Garmin Edge 1040 GPS Solar Bike Computer

Garmin Edge 1040 Solar - The Bike Computer Powered By The Sun
How much do we all love Garmin for their reliably precise, high-quality gear? You need never stop cycling with this Garmin Edge 1040 Solar Bike Computer at your disposal. As the ultimate solar powered GPS bike computer, the Garmin Edge 1040 will provide you with the confidence to go deep into dense tree cover and the urban canyon without losing its spot-on accuracy with multi-band GNSS. And, you can ride like a local with ride type-specific maps and navigation wherever you go knowing that you can always depend on the Edge 1040 when you need it most.

Solar Charging
Ready for any ride, from remote gravel trails to epic climbs 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.

Ride Farther, And Charge Less
The best thing about the Garmin Edge 1040 is that you can now ride farther, and charge less with up to 35 hours of battery life in demanding use plus up to 70 hours in battery saver mode. And, you'll always know how much is left in your tank with stamina insights. One of the many benefits of a device like this is that your cycling ability and the challenges/demands of your chosen ride-courses will help you to understand your strengths and weaknesses and allow you to customise your training to improve your capabilities in those areas.

The Peak Of Performance
While you ride, get stamina insights so you can keep an eye on how much you have left in the tank. Classify your strengths as a cyclist, focus on improvement, and prepare for the demands of a specific course. Recommended power targets help you manage your efforts throughout a course. Get more insight into how your body is responding to training and track VO2 Max, recovery time, training load, training load focus and more.

How Effective Is Your Training?
Automatically evaluate your recent exercise history and performance indicators to see if you're training productively, peaking or overreaching. Training guidance that takes you and your fitness level into account, get daily ride suggestions based on your current training load and VO2 max. Get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the Garmin ConnectT smart-device app, or sync seamlessly to your Edge device from other apps, including the TrainingPeaks app. Plus, get prompts to complete a missed workout.

Prepare Yourself For Any Environment
See how your body is holding up in different environments with heat and altitude acclimation. 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 post-ride 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.

MTB 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. Track the epic details of every ride with mountain biking metrics such as jump count, jump distance and hang time. Grit and Flow, 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.

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 ChargeT power pack.

Multi-Band GNSS
Get better positional accuracy and coverage - even in the most challenging environments - with multi-system, multi-band GNSS technology. With 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. Or download the Trailforks app to transfer your planned routes from the Trailforks website. With Forksight Mode, it automatically displays upcoming forks in the trail and gives you context by showing where you are within a trail network.

Turn-By-Turn Directions
Never get lost with turn-by-turn directions and alerts that notify you of upcoming turns. 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, it will show you the way.

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.

inReach Device Compatibility
Stay in touch wherever you ride by pairing Edge with a compatible inReach device. View and reply to messages, share trip data, and trigger interactive SOS alerts.

VariaT Compatibility
Pair the Edge 1040 bike computer with your Varia rearview radar and Lights so you can easily see and be seen.

Features To Keep You Safe
This Edge automatically sends a message with your location to pre-loaded emergency contacts if it detects an incident. The PIN-protected bike alarm will notify you on your smartphone if your bike is moved while you're inside getting water or making a pit stop. Stay in Touch4 with your riding crew when you get separated from the pack. With the GroupTrack feature, keep an eye on your riding companions, even when they fall out of sight - and let them keep an eye on you. GroupTrack can keep tabs on up to 50 of your friends at once. Just look at your screen to see updates.

Smart Notifications
Receive texts and alerts right on your Edge device when paired with your compatible smartphone.

Sync With Garmin Connect
The Garmin Connect app is home to a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete - and even share their triumphs via social media.

Connect IQT Store
Download custom data fields and get apps and widgets from our Connect IQ Store app downloaded to your compatible smartphone.

Smart Trainer Compatibility
Pair Edge 1040 with your Tacx indoor trainer so you can ride when you want and where you want. With the automatic setup feature, also be ready to ride in moments, instead of wasting time configuring settings. Get prepopulated custom ride profiles based on your previous Edge bike computer, ride types or your sensors. Once on your Edge, you can manage your ride profiles directly from your device or compatible smartphone.