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Lost Garmin 830, Downieville

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Pushbroom

Discussion Starter · Jul 17, 2021

Reaching out to the tribe. I lost my Garmin 830 in Downieville on 7/3, in front of the pizza place. I contacted both bike shops and the restaurant several times as well as the Sheriff’s Office in Downieville. The last known location still shows it up there, so I’m hoping someone saw it on the ground and picked it up with good intentions.

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mtnbkrmike

· #2 · Jul 17, 2021 (Edited)

I recently got my 830 as a birthday present. I would be gutted if I lost it.

I am not totally familiar with it yet but could you not possibly track it?

Using the Garmin Connect App to Locate a Lost Edge Device | Support Center

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Best of luck finding it. If you can't locate it, maybe we can all contribute a little bit to fund the cost of a new one for you. I would contribute!

15 or 20 kind hearted people contributing $25 each and boom! Less than a cost of a decent lunch, and far more gratifying. Count me in.

Edit: nvm. I see you are all over the "last known location" thing. But I would still be down with helping you get a new one ASAP.

Pushbroom

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jul 17, 2021

mtnbkrmike said:
I recently got my 830 as a birthday present. I would be gutted if I lost it.

I am not totally familiar with it yet but could you not possibly track it?

Using the Garmin Connect App to Locate a Lost Edge Device | Support Center

Garmin Support Center for Canada is where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and resources to help with all of your Garmin products.

support.garmin.com

Best of luck finding it. If you can't locate it, maybe we can all contribute a little bit to fund the cost of a new one for you. I would contribute!

15 or 20 kind hearted people contributing $25 each and boom! Less than a cost of a decent lunch, and far more gratifying. Count me in.

Edit: nvm. I see you are all over the "last known location" thing. But I would still be down with helping you get a new one ASAP.

Thanks for the offer, but fortunately I'm in a good spot financially. You could donate any money to a local high schools mtn bike team or trail advocacy/building group.

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mtnbkrmike

· #4 · Jul 17, 2021 (Edited)

Pushbroom said:
Thanks for the offer, but fortunately I'm in a good spot financially. You could donate any money to a local high schools mtn bike team or trail advocacy/building group.

Fantastic!

Re-reading my post, it sounds a little cringeworthy. Sorry about that. It was written with the best of intentions.

Good luck in your search.

Cary

· #5 · Jul 17, 2021

That really sucks. I had my 130 fall out of my bag on the shuttle and the driver had it at the shop when I got back down.

Catmandoo

· #6 · Jul 18, 2021

Note that Garmin provides these with a tether. I'd use it next time, helps keep the device on the bar if the mount fails or takes a hit. Hope you find it.

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Forest Rider

· #7 · Jul 18, 2021

Without knowing the circumstances of how the unit was lost -I can confirm the tether works wonderfully.

mtnbkrmike

· #8 · Jul 18, 2021

Catmandoo said:
Note that Garmin provides these with a tether. I'd use it next time, helps keep the device on the bar if the mount fails or takes a hit. Hope you find it.

Did he lose it while riding, or did he forget it at the pizza place while slamming a piece of pizza and a beer, post ride, after having taken it off the bike mount? If the latter, the tether may not have made a tinker's damn of difference.

I haven't used the tether to date. It seems a little lame and inconvenient to me. That said, maybe this is my chance to rethink the whole tether thing, in light of this thread...

Le Duke

· #9 · Jul 18, 2021

mtnbkrmike said:
Did he lose it while riding, or did he forget it at the pizza place while slamming a piece of pizza and a beer, post ride, after having taken it off the bike mount? If the latter, the tether may not have made a tinker's damn of difference.

I haven't used the tether to date. It seems a little lame and inconvenient to me. That said, maybe this is my chance to rethink the whole tether thing, in light of this thread...

Inconvenient?

It's a 5 second girth hitch that will save you several hundred dollars.

I genuinely hope this was a joke.

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mtnbkrmike

· #10 · Jul 18, 2021 (Edited)

Le Duke said:
Inconvenient?

It's a 5 second girth hitch that will save you several hundred dollars.

I genuinely hope this was a joke.

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Nope. No joke. I don't mean to cause you any distress, but nobody I know uses that tether for the same reason. And pretty much everyone I ride with has an Edge, of one variety of another.

I am looking at my Edge every now and then during the ride. I got the mountain bike bundle which includes the silicone case and secure bar mount (and the wheel speed/distance sensor). Pretty sure it's reasonably safe, tether-free.

Livin on the edge. Keeps me feelin alive.

Again though, I may re-think this. And yes - that tether is a bit of a pita for me to use. I guess I should consider myself lucky if I consider something like this a pita. All things considered, if this is my worst concern, I'm doing well!

Mark16q

· #11 · Jul 18, 2021

The tether takes 2 seconds. I know 2 people that lost their garmin both not using the tether. Maybe some aren’t sure how to use it?

mtnbkrmike

· #12 · Jul 18, 2021 (Edited)

Mark16q said:
The tether takes 2 seconds. I know 2 people that lost their garmin both not using the tether. Maybe some aren't sure how to use it?

It's dead simple to use. It's just a bit of a pita looping it around something when I twist the Edge onto the mount, and take it off. That said, I only tried the tether once and tossed it back into the box.

Heading back out first thing tomorrow morning. I will try it again then.

How did they lose their Edge? Did they crash? What kind of mount were they using? Why didn't they just look for it and find it?

I would have thought that the tether would be more useful for preventing a bad impact, than preventing the Edge's loss. I'm looking at mine all the time while riding. The thing is awesome AF. I would know when it was gone within 3 seconds. Maybe the novelty hasn't worn off yet.

Pushbroom

Discussion Starter · #13 · Jul 18, 2021

mtnbkrmike said:
Did he lose it while riding, or did he forget it at the pizza place while slamming a piece of pizza and a beer, post ride, after having taken it off the bike mount? If the latter, the tether may not have made a tinker's damn of difference.

I haven't used the tether to date. It seems a little lame and inconvenient to me. That said, maybe this is my chance to rethink the whole tether thing, in light of this thread...

No, I lost it after my ride from Gold Lake-Jamison trail(?)-Lavezolla. I was kinda bonked and had just uploaded my ride from the pizza places wifi. I believe it dropped out of my helmet as I was walking back to the car in the parking lot. Totally my fault for not stashing it properly.

Pushbroom

Discussion Starter · #14 · Jul 18, 2021

mtnbkrmike said:
It's dead simple to use. It's just a bit of a pita looping it around something when I twist the Edge onto the mount, and take it off. That said, I only tried the tether once and tossed it back into the box.

Heading back out first thing tomorrow morning. I will try it again then.

How did they lose their Edge? Did they crash? What kind of mount were they using? Why didn't they just look for it and find it?

I would have thought that the tether would be more useful for preventing a bad impact, than preventing the Edge's loss. I'm looking at mine all the time while riding. The thing is awesome AF. I would know when it was gone within 3 seconds. Maybe the novelty hasn't worn off yet.

I went to town the next day and asked at both bike shops, the pizza place, the information booth and the grocery store.

Forest Rider

· #15 · Jul 18, 2021

I almost never crash, about 3 times since 2012.

Can't remember the day I crashed with the 830 on my Chameleon but it hurt just because of where I did have the incident.
When I picked up the bike, the 830 was a dangler. Mount is affixed with the o-ring type mount and mount was fine -but somehow the unit popped off.
I have had my other bike on the ground once too but it didn't fall all. At that point, the stumpjumper incident is using the MTB mount.
It's easy to get the tether on, but takes 2x as long to unmount it from my stumpjumper based on the access room between the MTB mount clamp and the stem.

Cary

· #16 · Jul 18, 2021

Put me in the camp of using the tether. It is easy insurance against a $400 loss.

It wouldn’t have helped the OP, as after the ride, too bad it wasn’t turned in.

mtnbkrmike

· #17 · Jul 19, 2021 (Edited)

Just finished a 4 hour blast. I was 100% cognizant of the apparent need for the tether by others, and checked things out pretty throughly today before, during and after the ride. I am in no way trying to be an a$$ here, but I fail to understand why everyone in this thread sees an unconditional need for it.

I appreciate that it's not all that cumbersome to use. I prefer not to use it, but more fundamentally, what I don't understand is what its use will prevent.

And yes - I get that I seem to be in a camp of one on this. I am 100% open minded and would like to understand what I am missing.

The Edge 830 seems to me to be as solid as a rock on the Garmin mountain bike bar mount that was included in the mountain bike bundle, that I installed day 1. Maybe I should have said this initially, but I am not using the included o-rings to mount the Edge. Those have never emerged from the box. Nobody I know uses those. I didn't consider them, even for a second, to be a viable option. Maybe on a road bike, but not on a mountain bike that sees any kind of serious terrain.

I remain very curious as to how people are apparently losing their Edges as a result of not using the tether. I can't see that happening to me, even in a gloriously spectacular, 5 star wreck. It would be the first thing I would check immediately afterwards. If it got knocked off, I would look for it on the ground and pick it up. I guess it could slide across the ground and plummet to its death off a cliff, but that seems a little remote to me. Did people lose theirs in some spectacular yard sale? Following which, despite scouring the area surrounding the crash site, it was nowhere to be found?

To me, the tether may be more instrumental in preventing damage as a result of impact, than preventing its loss altogether, but even for impact prevention, if I crash, it's going to get smacked. And who's to say that if it was tethered to my bar and got dragged through a scree field, it's not going to get more damaged than if it flew off into nearby bush.

While all of this is purely academic, given that the use of a tether by the OP would not have mattered, I would appreciate hearing from others as to what exactly the tether will prevent. I would also appreciate hearing the circumstances surrounding the apparent loss by people of their Edge while riding, and why this was caused by not using the tether.

Thanks.

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Mark16q

· #18 · Jul 19, 2021

1. Lost on technical singletrack knocked off by long hanging brush, couldn't find it.
2. Knocked off by arm accidentally, hit the ground and promptly run over and smashed (road ride).

A tether would've avoided both issues.

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mtnbkrmike

· #19 · Jul 19, 2021

I’m probably being unnecessarily difficult here. Apologies for that.

I will use the tether from now on.

I do love my Edge 830. Even more so because it was a gift from a loved one. I suppose the least I can do is take whatever simple precautions there are to protect it.

Thanks guys.

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Cary

· #20 · Jul 19, 2021

mtnbkrmike said:
I'm probably being unnecessarily difficult here. Apologies for that.

I will use the tether from now on.

I do love my Edge 830. Even more so because it was a gift from a loved one. I suppose the least I can do is take whatever simple precautions there are to protect it.

Thanks guys.

Good to see you were beaten into submission on the issue. Next up, valve stem caps.

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