Garmin, a global leader in satellite navigation, have recently announced the Edge 1000 - "a top of the line cycling computer for competing, connecting, and navigating." 

Whether riding for a personal best or seeing where you stack up against the pros, the Edge 1000 aims to help cyclists reach their goals with advanced segment capabilities including the ability to view start and finish point alerts, and plan rides using segments. Edge 1000 also offers instant uploads to social media, live tracking, on-the-go upload and download of data from Garmin Connect™, and advanced bike-specific navigation and mapping capabilities. 

Andrew Silver, Garmin EMEA Product Manager, said: "The Edge 1000 combines the essential legacy features cyclists love from the Edge Touring and Edge 810, with exciting new features including a large high-resolution color touch screen display, advanced smartphone connectivity, and challenging segment features that will take cyclists of any ability to the next level." 

Some of the key features include: 

Stay Connected - Keep track of what's going on in the outside world with Edge 1000's incoming calls and text message alerts, and LiveTrack, which allows friends and family to follow races and training activities in real time. Riders can compete and challenge themselves on Garmin Connect with new segment and leaderboard capabilities including alerts for upcoming segment starts and their finish points, and Virtual Partner automatic synching with previous best, or the overall segment leader. 

Navigate the Roads - Like the Edge Touring, Edge 1000 comes with preloaded maps and points of interest, including parks and trails, to help cyclists find their way. The ease of planning rides with Edge 1000's round-trip routing capabilities allows riders to simply enter how far they want to ride and Edge 1000 will calculate up to three cycling-friendly routes for them, even allowing them to review the elevation profiles before making a selection. 

Exceptional Display - Adopted from the renowned Edge 810 and 510, Edge 1000's display is fully customisable with performance monitoring, advanced workout/training compatibility, and activity profiles, saving data and routing preferences to allow easy transition between different types of riding, such as road, mountain or touring. The large 3" high-resolution color touch screen display is optimal for gloves and wet days, and has an ambient light sensor for riding at night or through changing light areas such as shade and tunnels. The display also features dual orientation* so users can position the Edge 1000 horizontally, for a wider view, or vertically, to see the route ahead. 

Compatibility - Edge 1000 is the first Garmin bike computer that is compatible with Shimano Di2 electronic shifting systems to display current gear on the screen. It's also compatible with ANT+ power meters including Vector™, Garmin's unique pedal-based power meter that measures total power, left/right balance and cadence. Edge 1000 comes with a preloaded power-based workout to calculate functional threshold power, from which riders can base their power training zones, and has a battery life of up to 15 hours. 

Edge 1000 will be available to purchase first week of May 2014 for a suggested retail price of £439.00, and £499.00 for the bundle including HRM3 and new speed/cadence sensors. 

For information visit www.garmin.com.