 21, 2013 Share 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. Edited October 21, 2013 by rouxtjie Super Sywurm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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