Coros Dura Solar GPS Bike Computer Review: Battery Life for Days

So simple as it could appear, the machine actually isn’t: The Dura additionally has a full menu of navigation options, like sensible rerouting that makes use of Google Maps, guaranteeing essentially the most up to date street closure notifications; turn-by-turn instructions; an in-app route builder; and the selection between topo or panorama view. For many who wish to geek out on coaching plans or exercises, there’s a complete library of each, downloadable from the Coros companion app (iOS, Android), providing every thing from a 4-Minute VO₂ Max problem to a Six-Week Newbie Base Plan. Any customized coaching plan that may be downloaded to the Coros app could be synced to the Dura.

Extra pluses: Pairing it with each an iPhone and an Android (individually) was issue-free, and the machine works seamlessly with its companion app in addition to with Strava, Coaching Peaks, Komoot, Journey with GPS and others. (Dura doesn’t but sync to Zwift, however guarantees to quickly.) The display show is intuitive to make use of. At 2.7 inches, the scale isn’t good and compact, however cyclists with lower than excellent imaginative and prescient would possibly must squint to trace pace, grade, distance, coronary heart price, time of day, and journey time on one display, and common energy, lap energy, pace, coronary heart price, grade, cadence, common pace, and distance on one other (if using with a coronary heart price monitor and energy meter).

The coloured maps got here in helpful the day I rode Redhead, a mountain bike park in northern Minnesota I’d solely been to as soon as earlier than and wanted assist navigating the community of trails. There are additionally a bazillion methods to maintain you on observe with alerts for pace, cadence, coronary heart price, diet, and energy—all of which I fortunately turned off.

Damaged Goals

I used to be most desirous about how the promised straightforward consumer interface, sturdiness, and battery life transferred to the path. Two of us examined it over a couple of months of mountain biking and gravel using, and the thrilling information is that the battery life actually is as strong as Coros says it’s.

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