Giant NeosTrack gps. Any good?

[Chris NewbyFraser]

I am considering getting this Giant bike gps (essentially a Bryton530 with some Sunweb team upgrades to it). Budget is the reason I am looking in the lower end of the market. Have any Hubbers had experience with this unit? Particularly with following loaded gpx tracks

[DieselnDust]

Its very good and pretty reliable. Activity upload isn't as easy as garmin but its good and not as convoluted as others

[Duane_Bosch]

Yes I have one. I had a Bryton 330 that I replaced with this. I think for the price it's a great unit.

 

I've used it for following gpx tracks once (the Argus) and it worked fine. I'm going to Majorca in December where I'll be using it to follow tracks that i'm busy setting up.

[GHOST FACE]

Hi. Giant does 2 versions now, the Neos GPS and the Neos Track. 

 

https://www.giant-bicycles.com/za/neos-gps-2019

 

https://www.giant-bicycles.com/za/neostrack-gps-computer

 

The Track does the .gpx files, routes, TrainingPeaks etc etc and is Ant+ compatible. 

[Chris NewbyFraser]

Hi. Giant does 2 versions now, the Neos GPS and the Neos Track. 

 

https://www.giant-bicycles.com/za/neos-gps-2019

 

https://www.giant-bicycles.com/za/neostrack-gps-computer

 

The Track does the .gpx files, routes, TrainingPeaks etc etc and is Ant+ compatible. 

Ghost Face?? Do they call you Spook?

[Andrew_Smith]

I've been living with the Neostrack for about a month now. My previous unit was the Bryton 330. That's been transferred to my ladies bike.

 

Out of the box it comes with an out front mount and a bar mount. The plan was to put the out front mount on my roadie and "modify" the bar mount to work as a stem cap mount for my MTB. Needless to say I broke the bar mount immediately. Lucky out front mounts are cheap (under R200) so now both bikes have an out front mount.

 

Initial setup was a breeze. I installed the app, registered and set up my cadensometer in a few minutes. Also linked it up with Strava pretty easily. That's done in the app not on the unit. My teenage stepdaughter did find the constant beeping quite annoying whilst I was setting it up.

 

It comes with a number of screens and I managed to switch all but 2 off. I have 10 fileds on both. One day when I can afford a power meter I'll change that. The display is completely customizable and can even link to your Di2 if you are fortunate enough to have that on your bike. The only field the Bryton has that the Giant Unit does not have is heading.

 

I managed to download a gpx file of the CTCT route and followed that for the race. I did find that rather depressing on the day tho as the km's to go ticket off all too slowly. The mapping function works similarly to my old Bryton unit so there are no ACTUAL maps on the device. It just looks at your location and overlays that with the gpx file. That's fine for my needs.

 

There's not much more to say really. With the seeming demise of Bryton locally you really only have this and the Lezyne unit to choose from if you want a budget GPS.

 

The only negatives I can think of are.

 

1. Mounts. This was a negative of the Bryton too. I really wish these people would adopt a mounting standard for all devices.

2. When uploading the ride it sometimes goes into a loop. I just stop the upload and start over and it seems to then work. This might also be phone/connectivity related

 

That's all I can think of really. I've not used any of the built in workout features and the map your ride feature isn't very intuitive.

 

*Disclaimer. I've never used a High end GPS. Experience is based PURELY on my Bryton and the Giant.  

 

Duane_Bosch's reply about the unit. I asked him a couple of months ago in the 'Boast about your latest purchases here' thread.