Hey everyone welcome to the channel!
We're all about to start riding outside
and what better way to brag about those first rides than by recording them on your GPS and sharing them online.
Devices like these Garmin, the Wahoo the Hammerhead they're pretty pricey these days
if you can find them, so I'm wondering if we can use a cheaper device like this igs320
is this good enough let's take a closer look together!
And I don't know about you guys but I have to admit that as of late
I got to appreciate long battery life.
That's why we use this Wahoo TICKR FIT HR monitor,
we love this little BRYTON Rider for that same reason.
Garmin 130 Plus that I reviewed by the way
they say 12 hours you don't get 12 hours maybe 10?About 3 rides.
If you look at the Garmin Edge 530 that I'm usually using about 20 hours battery time and I can attest to that,
but compared to all those, guess what,
this little iGS320 comes up to 72 hours which is pretty impressive!
Otherwise we have navigation with all 5 GPS positioning systems available in the world today that's pretty cool as well,
connectivity with ANT+ sensors,
you have an USB Type-C connector for charging and this is weatherproof.
As for display this is a 2.4 inch diameter screen.
Inside the box you're gonna get the little unit... ta-da!
And here underneath, the cable and a mount and a tiny manual.
If you look at this little guy, it has this squarely shape but I like it that is not too tall like the Wahoo.
This is very similar to the other units that i have in front of you here
and interestingly the only two inputs that you have are here at the bottom so you have two buttons
in between you have a lanyard attachment very similar to what Garmin does
but that little lanyard is not provided with the unit.
And here you have the mount.
You also have the charging port, you uncover it by just peeling that rubber off.
Mount, again, is very similar to a Garmin mount that you see here installed on my handlebar
and if I am to try and use it...
yeah it works just fine, again this is a Garmin mount or a Garmin like amount that is provided with the unit.
I usually don't spend much time on the manual. Here, at the very beginning it's gonna tell you
what the two buttons do given that these two buttons are multifunctional
and this might not be that intuitive for all of us.
Just press on the left hand button the unit turns right on and here we go
It's a black and white unit, a quite big display,
there is no fancy setups on this unit ,you cannot really set up or change the fields that you see here on the screen, you have
3 pages that the unit can display, you have a bluetooth connection to the phone
and as you continue on you're gonna see information from the sensors.
At this point the unit is ready to go ,there's no other setup necessary.
However the fields on the screen are gonna change if you connect various sensors to it.
And you can see some of the sensors available some of them are dual, ANT+ and Bluetooth.
By connecting this unit to your phone though there's a few other things that you can set up.
So go to your app store, download the app, and you can fairly easily add your device to it
Connect to it and here's your device you have a lot of information here.
One of them is even routes that you can save on the unit, you see this little loop that I have created
and believe it or not you get turn-by-turn navigation here in this little window.
You even have a firmware update option for this and a few other settings I'll let you guys play with those.
Most importantly for me is here, you can actually link this to other programs
both Strava and TrainingPeaks as options for connecting this device.
All in all pretty easy to set up and it's pretty cool how the display changes as you're adding different uh sensors to it,
But with all that being said why don't we take this outside see how it works!
On the trail...
this could be the perfect companion if you're not looking for anything fancy
it definitely records everything you might be interested in, It's pretty nice and big.
Under intense sunlight no problem
actually this one is very contrasty in the sun.
Garmin is not bad but this is very good, very easy to read.
If you do a lot of singletrack out in the woods, it's probably advisable to use it with a speed sensor on your wheel
because otherwise the distance that is shown here it might not be as accurate.
That's kind of normal when you're just recording the GPS signal under the canopy
despite the fact that this guy connects to all 5 GPS services available in the world today.
Another thing that I noticed is that this little guy could go on slow climb, low speed switchbacks
it might go into PAUSE by itself thinking that you've stopped
Whereas if you have a speed sensor
it will continue giving it good rolling signal so
One more reason to get that speed sensor used
if you're doing a lot of singletrack.
All in all a very usable small little GPS computer that would definitely save your phone,
you get that 72 hours of battery life which is awesome
you get the basic functionality, basic sensors connected to it,
if you don't need training, if you don't want to do intervals or things like that
this can be just the perfect device for that type of scenario.
And for less than 100 bucks you will get a device that at least for our use would be very beneficial.
So what do you guys use?
Do you use one of the fancy Garmins, Wahoos, or more expensive GPS computers?
Would you be interested in something like this?
Let me know in the comments below.
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And until next time hope to see you guys on the trails.
Cheers guys, cheers!