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| GARMIN 010-00447-30 Edge 305 GPS Bundle | 
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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $319.99
Buy New: $249.99
You Save: $70.00 (22%)
New (75) Used (1) Refurbished (3)
Avg. Customer Rating:  117 reviews
Sales Rank: 728
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 128x160
Display Size: 1.86
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Size: Garmin Part #010-00447-30
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 6 x 6 x 6
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Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 010-00447-30
Model: 010-00447-30
UPC: 753759053574
EAN: 0753759053574
ASIN: B000BS4PZW
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Great device April 5, 2008
I've used the Garmin 305 on three rides now, 2 training and 1 long one, and I've been super impressed. Installation was a little bit of a hassle on my bike because my chain stays are very close to my rear wheel, but it works great. The amount of data this thing collects is incredible and the training features are really great for keeping you on track and on schedule.
 Garmin 305 Edge (ROCKS!) April 3, 2008
Great and easy product to use.
The information this little guy spits out onto your computer is amazing!
It will change the way you ride / train and race.
 Breakdown April 1, 2008
Buy this product if you don't mind
- sending it back to Garmin for repairs every 4 months
- paying for shipping costs
- paying for repairs taking place a year (or beyond) from purchase
- paying for repairs 90 days after the previous defect was repaired
- waiting 20 minutes on the phone to talk to a representative to get the aforementioned good news
When it works, it's OK...the Motion Based Software is fun
It is very easy to set.... but it will breakdown.
Too many bugs for the price. March 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The features and price make it seem to be a value on paper. But when you try to use it, the design flaws are readily evident. One of the major ones is with the heart rate monitor. I was getting ridiculous readings on a relatively flat ride. I was getting readings in high zone 4 and 5 all ride. It read my resting heart rate at almost 120. The garmin website says the static electricity from synthetic clothing can cause faulty readings. Since almost all cycling clothing is synthetic, this is a major design flaw. It doesn't sound like they are planning on fixing the problem either. Their brilliant suggestion; buy cotton clothing. Cotton is not a good material for a base layer(for any sport). Instead of purchasing this unit, buy a decent heart rate monitor from another manufacturer, and a basic sigma or cat eye cycling computer. Garmin should stick to GPS.
 A mixed review ( the good, the bad and the ugly ) March 5, 2008
Positives:
1) Many features ( read product description )
2) Generally usable by people who have photosensitive epilepsy and who do NOT tolerate blinking or flashing or scrolling displays. HOWEVER!
a) Satellite icons on GPS page blink on and off and this page cannot be removed from page display sequence. ( as can be done with Garmin trail units )
b) Cadence and heart rate icons blink. ( you have to tape over the top margin of the LCD display )
c) Reset is very nice as it does a non-seizure producing countdown to reset display ( the Sigma units blink and blink and blink )
d) Garmin is three quarters the way to accessibility unlike Sigma computers which are horrible
3) Wireless cadence and speed sensor is relatively easy to set up. ( You push the reset button on the sensor and each time the crank arm or the spoke magnet passes the sensor and triggers it; a correspondingly colored LED blinks ONCE )
Negatives:
1) Installing the cadence magnet on the crank arm is a total pain in the neck. The magnet MUST be within 5mm or so of the sensor. I finally gave up on the Garmin hardware and used the much larger Sigma crank arm magnet ( which extends 3/4" out from the crank arm ). This worked immediately. Garmin is cheap, cheap, cheap in this respect. If you want to save a lot of time and trouble, buy a Sigma unit with cadence just for the crank arm magnet.
2) Limited battery life. Batteries are NOT replacable and Garmin makes no provision for connected an external battery throw the USB port.( the battery life is about the norm for GPS units; this is a comment, not a criticism). If you do long day rides you are going to have a dead battery. You really have to have two bicycle computers. One is a more standard bicycle computer without GPS so you can get statistics for the entire day.
3) Too many features and too many data fields and not enough user configurable pages ( there are only two general purpose pages ) to display it all. There should be, say, ten user configurable pages ( you should be able to select how many you want ). You should be able to configure each of them as you desire (ie: display speed and distance and slope on one page; display heart rate and cadence and speed on another; etc. )and to name them as you wish (ie Cycling, Performance, Trip Totals, etc. ). You should be able to group them into named sets such as Cycling, Training, Summary, etc and you should be able to select which pages are associated with each set.
If it were not for the impossible to install cadence crank arm magnet; the inability to disable pages ( GPS information ); partial inaccessibility for people with photosensitive epilepsy; insufficient number of configurable pages; this unit would get an A- or so.
Comments:
1) Sigma wireless units are totally unusable for people with photosensitive epilepsy or who are bothered ( or worse ) by blinking displays; they just blink and blink and blink. ( I threw away my Sigma 1606L DTS - this is where I got the nice crank arm magnet. I placed one of these abominations on a friends bicycle. As soon as you turn it out it blinks and blinks and blinks ( because the bicycle is not yet moving. this is trash design )
2) The manual for the Garmin Edge 705 is now available on the Garmin website. Having read the manual, I would not purchase the unit.
a) If you need GPS roads, buy a real GPS unit such as a Garmin 60CSX with on-the-ride replaceable batteries, pages that can be enabled or disabled and a larger display.
b) It still only has two fully configurable pages. ( the Garmin 205/305 and 605/705 have a lot of useful data and there are probably 15 fields that you would want to display )
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