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Garmin Edge Explore

8,4/10 (320 reviews)
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Garmin Edge Explore
Garmin Edge Explore + Garmin Universal Protective Case (large)
Garmin Edge Explore + Sensor Pack
161,-
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Screen size
  • 3 inches
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Suitable for cyclist type
  • Recreational cyclist
  • Mountainbiker, Road bike racer
  • Recreational cyclist
Touchscreen
  • Yes
  • No
  • Yes
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Product information

Key specs

Screen size
3 inches
Suitable for cyclist type
Recreational cyclist
Touchscreen
Yes
ANT+
Yes
Bluetooth
Yes
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Pros and cons

According to our Bike navigation expert
  • The 3-inch touchscreen is easy to operate and easy to read in the bright sun.
  • By showing notifications from your smartphone on the screen, you won't miss any messages or incoming calls.
  • With incident detection, you can set emergency contacts who'll be notified in case you fall off your bike while cycling.
  • The GPS is less accurate compared to the new Garmin Edge Explore 2.
  • An altimeter based on GPS is less accurate than a barometric altimeter.
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Description

The Garmin Edge Explore is an extensive navigation system which allows you to track and analyze all your bike rides. You can easily connect the system to your smartphone and cycling apps like Garmin Connect and Strava. This way, you can keep track of all your performances, the performances of others, and your incoming messages. You can easily import popular routes or choose a surprising route for a new bike ride. The 3-inch anti-glare screen is easy to control via the touchscreen. The GPS is less accurate compared to the new Garmin Edge Explore 2. For this reason, the Garmin Edge Explore 2 is more suitable for bike racers than this Edge Explore 1.
The Garmin Edge Explore is an extensive navigation system which allows you to track and analyze all your bike rides. You can easily connect the system to your smartphone and cycling apps like Garmin Connect and Strava. This way, you can keep track of all your performances, the performances of others, and your incoming messages. You can easily import popular routes or choose a surprising route for a new bike ride. The 3-inch anti-glare screen is easy to control via the touchscreen. The GPS is less accurate compared to the new Garmin Edge Explore 2. For this reason, the Garmin Edge Explore 2 is more suitable for bike racers than this Edge Explore 1.

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Included by default

  • Manual (2.37 MB)
  • Standard bike mount
  • USB cable

Included by default

  • Manual (2.37 MB)
  • Standard bike mount
  • USB cable

Key specs

Screen size
3 inches
Suitable for cyclist type
Recreational cyclist
Touchscreen
Yes
ANT+
Yes
Bluetooth
Yes
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Reviews

320 reviews
8,4/10 (320 reviews)

Rating

119 reviews with 5 stars

165 reviews with 4 stars

27 reviews with 3 stars

5 reviews with 2 stars

4 reviews with 1 star

Rating per section

Degelijkheid
10,0
Gebruiksgemak
10,0
Accuracy
8,8
Design
8,4
Options
8,0

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Most helpful reviews

8,4/10

Recommended with some points for improvement

  • price
  • use with app
  • processor is slow
  • Enrico
  • 29 August 2019
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
5,6/10

Device freezes regularly

  • Crashes very often
  • Pieter
  • 10 December 2020
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
4,4/10

A GPS must be reliable

  • Jw
  • 5 October 2021
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
7,6/10

Recommended

  • Battery life
  • Price
  • A little too far warnings
  • Wim meeus
  • 1 September 2019
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
8,4/10

Beautiful design and practical to use. Kindly update.

  • Nice handy design
  • Clear display
  • Complicated first use
  • Hans meeuwsen
  • 14 May 2020
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
6,0/10

Nice device, unfortunately unusable due to the bad software

  • Hardware is fine as always with Garmin
  • Software is user-unfriendly
  • Camiel de leeuw
  • 31 May 2020
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
7,2/10

Best bike navigation for the recreational cyclist

  • Easy to use
  • Clear screen
  • Design a little less
  • Davy dg
  • 24 September 2020
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
8,4/10

Very nice navigation system, easy to recreate routes.

  • Small yet clear enough
  • Stable mounting the supplied pads
  • Hans van herwijnen
  • 7 June 2020
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
6,0/10

Not recommended if you don't have much experience with bicyc

  • In addition to Garmin, you also need an external program
  • Carlo jung
  • 5 May 2021
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
5,6/10

A Dutch manual would be useful.

  • Wilfried verhaegen
  • 2 July 2020
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
8,4/10

Recommended with some points for improvement

  • price
  • use with app
  • both GPS and bike computer
  • processor is slow

This is my first cycling computer and I am positive about this device after more than 500 km of driving, but there are some things that are useful to know in advance. First the positives: with the use of a GPS cycling computer you quickly discover new cycling routes. The link with the Garmin app makes it possible to determine your own routes with the push of a button, or to use routes created by others. Garmin does of course use the Big Data data of all cyclists with this app, so in terms of privacy you know that you have to give something up for this. You can also keep track of everything; km's, speed, save and/or update and reuse your own routes, etc etc.
So much for the positive side; now the big warning: my Garmin gave a map update message when connecting to the Apple Mac at home. The whole map update then went as you would expect, but after the reset of the Garmin, all cycling routes and details in Europe were gone...! After a Google search I discovered a forum with Garmin-Apple users and it was described here that the Garmin update software for Apple computers 'forgets' to install one of the map sets with an update. This bug actually kills your Garmin's map content. Only updating through a Windows computer can fix this, so if you're on an Apple Mac, be warned. Check in advance whether this bug in Garmin's Mac software has been solved in the meantime. A second update of my Garmin (via Windows) has completely updated the map set.
A second point of criticism is the processor speed of the device when using its own routes. When you start a route, the Garmin will calculate the route before the GPS guidance can start properly. For longer routes, this calculation can easily take a few minutes. Take into account approximately 1 minute of calculation time per 10 km route. So if you load a route of 60 km, the calculation will easily take 6 minutes after starting the route. If you have entered many waypoints in the editor, the calculation in advance will take a little more time.
I find battery use acceptable; I use the Garmin in normal mode with the screen on (no power save) and a 50km ride takes about 50% of the battery. With this position I can read the screen with (cycling) sunglasses on.
Another performance thing: if you take a wrong turn during a ride, the Garmin will point you back in the direction of the route. The only drawback is that the right direction is not indicated; on a route through the forest with many loops, it can happen that you are sent back to a loop you have already been when you make a wrong turn. The direction of travel is not properly indicated and the Garmin continues to send you back in the wrong direction.
With the normal route calculation I have another suggestion: the Garmin gives you three alternatives if you have a round trip calculated (for example 20 km in an easterly direction). It would be nice if you were also offered three alternatives when using the Garmin to navigate to a location or address; at the moment the Garmin only gives the most obvious route (which does not necessarily have to be the optimal or nicest cycling route).
The attachment, finally, with rubber cap and rubber tension straps is very well secured on my bike; on the steering rod between headset and handlebars. Also stays in place during extreme vibration rides (forest paths, bad roads, etc).
In short: be careful with the map updates; just learned to live with the somewhat slower processor, but definitely recommended that -in combination with the app on my phone- has made cycling a lot more fun for me.

  • Enrico
  • 29 August 2019
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
5,6/10

Device freezes regularly

  • Crashes very often

I've been using the GPS for a year now, and it freezes very regularly while cycling.
After which it is impossible to reboot.
I cycle weekly in a group in which there are three of us who use a Garmin GPS.
Every week there is a device that freezes. (rain, sun, cold, warm, ... makes no difference)

  • Pieter
  • 10 December 2020
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
4,4/10

A GPS must be reliable

Totally unreliable; during a 2000 km bike ride, there was a complete failure about 20 times, where the screen went out and nothing works anymore or it is possible to restart the thing. The thing itself decides on that: sometimes after 30 seconds, sometimes after 1 minute, sometimes after 3 minutes, the thing wakes up and resumes its operation, as if nothing had happened. According to Google, this has been a known problem at Garmin for years.
Other times, the part of the screen where the direction instructions appear will freeze. Then the thing has to be rebooted completely.

  • Jw
  • 5 October 2021
  • Written for: Garmin Edge Explore
  • Automatically translated from Dutch
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    2,79 per month
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Specifications

Product

Product number
815465
Manufacturer code
010-02029-10
Brand
Garmin
Warranty
2 years
Processing of your defect
Via Coolblue
Old product returned for free
Yes

Physical properties

Height
11,4 cm
Width
5,8 cm
Depth
1,5 cm
Weight
123 g
Color
Multicolored
Water-resistant
Yes
IP certification
IPX7
Water resistance
Waterproof

Screen

Screen size
3 inches
Resolution height
400 pixels
Resolution width
240 pixels
Color screen
Yes
Screen reflection
Anti-glare
Backlit screen
Yes
Touchscreen
Yes

Navigation

Suitable for cyclist type
Recreational cyclist
Navigation possible (bike)
Yes
Route input method
Input on device, Load GPX file, Upload routes
Navigational directions type
Per each road exit, Route lines
Usage mode
Off-road, On-road
Alternative routes
Yes
Trackback feature
Yes
Surprising route
Yes
Spoken directions
No
GPS sensor
Yes
GLONASS
No
Live tracking
Yes
Compass
Yes

Maps

Pre-installed maps
Yes
Map coverage
Europe
Maps expandable
Yes
Free map updates
Yes
Useful places
Yes
Period of free map updates
Lifespan of device

Connectivity

Compatible with operating system
Doesn't apply
Compatible with smartphone / apps
Yes
Compatible with apps
Strava
Shows smartphone messages
Yes
Bluetooth
Yes
Built-in WiFi
No
ANT+
Yes
Strava Live
No

Workout functionalities

Heart rate sensor
Chest strap sold separately
Cadence sensor
Yes, sold separately
Speed sensor
Yes, sold separately
Power sensor
No
Interval training
No
Save courses
Yes
Electronic gear-shifting system
No
Altimeter
Yes
Type of altimeter
GPS
Calorie counter
Yes
Lap counter
Yes
Stopwatch
No
Temperature sensor
Yes

Battery

Rechargeable battery
Yes
Battery level indicator
Yes

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