Garmin Edge 1040, GPS Bike Computer, On and Off-Road, Spot-On Accuracy, Long-Lasting Battery

Easy to use, bright screen, long battery life. This was a nice upgrade from my edge 520. Lots of neat little features and it works really well with all of my other ant plus devices

Works great. I can see the display even in the bright sun, wearing sunglasses. The GPS is on point, the battery runs for several rides. I am very happy I opted for 1040 and not 1030 model.

The battery life is insane. Unless you're doing very long days in the backcountry off-road and away from any charging opportunities, the solar is a complete waste. I get over 2 weeks of training at ~300mi/wk (road/gravel) out of one charge and even after all that the battery will still be at 30%, more than enough for a couple centuries. After a year or nearly daily use I have noticed no loss of capacity.Easy to navigate, the monochrome LCD data screens are perfect...no wasting energy on colors, graphics, or animations no one needs. The screen is massive and easy to see but the unit is quite thin making for a minimal profile.Even in hard rain it's rare to get false input on the touch screen.This puts wahoo's sad button-only interface and karoo's 'barely can get through one ride' battery life to shame.

I've been using Garmin cycling computers for a while and this newest version does not disappoint. It's Garmin's flagship device and it does everything.The 1040 is a departure with a new OS and a new UI that's familiar yet solves a lot of the problems in the old one.Battery life is crazy good and most rides only drain the battery 5-10%Comes with a good mounting kit that's sturdy and looks good.I have it paired with a speed sensor, cadence sensor, heart rate sensor, DI2 shifter, varia light/radar, and the garmin headlight. Everything syncs up and stays synced without a hitch.GPS reception is good and stays locked even in thick forest where I've had problems with older units.The new hill climbing features are awesome!

This cycling headset has some great features and is easy to use.

I had another bike computer, but it was hard to read and didn't cover all the needs i had for stats. This one works great for both bikes I use and it also works for my stationary bike as well. Glad I bought it and would recommend it for anyone else. Easy to set up and reads well while riding. Great battery life.

I can’t find anything negative to say about this cycling computer. It holds a charge for weeks and collects all the data I could ask for and more. The turn by turn directions are clear and helpful. No regrets with this purchase. My only complaint is that I didn’t buy one sooner.

Given the price you would think it would scroll smoothly in menus but it does not. Given how long Garmin devices have been around you would think sensor integration would work smoothly as well. Instead you've got an over priced tiny cell phone for a lot of money.The initial pairing to my phone was buggy in that it failed and I just had to move forward with the setup then retry. Second attempt worked.Trying to do simple things like replace default data fields on a layout with something more useful results in it undoing the change you make.Things like the weather says it's waiting for my phone to be connected while saying it is connected to my phone and interacting with it (showing notifications) also is common.Controlling your devices with it was another thing I was looking forward to. I have a Garmin Varia radar. It likes to not be able to control its setting and if I switch the light mode on the device the 1040 says "No, that's not what you wanted." So even Garmin to Garmin the integrations are wonky.Adding things like a heart rate monitor and power meters wants to immediately add a new data page for just that sensor and the weird enumeration of different pages (5-a, 5-b) are ONLY data about that sensor. Nothing cool like "Hey, you have the unit and power meter and now a heart rate? Let's give you a page with all of that! Or at least these two sensors!" Nope, just a page maybe half filled with 2 or 3 readouts from that sensor that you get to remove or reconfigure later (not when you're bored on your phone, only when the two are connected mind you.).Starting up a ride to get a warm up then starting Garmins own built in training isn't smooth at all. You you have to end your ride, go from the home, hope that it actually will take you to the training regimen for the day and not the calendar, then you can get in to start it. This should be something you can do dead simple and from one tap without going into submenus from the home page at least. I can't be the only rider that wants to ride a bit before they train.The 1040 from what I've read too was such a "redesign" that it's not backported to the previous units like the 1030 plus. Even though it looked like font and icon sizing. Popups that take up 1/3rd of the screen like notifying you that it is sending your LiveRide or whatever it's called is obnoxious and you need to tap to dismiss the big dumb message.The Garmin Connect app is kinda dumb too. You can't work on data pages on your phone then sync it up with the unit. Both must be on and connected to do stuff like that. This is a programming challenge from 20 years ago.The good things are: the map looks fine? It's easy to read. The screen isn't too glarey in the sun but it can reflect cause it is outdoors and shiny glass. It has good battery life.I can't say I've ever spent so much money on something so unimpressive that is essentially an overpriced phone from 10 years ago that has reportedly great GPS/etc. antennas and a fancy bluetooth antenna that can get the stupid Ant+ that bikes love to use that is finally being phased out to "Oh maybe bluetooth and ant+" like the Speedplay PowerLink and Polar H10.9/30/2022 UpdateWhen riding later in the day under somewhat harsh shadows the underlight is not bright enough. Around 4 or 5pm with only my own shadow cast across the screen, even with brightness turned all the way up it is hard to read.As many have said the menu system takes some "learning". While the menus are not my favorite what is hard is that you need to go 3 or more pages deep to finally get to what you want to adjust. You then have to back out of each menu. This means you're sometimes 5 or more pages deep while riding and have to keep pushing the back button on the screen.On screen buttons to dismiss or go back are quite finicky. You can touch it and you'll see it register but you might not have touched it for long enough. This is super annoying when you're riding and trying to clear the popups that take up about 1/3rd or more of the screen cause it means your hands are off the steering.In general the UI was seemingly made by angry backend engineers that want cyclists to crash. There's no good design or user experience language. Only certain things are swipes while most is taps which isn't that responsive.The different "profiles" (road, trainer, tour, build your own) are mildly helpful. You can't copy a data sheet from one profile to another. There is no naming. And you can't pair certain sensors only to a certain profile. For example, on "Road" I only care about my lights, power meter, heart rate monitor, and not my trainer. On "Trainer" I don't want to connect to my lights, my power meter is through my trainer and not my pedals, and my heart rate monitor. The Edge just always tries to connect to everything. The most it will do is go "Oh in this profile, no lights and GPS is off or at a less precise level." and some alerts.Two updates ago they added a second alert if you're training in a zone and your power is outside of the zone. Originally there was one popup that said "Your power is too high" or "Your power is too low" with the range you should be in for the zone. Now you get that popup and chime then a second chime and popup that just says "Try to stay in the zone". You can turn off all alerts for staying in your zone but not all of them. These only show up if you're on any screen throughout the entire system besides the training data screen. So if you're trying to quickly adjust a menu option while riding you are constantly blocked by repeated popups. Or if you want to look at a custom data screen because the training data screen has only 2 customizable data points to show you will have the bottom 1/3rd or so filled with prompts that you can not close out.The built in training plans are quite limited. There are 6. Centry, Gran Fondo, Metric Century, Race, Time Trial, and Mountain Biking. They all say they require a heart rate monitor and a power meter but at least in the Metric Century it doesn't seem to care much about your heart rate for the training itself. It's just "stay in a power zone". It also doesn't have you take the built in FTP test and does not have you take a training day to re-test. All these plans are 6 to 30 weeks so you should be re-testing your FTP in this time.Part of why I went with a garmin over a competitor was I knew it had built in training programs. But Garmin's own site doesn't say what all they are and neither did any reviews. They're not that cool and nothing like "Build up your FTP" or "Increase VO2MAX". It's just "Do you want to ride far?".I think there is some other training thing you can perhaps have you create, but I have not tried that yet. Although in poking around the garmin connect website it might just be a workout you create yourself which is now things like TrainingPeaks load workouts into your Garmin.Some of the health metrics are a sham. It says to get these measurements you have to have a garmin heart rate monitor for things like Lactic Threshold Test. There's no reason for this locked in as there is nothing magical about a garmin heart rate monitor.The garmin also can not read from Apple Health, only write. So if you do outside exercise like running, weight training, or sleeping, have fun manually entering that.You can use the auto FTP but it gets a bit zealous. If you go on unscheduled rides and record it, and say you try and push yourself harder or do some sprints it will then think you have a way higher FTP than a test. It kept jumping me up 50 watts or more on my FTP and so it would have me do an hour plus ride with a bunch of sprints in there but then ended with a 20 minute sprint which I could not keep up with because my FTP isn't as good as it thinks.Also updates seem to wildly toggle things. The first real update (when I first got it, of course it updated) a month or so after I got this it switched my FTP model from 7 zones to this other weird named one I had never heard of (there are only two FTP models you can select from). When I switched it back to 7 zones it also messed with the % of FTP in my upper zones so that the upper end of zone 6 was 2,222% of my FTP and zone 7 was 2,222% to 2,222% of my FTP. I discovered this while training one day because it expected me to ride at 4,000 watts.As of the most recent update 14.50 and iOS 16.0.2 it has lost full data connectivity unless I think I open the Garmin Connect app on my phone. It's only been a few days. I get my text messages popping up, but things like weather and Live Connect and anything else, it just says "waiting on phone" or "waiting on data". I've tried removing my phone from the Garmin and my Garmin from my phone. Rechecked all the settings in iOS and checked them off and on to see if that'll work. But nope it just does not get full data anymore.This thing is also so bad it will break your attached devices. I noticed my Bontrager Ion 200 light kept reporting that it was 50% battery. I'd plug it in and it'd flash the red light indicating the battery was around that level only to turn green within 10 or so minutes. It turns out a Garmin Edge corrupt your light and you need to clear your lights' connection and remove it from your Garmin to get it to accurately understand its own battery level again. Search "Bontrager Flare RT battery bug" and you'll see this 2 year old bug is still around.Every few weeks too, while the app and the garmin connect website will show your training schedule and what you have completed, the unit will forget that you completed that training. It will then nag you incessantly that you missed a scheduled training and if you want to do it. Even when you're in the middle of starting the correct days training. Sometimes though it doesn't even load up the expected training. Power it off and back on and it will usually be correct then.The screen shots they show of the screen make it look super crisp. It does not look that good and the colors are not that over saturated. It's not that high res or bold.