![]() ![]() It's very quick and responsive in use, very powerful, and nice and light. Let me tell you some of the bits I loved. As I really got under the hood of the 540 I came to see it more favourably. ![]() From here, things got a LOT better, it must be said. Again, feel free to judge me, I just couldn't penetrate the frankly unhelpful manual, and surely that bears reporting. So the first 90 minutes was a bad experience. It's exactly where you'd think it is, it's just absent from the 540. One further point of interest re this navigational idiosyncrasy is that on the Edge 840 (the touchscreen variant) you can enter a street name under the Navigation menu's 'search' function. ![]() I wrote in my feature on cycling computers that the Wahoo, Hammerhead and Garmin hardware, philosophy and experience are so distinct and different that they're almost not to be thought of as competitors of course that's not really true, but this 540 has also reaffirmed to me that it sort of is. I've been using a Wahoo Elemnt Bolt v2 and a Hammerhead Karoo 2, having switched from Garmin a few years ago. If you're interested in the Edge 540 Solar, check out our guide to the best cycling computers for more options. My experience of the Garmin Edge 540 Solar was practically bipolar there are elements of the 540 that are brilliant, consummate and class leading, but it is also the most frustrating head unit I've ever used – brilliant one moment, and infuriating the next. But I confess this review was daunting when I came to write it. I've skipped ownership of the previous generation of Garmins, so was eager to experience the improvements that must have been made in two generations of refinement. Having recently written a long feature on the future of cycling computers, I was very excited to test this new Garmin. ![]()
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