Coros Dura Solar GPS Bike Computer Review: Battery Life for Days Leave a comment

So simple as it could appear, the system actually isn’t: The Dura additionally has a full menu of navigation options, like good rerouting that makes use of Google Maps, making certain essentially the most up to date highway closure notifications; turn-by-turn instructions; an in-app route builder; and the selection between topo or panorama view. For individuals who wish to geek out on coaching plans or exercises, there’s a complete library of each, downloadable from the Coros companion app (iOS, Android), providing the whole lot from a 4-Minute VO₂ Max problem to a Six-Week Newbie Base Plan. Any customized coaching plan that may be downloaded to the Coros app could be synced to the Dura.

Extra pluses: Pairing it with each an iPhone and an Android (individually) was issue-free, and the system works seamlessly with its companion app in addition to with Strava, Coaching Peaks, Komoot, Experience with GPS and others. (Dura doesn’t but sync to Zwift, however guarantees to quickly.) The display screen show is intuitive to make use of. At 2.7 inches, the dimensions just isn’t good and compact, however cyclists with lower than excellent imaginative and prescient may must squint to trace pace, grade, distance, coronary heart fee, time of day, and experience time on one display screen, and common energy, lap energy, pace, coronary heart fee, grade, cadence, common pace, and distance on one other (if using with a coronary heart fee monitor and energy meter).

The coloured maps got here in useful the day I rode Redhead, a mountain bike park in northern Minnesota I’d solely been to as soon as earlier than and wanted assist navigating the community of trails. There are additionally a bazillion methods to maintain you on observe with alerts for pace, cadence, coronary heart fee, diet, and energy—all of which I fortunately turned off.

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I used to be most excited by how the promised simple person interface, sturdiness, and battery life transferred to the path. Two of us examined it over just a few months of mountain biking and gravel using, and the thrilling information is that the battery life actually is as sturdy as Coros says it’s.

{Photograph}: Stephanie Pearson