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Garmin launches Virb XE action camera cycling bundleGarmin Virb XE cycling bundle

Garmin launches Virb XE action camera cycling bundle

Bike-specific items included in a £350 package
by Mat Brett
Wed, Aug 12, 2015 10:35
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Garmin has announced a new cycling bundle for its Virb XE action camera that we told you about earlier in the year.

As well as the items that are included in the standard Virb XE package – sticky mounts, batteries and adapters –  this cycling bundle includes a microSD card, small and large tube mounts, a vented helmet strap, and Garmin’s new cycling combo mount. That lot is priced at £349.99.

The cycling combo mount allows you to fit both a Garmin Edge and the Virb XE to your bars – the Edge attaches to the top, the camera attaches to the bottom.

Several compatible Garmin Edge units can also be used as a remote control for Virb XE, as long as the software is up to date.

Pair up the camera and an Edge via ANT+, and you can easily start and stop recording while maintaining a heads-up position, no matter if the camera is mounted on your handlebars, helmet or under the saddle.

For more info on the Virb XE and what it offers, go to our original story. 

www.garmin.com/en-GB

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Mat Brett

Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.

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mathelo | 8 years ago
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Interesting. I've never had an issue with either my base or premium Garmin HRMs.

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Airzound | 8 years ago
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And their customer service is not great.

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bikewithnoname | 8 years ago
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sneakerfrfreak, are you suggesting that my Garmin measured peak HR of 261 might be inaccurate? 3

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sneakerfrfeak replied to bikewithnoname | 8 years ago
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bikewithnoname wrote:

sneakerfrfreak, are you suggesting that my Garmin measured peak HR of 261 might be inaccurate? 3

I hate to be the one to break it to you but yeah that sounds rather high, it's probably closer to 230 3

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sneakerfrfeak | 8 years ago
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For their next project perhaps they'd like to design a reliable HR strap.

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fukawitribe replied to sneakerfrfeak | 8 years ago
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sneakerfrfeak wrote:

For their next project perhaps they'd like to design a reliable HR strap.

For some strange reason their bog standard HRM seems farily well liked and reliable whereas the 'premium' model gets slated for contact issues, damp ingress, wacko readings (probably not unrelated) and general fally-apartness. Go figure...

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sneakerfrfeak replied to fukawitribe | 8 years ago
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fukawitribe wrote:
sneakerfrfeak wrote:

For their next project perhaps they'd like to design a reliable HR strap.

For some strange reason their bog standard HRM seems farily well liked and reliable whereas the 'premium' model gets slated for contact issues, damp ingress, wacko readings (probably not unrelated) and general fally-apartness. Go figure...

Yeah mines the "premium" strap.

Ordered a Polar strap yesterday, apparently the monitor pops straight on, and was amazed by the amount of reviews stating that they'd bought it to replace their Garmin "premium" strap.

Apologies this is way off topic.

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shadwell replied to sneakerfrfeak | 8 years ago
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sneakerfrfeak wrote:

For their next project perhaps they'd like to design a reliable HR strap.

Achievable goals and all that...... they gave up on that and bringing out fully developed products many many years ago..

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