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The Garmin 1040 is very new with a lot of new features. I use it for navigation on group rides and there are some navigation settings you have to change just as on the 1030's. I have the navigation reroute functions set to off or ask. Otherwise any disruption in the GPS it would reroute...

I don't use Mission Control for rides but I have seen a comment that for some models you need to connect the HR to MC. I was able to pair my HR to MC by connecting to my Creo, Ride, Smart Control, turn on Smart Control (normally off for me), Select HR for control. It then said no sensors...

According to the Specialized 2022 Turbo Levo Comp page, it does not have Mastermind. Garmin is trying to add an ebike distance alert when navigating a route to the 1040 but it just generates a nuisance alert on my Creo. I think he will need to use Mission Control or the Blevo app on phone to...

As far as I know the Garmin Varia Radar Display Unit has been discontinued for a couple of years or more. Once bike computers could display the radar there wasn't much point to the unit other than a few edge cases and you found one. When I had a Vado SL 5.0 EQ I did not take the TCD on rides...

I use the My Bike Traffic to generally keep an eye passing traffic speeds. Once you have loaded the IQ app, you can set which items to display using Garmin Express. I like to see Vehicle Count, Absolute speed and Last vehicle speed. If you display too many parameters the text is kind of...

How were you able to find so many used batteries? Were tourists leaving them behind after their trips or crashed broken bikes?

The silver bikes will look better when you start wearing matched jerseys and kit. It won't clash.

Probably time for a more up to date HR sensor with a newer BT chip. Rider power is a much better way to see how much effort you're doing although you need to watch HR and Pwr together for a while to see what's normal for you. HR is like the coolant temp in your car, by the time it goes in the...

Personally I ride a 2021 Creo with a standard TCU using a Garmin 1040 head unit and Garmin HRM-PRO with an extender strap for comfort, so I am looking at this for curiosity rather than personal Como experience. Support.Specialized.com - Using Mission Control with the MasterMind TCU...

There is a comparison table in the DC Rainmaker review of the 2020 Tickr. The original 2014 model has one Bluetooth and one ant + channel and is Dual concurrent ANT+/BLE. Did you try to pair to the phone app first which would use the Bluetooth channel and then pair to the TCD which should just...

100 year old saddle design on a 2020's bicycle. One guess as to which part will still be working in 20 years (as long as you give it time to break in). It's a bit of a fashion statement too. A quote from the Brooks website: "Our best-selling model for over 100 years, the B17 is the ideal...

Just be careful you don't spend too much trying to use those old style batteries. I'm listening to an Amazon Audiobook - Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior. It has examples of people making small rational decisions to prevent loss that added up to an irrational decision. I am...

I would not expect to see the UBN Five generally imported to the US other than maybe a very few cities that are hilly like SF or Seattle. I'm not sure I would need an e-bike in the alternate bicycle universe of riding in Copenhagen (envy).

The question was specific to a Vado SL to for a specific reason. There are other forums for the discussion of ebike power etc please don't start in a technical forum.

If you are going with the Tailfin system there is no reason to consider the Ortlieb's unless you already have a pair or are planning to use them on other racks as the Tailfin build quality is very high.

Open an activity in connect and there the tabs at the as shown in the post above assuming you've added the ebike as a sensor.

I was going to test the power meter on my Creo with my Garmin SPD power pedals. I will not need to do that now. Anecdotally the Creo power meter seems about right although occasionaly it seems to read a bit high. I do not look at my HR data when riding, only the power meter. It is a much...

You should be able to turn the beep off or mount it lower. I have my Garmin Varia mounted just above the seat post binder and it detects traffic just fine. I use a mirror on my glasses to watch traffic and the Varia to track speed, quantity and last car speed. The other people in the group...

Most likely you will need to cut it but if you make it too short it will not keep your feet from spray. You could also shorten it and add a rubber or flexible "mudflap". I usually like my fenders as long as practical but I have bent a fender riding off a curb.

A hard wired Varia would be nice to have that just turns on with the bike. It would be more discrete than pushing buttons all over the bike to start up the various electronics and lights. I find on longer rides out with a group I run out of charge so I sometimes carry two. The battery...