BeelineBike GPS Computer - Velo 2 | Wireless Global Navigation Map | Weatherproof & 11+ Hours Battery Life | USB Charging | Sat Nav for Cycling with a Strap Mount Included | Glove Friendly

I purchased the Beeline Velo 2 for a 14-day cycling trip between London and Edinburgh. In the past, I would plan the route in Komoot and use my iPhone to navigate. This time, I decided to try Velo 2 for its simplicity and to avoid having my expensive iPhone attached to the handlebar and taking daily abuse. I was THRILLED that I gave Velo 2 a try!Full disclosure, I did NOT use the Beeline app to create the daily routes. I am really comfortable using Komoot to plan my routes, though I could have easily done the same in the Beeline app. Once I created 14 daily routes, importing them into the Beeline was a snap. Each days’ ride showed up in the "Ride" tab, so it was just matter of selecting the day’s route and heading out. I put my iPhone in airplane mode to save battery life and off I went.My riding buddy also had the routes and used his Wahoo to navigate. 99% of the time we were in agreement when to turn (and there were a million turns each day), and I would say Velo 2 was more likely to be correct. Each day we rode down a combination of paved, hard packed gravel rails-to-trails, and even a few spots along the eastern coast that could be called walking paths.For me, the Velo 2 simple display is pure genius. It gives you just enough information to easily anticipate turns, and an audio cue that is nearly perfect. My only tiny complaint was I am getting hard of hearing and wish the audio turn que was a bit louder - but it’s perfectly fine for most riders. Originally, I thought the audio que was coming from my iPhone but only realized that wasn't the case when I let my buddy try out the unit on his bike and realized the sound actually came from within the Velo 2.As you can guess, it rains a lot in the UK, so the Velo 2's water resistance was tested for many hours. I never had a problem. Not quite sure if it is in fact waterproof, so I don't suggest you forget to take it out of your jersey and run it through the washer - which I almost did!The claimed battery life of 11+ hours seems correct. We rode most days from 8:00 to 16:00 and the Velo had more than 50% battery life left. I charged it each night, so I never actually ran it until it died to find out the true battery life, but from my experience, 11+ hours seem reasonable.In summary, I LOVE the Velo 2 and will continue to use it as my cycling computer. Some reviewers had less than perfect experiences with their Velo 2, but my 14-day, 8+ hour per day, rainy, sometimes bone jarring ride, has sold me. I hope the developers at Beeline resist all attempts to make it more complicated. Its beauty is its simplicity. If you want a detailed color moving map, heart monitor, altitude, etc. then Velo 2 is not for you, BUT for the rest of us, it is an amazing solution.

Easy to set up. There is a little bit of a use learning curve, but I very much appreciate not having my phone distract me on rides, particularly when navigating through congested areas to get back to the path from the pub.

so I want to start off by saying I've done two trips with this and have dropped it on concrete from pocket height because I somehow failed to put it in my pocket; and while it feels very light and weak this thing took the fall like a champ and did not even get scratched or dented.As for the use as a GPS in general it is pretty good, it is less of a GPS and more of an second screen for the app while on a route in a smaller package than your phone, which is great if you just want something simple and easy to use.you get some useful information and options while on a route like the ability to like/dislike a road (I have yet to see if this affects the routing yet because of my low # of rides but the map shows disliked roads from other people)it also shows your speed, distance to the end point+ an ETA (has been off by 1 min each time in terms of time till destination but not arrival time one example is it will say you have 5 mins left on the route but it will show a time of arrival that is 4 or 6 mins from now).overall the device is really nice and simple with the only issue I can see people having being the fact you have to use your phone to set the route. which on this this point I do wish that the device could hold a "home destination" that you could quick select from the device without opening your phone, but otherwise this is a pretty good nav.

This seems to be a very well-made piece of equipment. I enjoy using it but do have a couple of complaints. It comes with no instructions or tutorials so you have to just figure out how things work. I keep touching it wrong and end up turning it off or being on a screen I don’t want and not knowing how to get back to the one I use. Very frustrating unless you are someone who just intuitively knows how to work these things.

I purchased this for Mountain biking, only to find out it’s NOT capable of mapping trails.And also the build of this is soo flimsy, setting it up using buttons feels like it’s going to fall apart. They got one thing right though , it’s the design, it looks good. But what good is it if it’s not sturdy, not trail friendly at all.

So this thing does as advertised, it shows the Beeline navigation on your bike. What you might not know is just how tough of a little puck this thing is. I accidently put it through my laundry machine and it still works perfect!

Es un muy práctico de usar, tanto en ciudad como en la montaña (siempre y cuando se carguen previamente las rutas a seguir), hay que considerar que funciona como un accesorio del teléfono, por lo que hay que llevarlos juntos siempre.

STAY AWAY!It was working fine, great solution for navigation!But...Yesterday as I open the app, they now moved to start making you pay a monthly subscription for simple features!I understand if they want to add premium, complex features, yeah, add a membership option, but not for stuff as basic as voice navigation (hey gmaps and apple maps are free and both have voice guidance)Now I see that after paying over 100eur for this device, it might become useless the moment they decide to move basic navigation into a monthly subscription as well...

Ho acquistato il prodotto per poter seguire delle tracce per escursioni in e-bike. Ero un pò scettico e sinceramente seguiranno altri aggiornamenti perchè per ora testato solo in una escursione.I nostri percorsi sono quasi esclusivamente in collina/montagna e sono costituiti quasi esclusivamente da strade non asfaltate, single track ed a volta attraversiamo prati e terreni dove non c'è nessun sentiero.In questo primo test ho fatto molto asfalto e alcune strade bianche di montagna. Comunque il dispositivo ha seguito perfettamente il percorso impostato con una precisione sbalorditiva. Cosa molto interessante che ho scoperto e non sapevo è che a 90 metri dal punto di svolta emette un beep, ed a 30 metri emette un doppio beep così, anche se si è distratti, lui ci avverte.Altra cosa molto ma molto apprezzata è che se si è fuori traccia, indica la distanza dal percorso impostato e la direzione per rientrare nel percorso.Come prima impressione devo dire che fa veramente bene il suo lavoro. Ora lo metterò a dura prova facendo un percorso in mezzo ad una miriade di sentieri e vediamo come si comporta.In un giro di circa 5 ore ha consumato il 50% di batteria quindi ci può stare.Come detto, aggiornerò la recensione con più test ma per il momento 5 stelle con lode !!!!

Aufgrund einiger "nicht-5-Sterne-Bewertungen" war ich ein wenig skeptisch, hatte mich aber nach einem absoluten Fehlkauf des Garmin Edge Explore 2 bewußt für eine komplett andere Art der Navigation entschieden. Ich wurde nicht enttäuscht.Im Gegensatz zur schon unterirdischen Bedienerführung des Garmin passte beim Velo 2 einfach alles:- Intuitives Interface- Spielerisch einfache Ersteinrichtung- Überraschend gute Kartendarstellung in der App- Sichere und auf 10m absolut exakte NavigationIch hatte bis gestern das besagte Garmin zum Test. ich werde das Gerät in einer anderen Rezension noch bewerten. Hier geht es aber um das Beeline Velo II, und da bin ich äußerst positiv überrascht.Top: Das Beeline Velo 2 wirkt federleicht, ultramodern und einfach funktional.Die Routeneingabe kann gekoppelt per Beeline App erfolgen oder auch per Strava (nicht so meins und auch teuer) oder als Import von GPX-Dateien (z.B. Komoot). Insbesondere letztere App hat einfach die Nase vor bei MTB-Routen, das Beeline kann das einfach nicht, muß es aber wegen der Importmöglichkeit auch nicht. Der Import kostet nichts, die Route ist danach als Nebeneffekt sicher auf dem Handy gespeichert.Mein Vorgehen war simpel: Vorgefertigte Route von Komoot als GPX im Handy exportieren, in die Beeline App importieren und schon ist man startklar.Die Navigation - auch mitten im Wald - war absolut flüssig, Abweichungen abseits der geplanten Route führen aber zu Irritationen in der Navigation. Geplante Routen in der Beeline App sind aber auch offensichtlich auf Rennradsport ausgelegt: Straßen über alles.Die Planung also in Komoot. Die Navigation ist dann superflüssig in der Beeline App abgespeichert, die Anzeige erfolgt dann auf dem Velo 2-Display. Ich konnte übrigens das Display sehr gut ablesen, auch im hellsten Sonnenschein keinerlei Beanstandung, die Fotos zeigen das auch glaube ich deutlich. Wer hier meckert braucht eventuell eine besser entspiegelte Sonnenbrille.Mein Fazit - bisher: Tolles Gerät, sehr günstig und auf Straße ausgelegt. Wer wie ich Offroad fährt braucht eine andere App, von der man die Route dann exportiert. Das kann notfalls auch unterwegs geschehen, eine mangelnde Live-Unterstützung sehe ich - auch aus Kostengründen - nicht wirklich als Manko.Die Highlights- Schnelles und sicheres GPS, auf 10m genau, auch bei 50 km/h- Klare, schnörkelose Anzeige mit dezenter akustischer ("Piep Piep") Untermalung- Keine Sensorenunterstützung (Gottseidank, dafür habe ich meine SmartWatch)- Ausgezeichnet programmierte App mit erstaunlich guten Karten, schlägt Google bei weitem- Sehr einfache Erstellung von Routen mit Wegpunkten, intuitiv und schnell- Ändern von Routen durch Ziehen an Wegpunkten (Dreiecke), wie auf dem Desktop bei Google- Sehr niedriger Preis im Vergleich mit Garmin oder Wahoo und trotzdem übersichtlicher- Ein stylisches LeichtgewichtNegativ- Routenerstellung für Rennräder und Straßen optimiert (ist mir wayne, dafür benutze ich den Marktführer)So. Ich bin ganz offensichtlich sehr angetan von dem Velo II und vergebe 5 Sterne, ohne wenn und aber :) Das Gerät hätte meiner Meinung nach einen Red Dot Award für Design verdient. Goodbye ihr alten Platzhirsche Garmin und Wahoo.Aber auch so: Klasse Teil!

The media could not be loaded.  La verdad que la idea es muy buena. Minimalista, todo intuitivo. El problema es que es el segundo que cuando salgo de ruta y te pilla la lluvia, les pasa algo. Al primero daba error de los giroscopios y este se quedó sin pantalla. Una pena porque estaba encantado con él. Le metes la ruta con la app, el movil en la mochila y te va diciendo por donde ir pero solo para el verano. Ahora a comerme 3 soportes de tapa de potencia y el gps.