Garmin makes significant upgrades with Edge 1030 Plus and Edge 130 Plus bike computers

Garmin has announced two updates to its bike computers, with the Edge 1030 Plus becoming the new flagship and the Edge 130 Plus sitting towards the bottom of the line-up - but still offering a wide range of metrics.

Starting with the Edge 1030 Plus, this replaces the Edge 1030 that's been available for a couple of years. The new model still has a 3.5-inch colour touchscreen, offering mapping and turn-by-turn navigation, as well as wide metrics to track your ride and performance - depending on the sensors you use.

As per many of Garmin's advanced devices, you'll be able to create or import routes using Garmin Connect and sync these to your Edge 1030 Plus - or use routes from Strava or Komoot - but you can also pause routes if you want to explore something that's not pre-programmed. That will mean you can escape the off course messaging. 

When you want to return to the route, you can get navigation back to your route, or back to the start. There's pre-installed Trailforks too, meaning you can find routes from the device. There are other functions specifically for mountain bikers, to rate the difficulty of a ride, as well as assess how smoothly you made a trail descent. You can also see how far you jumped and get a record of your hang time.

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