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today we're going to be looking at the
Bryton Rider 320
cycling GPS computer.
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So what Bryton has done is they've really
taken over that niche for
more affordable but powerful
computers.
With the 320 this is one of their
more affordable options that brings a
lot of the high-end features
to a much lower price point. Now in terms
of packaging really small,
this is actually the bundle but it's
almost hard to believe because the box
is so small.
I'll go ahead and take it out and while
I do that we'll go over the specs.
It's available in two versions you can
get just the head unit
for $120 or you can get the
bundle which includes the heartrate
monitor
as well as a cadence sensor for $180
dollars so pretty well priced.
These have a 2.3 inch black and white
display
non-touch screen the big thing with the
320
compared to say the 420 Bryton model is
you get no mapping feature.
You get all the standard
sensors: power meter
another kind of connectivity but no
mapping.
Now in terms of gps quality they
have the full 5 gps connectivity so this
should
work worldwide. You get 72 functions
which is kind of ridiculous to be honest
so everything from temperature to
altitude to speed average, speed to power
meter,
even down to left and right pedal.
It's pretty impressive how many options
they have.
One of the big advantages of running
a dedicated cycling computer is that the
battery life is really high. This is
a 35 hour battery life.
Way more than you can ever get by
mounting your cell phone.
Now inside the box what we get is the
head unit itself,
it looks pretty good you can see a
glossy screen and
fairly thin. It uses the garmin mount
although they've
squared it off for some reason but it
still fits pretty well on any Garmin
style mount.
You get a stem mount with a bunch of
options here with the little
rubber rings. It's easy to use to put on
your stem.
I do recommend looking at the out in
front mount as Bryton offers though. You also
get the heart rate monitor here if I
pop this out of here. What's nice
about the heart rate monitor is actually
detachable from the strap itself so as
this becomes sweaty
you can easily detach the sensor to wash it. This is
the sensor portion
with a removable battery from the actual
strap so definitely a nice feature.
You get the cadence sensor which you
just attach to your crank arm
so really simple again a whole bunch of
options for
mounting. Speed is determined from the GPS
sensor
or you can buy a separate speed sensor.
Now let's take a look at the weight of
the
Rider 320. Just the head unit by
itself
comes in at 68 grams so quite light.
The heartrate monitor with the strap
comes in at 44 grams
and then the cadence sensor with two of
the rubber
mounting straps will come in at 12 grams
so fairly light overall.
With this no wires and you don't
need the speed sensor so
definitely a sleek package.
Now let's take a look at the fit and
finish of the Rider 320.
They advertise this as a simple but
powerful GPS and it's designed for both
amateurs and experts
by providing a lot of high-end features
with a very simple interface.
Now overall dimension wise is 2.3 inches
so
fairly large black and white. It's not as
nice as your cell phone obviously but
pretty nice clarity
you get the Bryton logo on top and
a four button interface. You get
two orange buttons here
the bottom left one is a page down so you can
cycle through pages or go down on the
menu.
Then you have an ok button and a lap
button on the bottom right,
They're both really easy to click as
they have nice texture to them
on the back you have two additional
buttons. These are labeled here
one of them is a power button and the
back light
while the other one is a pause or stop
lap
or a return. So if you have a menu open
you can actually
go into the menu or press it again to
exit the menu. It's fairly simple to use
and we'll go into the setup a little bit
later. It uses a garmin mount
you can see it's kind of squared off,
I'm not sure why they did that.
Maybe it's a patent issue but it fits
any standard garmin mount.
You don't get the satisfying click when
you put it in
as it just gets a little more friction
but I found that once you get close to
center it gets really high friction so
you can actually adjust it left to right
slightly
and it works out pretty well. It doesn't
rattle or jitter on the mount
it's also USB rechargeable so you can
see here micro usb
pretty standard with 35 hour runtime you
shouldn't have to charge this very often.
You will need to plug it in
to connect it to the Bryton app to
pull data and sync it with any
training or strava type apps.
The heartrate monitor is also really
nice, I like the strap it feels really
elastic and soft
and I think the best part is the way
they've designed the attachment
using these little button interfaces. It
makes it really easy to use this
and then easily take it off to wash the
strap
as this is against your chest it gets
usually pretty nasty.
The hook interface is also quite
nice so you can see put it in there
as well as adjust the strap mechanism so
really quick to take on and off.
The cadence monitor is another really
simple device
it just uses little hooks with rubber
straps and there's plenty of rubber
straps
with the packaging to get the right fit.
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Now lets set up the Bryton 320. The best
thing about the 320 is pretty
straightforward to set up.
First option is language, so I'll pick english
and say yes. Then you pick the units
I'll go ahead and do pounds and miles
and that's it for initial setup so
you're ready to go at this point.
Once it launches up you have a
automatically determined
data grid and it'll automatically get
speed from GPS once it's connected.
Here's your battery status in the top
right corner
and the GPS status
and as i said you have a auto-generated
field
so you have a couple of field visible. You
have your speed, altitude,
ride time, cadence, distance
and everything's pretty clear and easy to
read. You can see the display isn't
a 4k display or anything. It's
still a black and white but it has a
good contrast and actually adjustable as
well.
Let's go ahead and set up the sensor
since we have the bundle.
Now this is where the button interface
is a little bit non-intuitive
the back button on the left is to open a
menu
the bottom left here is to go down on
the menu. Wo we'll go to settings
press ok. We'll go to sensors
and we're going to go connect them. I
have the heartrate monitor
so i'm going to click ok for more to scan for it.
We'll see if it picks it up picked
it up and now you can actually fill in
some things like the
max heartrate.
So now we're fully set up and
it'll actually show which heart rate
zone you're on, percent of FTP.
It's a lot of nice statistics for when
you're riding.
Let's go ahead and set up the other
sensor.
We'll navigate back to settings
go to sensors. You have the cadence
and then simply press more ok on that ok
on rescan to
see if it picks it up. I'll rotate the crank a
little bit
and that's it so you get the id and
you're connected.
You can actually turn them off too if
you want to
attach a different one so that's it. Now
we have both sensors connected
let's go back to the main menu so the
great thing about this is
really simple menu navigation. Cycling is
your data screen,
view history is to look at your ride,
settings are the
sound settings and display settings such as the
contrast.
Then you actually have bike profile
this is pretty cool.
If you go down to bike you can pick
which bike you want
this is where use the back the two
left buttons go up and down.
You can have up to two bikes and with
each bike you can have individual
sensors a great way to share
the same head unit on different bikes if
you have a commuter
or a mountain bike and a road bike. It's
a great way to easily connect between
the two without having to
re-pair sensors. One annoying thing is once
you're in a menu like this
you can't actually get out the return
button is actually the up button
so you have to pick one.
Now let's go ahead and set up a data
screen
with the button interface it is a little
bit clunky. We'll go to settings
rider configuration data page so you get
up to eight pages. By default
it's in auto mode. I'm
going to click ok
now you can go up so we can do a manual
setting
press ok on that
go data page. You can have up to five
data pages
you can have them on or off. Let's go
ahead and configure one to show you the
process, within each page you can have up
to eight items so quite a lot.
Let's show you what that looks like,
that's eight so with eight you can pick
individual items in each.
Everything from speed, distance, heartrate,
power to
left and right pedals so really detailed.
There are upto 80
or more data fields, you can even do
sunrise and sunset.
The lap functionality is really nice too
you can see the average heart rate on
the last lap
average speed so you can use that to do
live segments
if you know a segment and you want to
see your progress.
I like to do a little bit less than
eight field, eight is a bit much.
So let's go with six so you have a
little bit bigger display
and then when you want to pick an item
there's different categories you have
speed
time
distance and altitude.
that's the best part about GPS you can
actually get percent grade,
current altitude, altitude gain, altitude
lost. There is also
energy and that's based on some of the
user profiles you put in there. There is
temperature it's built in a barometer in
here which is nice. You have the heart
rate
and as i said you can do percent ftp,
different heart rate zones
a lot of options like cadence. You can see
your average cadence
the lap cadence. With power there's
about 28 options in here if I click ok
you can see once you pick one there's a
ridiculous amount.
Everything from normalized power, different averaging
windows
and even down left pedal right pedal.
It's pretty clunky to do this
but thankfully you
can use the app to set this all up which
is a little bit easier to use since you
have a touch screen.
So go ahead and pick one since I can't
get out of the menu.
You can also add lap pages and that's a
nice way to
since you can't do live segments like
say with Strave integration.
You can actually look at your last
average speed,
last distance so if you're doing
intervals or you have a segment you know
you can start the lapping function
pretty easily.
The backlight on this is also pretty
strong so go back to the main screen
you can manually turn it on here and you
can see now it's on.
You can actually change the settings
of how it turns off by default you can
have it not turn off
or you can have a couple of time delay
options for it to turn off.
Let me show you that configuration so
you go down to settings,
general
you've seen turn off files you can see
how much memory you have
go to system and you can adjust the
brightness which is an interesting
feature you don't typically see.
The annoying thing is you see I
can't go up in the menu it can only go
down
so you have to loop all the way around.
Automatic backlight uses the sunrise
and sunset time
to automatically adjust the duration or
you can manually do it.
If i go back in here you can have it
never turn off so manually once you turn
it on it'll stay on
or you can have a couple minutes down
to seconds.
So do five seconds and now you can see
if I have it on within five seconds
it'll turn off
when it's idle so really easy to set up.
You don't have any of the training
functionality
so you only have the data page view a
couple settings and you can do the auto
syncing through the app
to automatically upload your data
without ever having to take it off your
computer manually.
Now let's check out the Bryton app
with the app you're able to do a lot of
the
configuration and data syncing
automatically.
Connecting your device is really simple
you download the app you have the GPS on
and you
enable bluetooth. Once you're connected
you can see you have a bunch of options
you can auto sync tracks that's a really
nice feature so when you're done working
out
you can automatically link it to your
Strava account or any other
training program automatically. You can
also configure the display screen and
that's some feature
it's one of the features I really like
as the bun interface is pretty clumsy.
Here you can use your touch screen
and the simple dial interface of Android
or Apple
to quickly select all the data fields.
You can turn on and off
pages and adjust lap pages.
You're also able to set up notifications
through here which is another nice
feature
so if you get an email or text message
it can pop up on your screen
and notify you. Also with the Bryton
active app even though it doesn't have a
great rating
at least on the Google Play store it has
a lot of features such as training
and I'll show calendar with events. With
the Bryton 320
you can't really use much of those
because when you try to upload an
interval workout it's not supported.
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Now let's get the GPS on the road when
you first power it up. It has to connect
to the GPS signals. This takes about 10
to 40 seconds depending on where you are,
the icon on the top right corner will
update and your speed will then be
displayed
once it's connected you're ready to roll.
You can see once you have the
screen configured to your liking all the
data is displayed
really easy to read and with the
adjustable contrast you can really tune
it.
You can see here the glossy screen shows
some reflections that's slightly
annoying but
with the contrast of the screen it's not
that bad. Also it will remind you to
start a workout
if you start riding without having set
the
cycling active.
Now let's go over the pros and cons for
the Bryton 320.
What we like about the GPS is that it's
very affordable even with the bundle
price it's under 200 dollars
and really has all the same features
that the higher end units have
but at a much lower cost. It's also quick
and easy to set up
you don't have to go through a difficult
instruction manual or a lot of screens
to
get the sensors connected and get on the
road.
The display is also highly configurable
with eight pages and eight items per
page.
You can really configure it however you
want and have each page be
tuned for each type of workout. Some
of the cons is the fact that they use a
glossy screen
that results in a lot of reflections
especially when you're going through
trees or mixed terrain. Also with the
Bryton 320 you don't have any of the
training options or even basic intervals
which is something that's really nice to
have on the road. You can use the lap
functionality to mirror
that but you can't pre-program workouts.
Also the button interface takes a little
bit of practice especially with the
unlabeled
rear buttons you do have to recall what
they mean on the road.
Taking everything into account we would
give the Rider 320 GPS
a 9.2 out of 10. This is a really
affordable gps computer
with a lot of the more professional
features at a much lower price point.
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