The Bryton Rider 50E and 50T.Brand new in Australia the Bryton Rider. Great to see a new GPS cycling computer on the market. The Bryton Rider gives a middle ground between the Garmin edge 500 and the edge 705 (soon to be the edge 800)
We have only received them in the store today so I haven’t had a chance to fully test one yet.
However from taking it out of the box and getting charged up, so far it doesn’t look like they have missed
anything. We currently have two options available the rider 50 and the rider 50T the difference is that the 50T comes with a heart rate strap and a cadence sensor.
The Bryton comes standard with a map of Australia powered by OSM (open source mapping) which is farily well detailed and should show most of the Australia streets, the handy thing about OSM mapping is that the user community can update the maps so you will be able to have free mapping update for the life of the Bryton.
As you would expect it has a customisable screen where you can choose from the expect data fields, Speed, Distance, Heart rate, Gradient, etc etc.
It also has a digital compass (pictured).
It has a knock knock feature for transferring data (you have seen the bump application on your Android or Iphone) you can transfer data to other users by tapping the units together, which is a pretty cool feature if you want to share data while out on the road.
The computer interface is very user friendly, rather than reading the manual (yes I know against my previous advice) I took it out of the box and plugged it in to my PC and it picked it up straight away and then prompted me to download the software required to transfer the data to the website, no disks, no download no fuss.
We have only had it in our hands for a couple of hours so I haven’t been able to do any feild testing or transfer any data to the web as yet.
Once this has been done I will provide an update on what that experience is like.
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