Garmin Edge 530, Performance GPS Cycling/Bike Computer with Mapping, Dynamic Performance Monitoring and Popularity Routing

Excellent bike computer. I purchased this to be able to leave my phone at home on longer rides. Pre loading the maps and routes is easy. Navigating the menus is very intuitive and it pairs easily with my power meter on my bike and heart rate monitor to have all my data in front of me when cycling. Great battery life and easy to see on the sunniest of days.It charges with USB-C and come with everything you need to get started right out of the box, after updating it.

I am not one for reviews but I feel I have to review tis item. Just to summarize:The Garmin device 530 edge is brilliant. I have used it 5 days a week since I bought it late April. It is easy to set up and works like a dream. The buttons are easy to use when you get the hang of it as we are so used to touchscreen. It is very accurate as I have HR monitor Polar H10 which works flawlessly. I use the Garmin cadence and shows up every time. The Bluetooth is picked up easily and even use my phone as a hotspotI have used Komoot and Strava with this and again works as it should. It is small but I can easily see everything on it. It comes with the cycle mount and host of other accessories except a case.My only gripe is that today it just would not turn on and I have lost 2 days of data as I did not sync it with my Garmin connect. I know of some people that said the same thing on internet forums. Amazon have been brilliant and ordered me a replacement asap. Such a shame this rather expensive device just decided it would not turn on today and only owned it for literally 3 weeks.Regardless of the above this product is brilliant in size and what you can do on this and way cheaper than the elder 830. That has touchscreen and map navigation but I use my phone for that so not needed. Expect to pay around £170 when it is on a deal otherwise £200 -220.

What a product . I’ve now done a couple of hundred miles under its guidance and am loving it . I’ve purchased this along with the radar and they have changed my road riding .Setting known points or routes is so easy with the Garmin website . Once you e created a route you simply upload to this device and you’re away . The screen and size is small however I have got on fine with following the directions . Mapping is current and well lay out with route preferences capability given within the garmin website when creating your routes . You can also set it to go and track a route you ride then save this as a route for future use .I was able to take all my cycling routes I’ve riden in the past and upload them as routes to my edge .

Many things to like. Long lasting battery. Easy navigation. Good integration into connect and broadly good route planning via app. Great with radar. It syncs reliably and uploads well. Better on this than the fenix, which fails to upload many times.Easy to read and use on the road. Once you've learnt buttons it's fairly easy to use. And I don't miss lack of touch screen at all.But.. the screen scratches easily. And we are now several iterations into gorilla glass and it's ilk. So for an outdoor multi use product that's pretty poor to be so easy to scratched. It's starting to look a little naff and I've been pretty careful with it. Even cheap phones come with screen protectors and cases now days, as well as anti scratch gorilla glass.Back to start is good. Mapping is generally good, although for some reason while I get good road coverage in UK and Belgium it seems poor in France.There are also very frustrating differences between metrics of edge v fenix. Performance condition - the reads are substantially different. Small differences on sweat and calories - no Biggie. Surely this could and should be consistent or Garmin should just say ignore the edge as it's old?The out front is sound and has another connector underneath - I use for an akaso. All the accessories are well made and perform well.Generally very happy to have. But the niggles could easily be removed.

Absolutely brilliant perfect cycling computer does EVERYTHING you need a bike computer to do best for the money by far

Updated review. This was bought in July 2023 developed some faults in Jan 2025. Amazon / Garmin replaced with a new unit. Awesome service.There is a lot to like about this GPS, it integrates with Camoot using a PC for creating a ride or using a phone while on the fly. The battery life easily covers a day's ride. The mounting kit is very good quality. Initially the screen looks a bit limited but in bright sunlight it comes into it's own. So that's the good stuff the bad points are as flows. The software is so fragmented it's hard to remember where to find bits of the menu. The layout of the buttons would suit a left handed person better "what were Garmin thinking?. The buttons on mine were defective and some times worked this maybe a known problem with older stock. Mine was bought on a Amazon deal for £160 an excellent price but when trying to get it replaced after a week initially only a refund was offered. After some heated words Amazon did do a direct replacment. To summarise this is a Marmite product I like it so it's a keeper.