Best Smartwatch For Cycling & Mountain Biking 2022

Would you believe that you can almost do any sort of tracking from a multi-sport smartwatch?

Yes, I’m not kidding, a smartwatch may be of greater help and use than smartphones, but it’s really ironic on the other hand that you do need a phone for syncing and using features that are dependable on it, except standalone smartwatches.

A multi-sports smartwatch has the ability to track almost every exercise, workout and sport of any kind. Even if it doesn’t include something that you want to track, you can download different apps that might do your work.

The point which I’m trying to make here is that the wearable technology has gone so advanced that there’s absolutely nothing a smartwatch can NOT do, and by everything, I mean everything. From giving you topographical maps to equipping different sport modes and being robust and rugged in its design, it really is something special.

I mean bikers or cyclists had to use bike computers for the tracking, navigations and other ride stats, but now they can just wear a smartwatch casually, to do all of these things and that too with detailed insights about everything.

In this article, I have picked some of the best smartwatches for cyclists, who ride mountain bikes, road bikes or BMX bikes. These watches will obviously benefit them to track their locations and stats down easily.

 

10 Best Smartwatches For Cycling

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1. Garmin Forerunner 235

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Cycling

When it comes to tracking your physical activities and different sports, Garmin has made sure that they secure their position at the top. This smartwatch comes with built-in sports mode including cycling so you can easily see your stats about it or on your mobile app for detailed metrics.

As one of the necessary tools required for the tracking of cycling is GPS technology. If your smartwatch has GPS, you can keep an eye on your session easily.

Your cycling data can be saved of 200 hours and you can dig up to your stats anytime you want. Along with that, “Recovery Adviser” which tells you how much time is required in order to recover your recent activity, so that you can get details and improve your stats.

Speaking of the stats, you can always upload it to Garmin connect and with your online community, where your friends and loved ones can see it and become a healthy online community for you.

GPS tracking

It comes with reliable GPS tracking which helps you in tracking your location and other sports-related activities of any kind easily.

Heart rate monitoring/VO2 estimate

Garmin made sure that along with providing features about different multi-sports, it keeps an eye on health too, that’s why this smartwatch comes with elevate heart rate tracking. This feature lets you track your heart rate 24/7 efficiently, without wearing any straps while running.

Along with HR tracking, it comes with a VO2 estimate, which tells you the amount of oxygen you can utilize during any physical activity or heavy workout.

Activity tracking

You can easily keep track of your activities with it, and it will tell you an account of the calorie intake, distance covered and step count. It also has a kind of sedentary reminder in the form of a moving bar, which gives you soft vibrations alert to make you remember that you have been sitting for too long.

Weather updates

Get updates about the weather forecast by using this smart gadget’s wireless connectivity links to see whether your meeting or hang out with friends will be affected by the rain or go smoothly.

Smart notifications

It doesn’t matter if you are running, on a bike or busy in the workout, you will be notified with incoming calls, text messages, emails and notifications of every kind on your wrist. However, it can’t be treated as a standalone smartwatch and you will be needing the Bluetooth technology to remain synced in order to get the notifications.

Battery life

Garmin claims that it can last for 9 days in watch mode without GPS and other features and can only last for 11 hours in GPS mode. As the GPS feature drains the battery the most, so it becomes a subjective feature because not everyone wants to keep the GPS feature on, all the time.

Specifications:

Color: Marsala

Shipping weight: 8.5 ounces

Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer battery required (Included)

Key features:

• Activity tracking
• VO2 estimate
• Heart rate tracking
• Sleep monitoring
• Connect IQ
• Multi-sports mode
• Advanced workouts

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2. Garmin vívoactive

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This wearable from Garmin comes with Ultra-thin, high-resolution and color touchscreen display which gives it a really elegant and stylish look. In general, the design is slim, sleek and kind of rectangular in shape. The display is easy to read even in direct sunlight, along with comfy straps, which makes it easy to wear for 24/7 usage. It has some really good top-notch features in almost every genre possible.

Cycling

Garmin vivoactive can be the best companion of you while off-roading on the bike or even if you are going on some specific route. Since, it is a multisport smartwatch, which means it supports and comes with different sports mode which includes running, biking, golfing, swimming, etc.

Whenever you are biking, it tracks your speed, distance, calories and the amount of time. This built-in cycling mode is compatible with cadence, heart rate, and speed sensors, due to which your session gets tracked easily. And, if you want to see further details, you can always use the mobile app in that manner.

Golfing

It can be termed as a proper golfing smartwatch too because of its golf course database. Imagine, if you can download more than 38000 golfing courses worldwide after pairing it up with your phone, how severely it will affect your game, and that too in a good way.

Yes, you can get a lot of courses to improve your game and it doesn’t end here. It makes sure that whatever you are doing, it should be tracked precisely, and here the GPS technology comes handy. GPS makes sure that your distance of front, middle, back of the green, Layup and dogleg gets tracked efficiently. Meanwhile, you can have the count of your steps and can easily measure the shot’s distance as well.

Keep you running!

Its activity tracking app makes sure that you keep moving because it sets a primary target for your step count by considering your previous workout and activity progress. In this way, even if you are not really engaged with the physical activities and tracking, you’d at least know what target you have to beat in order to get back on track.

Water-resistant

Not only this smartwatch is water-resistant up to 50m, which means you can wash-hands, shower and expose it freely to the water, but, it can be used to keep track of your professional swimming, without buying any extra gadget for it. It has all the features you look for in a professional swimming smartwatch which includes stroke count, stroke recognition, average interval, length pace, SWOLF score and much more.

GPS tracking

Tracking cannot be done in a multisport smartwatch if it doesn’t have the GPS technology. But, this wearable comes with GPS technology, which makes tracking much easier and precise. Along with that, its different built-in sports mode would have been of no use, if it weren’t for this very feature.

Smart notifications

Along with providing necessary tracking of different sports mode, it works as an extension of the smartphone by displaying all the notifications you are getting on your phone. If you are busy in a workout or cycling and don’t want to stop whatever you’re doing by taking your phone off from your pocket, you can easily look at your wrist for all the notifications.

Battery life

Garmin claims that it can last up to 10 hours in GPS mode and almost 3 weeks in watch mode/activity mode. The latter part of this claim is good, but with GPS it gets slightly compromised in general, but overall, it’s not that bad if you don’t use GPS for long durations.

Specifications:

Color: Black

Weight: 1.28 ounces

Display size: 28.6 x 20.7 mm (W x H)

Batteries: 1 Lithium Metal battery required (Included)

Key features:

• Activity tracking
• GPS technology
• Biking
• Golfing
• Swimming
• Smart notifications
• Customizable apps and watch faces

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3. Polar M430

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Polar M430 comes in sort of rectangular shape, easy to read display, 6 LED sensors at the back, comfortable straps and built-in amazing features, which can do your work to its very best.

Cycling

This wearable by polar comes with advanced activity tracking of your workouts and exercises, which includes biking and cycling too. Whenever you are on the route, it makes sure that your pace, speed, and distance gets tracked because of the integrated GPS technology. Along with this, it also gives an account of the calories that you have burnt during the session.

Heart rate monitoring

It comes with a built-in heart rate monitoring sensor which tells you the irregularities and spikes in the heart rate. After a heavy workout or exercises, take a look at your pumped up heart rate and compare it with your steady stats to compare the difference.

Integrated GPS

All the exercises and outdoor activities are tracked by its integrated GPS technology which makes sure that you get in shape and get your stats on your wrist without any difficulty.

Indoor running

Along with outdoor running and workouts, your indoor doesn’t really get ignored. Yes, this smartwatch can track your indoor running on a treadmill or any other track with the help of an accelerometer, which tells you the pace and distance you’ve covered.

Running plan

It can be your proper running companion, because of the polar running program which is customizable to its core and you can mold it your convenience or the way you want it. You can make a running event and can beat your target or the goal you have set. So, you’ll get the motivation that you need along with getting tracked efficiently.

More features

Polar fitness test: You can test your aerobic fitness level within 5 minutes without sweating, so visually see how much physically strong you are.

Running index: After every run, you get a running index which takes the data from your heart rate sensor and speed stats to let you know how well are you performing in reality.

Training load: Lets you know the difference between different training loads and workouts.

Recovery status: When you are done with a workout, it will give you the time in which your body is going to gain strength in order to go for another run or exercise.

Key features:

• Integrated GPS
• Activity tracking
• Sports mode
• Heart rate monitoring
• 6 LED optical sensors
• Indoor running metrics
• Polar running program

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4. Polar M200 (Affordable)

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If you are looking for a really cool, funky and affordable smartwatch that can be your best companion in the running, swimming, cycling, and many other sessions, along with tracking your stats and providing you relevant guidance, Polar has something special to offer you. This wearable has everything which you want in a multi-sports wearable and won’t disappoint you with its diversified features.

Cycling

As a multi-sports smartwatch, Polar M200 features with a lot of sports mode, which includes cycling too. On top of that, it is equipped with integrated GPS which does the deed of tracking on its own anyway.

For the accurate tracking of your desired workout or outdoor exercises, Polar actually offers the sports-profile, so that you can get a detailed look at your stats which includes distance covered, speed, amount of calories burnt, etc.

Heart rate monitoring

It keeps track of your heart rate efficiently, without needing any extra chest strap and gives you insights about irregularities and spikes during or after a workout.

Activity tracking

In order to be a complete smartwatch, it does have features that keep you updated about your physical activities. For instance, it is equipped with built-in activity tracking whose job is to keep you aware of your daily step count, the distance you have traveled and the number of calories you have burnt during a single day.

Running companion

It can be the best wearable package for runners too because it simulates a running program after you have filled in all the details of the target which you want to achieve.

Smart trainer

When you are done from a heavy workout, it has the ability to tell you the effect of it on your body and you can use this guidance from your wrist to improve your game. You can always get a detailed summary of your workout on Polar flow.

Water-resistant

Making you jump in the pool freely, or wash your hands without having any worries of this wearable getting damaged in any way possible, Polar has made it a swim-proof package for you guys to enjoy its features under the water too.

Sleep monitoring

It comes with a sleep monitoring feature, which evaluates the quality of your sleep and the time duration of different sleep cycles; light, deep and REM cycles.

Specifications:

Color: Black

Weight: 5.6 ounces

Display: Digital

Batteries: 1 AA batteries required (Included)

Key features:

• Heart rate monitoring
• Activity tracking
• Multi-sports mode
• Integrated GPS
• Smart notifications
• Sports profiles
• Water-resistant

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5. Suunto 9

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Suunto has always kept the bar high by manufacturing their wearable gadgets rugged, robust and equipping them with features which you can only imagine in a smartwatch. From making them test against military standards to make sure that they last for a very long time to giving a supreme battery life, it has never disappointed its users. Just like this Suunto 9, a perfect smart gadget blended with features to keep you on top of every workout, exercise, and sport of any kind.

Built-in sports mode

It comes with 80 built-in sports mode which includes cycling, running, swimming and many more. If you love to travel alone, enjoy the swimming to relax or go on different routes while cycling, you can do all of these while getting them tracked so that you can get details about it, even though you are not into these sports professionally.

GPS tracking

Sports smartwatch is useless if it doesn’t have reliable GPS tracking. Fortunately, this smartwatch comes with accurate GPS technology, which not only tracks your real-time location, but it also provides navigation display to keep you updated about your location. You can also pick points of interest during the trail and get updates about sunrise/sunsets of different areas.

Activity tracking

Your daily step count, distance covered and the number of burnt calories can be seen on the display of it, as its promising activity tracking keeps track of your physical activities to the best.

Sleep monitoring

In order to know the quality and quantity of your sleep, just use the built-in sleep monitoring feature which will give the amount of time you have had deep sleep, light sleep, and REM cycles during the night.

Heart rate monitoring

It’s easy to track your heart rate by this smartwatch, which will tell you all the details about the irregularities, high and low spikes that occur during any workout. It helps to compare your steady heart rate with the pumped one, so that you’d know where you want to work more, in order to keep your heart rate close to steadiness.

Battery modes

When you are looking for a multi-sports or any kind of smartwatch per se, at the end of the day, the greatest concern always remains the same, which is, for how long it’s going to last after a single charge?

Well, to answer this most common concern, I can’t change my opinion and observation of GPS draining battery the most, but Suunto 9 absolutely can. Yes, you can change the mode of battery you are using by pressing the button, and if your session is taking longer than you anticipated, fused track sensor assisted GPS feature comes handy to take you out of the situation and limit the battery drainage.

Water-resistant

It has the ability to withstand the intrusion of water under 100m, which means you can enjoy swimming, wash hands and take a bath while having it on without any fear of it getting damaged.

And, if you are into swimming professionally and want your sessions to get tracked efficiently to its core, you can always use the sports mode where your swimming session will be tracked and you will get the details on your phone’s app.

Specifications:

Color: Lime

Weight: 0.58lb

Display: Digital

Batteries: 1 Lithium-ion battery required (Included)

Key features:

• Water-resistant
• Sleep monitoring
• Heart rate monitoring
• 80+ sports mode
• GPS tracking
• 24/7 activity tracking
• Smart notifications

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6. Amazfit Verge Smartwatch

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This Amazfit verge comes in 1.3inch AMOLED colorful circular display with easy to use interface. It actually gives the pure sporty smartwatch vibes along with its classy and elegant design. It’s not really a heavy watch that you’d feel a weight on your wrist but it weighs enough to keep you aware of its existence. The straps are comfy and suitable for wearing it 24/7. Overall, it’s really a good compact, sleek and slim package with almost all the necessary features that are considered very important in a multi-sports smartwatch.

GPS tracking

It comes with a powerful combo of GPS and GLONASS technology, which makes the tracking really easy and accurate. Since a sports smartwatch is all about tracking your indoor and outdoor activities, so the fusion of these technologies is always a plus point for the user to enjoy the features to its extent.

Multi-sports mode

It comes with 12 built-in sports mode, which can track your sessions efficiently without manually operating it in any way. If you are into cycling/biking, skiing, soccer, and tennis, you can monitor your relevant session along with enjoying it.

Sleep tracking

If you want to get hold of the details about your sleep cycles and how much sleep do you get in general, its built-in sleep monitoring feature helps you analyze the different sleep patterns; Light, deep and REM status during the night. In this way, If you are getting trouble during sleep or get up tired in the morning, you’d know the exact amount of sleep you have had in the night.

Heart rate tracking

You can see the irregular changes in your heart rate 24/7, without wearing any extra chest strap, which is done by the latest PPG sensor which is engineered in this smartwatch.

Stay connected

You cannot only take calls on it, but you can also make calls without necessarily using your smartphone. So, if you are on a hike, busy cycling or playing any other sport, you don’t have to use your phone and can just easily dial and pick the incoming calls, right from your wrist.

But, this feature requires the Bluetooth technology which makes it a distance-bound feature, which means your smartwatch needs to stay connected to your phone in order to do. Nevertheless, it gives a bit of relaxation that you don’t have to stop your work and can easily stay connected with everyone.

Along with phone calls, it has the ability to receive all kinds of smart notifications on it and keep you updated.

Built-in Alexa

Just Google assistant or Siri, it comes with built-in Alexa to be your smart secretory per se and work according to your given commands. You can set reminders, get weather updates, sneak-peak through your upcoming meeting and much more.

Battery life

It doesn’t matter if the watch has a lot of features if its battery life is not up to the mark. Well, this Amazfit verge can last up to 5 days after a single charge, which is quite good, given the features it has.

Specifications:

Color: Gray

Weight: 9.8 ounces

Display: AMOLED

Display size: 1.3 inch

Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required (Included)

Key features:

• Built-in Alexa
• Sleep monitoring
• Heart rate tracking
• Sports mode
• Activity tracking
• GPS and GLONASS technology
• PPG sensor
• Make and receive calls
• Smart notifications

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7. MorePro (cheap pick)

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Even though this smartwatch weighs only 1.76 ounces, which makes it an extremely light-weight package, but its enormous features make it a hard-to-resist wearable in general. It comes in a 1.3 inch LCD colored display with adjustable brightness option. The dial is a bit of rectangular-shaped and does feel bulky on your wrist. This slim, sleek design and easy to use interface makes it the best affordable pick in between all these smartwatches.

Built-in GPS

When a smartwatch has a GPS, its tracking game becomes good enough for ordinary use. But, when there’s a mixture of GPS and GLONASS technology, tracking becomes really accurate and the error rate gets minimized to its extent.

In this scenario, the MorePro smartwatch comes with the fusion of both these GPS and GLONASS technologies, which makes you go hands-free during any trail or workout. Because, it will track you and your running pace, distance and direction down on its own, without necessarily being connected with your phone.

17+ sport modes

Nowadays, sport modes are considered really important while buying a sports watch, because people want their exercises and workout gets tracked precisely and singularly, which means if you into cycling, there should be cycling mode in a watch, where your metrics get monitored during your session.

This wearable checks this box of this ‘must-have feature’ and comes with 17+ sport modes, which includes swimming, cycling, running, skiing, skating, etc. so, if you are a fitness enthusiast or sporty person, you should really consider this wearable.

Water-resistant

It is made 5ATM water-resistant, which means it has the ability to withstand intrusion of water under 50m without getting the watch damaged in any way possible, given the pressure remains the same in an ideal case.

What this 5ATM water-resistant really means is that you can jump in the pool and enjoy swimming without worrying about your smartwatch, at all. And, if you want your swimming session to get monitored or tracked, it can it for you too.

It basically has different types of professional swimming modes including Energy and time mode. You’ll have to calibrate the compass before swimming to let it track your session down accurately.

Heart rate tracking

It can monitor your heart rate 24/7 without needing any extra chest strap and that too very deeply. It can give you detailed insights about Aerobic, Anaerobic, Extreme, Regular, Warm-up and Fat-burning heart rate zones. Because of these detailed stats, you can have all the information about the irregularities of HR during and after a workout, which you can improve with proper guidance.

Basic activity tracking

Along with providing different sports mode, it keeps an eye on your daily physical activities like step count, amount of distance traveled and burnt calories, so you can set the limit and beat your own personal scores each day.

Fatigue score

If you are feeling low and it’s time for your exercise or a workout, its fatigue testing will let you know whether your body is in a position for heavy training or not. This actually helps to understand your physical condition clearly and to know if you want to get rest or stop your work if you have been continuously working.

Running modes

It has let alone 7 different types of running modes, which shows the plethora of features it is equipped with. Even if you are not into running professionally, these different modes will help you to get in shape by burning a specific amount of calories each day and will make you stay physically fit too. The running modes include CPET, Fat running, Endurance, Free mode, Target km, Target time and Target calorie.

Smart notifications

It doesn’t really disappoint with being only a sports watch with no diversification in features as compared to other smartwatches and has the ability to a perfect extension of your phone. Yes, you will receive all types of notifications on your wrist, whether it is an incoming call, text messages or from social networks.

Battery life

Since the battery life depends upon the usage of the product and its features, similarly it can last up to 7 days in the watch mode and approximately 1 day in the GPS mode, as the GPS drains the battery the most, so it is kind of justified, but it can always be better.

More features

Sedentary reminder: Comes with this amazing feature, where if you have been sitting on the same spot for a long time and didn’t move from there, it will give you an alert to take a break.

Compass: It always comes handy during fishing or hunting, where you have to get the information about the coordinates of your location.

Alarm clock: If you are on a trip and don’t want to ruin it by waking up late in the morning, you can always use this feature to avoid it.

Status bar: If you want to use the flashlight, enable the power saving mode or do-not-disturb mode, you can do all of these through the status bar.

Third-party apps: It supports the installation of third-party apps, so you can download any app regarding your health monitoring or fitness training to observe and analyze the data more clearly.

Specifications:

Color: Black

Weight: 1.76 ounces

Display: 1.3 inch LCD display

Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required (Included)

Key features:

• Water-resistant
• Sleep monitoring
• Detailed heart rate tracking
• GPS and GLONASS technology
• Different sports mode
• Smart notifications
• Different watch faces

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8. Smart Watch For Android

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It comes in 1.22-inch circular colored display which gives it a classy look. The design, in general, is really eye-catching gives very decent vibes. A very interesting this in this package is its straps which are metallic in nature and can be suitable for any kind of wrist because it gets tighten up and fits your wrist. Overall, this wearable comes at a very cheap price, which is nothing in front of its competitors.

Multi-sports mode

It comes with 8 different multi-sports mode, which tracks your session precisely and gives you detailed insights about it. These sports modes include cycling, badminton, basketball, ping-pong, running, walking, football and hiking. For instance, if you are cycling and want your distance, pace and route get tracked by it, just start your session and leave it this wearable, which will do the job of tracking efficiently.

Health monitoring

Heart rate tracking: It can track your heart rate 24/7 and will give you insights about it. If you want to get hold of detailed stats, you can always your phone’s app for it.

Sleep monitoring: At night, your sleep’s different cycles get monitored through it and you can have a look at your sleeping routines. It will show you the light, deep and REM status of your sleep during the night.

Blood pressure: Along with heart and sleep monitoring, it keeps an eye on your blood pressure for you too, which makes it your smart health monitor, because it can really do everything related to it.

More features

Stay connected: It gives smart notifications about incoming calls, text messages, and notifications of any kind on your wrist.

Activity tracking: It comes with basic activity tracking which gives you the account of steps, distance covered and calories burnt during a day.

Raise to wake: It’s a really good specification of this smartwatch where you have to raise your wrist, in order to wake and work with it. In this way, the smartwatch doesn’t battery quickly, which happens because of the always-on display.

Remote camera: It can work as your remote camera or camera shutter and you can take group selfies and pictures, without necessarily using your phone for it.

Water-resistant: It comes with IP67 level water-resistance, which means it can withstand a slight intrusion of water for a specific amount of time. You cannot swim with smartwatch at all, but you can wash your hands while having it on.

Sedentary reminder: If you have been working for so long and haven’t left your spot, it will give a reminder to take a break for some time and then continue your work.

Battery life

It takes almost 2 hours to get it properly charged and can last up to 5-7 days, which depends upon its usage as well. Its charging method is easy too, just take off the bracelet and its metal tip should be aligned with the metal magnet.

Specifications:

Color: Black

Weight: 2.08 ounces

Display: 1.2-inch screen

Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required (Included)

Features:

• Heart rate monitoring
• Sleep tracking
• Blood pressure
• Water-resistant
• Smart notifications
• Long-lasting battery life
• Activity tracking
• Different sports mode
• Sedentary reminder
• Remote camera
• Finds the phone

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9. Fitbit Surge

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Fitbit is known for fitness tracking to its finest and so does this Fitbit Surge, which comes with a handy design that can be suitable for cycling sessions. It is equipped with some great features and can be perfect for a fitness enthusiastic person.

Multi-sports mode

If you are into cycling and want to track your sessions whenever you go on the route, Fitbit has something really good to offer you. First off, its slim design and structure really do the trick and doesn’t feel too heavy on your wrist. Secondly, its built-in sports mode lets you track your cycling or any other sports or workout easily. You can get detailed insights into the session in your phone’s app.

GPS tracking

It comes with integrated GPS which does the tracking on its own to a very precise extent. You see the distance you have traveled, speed, elevations that you’ve climbed along with reviewing the routes of return as well.

Activity tracking

You can track your basic all-day activities through it which includes step count, distance traveled, amount of calories burnt, floors that you’ve climbed, active minutes, sedentary reminders, etc. As compared to other smartwatches, this basic activity tracking is not so basic and completely tracks your activities very efficiently.

Heart rate tracking

Keep track of your heart rate with the help of Fitbit Surge, which gives you detailed information about heart rate and simplifies zones.

Smart notifications

You can get notifications about incoming calls and text messages on your wrist and you can also control music from your phone’s playlist.

Sleep monitoring

You can monitor your sleep cycles and duration from this Fitbit Surge, which will let you know the exact amount of sleep you have had, along with giving insights about light, deep and REM patterns during the night.

Battery life

It can last up to 7 days without using the GPS feature and can last up to 10 hours while using the GPS feature. As it is a well-known fact that GPS drains the battery the most as compared to any other feature, due to which it has such short battery life in GPS mode.

Specifications:

Color: Black

Weight: 2.72 ounces

Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required

Key features:

• Heart rate monitoring
• Sleep tracking
• Multi-sports mode
• Smart notifications
• Easy syncing
• GPS tracking
• Activity tracking
• Alarm clock
• Sedentary reminder

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10. Garmin Forerunner 945 (premium)

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Hands down, for sure one the best smartwatch for cycling in the market right now, without any doubt. Garmin has set the bar so high for its competitors after manufacturing this Forerunner 945 because it’s a heaven for fitness enthusiastic person. From extremely light-weight, slim and sleek design to an easy-to-use interface, bright display and almost every feature you desire for, it’s really is a jaw-dropping package.

GPS tracking

When your smartwatch is equipped with the amazing combo’s of GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, tracking becomes really easy and accurate. It doesn’t really matter if you are wandering somewhere and lost track of your route, because you can track your location really easily through it, without any inconvenience.

Best for cycling

Although through its multi-sports mode you can track almost any kind of sport or workout, when I claimed that it’s the best smartwatch for cycling, there’s a reason for it.

Whenever you are cycling/biking on densely covered trails or an area that is totally unknown to you, there’s a high chance of you losing track of your route and hence it becomes a liability. But, what if there’s a feature of built-in colored mapping on your wrist to make sure that you stay on your route?

Well, Garmin did equip this feature in this wearable and it comes with colored mapping with pre-loaded map data for your location tracking and glance navigation. What it really means is, that you don’t have to worry about losing track of your route whenever you are enjoying the cycling session, because Garmin forerunner 945 has got your back.

Enjoy music

Whenever you are going on a ride, hunting alone, fishing someplace far and you need to relax by listening to your music specifically, this gadget comes with such an amazing feature, where you can store more than 1000 songs of your choice in it.

You might have to pay for third-party music providers like Spotify and Deezer, but you can transfer your collection of music from a computer, laptop, etc for free and enjoy the music on long trails by connecting it to the Bluetooth headsets.

Pay your way

You pay your way from this smartwatch by tapping your card on it and by whatever you want. It really comes handy when you are on a trip or going someplace where you don’t want to carry your wallet around with you all the time. Just tap your card, enjoy your shopping and leave your wallet behind.

Stay connected

It doesn’t matter if you’re busy in a workout and don’t have time to use your smartphone in order to see the messages you have received, because after pairing it with a compatible phone, it will receive all your social app’s, incoming calls and text messages notification.

Not only this, if you are going on a trip where the route is not really that safe, you can send your location to the contacts you have chosen in case of emergency and immediate assistance. You can this manually as well as automatically by using a built-in incident detection feature.

Train yourself

You can make your own custom workouts through this smartwatch and train yourself the way you want. You can even download the free workouts that can sync with your device and get benefits from it too.

Garmin also provides smart coaching for that manner, to make you push yourself to the limit where you can beat your own fitness goals.

Running companion

Even though it won’t be there with you physically whenever you start your running session, but it will make sure to track all your running metrics including vertical oscillation, vertical ratio, cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance. When you will have detailed insights about these stats of yours, you’ll know exactly where you lagging and on what areas you need to work on.

More features

Recovery time: This feature helps you to maximize your efforts and predicts the time you will be ready for your next workout.

Training stats: On the basis of your recent workout or exercise history, it evaluates your training productivity and lets you know if you are working hard enough to achieve your goals or how well are you doing in general.

Heart rate monitoring: It has Garmin’s newest heart rate monitoring sensor, whose job is to keep track of your heart rate all the time, without any inconvenience. You can compare your stats with pumped up heart rate and the steady one.

Sleep tracking: You can have detailed insights about your sleeping cycles and the amount of peaceful sleep you are getting, right from your right. It automatically analyzes your light, deep and REM cycles of sleep during the night.

Water-resistant: This watch is 5ATM water-resistant, which means it can withstand the intrusion of water under 50m, given the pressure doesn’t really change, which will be an ideal situation. But, having said that, it can be used for swimming without getting damaged.

Battery life

As the greater amount of feature is inversely proportional to the battery anyway. So, it is bound to happen that this smartwatch will have the battery drainage to its maximum because of the plethora of features. Garmin claims that it can last up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode and almost for 10 hours in GPS mode.

Specifications:

Color: Black

Weight: 1.76 ounces

Display: 1.2-inch screen

Display material: Corning Gorilla Glass DX

Case material: Fiber-reinforced polymer

Resolution: 240 x 240 pixels

Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required (Included)

Features:

• Heart rate monitoring
• Sleep tracking
• VO2 max
• Music player
• Recovery time
• Colored mapping
• Incident detection
• Water-resistant
• Multi-sports mode

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Buying Guide: Smartwatches For Bikers

While looking for a multi-sport watch, you need to consider a few parameters as a must-have, in order to pick the best one from the sea of smart gadgets.

GPS tracking

This feature is really important for tracking your outdoor activities and sports sessions because, without it, you cannot keep an eye on your activities at all. Now, some smartwatches come with just GPS technology, which does its work fine. But, there are some watches that I have included in these articles too, which uses the deadly combo of GPS and GLONASS.

GPS alone might not keep an accurate eye on you and your trails, but with GLONASS, the error rate in tracking becomes very less and it only gets better. So, try going for that watch, which has this combo, but if you land where there’s only GPS technology, it will certainly do your work too.

Sports mode

Almost all the sports smartwatches come with the feature of multi-sports mode, where you can track your exercise and workout easily. For instance, if you are into swimming and your swimming session gets tracked, you select the swimming mode from there and your work is done. Now, the wearable on its own will start tracking your different activities related to swimming including stroke recognition, stroke length, and much more.

Just like that, if there’s a cycling mode in your smartwatch, then you can track your cycling speed, distance, amount of burnt calories during the process, and many other stats through it, given that it must have GPS technology.

Water-resistant

When you are out there on the route or in between the cycling session and suddenly it’s starting to pour out of nowhere, what do you do? Well, if, your smartwatch is water-resistant, you don’t have to be worried about it getting damaged in any way. But, if it’s not water-resistant, then you might have to stop your session and look for shelter.

So, go for that wearable that is at least IP67 water-resistant, so the rain or you washing your hands won’t get it damaged.

Design and display

It should be designed in a way that it doesn’t feel like a burden on your wrist and fits it completely, without becoming a liability. In order to be that, it should be smart and slim. Secondly, the display should be bright and easy to read, because you don’t want to waste your time looking at your wrist for navigation and getting directions all the time — Just a glance from the top and you’re good to go.

Battery life

Although this feature is subjective in nature and it totally depends on the preference of the user and its usage. For instance, some people don’t really care about GPS and just want to enjoy the features of the smartwatch completely.

But almost every fitness enthusiast or the sporty person who loves to travel around, GPS feature plays a really important role. And whenever, the GPS comes in play the battery drainage will be severe. So, if you want to use GPS more often, go more than wearable which can last more time in that mode and your activities and tracks won’t get affected.

 

Final Verdict

It would be unjust with other smartwatches if I picked only one from them, but if I really have to, I’d go with Garmin Forerunner 945.

The reason why I chose it over everyone is because of the diversity in its features. First off, its tracking game is out of the world due to the presence of GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, which tracks your location without any problem. Secondly, it is equipped with all the necessary features which you would need for a cycling session or even adventure trip of any kind.

It doesn’t ignore your health monitoring and provides features for heart rate monitoring, sleep and stress level tracking, VO2 max and recovery time to keep an eye on your health for you.

As far as your fitness is concerned, it gives you the ability to download various workouts and online guidance for your fitness training. It also makes you run for your fitness goals and comes with a complete running program to keep you in shape.

But, having said that, with all these amazing features, it might not be affordable for every person, because it is quite pricey. That’s why you can choose “MorePro smartwatch” which has some great features including sports mode to properly track the cycling session and it’s easily affordable too so it doesn’t really burn a hole in your wallet.

 

FAQS

What are the best smartwatches for mountain biking?

The best snartwatches you can get for mountain biking are given below:

• Polar V800 Sports Watch
• Suunto Traverse Watch
• SUUNTO Spartan Watch
• Garmin Fenix Sapphire 5
• Garmin Forerunner 920-XT

What are the best fitness trackers that can be used for cycling?

Given below are the best cycling fitness trackers you can use:

• Suunto Spartan Sport HR
• Polar V800
• Apple Watch Series 3
• Moov Now 3D
• Garmin Forerunner 935
• Garmin Fenix 5 Sapphire
• Garmin Vivoactive 3
• Garmin Vivoactive

Does Fitbit Charge 3 tracks your biking session?

Yes, Fitbit Charge 3 can track your cycling/biking session. You can get details about it on your wrist and if it is not enough, you can use your mobile app for detailed insights.

Is GPS necessary for cycling?

Ans: GPS is necessary for cycling if you want to track your session and get details about that specific genre, but if you don’t want yourself getting tracked all the time, you can use that smartwatch which has only a compass and you can get information about the co-ordinates easily.

Best Garmin smartwatches that can be used for tracking cycling?

Ans: Given below are the best wearable Garmin offered during the past couple of years and they are the best when it comes to tracking multi-sport sessions.

• Garmin Forerunner 645
• Garmin Forerunner 935
• Garmin Fenix 5
• Garmin Fenix 5 Plus
• Garmin Forerunner 235
• Garmin Vivoactive 3
• Garmin Forerunner 630
• Garmin Forerunner 735XT