Reddit reviews Garmin Forerunner Bicycle Mount Kit

I've ordered mine, we'll see when it arrives. I can tell you my old Sony Smartwatch 3 did an admirable job. The issue is cycling and taking your eyes off the road to look at data on your wrist. It's harder than it sounds. I purchased this but honestly never tested it out.

You can use this which I did for a while. Worked great but of course takes time during transition to move.

>Garmin makes a nice bicycle bar mount kit for their Forerunner watches, works great with a Pebble too:
http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-Forerunner-Bicycle-Mount-Kit/dp/B000VK5BMQ

Ouch, that looks painful. You might want to get a watch bike mount.

Here's the Garmin (910xt) data output from one of my rides: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318868123

I really like it and you can get a handlebar mount if you want to view it off your wrist. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VK5BMQ/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

edit/ I have the heart rate monitor also, that's where the heart rate data comes from.

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Garmin Forerunner Bicycle Mount Kit https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000VK5BMQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_FK-ADbD5PVXMC

I have a Vivoactive and I love it. I run at least as much as I ride (I also play a decent amount of golf) and being a college student on a budget, the Vivoactive is great. I've had it since launch and I have very few complaints.

To address your main point, Garmin sells a handlebar mount for their watches for around $10-15 that works great. It pairs easily with HR monitors and speed/cadence sensors as well. It's definitely not a high-end cycling computer, but it does a great job for what it is and I think would be plenty for any beginner or even intermediate rider, especially one on a budget.

I would assume the F6 variants would have a quick release mount, but a quick search doesn't turn up anything yet. Interesting. I just use the Garmin Forerunner bike mount - it's not quick release but it's quick enough for me. Works great with 945 and a Fēnix 3 before that.

They do make pretty inexpensive rubber bar mounts for watches. I found my watch (Suunto Ambit2S, so not a smartwatch, just a GPS watch) to be super uncomfortable on my wrist while biking, and it was leaving chafing marks, so I picked this bar mount up, and it's been great. I didn't already have a bike computer though, and I already owned the watch and was happy with it for running and hiking, so for me it was a cheap solution that worked out great and allowed me to stick with one device. I do agree that someone who just wants a GPS for biking might as well go with a traditional GPS bike computer, but it sounds like OP might want some of the smartwatch features, so if that's the case, this may help.

Garmin makes a nice bicycle bar mount kit for their Forerunner watches, works great with a Pebble too:

http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-Forerunner-Bicycle-Mount-Kit/dp/B000VK5BMQ

If you want to track cycling, swimming, and running, I'd suggest a device designed for triathletes, such as the Garmin Forerunner 920XT. It's pricey, but I'm not sure you can do much cheaper for multi-sport tracking with a heart rate monitor. As a bonus it's also compatible with cadence sensors and power meters.

In my experience, using a watch is not as convenient as a cycling-specific computer (I used to have a Polar watch before moving to a Garmin Edge), but it's certainly adequate. They sell handlebar mounts for the watch so you don't need to have it on your arm while you're on the bike. It's perfectly adequate as long as you don't mind having a smaller display.

Depending on your wrist/glove/jacket thickness, you'd probably need a 3rd party strap.

For motorcycling think about whether you really want to have to take your hand from the handlebar to get a glance of where to go next. Using the official Garmin Bike Mount on a Lixada Mount is much safer in that case. It's definitely readable, you just have to focus a bit. But it's much less distracting than having to read something on your wrist. Only a little drawback: It makes the heart rate sensor register some nonsense and it also "tracks" the motorcycle vibrations as "steps" towards your daily goal.

I used to use a 410 for running and biking until my girlfriend got me an Edge 500 for my birthday a year or so ago. The watches work great, not quite as good as a bike specific computer, but defintely good enough.

You can snag the Garmin Speed and Cadence Sensor and a Garmin Mount Kit and that is all you should need.

You can skip both of these things if you don't care about your cadence and don't mind the watch on your wrist though. Personally I couldn't deal with the watch on my arm for hours. Plus biking already gives you stupid looking tan lines, I didn't need a watch tan go with it.

Maybe try a Garmin running watch handlebar mount? It's meant for bicycles, but might work for your use.

I have the cadence sensor, with this bike mount. I read a couple bad stories about people losing their watch using the quick release bike mount, so I went with the non-quick release model. I already had the forerunner 305 for running, so adding the bike mount and cadence senor was an easy choice for me. So far I've had no issues with it.

I use a Garmin Forerunner 610 with wireless sensor.

It's primarily a running watch, but works pretty well as a bike computer too. Just uses a little rubber adapter to mount on the handlebars.

Definitely not something to get for the bike unless you do a lot of running as well, but I definitely dig it.

I was having the same issue with battery life, especially as I started to ride further and further. In the end I bit the bullet and bought myself a Garmin Forerunner 410 watch...and I have to say that it's one of the best bits of kit I've ever picked up.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Forerunner-Sportswatch-Heart-Monitor/dp/B0046BTK14/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370362737&sr=8-1&keywords=forerunner+410

I actually picked it up in a sale for around £110, so have a look around before buying. After a couple of months of happily using it, I also picked up one of these...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Bike-Mount-Forerunner-Series/dp/B000VK5BMQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1370362923&sr=1-2&keywords=forerunner+mount

So now when I get on my bike I wrap the watch around the handlebar and off I go. The stats you get from Garmin Connect are absolutely invaluable - and they've been incredibly accurate so far.

Hope that helps!

If you do plan on using a pebble for this, I would recommend a mount like this.

I have one and it works great for mounting on the handlebars.

No, you are still wrong. NO watches are designed to be direct mounted to handlebars. You do it with a separate item that adapts ALL watches to handlebar use.

You seem to be under some mistaken impression that someone is making watches that somehow magically work better on handlebars than others when its just a simple attachment that turns any watch into a nice handle bar mounted piece.

So again you are incorrect in your original statement still and keep going down this rabbit hole. I own one of these watches and i assure you there is nothing special that would make it any better on my bars than a $5 timex from walmart.

You keep throwing terms around like "default function" around yet dont seem to realize the default function of a watch is to be worn on your wrist, period. It requires an adapter regardless of what type of watch it is.

EDIT: For clarification this is what you use. It works exactly the same for any wrist watch you put on it. https://smile.amazon.com/Garmin-Forerunner-Bicycle-Mount-Kit/dp/B000VK5BMQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1486584202&sr=8-3&keywords=garmin+handlebar+mount