Garmin Edge 1040 Solar GPS Bike Computer

Keep on pushing. Power Glass™ solar charging extends battery life up to 42 minutes per hour in battery saver mode.  Ride farther, charge less. With solar charging, get up to 45 hours of battery life in demanding use cases and up to 100 hours in battery saver mode.

Never stop cycling with the ultimate solar powered GPS bike computer you can depend on when you need it most. Edge 1040 Solar is ready for any ride, from remote gravel trails to epic climbs.  Dense tree cover and the urban canyon are no match for its spot-on accuracy with multi-band GNSS.  Ride farther, charge less. Get up to 35 hours of battery life in demanding use plus up to 70 hours in battery saver mode.

Features:

• Solar Charging: The Power Glass solar charging lens extends battery life, giving you up to 100 hours in battery saver mode or up to 45 hours in demanding use cases. During daytime rides, it adds up to 42 minutes per hour in battery saver mode and up to 20 minutes per hour in demanding use cases.
• Multi-Band GNSS: Get better positional accuracy and coverage — even in the most challenging environments — with multi-system, multi-band GNSS technology.
• Turn-by-turn Directions: Never get lost with turn-by-turn directions and alerts that notify you of upcoming turns.
• Off-course Recalculation: Feel free to pause route guidance and off-course notifications while you go off-course to explore. When you’re ready to get back on track, Edge 1040 will show you the way.
• Incident Detection: This Edge automatically sends a message with your location to preloaded emergency contacts if it detects an incident.
• Bike Alarm: The PIN-protected bike alarm will notify you on your compatible smartphone if your bike is moved while you’re inside getting water or making a pit stop.
• VARIA™ Compatibility: Pair the Edge 1040 bike computer with your Varia rearview radar and lights so you can easily see and be seen.
• Grouptrack Feature: Keep an eye on your riding companions, even when they fall out of sight — and let them keep an eye on you. Group Track can keep tabs on up to 50 of your friends at once. Just look at your screen to see updates.
• Ride Type-specific Maps: Ride like a local, whatever your bike type, with improved maps that highlight popular roads and trails plus searchable points of interest (POIs).
• Trailforks App: With routable worldwide MTB trail data and POIs from Trailforks, easily search for trails directly on your Edge device. Or download the Trailforks app to transfer your planned routes from the Trailforks website.
• Shimano Steps ebike System Compatible: View a dedicated eBike status screen, data fields and support for system status and warning messages. Even see assist level, gear position, battery life and more during a ride.
• Stamina Insights: While you ride, get stamina insights so you can keep an eye on how much you have left in the tank.
• Cycling Ability and Course Demands: Classify your strengths as a cyclist, focus on improvement, and prepare for the demands of a specific course.
• Power Guide: Recommended power targets help you manage your efforts throughout a course.
• Dynamic Performance Monitoring: Get more insight about how your body is responding to training. Track VO2 max, recovery time, training load, training load focus, and more.
• Training Status: Using new indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and performance, get insight into your overall effort — and whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.
• Event Adaptive Training: Stay race-ready with training tips and daily suggested workouts. Plus, view your entire week of daily suggested workouts — which adapt to match your performance, recovery and the demands of upcoming events — in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar directly on your Edge device.
• Daily Suggested Workouts: For training guidance that takes you and your fitness level into account, get daily ride suggestions based on your current training load and VO2 max.
• SYNC Training Plans : Get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the Garmin Connect smartphone app, or sync seamlessly to your Edge device from other apps, including the TrainingPeaks app. Plus, get prompts to complete a missed workout.
• Heat and Altitude Acclimation: Prepare yourself for any environment. See how your body is holding up in different environments with heat and altitude acclimation.
• ClimbPro Feature: Automatically see the remaining ascent and grade when you’re climbing while following a route or course. This helps you gauge your effort and see how much you have left to suffer. You can even save your climbs for postride review on your device or in the Garmin Connect app.
• Nutrition and Hydration Alerts : Get the insight you need to stay fueled, mile after mile. Edge 1040 will notify you when it’s time to hydrate or eat.
• Cycling Dynamics: Take advantage of advanced cycling metrics designed to give insight into how your performance changes based on variable conditions such as position, bike setup, ride duration and more.
• MTB Dynamics: Track the epic details of every ride with mountain biking metrics such as jump count, jump distance and hang time.
• GRIT™ and FLOW™ Metrics: Grit rates the difficulty of a ride using GPS, elevation and other data. Flow measures how smoothly you descend a trail, so you have a score to beat next time.
• Intensity Minutes: How hard did you ride? Your Edge device will tell you when you earned your intensity minutes with each activity.
• Smart Trainer Compatibility: Pair Edge 1040 with your Tacx indoor trainer so you can ride when you want and where you want.
• Extended Battery Life: Edge 1040 will get up to 35 hours of battery life — even in demanding use cases — and up to 70 hours in battery saver mode. Double that battery life with the optional Garmin Charge™ power pack.