I switched from an old Wahoo head unit to a Garmin 540 last March. In general, I’m happy about the change to the Garmin world. The only thing I really miss about the Wahoo is easily available information about distance to route end when following a course.
Last month, however, I was following a route on a semi -supported fondo when much to my surprise, a new page popped up on my head unit. Where I expected to find my usual summary of ride stats, I found a cue sheet with distances to the next turn and at the top, the distance to the end of the route. None of my other routes produce this page. I assume this has something to do with the route file type, but I haven’t been able to find anything that explains my experience in the Garmin user manual. I haven’t found anything else online either.
Can anyone here explain what happened? And how I can get that page with all my routes?
Seems a bit strange behaviour if you made no other changes.
There are plenty of data fields for navigating. I have separate but similar profiles for when I’m just riding and when I’m navigating a route. I added a page for exactly things like this; distance to end, time to end, eta, elevation remaining etc.
I’ve never experienced a specific route making a new page though.
Did you sync the route from RwGPS? If the route creator got it to do a cue sheet then it’ll pop up with the separate data screen.
You can also add POIs (points of interest)
to a route that sync across and give a similar data screen with distance and ETA to each POI in turn. For example.
Yes, it came from RidewGPS. I thought that might have something to do with it - but all my routes come from RidewGPS. And they all have cue sheets. But I’ve never gotten that extra page. I assume it has something to do with file type. But the route with those cue points synced to my headunit the same way all my routes do - wirelessly, via Garmin Connect. I’ll keep digging into things. Thanks for the response.
“Remaining distance” is available as a data field on Garmin units.
I’m not entirely sure if it continues displaying the distance to the end of the route during ClimbPro climbs though. It might show the distance to the end of the climb instead.
