Beeline Bike GPS Computer - Velo 2 | Wireless Global Navigation Map | Weatherproof & 11+ Hours Battery Life | USB Charging | Sat Nav for Cycling with a Strap Mount Included | Glove Friendly

I know it's not a fully fledged cycle computer but it really does a phenomenal job at getting you from A to B. Using it in London which I don't know very well and is spot on every time with turn countdowns and rerouting works well if I go off course. My only observation is that the suggested route estimates are a bit on the longer side. I'm not a super fast rider and managing to get there in around 75% of time estimated. Other than that I love it!

It will drive you mad learning how to plan a journey it will divert you on a bicycle the app maps do not recognise your on a bicycle and on a bike path so i record my journeys.The map is great and beeps to let you know when to turn it sits in the stem of my bicycle and it's easy to pull off and put back on when you are going into a shop etc.Just lost one star because of the app even when I've uploaded my own paths it diverts the journey.I spent a long time setting up the path just for the app to ignore my gpx file and divert it.

Easy to use via the app. It works perfectly with my phone safely in my pocket or pannier. The mapping is clear, accurate and responsive to changes. Excellent battery life.

Brilliant and very simple device. It comes with an App for your phone that allows you to plan routes, connect to Strava and do other features, but the device itself just gives you one beep when your turn is approaching and two beeps at your turn. To show you where to go, it has a skeleton layout of the road ahead, with your path in white. It has a gyroscope to keep it properly aligned; my gripe with phone only navigation is that I find phone compasses to be unreliable, whereas this is very precise and accurate. It doesn't have loads of redundant info on the screen, just how far to the next junction and what the path ahead is doing. It makes it easy to glance at the device and check where you are going. It can tell you things like ETA, how far you have gone and other stats, but the main screen just has directions. Frankly, I just hate getting lost or having to double back and this fixes it. It does know all the cycle routes and doesn't try to send you down footpaths.

The media could not be loaded. This product doesn't do much, a few readouts and navigation in urban environments which your phone could do, it does nothing other than that so for £80 you'd think it was a high quality well made item, after all, that's how much a Fitbit or smartwatch costs and a phone mount is only about £10.This product is not well made at all, it feels like a toy and is made entirely of plastic, to even mount it properly to your stem you need to by a whole separate stem mount that costs more than a phone mount, it runs out of power faster than my Pixel 7 (which has battery drain issues showing how bad the velo's battery life really is) and mine stopped working after about a month, probably from vibrations caused by using it on a mountain bike, by the way, it's not warrantied for normal bike usage (ie water, moisture, dust, vibration)I can't see any reason to buy and use one of these, when your phone is likely more durable and has more features, buy a £10 mount and a years phone insurance, you'll be better off.

Update 2. Nearly a year later, the GPS on this gets confused on anything but city roads. If you are thinking of this for long rides—even using mainly cycleways—don't! There are far better, more resilient options available—some even cheaper.Update. I haven't used it in months. I bought a Garmin alternative (iGPSPORT BSC300) for around the same price. It does the same but with real maps, a better build, a colour screen, decent metrics and ANT support - should that be your thing. Mainly, it shows how overpriced this thing is. I do keep checking their website to see if they are producing a new, better-built one. This is because I like the quirkiness of Google Maps and Google's sometimes very useful local knowledge. But build quality still remains an issue for me.I’m now on my second of these. The first one went back after two weeks. Soon after buying, it developed a weird blemish at the bottom of the screen, or at least where the bezel is. It looked like air getting under a screen cover (no, I removed the paper one it comes with and there is no other). This got worse, spreading across the bezel and getting close to the screen. However, I liked the device and thus decided to return it and get a replacement. The replacement is better, but it too has started to develop the same blemish, although this time at the top of the device. This however has not got worse and I have simply decided to stick with it. However, I think this does indicate how cheaply built this is - it is not in any way robust and I would hate to think what might happen if you drop it. It’s a pity as the version for motorbikes - which I think can be used on bikes - is built much better and only costs an extra £60 - still meaning this thing costs hardly anything in the world of Garmin, Wahoo, etc. That version does not have the slightly better breadcrumb map this does and retains the original’s arrow pointing you in the right direction.Apart from this, at least up to the most recent firmware upgrade, this works well. Well, when I say well, it does what it’s supposed to do, and the app to plan your route is also easy to use. I have, however, had to turn off auto-pause. If you pause for too long, it can take ages to start up again. I have cycled for miles and this thing thinks I have not moved. And no, there is, as far as I can see, no way to unpause the device.Worse though, the recent firmware update seems to have broken it. Over the past two days, I have planned my routes and followed its instructions, or at least as best as I could. It continually thinks I am not cycling along the route it suggests, yet I am. It would be easy to think that this might be a GPS issue with the phone - if that is what it is using - yet if I open Google Maps at the same time, that places me in exactly the right place. Indeed, so bad was it yesterday that I simply ignored it for about 20 miles until it eventually sorted itself out. In that case, it seemed the app had stopped communicating with the device or was putting itself to sleep. When I opened the app, paused and restarted it jumped forward to my real location - yet the device did not! And yes, I have removed battery management from the app and given it all the permissions it needs. As I said, this started after the most recent device update. I hope that this is sorted soon with an update.So, overall, a useful device when it works but is cheaply made and structurally flawed. I also notice that new devices, with navigation, are coming out at the same price point. I bought this because I was tired of Garmin's buggy routing - anyone that has ever owned one - I have three - will know how slow they can be to route/reroute. I may give one of these ago also. Certainly, if this doesn't improve I will be giving it to a roadie, who all love these, due to their weight - or lack thereof. Battery life is impressive though

Not a regular long distance cyclist, but I bought the Velo2 to help with a week long ride in the Netherlands. With the limitless cobweb of cycle paths across the country I learned to trust the device and it didn’t let me down once, so much so that I only looked down for directions when it beeped a warning. Having used maps and phones for past rides I’m now hooked and enthused enough to be planning my next ride!