![]() ![]() ![]() The Miles uses the familiar Garmin style mount and there are speed and cadence sensors along with a heart rate monitor and an optional ‘out-front’ mount accessories. In this day and age where bike riders rely more on navigation and recording and tracking their tours, GPS capability is a must-have for many bike riders. It follows the Discovery Pro and is the second product to include GPS functionality. The Miles is the first model without the integrated bike-light so sports a more modern and compact design weighing 65 grams. The Shanren Miles is the latest evolution of 8 years of Bike Computer with Integrated bike lights. Let’s come back to Power Estimation later and look at some of the other details. You don’t need to get a power meter any more as the Miles cycle computer. The early bird price is approximately AUD 85 and the eventual retail price will be about AUD 115 which makes it a very cheap GPS cycle computer that has a few interesting features… most notably, “World’s First Power Estimation”. However, for the last few years, the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform is more of a marketing platform and Shanren previously used it to fund and promote heart rate monitor and Raz-pro bike light. AUD 6,500 funding goal has only taken a few days to quadruple their target. The new Miles follows suit has just launched on Kickstarter and with the ca. The Hammerhead Karoo, Trimm.bike computer and the XOSS Sprint all ran successful kickstarter campaigns and crowdfunded projects to finance the tech before committing to production. Breaking away from clunky designs, the Miles cycle computer could be the cheapest way to get a GPS cycle computer onto your bike. Miles is a new GPS cycle computer from Shanren, a Chinese brand who have released a few bike tech products including lights, a bike camera, heart rate monitor and the existing Discovery Pro GPS Cycle Computer. GPS cycle computers are not cheap, the ‘usual suspects’ such as the Garmin Edge 130 or the Wahoo Bolt are usually priced north of AUD 250. ![]()
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