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Originally Posted by dd74
Well, I'm up for recommendations. If there's something out there that also couples with GPS, miles ridden, avg. time, and can measure speed, incline, etc, as well as heart, I'll look into it.
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Garmin makes a "basic" GPS unit which gives you Speed, Distance, heart rate, crank speed; all the regular stuff. But it also has GPS direction, elevation, %grade, ft climed, etc, and it records it every second or so, and will build graphs of your rides. Pretty neat stuff.
It is not a "turn by turn" GPS unit. They make a turn by turn unit, but you'd probably expire for the price...$700.
The "cheaper" unit is ~$300 (refurbished), and is a Garmin 305, from Amazon.
The uber-cheap way is to get a regular wired bike unit, then buy a cheapo wrist watch hear rate monitor. They usually come with a little handlebar mount for the wrist watch. Wired bike units go on sale at bonktown for usually under $30. And a cheapo heart rate wrist watch can be had for about the same. Even these chepo hear rate monitors use a chest strap for heart rate pickup.
If you want to really track what you are doing and want excellent software with training advice, the stuff Polar sells is much better. I also use a Polar unit, mostly because I had it before the Garmin.
In both cases, I have purchased off ebay extra mounts & sensors and then use the heads on multiple bikes.