good morning YouTube so this is my Garmin Edge 800 Mike GPS or bike computer I think I purchased this
in 2010 and it's still working just fine original battery so one thing I wanted to do was go through
the various display screens that I have on here I guess they call these timer pages so
one one reason for doing this video is I want to document what I have here because about the only
problem I've had with this unit is every once in a while it changes one of these parameters
or variables that are displayed so it's important that you document what you have because they might
change this is the main screen you come to when you first turn the unit on and so anyway what I
have on this main screen I've got 10 data fields which is the most you can have on a single screen
so here I've got the distance that I've written I've got my current speed I've got the elapsed
time since I started writing time of day I've got a calorie counter here I've got my heading here's
the GPS accuracy my current elevation the pedaling cadence and my heart rate zone which is a number
like 0 through 5 and then this this is my second screen so it's very similar to the first one I
have my speed I've got an odometer reading there I've got the distance ridden and this
field should be temperature somehow it changed to distance to destination which only works if
you're navigating someplace and then again I have the time I have my vertical ascent rate where I
have feet per hour you can also select meters per hour different values but that gives you a
kind of an idea how fast you're going uphill or gaining elevation I can keep track of the grade
this will show 5% 10% 12% I've got the elevation displayed this is what I do for climbing I've got
those three numbers and then I've got my cadence and heart rate zone just like the other screen now
this is my third screen I'll use this one a lot of times on the road when I'm climbing I've got
the vertical ascent the grade the distance ridden up the grade and then my heart rate so like I say
I'll use this one on road climbs and then this one I use a lot on descents especially and in
the open space preserves in the various county parks that I go riding in because they have a
speed limit 15 mile per hour and they have Rangers with radar guns that will write you a $400 ticket
if they catch you going over the speed limit so I do this screen that's got one two three four
data fields the speed is really big right there I also put my heart rate on there the elevation and
the grade and this is mainly my downhill screen so riding off-road going downhill and then this
is kind of a similar one over here I'm just trying out different combinations of data fields you can
have quite a few of these screens this one has speed elevation and distance just real basic and
one of the reasons for having the larger display here is one so you can see it easier here too like
one of these screens like if you go back here your speed is is a tiny little number like that
where if you go over here the speed is really big and if you're riding downhill and your handlebars
are shaking and the GPS is shaking you need to be able to see that number so that you can slow
down and avoid a ticket and then this is this is kind of one of their summary screens it gives you
the speed and the distance and then this gives you your average speed over the last so many
segments I think it's every five miles is the default then here is my map display so I've got
the open source topo maps loaded in here so if you're riding along for instance looking for a
particular location like geocaches will show up on this map as a waypoint so if you're riding along
the trail you can zoom in or out and see where you're going so I have the mapping display and
then oh this shows your elevation profiles so this one you can look back and it'll show you
kind of a elevation cross section you went up you went down and then back to the main screen so like
I said I've had problems with some of these data fields changing one problem I tracked down a cause
so sometimes I would use this GPS walking or so I would start the timer and I would put this in
my pocket and apparently there'd be enough random clicks on the touchscreen to go in and change a
parameter and I'll show you how complicated that is it's pretty hard but it'll go in and change one
of these numbers so that's why it's important to document what you have here because it can
change so to fix the random touchscreen issue if you have this in your pocket go over here and just
do a short click on the power button if you do a short click it'll give you your current bike
profile that you have loaded so I have profiles for my different bicycles that way it keeps track
of mileage for each bike and it pairs up with the cadence and speed sensor on each bike but
to prevent the random touchscreen things you can go in here and lock the screen and now nothing
works so you can click you know nothing nothing can get changed until you go back here and unlock
so that seems to prevent the random clicking in your pocket syndrome but the other problem I had
once just recently and that caused this thing to change was I was running the GPS I got the
low battery warning I plugged in my power bank to charge the unit up and I didn't notice until later
this temperature variable here changed to distance to go so I need to change this back today before I
go out on a ride so this is how you change it you have to go to menu and you go to settings and you
go to bike settings training pages and then you go timer pages and then user-defined this is where
you set up your pages so I've got page 1 with 10 items page 2 with 10 3 4 and 5 have four and
three items and my problem is on page two and this is where you select how many items so I want ten
and then I believe you click there and select the field and you have to go down let's see general
yeah temperature that's what I want so there we go now I've got temperature in there like I said this
is my climbing screen the temperature is up there I like to back off not push my heart rate quite as
high and not work as hard if it's cooler I can push a little bit harder because I don't have
to worry about overheating so right there I've changed it I go X and then you back out it out
yeah and back out back out you can see how many clicks it took to change one of those displays
and that can happen randomly in your pocket if you don't lock the screen using the power button there
so now I've got my temperature fixed and I'm ready to go out on a ride that's how you can set up all
these screens you really want to give some thought to what you have displayed there you're gonna
be looking at this data quite a bit when you're riding and you should have some fairly useful data
shown you've got multiple screens so you might as well take advantage of those and like I say I use
this one a lot on the road I use this one a lot for climbing out in mountains on the dirt tracks
and fire roads that's my main climbing screen on the road and then I'll use either this one
or this one for descending when I'm worried about Rangers with radar guns and the only thing I wish
Garmin would do is let me program a beat that if I go over 15 miles an hour beep and let me
know so that I can slow down I've requested that of Garmin but I guess where they're located out
in the Midwest they don't have to worry about that but out here $400 ticket if you're going
over the speed limit 15 miles an hour and you could easily pay for one of these with a $400
or ticket so having that screen I flipped this screen on whenever I go downhill I have it as
big as possible so I can see the mile-per-hour and ride the brakes those Rangers they hide and just
like on the road they've got speed traps I know where most of them are but anyway hopefully that's
a help if anybody has any other questions on how I use this GPS post up in the comment section
below and I'll put some other videos over here on the left side and as always thanks for watching