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Garmin 1040 Solar

Garmin 1040 Solar

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Never stop cycling with the ultimate solar powered GPS bike computer you can depend on when you need it most. is ready for any ride, from remote gravel trails to epic climbs.

SOLAR CHARGING

The Power Glass solar charging lens extends battery life, giving you up to 100 hours in battery saver mode or up to 45 hours in demanding use cases. During daytime rides, it adds up to 42 minutes per hour in battery saver mode and up to 20 minutes per hour in demanding use cases1.

STAMINA INSIGHTS

While you ride, get stamina insights2 so you can keep an eye on how much you have left in the tank.

CYCLING ABILITIES AND COURSE DEMANDS

Classify your strengths as a cyclist2, focus on improvement, and prepare for the demands of a specific course.

POWER GUIDE

Recommended power targets2 help you manage your efforts throughout a course.

DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE MONITORING

Get more insight about how your body is responding to training. Track VO2 Max, recovery time, training load, training load focus and more2.

TRAINING STATUS

Using new indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and performance, get insight into your overall effort2 — and whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained3.

TARGETED ADAPTIVE COACHING

Stay race-ready with training tips and daily suggested workouts. Plus, view your entire week of daily suggested workouts — which adapt to match your performance, recovery and the demands of upcoming events — in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar directly on your Edge device.

INTENSITY MINUTES

How hard did you ride? Your Edge device will tell you when you earned your intensity minutes with each activity2.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS

For training guidance that takes you and your fitness level into account, get daily ride suggestions based on your current training load and VO2 max2.

SYNC TRAINING PLANS

Get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the Garmin Connect™ smart-device app, or sync seamlessly to your Edge device from other apps, including the TrainingPeaks® app. Plus, get prompts to complete a missed workout.

HEAT AND ALTITUDE ACCLIMATION

Prepare yourself for any environment. See how your body is holding up in different environments with heat and altitude acclimation2.

CLIMBPRO FEATURE

Automatically see the remaining ascent and grade when you’re climbing while following a route or course. This helps you gauge your effort and see how much you have left to suffer. You can even save your climbs for postride review on your device or in the Garmin Connect app.

NUTRITION AND HYDRATION ALERTS

Get the insight you need to stay fuelled, mile after mile. Edge 1040 will notify you when it’s time to hydrate or eat.

CYCLING DYNAMICS

Take advantage of advanced cycling metrics2 designed to give insight into how your performance changes based on variable conditions such as position, bike setup, ride duration and more.

MTB DYNAMICS

Track the epic details of every ride with mountain biking metrics such as jump count, jump distance and hang time.

GRIT™ AND FLOW™ METRICS

Grit rates the difficulty of a ride using GPS, elevation and other data. Flow measures how smoothly you descend a trail so you have a score to beat next time.

MULTI-BAND GNSS

Get better positional accuracy and coverage — even in the most challenging environments — with multi-system, multi-band GNSS technology.

RIDE TYPE-SPECIFIC MAPS

Ride like a local, whatever your bike type, with improved maps that highlight popular roads and trails plus searchable points of interest (POIs).

TRAILFORKS APP

With routable worldwide MTB trail data and POIs from Trailforks, easily search for trails directly on your Edge. Or download the Trailforks app to transfer your planned routes from the Trailforks website.

FORKSIGHT MODE

This mode automatically displays upcoming forks in the trail and gives you context by showing where you are within a trail network.

TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS

Never get lost with turn-by-turn directions and alerts that notify you of upcoming turns.

OFF-COURSE RECALCULATION

Feel free to pause route guidance and off-course notifications while you go off-course to explore. When you’re ready to get back on track, will show you the way.

SHIMANO STEPS EBIKE SYSTEM COMPATIBLE

View a dedicated eBike status screen, data fields and support for system status and warning messages. Even see assist level, gear position, battery life and more during a ride.

INREACH® DEVICE COMPATIBILITY

Stay in touch wherever you ride by pairing Edge with a compatible inReach device. View and reply to messages, share trip data, and trigger interactive SOS alerts4.

VARIA™ COMPATIBILITY

Pair the Edge 1040 bike computer with your Varia rearview radar and Lights so you can easily see and be seen.

INCIDENT DETECTION

This Edge automatically sends a message with your location to preloaded emergency contacts if it detects an incident4.

BIKE ALARM

The PIN-protected bike alarm will notify you on your smartphone5 if your bike is moved while you’re inside getting water or making a pit stop.

GROUP MESSAGING

Stay in Touch5 with your riding crew when you get separated from the pack.


SPECIFICATIONS

Power Glass Solar Charging Yes
Virb Remote Yes
Touchscreen Yes
Color Display Yes
Display Size 3.5″ (88.9 mm) diagonal
Display Resolution 282 x 470 pixels
Weight 4.7 oz (133 g)
Water Rating IPX7
Battery Type Rechargeable lithium-ion
Battery Life 45 hours
Battery Save Mode Yes
Ability To Add Maps Yes
Basemap Preloaded Garmin cycle map
Waypoints/Favorites/Locations 200
Navigation Routes 100 Courses
History up to 200 hours
Gps Yes
Glonass Yes
Galileo Yes
Multi-Band Gnss Yes
Magnetometer Yes
Gyroscope Yes
Accelerometer Yes
Ambient Light Sensor Yes
Connectivity Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi
Connect Iq (Downloadable Watch Faces, Data Fields, Widgets And Apps) Yes
On-Device Connect Iq Store Yes
Smart Notifications Yes
Text Response/Reject Phone Call With Text (Android Only) Yes
Weather Yes
Realtime Settings Sync With Garmin Connect Mobile Yes
Controls Smartphone Music Yes
Smartphone Compatibility iPhone, Android
Livetrack Yes
Group Livetrack Yes
Rider-To-Rider Messaging Yes
Incident Detection Yes (includes off-road)
Assistance Yes
Cycle Map (Routable Cycling-Specific Street Map) yes (multi-region)
Bike Alarm Yes
Weather Alerts Yes
Inreach Compatible Yes
Calories Burned Yes
Intensity Minutes Yes
Customizable Data Pages Yes
Auto Pause Yes
Interval Training Yes
Advanced Workouts Yes
Downloadable Training Plans Yes
Daily Workout Suggestions Yes (event specific)
Primary And Secondary Workout Targets Yes
Auto Lap Yes
Vo2 Max Yes
Training Status - Cycling Yes
Alerts (Triggers Alarm When You Reach Goals Including Time, Distance, Heart Rate Or Calories) Yes
Training Load Focus - Cycling Yes
Real-Time Stamina - Cycling Yes
Cycling Ability Analysis Yes
Course Demands Analysis Yes
Training Effect Yes
Recovery Advisor Yes
Virtual Partner Yes
Segments Yes
Auto Scroll Yes
Physio Trueup Yes
Unified Training Status Yes
Climbpro Ascent Planner - Cycling Yes
Climbpro - Courses Yes
Climbpro - Free Riding Yes
Courses Yes
On-Device Course Creator Yes
On-Device Location Search Yes
Power Guide Yes
Trendline Popularity Routing - Cycling Yes
Popularity Heatmap Yes
Cycling Dynamics Compatible Yes
Mtb Dynamics Yes
Integrated Trailforks Trail Data Yes
Power Meter Compatible Yes
Compatible With Varia Radar (Rear-Facing Radar) Yes
Compatible With Varia Radar Camera Yes
Compatible With Varia Lights Yes
Ebike Smart Range Routing Yes
Edge Remote Yes
Varia Remote Yes
Ant+ Electronic Shifting Yes
Shimano Di2 Synchro Shift Integration Yes
Smart Trainer Control Yes
Extended Display (Allows A Garmin Watch To Share Data Screens On Edge) Yes
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