It's time.  Time for 'Old Yeller' Edge 705 to sit, stay and roll over for the Garmin Edge 800, that is.  It takes all the best features of the cyclists' delight, the Edge 705, and adds a few twists of its own.  Features such as touchscreen navigation, which permits the user to pan and scroll maps, shift between waypoints and select their preferred fitness features with an effortless gesture.  Far more intuitive than a button-control interface, no?

If you'd impugn the integrity of a touchscreen on a device made to endure more than a few knocks - a fair point I grant you - you'd best put your misguided notions out to pasture.  The good wizards at GARMIN are no fools, and have rendered the Edge 800's display just as water-resistant and weatherproof as the rest of its enclosure.

Yield the burn with the Garmin Edge 800.

When you go cycling you don't want to bother with a GPS fitness trainer that doesn't provide the real-time data that you need - data like distance, speed, location, elevation and even heart rate-based calorie computation and speed / cadence information. You don't want a GPS trainer that won't allow you to compare that data over time to track your improvement, thanks to websites such as Garmin Connect.

Surely, you'd loathe a GPS trainer that wasn't easy to use; that didn't come with its own bicycle mount and necessary accessories such as wireless heart rate monitor and speed / cadence sensor, that didn't provide everything you need to start training right away.

No, you'd just walk right on past and choose the Garmin Edge 500, because let's face it - it's not like all the others.

Meditative, beneficial, exhausting; you know why you exercise, but how much better if only you could get an informed second opinion? Well ladies and gents with the Garmin Edge 305 the doctor is in, and yes, he does house calls. Quite simply, the Edge 305 is the kind of device that turns schlubs into pros - it automatically measures and records your efforts and allows you to get back at a later time and observe and compare those results with more recent ones. Not only that, but being so easy to set up there'll be more doing and less lollygagging - simply turn on, acquire satellites and go.

Speaking of satellites, the GPS receiver is sensitive enough to acquire a signal even beneath dense tree canopies or within canyons. Stellar. The Edge 305 even comes with Auto-Lap and Auto-Pause functions so you don't miss a beat, even if you're losing the rhythm. You don't have to go it alone either: with Virtual partner you can train against a virtual competitor. When you're done you can use the Garmin Training Center software to analyze, graph and compare your data and get advice for when you might be lagging in certain parts of your route.

The Garmin Edge 305 - you may not live forever but you'll never live twice.