Is the New COROS Dura GPS Good Enough to Challenge Garmin and Wahoo? 

I was gonna say, Corus seems a bit too similar to Chorus for a bicycling product. I thought campy's lawyers were gonna have a field day.

Absolutely agree 👍

At one time, I had one of their watches, and it was pretty decent.

Honestly, you shouldn't need to be riding with a screen most of the time. Exceptions are intervals or GPS. It is still nice to record all your rides though, even if you don't look at the screen while your ride. It's nice to have the statistics and stuff over time, at least for me.

There are definitely a lot of updates coming and some aspects need improving, but I've been riding it for several days out of the box and it's delivered everything I needed from a computer with no apparent bugs, crashes and managed to easily download a route and upload to Strava so on the basic features front it has delivered so far. I'll keep testing it over the coming weeks though

Don't think it's fair to compare the 2 channels tbh. While there's undoubtedly some overlap, ultimately they serve different audiences and review in very different ways.

@@davidarthur Fair enough, but when two of the preeminent GPS/tech reviewers on the 'net (GPLama and DC Rainmaker) say it's not fully baked yet I tend to listen. That said: Coros has an excellent track record with updates and bug fixes on their wearables, and hopefully that excellence transcends to their new GPS unit. Having watched your review as well as those from GPLama, DC Rainmaker, and DesFit I see a unit that's good... for a circa 2017-18 unit. Let's hope they can catch up quickly. Certainly the folks at Hammerhead, Wahoo, and Bryton have done well with fast evolution of their GPS computers, and Coros' programmers are hopefully hearing about the issues and furiously working on patches and fixes. Because more competition in the cycling GPS market is a *good* thing for everyone.

@@davidarthur according to both GPLama and DC Rainmaker this unit is nowhere close to being consumer ready. GPS accuracy seems ok and battery life looks good but everything else has major issues. Bad power numbers, no street name information, poor routing information, buggy rerouting, etc., etc. This seems like a lot more than what you are claiming and unfortunately this review makes it seem as if you will just promote any product they put in front of you without being honest about it's flaws. That's a shame.

I have a corps watch and was expecting this to be much more expensive, but it seems like a great product if they iron out the bugs.

It is.

I agree. I haven't seen such a hideous electronic device in a long time.

Depends if you want a handlebar decoration for short rides, or a device with good enough battery life to see you through a long event. 😂

I don't mind it

I'm coming from a Garmin Etrex 32x, I can't downgrade aesthetically speaking

Interesting thanks for sharing

They have not paid for this video :)

The scroll wheel will be good with gloves

Your phone doesn’t like sun or cold temperatures, doesn’t has buttons… is to large and so on. When you don’t need a bike computer maybe you don’t need a bike. ;)

For me, I am doing a fairly busy weekend on the bike(should be about 680km in total). I would rather not have an OLED screen turned on for a lot of hours, for the turn by turn navigation and other data. Having easy to read, accurate data, and not absolutely killing my phone battery is an absolute game changer, cause if something goes terribly wrong and I have no charge in my phone... I would rather not be stranded in the ass end of nowhere.

You won't understand till you have one. It's a gamechanger to your cycling experience.

No one stopping you from using cheap smartphone as bike computer. Good luck with the heat though

Sounds like you might want to look into a model in the Garmin Etrex range, there are some useful blogs online about using it for bikepacking.

I think you should definitely check check the Garmin Edge Explore 2. It has most of the functions of the more expensive 840 and 1040 for less money. The only thing that it lacks are the advanced training features. The battery can last up to 20h of riding and the screen is bigger than most cycling computers. The Etrex is more oriented towards hiking and, although reliable it looks really clunky to me in terms of user interface.

​@@paulmeghea9500, thank you and @davidbell1250 for advice. I definitely check on these models.

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