Garmin Edge 1030 – Unboxing…well a box (2/3)

Hey it’s a 1030 Edge box. What does it tell us? Nothing new but here we go again..

• 20 hours battery (cool)
• navigation alerts.
• Performance metrics (as per F5)
• Rider to rider messaging – handy when you are cycling along really close to fast moving cars.
• Group Track – yeah, we knew that

HEADS UP: Headline Specs and FIRST OPINION here

• Incident detection – alert your partner to start worrying.
• Strava live segments – is this new? ….no.
• Trendline popularity routing – aka get routed via the nearest cycle lane.
• Bundle and non-bundle version
• Comes with out-front mount and standard mount (2…blimey!!)
• Cadence sensor, speed sensor, premium HRM (not a sub-standard HRM…a premium one)
• Pre-loaded map. Really? On a high-end Edge? That’s a surprise…..err
• touchscreen….oh dear
• nearly forgot. it looks like this
• Excited? If it’s all CPUd up and over-powered then, yes. otherwise, no.

Source: @prestachuk…probably works for Garmin in some way. Sigh. You don’t get 2 lots of Edge 1030 goodness by working for Exxon Mobil or the Government.

Here’s a picture of a MIO CYCLO 505HC from about 20 years ago. It’ll look like that…pretty much