2025 Buyer’s Guide: Full-feature bike computers for all your data

Coros Dura

$399
Coros says its Dura computer, with colour touchscreen, can run for 120 hours. That figure is sure to assuage any battery anxiety on a long ride. If you’re riding in sunlight, more life will get added to the computer via solar charging. On roads, the Dura uses Google Maps for rerouting and road conditions. Both electronic Shimano or SRAM groupsets integrate well with the head unit. To take your data collection to the next level, you can work Coros’s Pace Pro watch into the mix. The watch lets you track sleep and heart-rate variability. Information from the watch and head unit can all be analyzed in Coros’s app. (ca.coros.com)

Hammerhead Karoo

$700
If you have a few bikes, each with its own set of gizmos, then you’ll appreciate the Hammerhead Karoo’s ability to set up profiles for device combinations. The head unit has both a touchscreen and buttons for navigating menus and making selections. That may seem a bit extra, but the convenience of a touchscreen in high, dry summer disappears really quickly in the mud and rain of fall, or mud and rain of spring. The Karoo’s audio alerts are crazy loud, which you might need if your freehub puts out serious decibels. Still, the display is crisp, and the data screens are nicely customizable on this high-performance computer. (hammerhead.io)

Garmin Edge 1050

$980
When you navigate the menus of the Garmin Edge 1050, you’ll notice how quickly it responds. It’s truly speedy. It’s also big: 60.2 x 118.5 x 16.3 mm. If you’re upgrading to the 1050 and you have a proprietary mount on your bike—well, you might have to make another upgrade. The screen’s brightness is excellent, but it comes at a price: battery life. Garmin says the computer will run for 20 hours, or 60 in battery-saver mode. If you want a longer-running computer from Garmin, the 1040 Solar would be a better choice. A cool feature of the 1050: a bell. For real, it has a bell function. If your electronic groupset has accessory buttons, you can program one of them to go ring-ring. (garmin.com) —MP