Garmin GSC 10 Speed/Cadence Bike Sensor
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Customer Review: Garmin GSC 10 Speed/Cadence Bike Sensor - Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
For Christmas, my wife and I bought each other a Garmmin Forerunner 305. She runs and I bike.
Needless to say, biking in Wisconsin can be a seasonal sport. With a Garmin 305 and the Garmin GSC 10 Speed/Cadence Bike Sensor, biking has become a year round activity.
The speed sensor augments the 305 by providing Cadence, Speed and distance information while I'm biking with my bike on a trainer. The sensor makes each work out more effective and gratifying when you can review the data afterwards.
The installation is straight forward requiring only simple mechanical aptitude, a scissors and phillips screwdriver. Fine tuning the placement of the senor so that the speed pickup and cadence sensor each get information from their associated targets take some patience and trial and error.
Once adjsuted the unit works wonderfully. I highly recomend supplementing any Garmin GPS enabled trainer with the speed sensor.
Customer Review: Great and necessary companion
Summary: 3 Stars
If you're using some form of Garmin Edge of Forerunner to cycle, this is almost a necessary unit. It keeps better track of speed than the GPS does, and the added benefit of cadence tracking is also nice. An added bonus is if you ride indoors on a trainer during the winter months, it allows you to record speed and distance; figures you wouldn't get using the head unit alone.
It has a few drawbacks: I didn't think the product was waterproof, but I thought it should stand up to standard doses of water from a wet ride, or a bike wash, unfortunately it didn't like direct pour/spray during washing, so you have to be careful around it. It did dry out and start working again, but was touchy at first. Also, the speed sensor arm is horribly under-designed: clip it wrong with a spoke wrench, or with the speed magnet and you have to replace the entire unit if you snap the arm off, which I found to be surprisingly easy to do.
Customer Review: Works well with Garmin Oregon
Summary: 4 Stars
I picked this up just the other day to use with my new Garmin Oregon. It worked great and the Oregon unit picked up the sensor right away. To make sure the Oregon receives the information from the Cadence sensor, go to Setup then fitness then turn on the cadence sensor. I was able to pace myself very nicely using the cadence display right from the map screen.
Mount on the bike was only OK. I have a very big touring bike and the crank arm magnet had to be mounted almost on top of the back of the pedal spindle to have it be close enough to the chain stay. Regardless, it worked and after using pliers to make sure the tie-wraps were as snug as possible, the sensor stayed put even on a very rough jarring road. However if I needed to mount it again, I would use a little bit of double stick tape in addition to the tie-wraps. Just make sure the tape will not pull the paint off when you decide to remove the monitor!
Customer Review: Workded on 2nd bike AFTER update to 3.3 software on Garmin 705
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased the Garmin GSC 10 to put on a second bike (Garmin Edge 705). Installation was easy enough and the cadence and speed passed the test (flashing green and red light on sensor) so I had no reason to doubt that it wouldn't return. However, about 1 month later when I went for a ride on the bike with the new sensor, my Garmin Edge 705 would not register cadence. The Garmin Edge 705 would not pair with the new GSC 10. I checked my other bike and it worked fine with the GSC 10 on that bike. I decided to write to Garmin about this "defective" GSC 10. The online form asks for software version which I wasn't sure of. When I checked the software version, I realized that version 3.3 just came out on December 10. I updated the software and now the GSC 10 on each bike works perfectly. The software history did not say it fixed any problems with pairing a second GSC 10 but it fixed the "problem" nonetheless.
Customer Review: What's wrong with it?
Summary: 4 Stars
That was my question when I was trying to get it set up. I thought the battery was dead so I replaced it. The forerunner I was trying to pair it with kept flashing an X across the cadence symbol, so I thought it wasn't working. Finally I gave up and started riding to test the rest of it. Once it started getting a continuous signal the forerunner showed the cadence symbol without the X through it and it displayed the cadence just fine. So far it seems to work great. This may be more of a complaint about the forerunner, but it is all one system. The forerunner should give some indication that it is properly paired. The flashing X gives the impression that it is not. It has also been mentioned by others that the setup light does not flash brightly or long enough to see it in normal daylight. Garmin should make a note of that in the setup guide so people don't mistakenly think it is not working... like I did.