Administrators Eric Hall Posted January 17, 2016 Administrators My Rides (3) Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Picked up one of these watches recently mostly for the gym but also to try it out on some rides.I was doing some scouting for AltRider's Taste of Dakar this past weekend and used the watch primarily to record my tracks. I will try another time to use it to actually navigate a pre-loaded track.What I found was that it does an extremely good job of recording tracks. I had to choose "riding" mode, as in bicycle, because there isn't a "motorcycling" activity currently loading. It wanted me to wear the heart rate chest strap and then also approximated my calories burned assuming I was actually riding a bike. This screen shot is from the spoon my phone but you can see what an amazing job it does: The numbers you see aren't track points but some kind of "lap" number. I thought I was cycling and automatically cut it up into 5 min "laps." I will fiddle with it to see if I can load a motorcycling activity profile for next time. I also loaded a companion app called DWMaps (digital watch maps) that will let me actually follow a pre-loaded route. It doesn't currently work with Rever but it does with AllTrails and Ride With GPS.So a watch that records GPS tracks; a big deal? My phone does the same thing with Rever and I always have my phone with me. I will keep testing this and report back more. I may strap the watch to my Renthal bar pad to navigate next time.Stay tuned 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allrpm Posted April 27, 2016 Report Share Posted April 27, 2016 Cool! I have a Garmin I used for marathons, I will try it out on my next ride as well. May as well put the Heart monitor on to see how bad my fitness level is now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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