"Get away from the middle of the road with the Garmin Edge 800!"

The Loving Outdoors Lowdown

The Garmin Edge 800 combines the best of the Edge 500 and Edge 705 together with an advanced touch screen to create the ultimate cycling computer.

The super sleek touch screen design is extremely robust, doing away with buttons to offer improve waterproofing and easy cleaning. The 2.6 inch colour display gives a sharp easy-to-read image and can show up to 10 data options at once from a choice of more than 50 (including speed, time, distance, location, elevation and gradient) which can be selected with a quick swipe of the finger.

Any reservations over touch screen’s suitability for cycling GPS are put to bed with the Edge 800- it can’t be triggered by flying dirt and yet is sensitive enough to be operated by gloved hands- it’s one of the most sophisticated touchscreens currently available.

There's also a highly accurate barometric altimeter, a high sensitivity Hotfix receiver so you won't lose your signal going undercover, and a three axis compass.

Perhaps the Edge 800’s most exciting feature is its mapping capabilities which far outstrip those of any other device. Maps can be uploaded via the microSD card slot and a huge memory allows for hundreds of waypoints and detailed route information to be stored. Importing images from Garmin Birdseye allows you to view photographs of the terrain ahead. It also comes with a full European base map for basic road navigation.

For some Edge 800 users the fun will really start when you get off your bike. Hook the device up to Garmin Connect and you’ll be able to upload and analyse all your data and share routes, maps and best times with a global online community.

If staying in shape is you main aim the Edge 800’s many performance metrics will not disappoint. One of the best training features is Virtual Partner, a new features that pitches you against your best times or ideal goals in a race played out onscreen with Gameboy style avatars to bring a fun competitive dimension to solo training. Other training tools include Auto Lap and Auto Pause and there's the option of combining the Edge 800 with the ANT+ power meter, which measures the pedal power you produce. Of course, the ultimate test is to see if you can keep going longer than the Edge’s 15hr battery life!

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What You Get:

• Garmin Edge 800 Touchscreen GPS Cycling Computer

• Bike mount

• AC charger

• USB cable

• Quick start manual

• 12 Months Manufacturer's Warranty

What Garmin Say:

Make the most of every ride with Edge® 800 — the first touchscreen GPS bike computer. Providing navigation and performance monitoring, Edge 800 is ideal for touring, commuting, competitive cycling and mountain biking. It has a built-in basemap and tracks your distance, speed, location and ascent/descent. Use it with an ANT+™ heart rate monitor¹, speed/cadence sensor¹ or compatible power meter² for a finely tuned analysis of your ride.

At Your Fingertips

We designed this display to be rugged enough to stand up to the elements, yet sensitive enough to respond to the tap of your gloved hand. Switch training pages or pan and zoom the map with just a tap. The bright, sunlight-readable color display is easy to view in all lighting conditions. Just don’t let its good looks fool you — Edge 800 is waterproof to IPX7 standards and can withstand hard knocks and scrapes it might endure in mountain biking environments.

The aerodynamic Edge 800 has a carbon fiber look with either blue or white accents and attaches to the stem or handlebar of your bike with the low-profile mount. A quarter-turn mount design holds unit securely and lets you easily swap it between bikes using removable, reusable bands.

Know Where To Go

Whether your bike is a means of transportation or escape, having maps at your fingertips makes every journey easier and more fun. Edge 800 comes with a built-in basemap that shows major roads and cities, plus it’s compatible with our microSD™ cards packed with either street¹ or topo maps³. Select a destination and Edge 800 provides turn-by-turn navigation prompts on screen.

Edge 800 can also guide you along routes recorded by other cyclists. Explore our Garmin Connect™ site and choose from millions of rides uploaded by other users. Any activities you upload to your Edge 800 are stored as courses. You can follow the course with navigation prompts or, for a little competition, race it and try to beat previously set goals. You can also use Garmin’s free BaseCamp™ software or other applications to create a route, view elevation changes and other data, and then upload to Edge.

Edge 800 records your every move with a high-sensitivity GPS receiver that stays locked on, even under tree cover. The receiver features HotFix® satellite prediction to calculate your position faster, plus it has automatic time zone adjustment.

Data, Any Way You Want It

Edge 800 tracks a bunch of data from your ride and lets you customize up to three training pages so you can see as much or as little data as you want. The barometric altimeter provides extra-precise climb and descent data and records temperature changes.

If you’re a performance cyclist, you can pair Edge 800 with a third-party ANT+ enabled power meter to display your power output in watts as you ride. This valuable data shows you how hard you're working, regardless of conditions affecting your ride, so you can train smarter. Some versions of Edge 800 also come with a speed/cadence sensor and heart rate monitor.

Training Tools

Need a little motivation to push your performance? See how you measure up to the Virtual Partner® — a digital depiction of your goal speed vs. your speed in real-time. Other training features include detailed workout planning, Auto Pause®, Auto Lap® and Courses, which helps you compare successive rides over the same route.

The Techie Bit

Physical & Performance:

• Unit dimensions, WxHxD: 2" x 3.7" x 1" (5.1 x 9.3 x 2.5 cm)

• Display size, WxH: 1.4" x 2.2" (3.8 x 5.6 cm); 2.6" diag (6.6 cm)

• Display resolution, WxH: 160 x 240 pixels

• Display type: Colour Touchscreen

• Weight: 3.5 oz (98.0 g)

• Battery: rechargeable lithium-ion

• Battery life: 15 hours, typical

• Waterproof: yes (IPX7)

• GPS Enabled: Yes

• High-sensitivity receiver: yes

Maps & Memory:

• Basemap: yes

• Ability to add maps: yes

• Accepts data cards: microSD™ card

• Waypoints/favorites/locations: 200

• Routes: Limited by memory space available

• Lap history: 1000 laps

Features:

• Heart rate monitor: No

• Bike speed/cadence sensor: No

• Foot pod: no

• Barometric altimeter: yes

• Automatic sync (automatically transfers data to your computer): no

• Garmin Training Center® software compatible: yes

• Virtual Partner® (train against a digital person): yes

• Courses (compete against previous activities): yes

• Auto Pause® (pauses and resumes timer based on speed): yes

• Auto Lap® (automatically starts a new lap): yes

• Auto Scroll (cycles through data pages during workout): yes

• Multi-sport (changes sport mode with a press of a button): no

• Advanced workouts (create custom, goal-oriented workouts): yes

• Simple workouts (input time, distance and calorie goals): yes

• Pace alert (triggers alarm if you vary from preset pace): yes

• Time/distance alert (triggers alarm when you reach goal): yes

• Vibration alert: (choose between alert tones and/or vibration alert): no

• Interval training (set up exercise and rest intervals): yes

• Heart rate-based calorie computation: yes

• Customizable screen(s): yes

• Unit-to-unit transfer (shares data wirelessly with similar units): no

• Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible 3rd party ANT+™-enabled power meters): yes

• Temperature (displays and records temperature while you ride): yes

• Sport watch: no

• Additional: Operating temperature: -20°C to +60°C

• Garmin Connect™ compatible (online community where you analyze, categorize and share data): yes