How to discover and plan great new cycling routes with Garmin Connect and Garmin Edge 1030 Plus

Using Garmin Connect for planning new routes is a great way to keep your riding fresh and will help you discover new trails. Garmin Connect software is a superb tool for route planning, offering several ways to easily map out a ride and upload it quickly to your head unit. A key feature is Garmin's Popularity Routing, which provides a very useful insight into the area that you want to ride in, highlighting trails with colour-coding to show their popularity from all the data that has been uploaded by other riders. This is both an effective way to discover new trails/routes and also a means to be confident of getting a decent route. This video also takes a brief look at Garmin's latest Edge 1030 Plus head unit, with many new features making it undeniably a market leading product. If you enjoy this video, and found the content useful please make sure to give it a thumbs up and share it with your friends 👍 as this will help us to continue to make more engaging content for you. If you're after more cycling content, including the latest news, tech and in-depth product and bike reviews, then head over to our website: Submit your questions below👇 and tell us about how you like to plan your routes Also feel free to tell us: what new cycling trends/topics excite you? That way we can create more engaging content in the areas that interest you the most. Watch more on the Cyclist YouTube Channel, where we have great insight into tech, and advice on training and bike maintenance. And expect much, much more soon: