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How to set your Home location on a Garmin Edge 800

Remember when you got your first car sat nav, and you could set your Home location, so that no matter where you were, you could always get it to navigate you back home? Read on to find out how your Garmin Edge 800 can do the same thing.

Awesome tips for making the most boring bike videos ever.

With the growing number of GoPro and other sports cameras on the market these days, YouTube now hosts thousands of videos from riders eager to share their experience with the world. So why are most of them so goddamn boring?

Readers questions: Transfer GPX file to Garmin?

I frequently get questions from readers, and one that crops up quite often goes something like this – “I’m doing a sportive event soon and I’ve downloaded the GPX of the route. How do I transfer the GPX file to my Garmin?”

How to use Strava to plan your bike maintenance.

Strava users know all about tracking their mileage totals, but did you know you can track mileage on individual components? How many miles have you done on those tyres since you put them on? What about that chain, or the cassette?

Reader’s Questions: How to rename a Garmin course file?

Have you ever tried to rename a course for your Garmin but couldn’t get it to work? In response to a question from a reader, here’s a simple way to do just that.