Without a signal from sufficient satellites your device won’t be able to locate your position. GPS receivers generally have an obvious icon that indicates whether...
Satmap launches Online Route Planner and Route Share Network Customers can now plan routes online using road mapping, aerial photography and Ordnance Survey maps, and then...
If you’re acquainted with the basics of grid systems and how GPS works, you’ll appreciate that before your GPS receiver can tell you anything useful...
What is GPS? The Global Positioning System allows a suitably equipped receiver to pinpoint its position anywhere on the planet’s surface. While originally designed for (and...
ViewRanger, navigation software that turns your mobile phone into a GPS unit, is now available for the latest breed of touch screen mobile phones. Available on...
At its most basic level, a GPS receiver tells you where you are. To make any use of that information, though, you need to know...
Got a Garmin Edge 605 or 705? A software update has just been issued today that brings a throng of changes to the popular GPS...
Garmin Edge 705 GPS bike computer £359.95 (including GB Topo mapping); GSC10 speed/cadence sensor £41.99 www.garmin.co.uk Garmin’s first foray into bike-specific GPS units, the Edge 205/305, were well-received...
We’re just back from navigating around London’s Hyde Park with Olympian James Cracknell and Nokia’s GPS-enabled N95 loaded with the company’s latest software release, Sports...
Law of Fives is (no, really, you'd never guess) the fifth film in Dirt Magazine's Earthed series.
Technology gets everywhere these days. Tip out the contents of a mountain biker’s Camelbak and he* will probably get somewhat annoyed, but said contents are...
Olympus µ [mju:] Stylus 790 SW camera £149.99 www.olympus.co.uk Mountain biking is a challenging activity to photograph in a number of ways, but not least of the challenges...
There’s something beautiful about riding a MTB – though perhaps not as much at this time of year. However, when the weather’s good and you’re...
Bike maintenance – to many, nothing to be overly concerned with. But for some, and I include myself here, keeping your bike running as smooth...
The other day we thought that 2008 was going to be the year of the GPS, with Garmin, SatMap and others launching new, compact, outdoorsy...
Garmin’s Edge bike-specific GPS has proved to be a popular training tool, although pretty much everyone we’ve spoken too wishes it was a bit more...
Handheld GPS products continue to grow in popularity as the evolving technology makes smaller and more affordable devices possible. The latest join the fray is...
The Polar RS800 is a feature-laden heart rate monitor aimed at serious endurance athletes. It has been around for a little while, and while not...
The Polar range contains a heart rate monitor (HRM) for all types of cyclists, no matter how serious they are. After a reported four years...
http://youtu.be/zwddmotVLW4 Pist-n-broke BITS III: CKD £21.99 Paligap (www.paligapltd.co.uk) Just the name of the third title in Pist-n-broke’s Back In The Saddle series might lead you to suspect that it’s...
NWD7: Flying High Again £20 www.paligapltd.co.uk The New World Disorder series has pretty much established itself as the top of the bike film tree. While the likes of...
While not technically a bike product, we know that lots of our readers are in the habit of carrying SLR cameras on rides with them....
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