Expert Picks: 6 Best GPS Bike Computers for Every Rider

Customer Review: “You cannot beat this little computer for the price. I use my Garmin watch to track my rides, but wanted a computer to show my heart rate and MPH. This unit displays everything in a very easy to read layout, including %grade on inclines. The App is not bad either, but I do use Strava and sync with my Garmin watch. This unit quickly connects to the satellites, and is spot on with what my Garmin displays. Setup was very easy, and it easily connected to my Polar heart monitor. Great value at a fraction of the cost of the more popular brands. I love the look and feel. Appears to be good quality. I’ve logged about 500 miles in the 10 days since I received it. No issues and the battery is still on the initial charge with about 75% left!”

Customer Review: “A little pain to set up but after it’s up and running it is fantastic 👌 would highly recommend. So let you know I have had it running now. For a while on my indoor trainer heart monitor hooked up speed, and cadence, hooked up and everything is working great. This model also has elevation. I cannot say enough about this model. Heart monitor computer and two pieces to set up the speed and cadence cost me just over a hundred dollars. It’s amazing price for everything. I got.”

Customer Review: “This is the first bike computer I have ever bought or used. It was inexpensive compared to other better-known brands so I was unsure what to expect. I did have some trepidation about how to set up and use. The instruction booklet that came with the computer had really tiny print, and the minimal illustrations did not offer a lot of assistance. There is a decent YouTube video by Coospo online that was much more helpful, but it was narrated by a woman with a strong Asian (Chinese) accent who spoke softly and fast. She explained a lot of the basics but not much elaboration. However, after playing with it and all the functions I was able to become very comfortable with it in only a few bicycle rides. I am guessing it seems a little more intuitive if you have prior experience with these sorts of electronics. The bottom line, it tracks and monitors my BP, power, cadence, distance, time, elevation, etc very well and can be synched with Strava. I use the free version of the Mapmyride app and simply input the data from the Coospo computer into that. Note, this is Coospo BD200 bundle and comes with the cadence sensor. I bought a Coospo arm band BP sensor separately, and only one of my bikes has an integral power meter that easily connects to the BC200. Battery life is good and overall I am very satisfied with my Coospo BC200 bike computer.”

Customer Review: “For the money, this was exactly what I needed. The display is easy to read, navigation takes a minute to get used to but it’s not bad, the app easily syncs with Strava and it seems pretty accurate compared to my Apple Watch. I used it for a season and upgraded, passed this on to my son and he loves it. Does just enough for what you need without being overly distracting. I’d recommend it to anyone.”

Customer Review: “This is a great wireless bike computer. Nice to have biking statistics as well as time available on my handlebar. Big plus to be wireless, ie uses navigation satellites for statistics. Battery lasts long and has many accessible biking informations. I mounted on the stem, directly in the middle. Nice large screen, easy to read…so far quite accurate too. This is an excellent bike essential at a decent cost.”

Customer Review: “This GPS speedometer works well and is accurate for the functions I am interested in; distance traveled, speed, and time traveled. Battery life seems quite good and the device is quite readable while traveling. Things that are not so good are not important to me but I will mention them. Altitude reading is around 30 meters too low and the temperature reads around 5 or 6 degrees F too high. For a basic speedometer/odometer and time traveled the Bikevee delivers and is worth the price.”

Customer Review: “Love this, when combined with “Bike Radar” it is an awesome combination. I’m strictly a recreational ebike rider. The mapping and feature is great. I pair with my Cyplus L7 radar which works perfect with this computer. The combination had allowed me to ride worry free in areas were I’m exposed to traffic. Pairing the radar you have enough warning time to stay alert or stop. It even displays the number of cars approaching. You do get some false alerts…. These generally come from homes with advanced security.”

Customer Review: “It is as good as people say it is! GPS is good. Screen is bright and its battery life is good. Very sensitive and accurate when paired with the rear radar.”

Customer Review: “Overall- extremely pleased, would buy again, and argue with my Garmin friends that they should have upgraded something on their drive train to get more speed instead and got this one. My previous computer was the Wahoo RFLKT, which was a super dumbed down display for the Wahoo app display. Very functional, and cheap. All my sensors are Wahoo bluetooth and Ant. That died, cause you know- 12 years…. I went couple weeks naked and blind trying to be a purist, and it drove me nuts not knowing what I was doing. So I looked into Garmin, Wahoo, some other Chinese brands I’ve never heard of, and took a chance on this brand that I’ve never heard of- making sure I could return on Prime. Very very happy. Paired with all my sensors, and reads a power meter, which i dont have currently, but good to be able. Also, fit my edge out front mount and all the mounts on my other bikes. It’s a Garmin style mount, not some proprietary mount that would make me buy 5 mounts for all my bikes, very secure. Uploads to strava and tracks through strava segments. I need to load the computer to their app, then to strava. For ppl who complain about having to download their app, what ever. This saved me several hundred dollars from not having to join the Garmin cult. Buy a wheelset and quit complaining. Cons first: Only con I have found is that it takes a couple minutes to turn on and figure which sensors are available, and GPS connection. It started weird doing rollers, but figured it out. Be patient, wasn’t a big deal. I come from when rear mount wired Avocet 45 cobblestone color the newest best thing. Just circle the parking lot a couple times on your warm up to get it to link up. If this is the complaint- like a deal breaker complaint, your expecting too much for a $40 bike computer. Spend much much more, get a little bitty more. Time zone setting for the head unit is a little weird, but when it loads to strava, I don’t really care about it. Pros: Links all my existing sensors – wheel, cadence, HR, wheel/cadence combined so I didn’t have to buy some other brand for all that. Fits all my Garmin mounts. Can use for the ride without linking to a phone, which used to be the limiting factor for long long rides. GPS is GPS based, not cell phone based GPS. So it tracks when you phone would loose its GPS. Links to strava so I can boast to my friends, or they can shame me. The backlight feature is handy- I am still on about 7 or 8 rides on the first charge. And ah, $40.”

Customer Review: “I don’t need a full GPS computer, I just wanted speed, distance, and route tracking at the end of my ride. This has proven to be very accurate and easily syncs up to Strava after syncing through the coospo app. As an added surprise, the Coospo app actually has better info than Strava, like speed heat maps on the route. I’m considering getting the speed sensor, but it seems to work just fine without it, and I bike under tree cover 50-75% of the time and don’t have any issues that I picked up on. It’s a steal at this price point. Now that Fall/Winter is here, I will see how the backlight works. Also, I’ve biked about 150 mi with it and haven’t had to charge it, and also tested it in some light rain as well. Looks great too, and fits in any G brand mount.”

Customer Review: “This is my first cycling computer, so I can’t compare it to others. (Previously, I used the Strava app to track my rides.) I did find some upsides and downsides, though none of the downsides are deal-breakers for me. UPSIDES: Long battery life. My phone used to drain more than 50% of its charge on a 25- or 30-mile ride, which is what inspired me to get a separate cycling computer. I fully charged the iGPSport BSC200S on the day I received it, and didn’t charge it again for 19 days. In that time, I rode my bike 17 times, for a total of 16.8 hours and 194.1 miles. The battery was down to 16%. I was very pleased that I can basically ignore the battery for two weeks or more. Affordability. Compared to my phone or other cycling computers, this one is very nicely priced. Ease of use. I’m not a tech wizard, yet I easily figured out how to use this device, including connecting it to the iGPSport app to customize the various ride pages. Easily syncs with Strava. Since I track all my rides on the Strava website, that was one of my “must-haves” for this device. After my first ride, I had to “tell” the app to get the ride info off the cycling computer, and then setup the connection to Strava. But all other rides have uploaded automatically to both. DOWNSIDES: It was a bit smaller than I expected, including the font sizes. As someone who uses reading glasses at home (but not on the bike), I have to squint a bit to see some of the numbers on screen. Navigation. Fortunately, I never intended to use this for navigation, just as I never use my phone for navigation while driving (not because it’s dangerous, which it probably is, but because I figure out where I’m going before I leave the house). BUT, if you were intending to use this for navigation, I would look for someone more capable. The maps on this device are tiny, low-res, unlabeled — and therefore unhelpful. (Edited to add: it’s also extremely water resistant. In my fourth week of using the iGPSport, it rained for 30 minutes straight during one of my rides. The water didn’t seem to affect it. I could still read the screen and the buttons still worked. Afterward, I wiped it dry with a microfiber cloth and it seems no worse for the wear.)”

Customer Review: “I seem to have misplaced my Wahoo Elemnt bike computer – I lost it about a month ago and I can’t seem to find it. So I was looking for a replacement and the Reddit cycling sub-reddit recommended this particular model. The display is very bright and the colors come out clear and look good – and the fact that it’s a color screen is a nice upgrade over my older bike computer. The battery life is excellent – far superior to my old bicycle computer. I rode for over an hour and it was still above 90% which is really impressive. It’s relatively easy to use – although I will say that the placement of buttons and the size of the buttons on the Elemnt is better than this. On this the buttons are on the sides and are a bit small. I like the actual display format while it’s in use – speed is very clearly displayed – although I think the Wahoo Elemnt is much easier to customize and it’s better for placing things where I want them. But I do like the default layout of this BSC200S computer. I find it is very accurate – I tested it against my iPhone and the data pretty much exactly matched – it was super close. For starting, and stopping rides the computer works well – again, I like the button placement on my older lost computer, but this works. For syncing data, it was seamless – finish the ride, save and then pretty much instantly it shows up as uploaded. So then the big summary thing is that it does this all at a much cheaper price point than either Garmin or Wahoo – for a price that is something like 70% less, I get something that is actually better than the much more expensive version especially the battery life. I think this bike computer is a great value and works very well.”