Review on 🚲 Bryton Rider 420E: Ultimate GPS Bike Computer with 35hrs Battery Life, Turn-by-Turn Navigation, and Extreme Accuracy by Juan Moncrief

I've only had it recently (less than 10 rides with it so far). So this is more of a first impression than a full review. This Bryton Rider 420 replaced the VDO MC1.0. When I first switched from a basic cateye to a VDO, I thought the VDO looked pretty massive. Compared to the Bryton Rider 420, VDO seems quite small. I mean, the Bryton seems ridiculously big, especially when it's mounted on the handlebars next to the VDO. It's actually the same size as my old Nokia clamshell (folded). The screen is quite large, although I think the frames around it seem huge. I would prefer to be able to display up to 10 fields on the screen instead of 8, but that might be due to the screen not being high resolution. The layout of the buttons confuses me a bit. It's also annoying that there's only a down button for the menu, not an up button. I think the main buttons should be placed in the bottom bar (that should make them more intuitive without having to remember which button does what). In working mode, the GPS speed seems pretty accurate (compared to a wired VDO speed sensor). The altitude on the Bryton fluctuates much more with wind than on the VDO. Also, the Bryton is typically 45 degrees colder than what the VDO shows (not entirely sure what's wrong with the two for comparison, of course). The strange thing is that when they are placed next to each other on my table, they show the same temperature. Only on the road everything is different (even if they are next to each other behind the wheel). Bryton's car break sometimes lasts half the way before he starts recording again. I have found that on a 50 mile ride it can be 1.5 miles lower on the Bryton than the VDO. Since the speed between Bryton and VDO is very close, I can only explain the difference in mileage with the auto pause feature. On the first full charge I was able to ride for around 16 hours (probably around 20 hours if you count). the time it is on but not recording the ride) before it said the battery is low. It was without sensors. So a little less than 35 hours. I recently bought a power meter with a cadence sensor and it seems that the battery life is still shrinking a bit. I recently did a Century trip and the battery was about half dead after the trip (took about 8.5 hours on a solo assisted Century). I'm still waiting for my heart rate monitor to arrive, so I think this will reduce battery life a bit more. Of course, there's still plenty of battery life for all-day rides. The Bryton Active app/website is somewhat limited due to the use of OpenStreetMap. For some reason there are some roads that are not routed, although some of these roads are normal corridors used by cyclists. So sometimes it refuses to go down your chosen road (which gives me an odd detour). Once you get used to routing with Google Maps, OpenStreetMap will seem very limited. Most of the time I don't even bother to use the breadcrumb function on this Bryton. I only remember the track. I probably should have just gotten the 320 and saved a few bucks (and bought a Bryton Sport Mount with it). As I bought it on Prime Day it was 10% cheaper than usual so I still think it's good value for money.