just an update...
I bought in May a Garmin Vivoactive3 after being fed up from using Strava as activity tracker.
(Thanks to my huawei phone) the app stopped tracking after a while. sometime after doing a 50Km trip you noticed it only tracked the first 150 meters.
This watch is handy as you always have it with you compared to a real gps device that you need to mount and these mounts can be expensive
especially if you want to use it on multiple bicycles.
I also found a nice additional app (BF Cycle Map) for the watch that allows me to follow gpx based routes with turn-by-turn navigation.
It's not perfect as it doesn't re-route on wrong turns but you just see you're going off route.
Last Sunday I did a 60Km trip and got a few times off route (read lost
) but this was mainly because the roads were broken up or because of other detours.
(*) Another reason was because I started/joined the 'loop' route in the middle/halfway so its end destination was on the middle of my trip aswell and it stopped guiding from the moment I reached the destination which makes sense.
Retracing the route from home and back will solve the above (*)
Still amazing what this device can do.
At first I used it on my wrist but it was not handy and even dangerous to look all the time on my watch.
So I used such rubber thingy so that you can wrap a watch around your steer so you always have an eye on it.
I should save some money to buy a decent one that shows me a map aswell just in case it's not clear where I have to go.
These Lezyne ones look like a nice price/feature combo and they can have a street map of the entire region you want to cycle through.