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My wife has ordered a Garmin 530 from Wiggle, but is now trying to decide whether to bother keeping it.
She wants to use the Garmin to navigate to the start of linear routes on Trailforks. She’ll be using the Garmin in combo with her iphone. Our guess is that we’d highlight a Trailforks route on the phone, but wondered if it has to be on a preloaded ‘pick list’ of routes already in the Garmin(?).
I guess we’re missing something obvious, but it seems a bit of a clunky way to navigate.
Does anyone on here use their Garmin like this, or know if it’s possible to use it on the fly like this?
Any sensible advice would be welcome.
TIA
I have this exact set up and it’s very good. Explore local trails on the iPad, see which route incorporates said trail, save to wishlist, open Garmin Connect on iPhone, sync and click ride. It’ll guide you to the start of the trail then give you prompts as you ride.
Couple of glitches where it’ll ask you to randomly do a uturn but you learn that it’s trying to work out where you are. This would be my only criticism.
I’ve used it in Scotland, Wales, England, France, Italy, Spain &Portugal over the last 18 months.
Just to add that when you stop on a ride it’ll tell you which trail you’re on automatically, plus it’ll let you know how many climbs you’ll be doing as well as their length & gradient. Very handy when you’ve not ridden there before. I was able to tell my partner that we were on the last climb of the day with 2 miles and 900ft of climbing left to do.
I rode the trails in Scolty woods yesterday having never been there before, and followed a 15 mile ride with 2500ft of climbing without missing a turn.
You say ‘on the fly’ so I guess looking for a specific trail during a ride. For this I just use the Edge 530 as the Trailforks map is built in so I can either see where the trail is on the ‘Forksight’ map when I’m stopped and find my way to the start or use ‘navigate to’ to get there. If you want to find the trail on a phone to then be selectable on the Garmin you need the Trailforks IQ app.
If it’s Strava segments you are looking for the easiest way I found was to tag them as live segments but since Strava decided not to allow even slightly downhill live segments that is useless and searching for Strava segments is an impossible mess
Ah, nice one, thanks for the info. That sounds just what we’re looking for, and good to know that it also works well on the continent.