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

This is a simple but effective bit of technology. The box is neat and well designed, it comes with the unit, a connector base unit, and flexible bands for fixing the base unit to fix it all to the frame.Key thoughts.It relies on the phone app to navigate and track rides.I appreciated the simple and effective display.The turn by turn navigation was really good, a simplified map shows the key road junctions and it beeps once to get attention and then double beeps when you need to turn.Battery life is good, I rode for 5 hours and it only lost about 25% battery so I am confident that it would be okay for a full day.Overall, this is really impressive and an excellent purchase.

I brought this device for 2 reasons; 1. A simple navigation display without having to attach my phone to the handlebars, 2. A device that would be suitable for commuting in London. This device is good - the navigation is simple, easy to read, the beep prompts are good. It does feel and look a bit cheap in its plastic case with screen but in the short time and dozen journeys I've used the device, it's been easy to use and provides accurate navigation using cycle paths balanced with less congested roads.

Great little bit of kit, used for a week in the new forest, found places we wouldn't have found, Paired with Komoot for riding routes absolutely brilliant and very easy to use, remember to close your phone screen though!!

The product looks quite nice and is small and light. Unfortunately for the amount this device cost, I would have expected a less plasticky, more quality feel. The battery life is awful, it lasts an hour at most, considering the device is completely dependant on a connection to an app on your phone, where most of the work happens, I would have hoped it would last longer. The app itself is average at best, you would be better off using Google maps.The arrow directions on the screen of the device are quite good, but for a small amount more you could buy a low end garmin which would have much more functionality.Overall this was a disappointing purchase.

Easy to use via the app. It works perfectly with my phone safely in my pocket or pannier. The mapping is clear, accurate and responsive to changes. Excellent battery life.

Update 2. Nearly a year later, the GPS on this gets confused on anything but city roads. If you are thinking of this for long rides—even using mainly cycleways—don't! There are far better, more resilient options available—some even cheaper.Update. I haven't used it in months. I bought a Garmin alternative (iGPSPORT BSC300) for around the same price. It does the same but with real maps, a better build, a colour screen, decent metrics and ANT support - should that be your thing. Mainly, it shows how overpriced this thing is. I do keep checking their website to see if they are producing a new, better-built one. This is because I like the quirkiness of Google Maps and Google's sometimes very useful local knowledge. But build quality still remains an issue for me.I’m now on my second of these. The first one went back after two weeks. Soon after buying, it developed a weird blemish at the bottom of the screen, or at least where the bezel is. It looked like air getting under a screen cover (no, I removed the paper one it comes with and there is no other). This got worse, spreading across the bezel and getting close to the screen. However, I liked the device and thus decided to return it and get a replacement. The replacement is better, but it too has started to develop the same blemish, although this time at the top of the device. This however has not got worse and I have simply decided to stick with it. However, I think this does indicate how cheaply built this is - it is not in any way robust and I would hate to think what might happen if you drop it. It’s a pity as the version for motorbikes - which I think can be used on bikes - is built much better and only costs an extra £60 - still meaning this thing costs hardly anything in the world of Garmin, Wahoo, etc. That version does not have the slightly better breadcrumb map this does and retains the original’s arrow pointing you in the right direction.Apart from this, at least up to the most recent firmware upgrade, this works well. Well, when I say well, it does what it’s supposed to do, and the app to plan your route is also easy to use. I have, however, had to turn off auto-pause. If you pause for too long, it can take ages to start up again. I have cycled for miles and this thing thinks I have not moved. And no, there is, as far as I can see, no way to unpause the device.Worse though, the recent firmware update seems to have broken it. Over the past two days, I have planned my routes and followed its instructions, or at least as best as I could. It continually thinks I am not cycling along the route it suggests, yet I am. It would be easy to think that this might be a GPS issue with the phone - if that is what it is using - yet if I open Google Maps at the same time, that places me in exactly the right place. Indeed, so bad was it yesterday that I simply ignored it for about 20 miles until it eventually sorted itself out. In that case, it seemed the app had stopped communicating with the device or was putting itself to sleep. When I opened the app, paused and restarted it jumped forward to my real location - yet the device did not! And yes, I have removed battery management from the app and given it all the permissions it needs. As I said, this started after the most recent device update. I hope that this is sorted soon with an update.So, overall, a useful device when it works but is cheaply made and structurally flawed. I also notice that new devices, with navigation, are coming out at the same price point. I bought this because I was tired of Garmin's buggy routing - anyone that has ever owned one - I have three - will know how slow they can be to route/reroute. I may give one of these ago also. Certainly, if this doesn't improve I will be giving it to a roadie, who all love these, due to their weight - or lack thereof. Battery life is impressive though

This is a great product for what I needed. I don't want heart rate, power, cadence, calories blah blah blah. I just want a cycle computer that I can use to navigate and tell me my speed and time. This does exactly what I want and for a great price - much cheaper than Garmin etc alternatives.The app is easy to use. The app can choose a route for you or you can upload your own gpx file. Works best when it chooses the route, but satisfactory when you upload gpx file.The device is also easy to mount on your bike and very easy to use while on the move.

Used this to find a few new routes to and from my work place. Despite not having a clue where it was taking me, I trusted the directions it got me safely from A to B. Occasionally it routed me on pedestrian walkways but that wasn’t too much of a prob. My only gripe so far is the build quality feels a bit cheap, very plasticky so I’m taking my review down by a star for that reason. For £100 I’d expect slightly better materials. That being said it’s a nice, fun way to get around and the device works well.