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I have the Lezyne Mega XL. Got it because at my age the smaller screens are hard to read. The Lezyne upgrades are a bit of a bit and miss affair though. If you on a firmware that works then don't update. They not always successful. They do however fix the bugs.

 

Other than that, I love the Lezyne.

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Suggest that you consider all options before buying. I bought a Polar M460 (bike computer) and it does a great job but doing a gym session or running or swimming is better with a GPS on the wrist. I favour a heart rate belt for greater accuracy and one that you can also swim with it. You can always buy a basic bike one now and decide later if you want to go for bells and whistles if your needs change.

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Suggest that you consider all options before buying. I bought a Polar M460 (bike computer) and it does a great job but doing a gym session or running or swimming is better with a GPS on the wrist. I favour a heart rate belt for greater accuracy and one that you can also swim with it. You can always buy a basic bike one now and decide later if you want to go for bells and whistles if your needs change.

 

I will only use the gps on my mtb.  I have a wrist watch with a gps but would rather have one on my bike. 

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Try looking at the giant neos gps unit too. The cheaper one retails at around R1200

 

Giant Neos is around R2400, but looks like a good unit.

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I bought the Giant Neos unit for Maritz .... Giant Durbanville TRIED, but could not get the bluetooth to connect to my phone .... got my money back and went for a Garmin.

 

 

WATCH .... I have a Polar watch I use with my commuter .... does the job !!  But I have to take my hand of the bars to read the screen .... and then the watch is to close to read ...  :ph34r:   Certainly not the watches fault that I suffer "short-arm-syndrome" , ie reading glasses ....

 

 

 

One more thing to keep in mind - TOTAL COST .... many of the "smaller/cheaper" units dont come with heart rate monitor nor cadence sensor .... not cheap by the time you have added these ....

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Lezyne for me.

 

I have the Super GPS and I simply love it!

 

Honourable mention, the Elemnt - more stylish but the battery life does not come close to the Lezyne offerings.

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I bought the Giant Neos unit for Maritz .... Giant Durbanville TRIED, but could not get the bluetooth to connect to my phone .... got my money back and went for a Garmin.

 

One more thing to keep in mind - TOTAL COST .... many of the "smaller/cheaper" units dont come with heart rate monitor nor cadence sensor .... not cheap by the time you have added these ....

 

 

I settled for the Giant Neos, stuggled a bit to get it paired but managed to figure out that i need to activate the location on my phone before it will pick up the gps and pair it.  Very happy with the device.  I dont have a heart rate monitor nor cadence sensor, so the device is perfect for me.  Was also the cheapest gps i could find.

One day when i upgrade i will look at something different with other features, if i need it then. 

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