Road bike upgrade advice needed

[scubascuba3]

Talking of upgrades I'd recommend getting a computer as well as a heart rate monitor. I have the Bryton 420 which has breadcrumbs, no need for a phone unless for photos. I took my cadence thing off as I didn't find it very useful

[rvaviator]

9 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes although I've not looked recently. Is it easy enough to download the routes to other apps\computers?

Yes very easy - You just click on the ride map that someone have done - Then in the top right corner you can download that ride as a GPX file - You do this on a PC -

 

Never tried to do it on a phone - Then with that GPX file I will tweak it - Using the Strava route planer - Or the free version of Ride with GPS.   Then when I have the route I want - I copy it over to my Garmin Edge 1030 and away I go ...  I only use the phone for taking photos and then uploading the photos post ride.  The Garmin Edge 1030 is nice as it has wifi - So will sync directly to my Strava account post ride.

[StreetCowboy]

I thought about fitting the rack to my road bike, and taking the panniers on Sunday's outing to the pub to for takeaway beer.  But I decided just to wear a backpack.