Garmin's Touring bike computers have been winning favour with anyone who wants easy navigation and round-trip routing, whether you ride on-road or off. Now sitting top of the tree is the Garmin Edge Explore 1000, which adds smartphone notifications, limited ANT+ support, and incident detection for telling loved ones if you've had a crash.
If you're able to get lost in an igloo (guilty) but also want to monitor heart rate and power data, this could be the Garmin for you. I’ve been riding it for the last couple of months on a wide range of routes, and have found it delivers on many of its promises. I particularly like the ‘Create a route’ feature, where you can specify the distance you want to cover and it’ll serve up three different rider-friendly options.
Garmin Edge Explore 1000 appearance
No getting away from this, it’s a large unit. That’s because it has the same chassis as the performance-oriented Edge 1000, similar in size to an iPhone 4. There's a whopping 3in colour touchscreen, with two buttons on the front below the screen (for 'start/top recording' and 'set a new lap'), and a power on/off button along the edge of the left side, near the top. The unit itself is 5.8cm (2.2in) wide by 11.2in (4.4in) tall, and 2cm (0.8in) thick.
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The only way to distinguish it from the Edge 1000 is that the Explore 1000 comes in white, while its big brother comes in black. I prefer the black, personally – I’m a bit tired of seeing consumer electronics in Apple-aping white.
Turn it over and you'll see a custom micro-USB port for charging and transferring data, and recessed within the bottom edge there's a Micro-SD slot for swapping in new maps. Both are protected by rubber covers that keep out rain, dust and muck. Our unit came preloaded with cycling-specific maps for Europe, both on-road and off-road, including lots of waypoints.
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