Beeline Velo 2 Cycling Computer

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5/ 5

Top product.

I had the opportunity to test the Beeline and compare it with a Garmin 1040. The Garmin can do a lot but is cumbersome, the Beeline is fast, light and simple. My wishes: navigation and easy GPX import from Komoot with upload to Strava. My sports watch records heart rate (heart rate belt) and GPS track. The Beeline is a cycling computer that basically lets the phone do all the work. GPS signal, route calculations; everything happens on your phone. The Beeline itself is basically just a screen with a speaker. The Beeline beeps briefly before (+/- 100 m) and at junctions. The beep is loud enough. The app is very user-friendly in terms of creating routes and importing routes. There are direct links to Strava and Komoot for 'routes to bike' and 'routes cycled'. For routes you create in the app, there is automatic recalculation if you drive the wrong way. With an external GPX, the direction to your route is displayed and there is no recalculation. Loading a route from Komoot is quickly done and synchronisation is very fast. You can save the route in Komoot and immediately it is available in the Beeline app. The Beeline is always on my bike. When I go to bike, I set everything up on my phone and press 'Go'. As soon as you then accelerate the Beeline, it works immediately and you see the navigation on the screen without having to sync anything else or the like. The screen is perfectly readable in the sun. My phone's battery uses roughly 7% per hour of biking for the GPS. The Beeline itself has a battery that lasts about 10h. The only drawback I've found is that if you don't have internet when loading a new route, it won't work. But when do you not have internet these days? Meanwhile, I have cycled 250 km with it and am very enthusiastic. Whereas the 'real' bike computers regularly do not synchronise well or do not want to load routes, the Beeline has served me perfectly every time. No more Garmin for me.