Got my 1040 Solar on Saturday and got it configured. I have to say Garmin has come a long way in terms of set up. This might be nothing new, but it was super easy to transfer over my devices and settings from my 1030. I then created a new Gravel Profile as well and set up my pages and fields on the unit itself. Everything felt really snappy.
Doing a 133 mile gravel race on Saturday, so I loaded the course into Garmin Connect on my PC and then sent it over. Garmin analyzed it and basic said it was really long and a lot of aerobic endurance would be needā¦ no surprise there.
I played with the pacing plan in Garmin Connect. You plug in your bike weight, riding position, rider weight, FTP, and surface and it generates a plan. You can adjust the pace based on effort on a scale or 1 - 10 but it also lists as a percent effort on average of your FTP (basically IF). The times it gives for finishing though are a pretty broad range - about 2 hour spread (eg. 8 - 10 hours). It looks interesting, but will have to play with it in training before employing in a race.
Will do first outdoor road ride with it today and then use for the race Saturday.
Not sure itās been answered, and maybe @gpl could chime in. Do the 1040 and 1040 Solar have the same chip? Like, are they the same as far as internals and ability (apart from solar)? Or did the Solar get a better chip and thus faster?
I truly admire @dcrainmakerās commitment to his craft. Standing in the pouring rain in shorts and t-shirt to demonstrate the touchscreen on the 1040 was above and beyond
My regular 1040 has been averaging about 2.5% battery use per hour, its crazy how much less energy it uses than my 1030 did. Thatās with auto backlight and most of my rides being after 7pm at night and I can see the screen really lit up.
Super happy with the upgrade, itās worked perfectly with zero issues.
I have to say Iām a bit miffed my mine this morning, third ride was the Thursday night group ride, started the device at the start of the ride, and the strava has been corrected and matches the 15 other people on the ride
I initially presumed that the problem was at the start or end, but when I looked at the speed data, it seems to have had a paddy mid ride (Iām not using a speed sensor, was a lovely sunny day in england)
The full quote is:
Besides the addition of solar charging, the USB-C charging port and GNSS-compatibility, a spokesperson for Garmin confirmed to BikeRadar that the hardware used in the new Edge 1040 is the same as the outgoing 1030 Plus.
But like what gplama said to my analysis of the benchmark run, maybe they are only looking at the parts people see like the screen and physical size, not the cpu inside. Or hopefully that is true
Anyone else not able to change the fields on the default workout screen? It gives me the option to change to a different field, but when I try to do so it reverts back to Distance and Timer. Not sure what they were thinking with the workout screen tbh. Who needs Step Distance, Distance and Timer when doing a workout??
I believe you cannot change the default workout screen at all. I think it is fixed. I have setup the screen that TR has in the video. If you do that I think you can turn off the default screen. But I have not tried it yet.
