Product Description

Garmin GPS Edge 305 CAD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28957 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin
• Model: Edge 305 (Cadence)
• Released on: 2006-05-05
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .2 pounds

Customer Reviews

Know what you're getting ...
Be aware of what you're buying if you get a Edge 305. Yes it uses GPS, but it's not a satnav. There are ways of getting it to do some navigation for you (various websites exist to help you in this goal), but mostly it's a data logging cycle computer that happens to use GPS to get it's speed / distance figures.

If you're not interested in the data logging, then it's probably *way* over priced! However if you are, then it's great. Press start/stop at the beginning of your ride, press lap at the bottom the mountain and again at the top and bottom and then start/stop when you finish. The recording average speed, max speed, average & maximum cadence & heart rate (if you have those sensors) not only for the entire ride but also for each segment.

Probably of most use for either "gadget geeks" or people with several/many bikes.

Don't bother buying the Garmin Edge 305
Issues with this product:

Soon after purchasing it stopped acquiring satellites. The solution was to download software from Garmin and complteley reset the device prompting the question of why wasn't it upto date when sold.

Battery life is well short of the advertised 12 hours and seems to be declining rapidly. It's currently about 4 hours.

The altimeter gives highly variable readings when being reset.

The instruction booklet is outof the dark ages - anyone selling a mobile phone with such a booklet would be laughed out of court.