- We are going tech heavy for this week's GC-unboxing.
Si very recently had a first ride with this,
the brand new Sigma ROX 12.0 GPS Unit.
And now you have a chance to get your hands on one.
In fact, two of you do because we got
two of these bad boys to give away.
As ever I'll be giving you details
on how to enter at the end of this video.
Firstly though I want to go through all the details
of this new unit and I'll have to do so at warp speed
because there are lots of features,
particularly when it comes to the mapping
and navigational side of things.
Off the shelf you have two options
if you're going to purchase one of these.
There is the basic set that includes of course the head unit
but also a mount up front and a GoPro adapter too.
And then there is a sports set we've got
to give away on this unboxing
that includes what we've already mentioned
but on top of that a heart rate strap
and a cadence and speed sensor.
So without further ado,
let's take this thing out of it's box.
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Inside the box we have aforementioned Out Front Mount
and the aforementioned GoPro adaptor
and we have all of the charging and connecting cables
plus a couple of handlebar mounts there too.
There is the cadence and speed sensor
to fit onto your rear chainstay along with
the spoke magnet and all the fixing points.
And finally we have the Bluetooth
and app plus heart rate monitor strap.
But shall we get onto the main event,
it's the head unit itself.
In terms of size, this is at the higher end
of the on-bike GPS unit spectrum but that's to make way
for this large three inch color screen.
Also there's a large internal battery
which will power this thing for a full 16 hours,
40 hours in fact if you go for the low power mode option.
And there's also a pretty punchy
eight gigabytes of internal memory
which can be expanded by further 128 gigabytes
if you use a microSD card.
All the memory you need then to download all the maps
that you could possibly want for free.
That's right, for free and legally too.
More on that in just a few seconds.
First though I think we should see
this color screen by turning it on.
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In use this feels very much like using a smartphone.
There's a couple of good reasons for that,
firstly as you can see, it's a touchscreen,
but secondly it's based on an Android operating system.
As such, there are an array of different icons
and to navigate through them all you do
is swipe left or right or up or down.
Swipe up for a navigational menu,
swipe down for whole array of different setup options.
Along though with the touch screen,
there are also a number of different buttons,
six to be exact if you include
the on-off button here at the top.
There are buttons on the side here
so that you can swipe through the different pages
if you don't want to use the touch screen.
There's a start button here, a stop button here
and the all important home button
to get you back to the start.
Before we get too far ahead of ourselves though
one of the first things you want to do
after you turned this head unit on
is connect it to your WiFi.
That way you'll be able to chose auto-upload your riding
to various apps such as Commute and Strava et cetera.
It will then automatically sync your riding
to the Sigma Cloud and Data Center,
where you can do some in-depth analysis if you so choose to.
And if whatever reason you decide
that you need to connect to WiFi
whilst you're out on your bike all you need to really do
is set up your smartphone as a personal hotspot.
Now as I mentioned earlier the big thing with this device
is it's navigational properties and as I also said,
it uses free maps, open source street maps to be precise.
Which are incredibly detailed, not just with roads in fact
but also with trails too, perfect for if you're looking
to go off road occasionally.
Now the other important thing is
that open source street maps also include addresses
and points of interest, bike shops, yes,
cafés, yes, pubs, yes.
In total there are eight different ways
to navigate using this device
including the ones we've just mentioned.
So those traditional ones, such as co-ordinates
or specific address or the points of interest
that we've already looked at.
On top of that you could just look
at a previous ride that you've done
that will be stored here in the archive
or you could draw a route online
using Commute or Strava and just send it over
or finally you could use a magic trick, just draw one.
That's right you can draw route of your choice
just on the screen here and it'll then chose
the closest roads to what you've drawn,
press start and away you go.
You can also adjust the type of route
that this device plans for you
by using one of the sport profiles.
Inside it there are four preset profiles,
so road, mountain bike, cycling,
which is more your recreational cycling and indoor cycling
but if none of those suit you in particular
you can create as many custom profiles as you wish.
And on top of that, if you have a change of heart
in the middle of your ride
and you decide you want a change of scene,
you can simply stop, select one of the other profiles
and it will adjust the route for you.
So you decide you wanna go off road,
simply select mountain bike or one of your custom profiles
and it will take you off road for the rest of your ride.
And then on top the profiles there are also three
further options when it comes to the route.
You can take the recommended route or the shortest route,
which can be different as you well know, or the final option
which sounds the most enticing to me, the easiest route.
When you press start you'll be given
turn-by-turn navigation and it will even zoom in
to junctions when you need to change direction
even if normally you prefer to have
a much larger scale on the map.
Plenty of features then for the more adventurous amongst you
but I can also tell you that there are
a whole host of features for data nerds
and I know that there are plenty of us out there too.
Including indecently Tom Dumoulin Team Sunweb
who's chosen to use this very head unit for much of 2018.
So let's start with the basics when it comes to data.
We've already seen the heart rate strap, very simple
and it'll also of course pair up
to a power meter if you've got one of those
which opens up a whole load of different data fields.
The very obvious ones such as Power,
Average Power, et cetera and then some more in-depth ones
such as TSS, Intensity Factor, Normalized Power, et cetera.
Going even more in-depth, you've got Left-right Balance,
Pedal Smoothness and if you happen to be using a
Rotar Twin Power power meter,
it will show your OCA and OCP values.
Plenty to be getting on with then.
Also a whole host of different options
when it comes to data screens, 30 in total
and it's really easy to change all of those too.
So all you've got to do is press on one of the data fields
as it currently is, that will bring up a menu
at which point you'll be able to choose
whatever you want to go on that part of the screen.
And finally a feature that really caught my eye
is called workout mode, something I really wish I'd had
available to me when I was a full-time cyclist.
What it does, is it means that you can input your workout
into this device and it will then tell you
how hard you need to go, for how long,
at what point in your ride.
So no longer the need to write down your interval set
on a piece of paper and tape it to your stem
or even try to memorize all the intervals you need to do
because this thing will alert you at every possible moment.
Unfortunately this does mean
that you can no longer accidentally forget
to do that last really hard interval on the way home.
A great feature nonetheless.
I think you'll agree this thing has all the features
you could possibly need as any type of cyclist,
so I am sure you'd like to get your hands on this thing.
In order to do so, all you've got to do is find the link
that's in the description just below this video,
click on that and it'll take you through to the page
with all the details that you'll need to know
in order to enter and put yourself in with a chance.
I wish you the very best of luck with this
because I think you'll be very pleased
with this head unit if you get your hands on it.
Right then, if you would like to see Si's first look
at this thing you can do so by clicking just down here.