[Trek CarBack Radar Rear Bike Light : Know what's coming] [image] Trek Enters the Radar Game With CarBack Bike Radar Treks new CarBack radar boasts a slew of features, some best in class, including spotting rear-approaching vehicles up to 240km away Est. reading tim…

What’s wrong with using my ears? Though perhaps if the light sequence alters as vehicles approach there may be some worthwhile value?

[image] FlatFylde: What’s wrong with using my ears? Are you asking about the value of radar as a tool broadly speaking in addition to basic awareness? If so, there are numerous reasons including: Conditions like wind or attention being focused on something else can lead to typical car nois…

So, the Varia radar actually makes noise? The Trek radar does not. I wish that it did. But, then again, I’d also like to be able to change the volume. The companion Trek app seems to have nice visuals, but the problem is that it’s on a phone and that’s in my pocket. The Garmin 530 radar visuals see…

[image] billings: So, the Varia radar actually makes noise? That would be news to me. I think the only audio alert comes from the paired device (head unit, watch, phone) as I don’t think the Varia has a speaker on board.

Indeed but via the head unit, IIRC the default is two loud audible beeps designed to be unique from other garmin edge noises or you can change it to one audible beep which I done before my 1030’s sound unit failed. In a group although my sound unit has failed I can clearly hear my friends units an…

[image] FlatFylde: What’s wrong with using my ears? Before I got my radar, I was constantly thinking I was hearing a car coming. Only to look and see nothing – it was just the wind in my ears. And plenty of other times my ears would let me down, not hearing an approaching car. The radar does …

Like to add trailers, country roads and cars with trailers / caravans getting notification that there are 2 cars is fantastic

There’s a very long discussion in the Varia thread full of those of us who swore Varia was useless until we bought one. Iirc - there was 1 person out of the whole thread who regretted their purchase. Mine made such a huge difference that I bought one for my wife after only using mine once. The vas…

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Ron April 24, 2024, 3:33pm 95

That is correct the Varia does not have a speaker. I use my Garmin watch with it set to vibrate for alerts. That is a nice way to be quickly aware of a car.

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