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POWERED BY THE SUN
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.
Keep on pushing. Power Glass™ solar charging1 extends battery life up to 42 minutes per hour in battery saver mode.
Ride farther, charge less. With solar charging, get up to 45 hours of battery life in demanding use cases and up to 100 hours in battery saver mode1.
Go deep. Dense tree cover and the urban canyon are no match for its spot-on accuracy with multi-band GNSS.
Your cycling ability2 and the course demands help you understand your strengths and weaknesses.
Ride like a local with ride type-specific maps and navigation.
Know how much is left in your tank with stamina2 insights.
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.
Find more than just routes.
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.
Protect yourself and your bike.
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.
GROUPTRACK FEATURE
Keep an eye on your riding companions, even when they fall out of sight — and let them keep an eye on you5. GroupTrack can keep tabs on up to 50 of your friends at once. Just look at your screen to see updates.
Get connected.
MUSIC CONTROLS
Control music on the trail or the trainer. When paired to your smartphone, you can control your music — right on your Edge.
ENHANCE YOUR EBIKE RIDE
Easily connect your compatible6 eBike — via ANT® or ANT+® technology — to view custom eBike data, adjust assistance levels and even see remaining range based on your planned course.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive texts and alerts right on your Edge device when paired with your compatible smartphone.
SYNC WITH GARMIN CONNECT
The Garmin Connect app is home to a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete — and even share their triumphs via social media.
LIVE EVENT SHARING
When paired to your smartphone, automatically send live ride updates to family and friends — without lifting a finger. So while you’re powering through, they can stay up to date with your speed, miles completed and more.
SPECTATOR MESSAGING
When paired to your smartphone, get mid-race motivation with text messages from your family and friends.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Download custom data fields, and get apps and widgets from our Connect IQ Store app downloaded to your compatible smartphone.
SMART TRAINER COMPATIBILITY
Pair Edge 1040 with your Tacx® indoor trainer so you can ride when you want and where you want.
AUTOMATIC SETUP
Be ready to ride in moments, instead of wasting time configuring settings. Get prepopulated custom ride profiles based on your previous Edge bike computer, ride types or your sensors. Once on your Edge, you can manage your ride profiles directly from your device or compatible smartphone.
1 Assumes continuous 75,000 lux conditions during daytime rides 2 When paired with your compatible sensors (sold separately) 3 Activity tracking accuracy 4 Active satellite subscription required. Some jurisdictions regulate or prohibit the use of satellite communications devices. It is the responsibility of the user to know and follow all applicable laws in the jurisdictions where the device is intended to be used. 5 When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety. 6 Screenshot shown is for ANT+ LEV compatible eBikes TrainingPeaks is a registered trademark of Peaksware, LLC.
- Edge® 1040 Solar
- Black silicone case
- Mounts (MTB, standard and out-front)
- USB cable
- Tether
- Documentation
Physical & Performance
| Display Size | 3.5″ (88.9 mm) diagonal |
| Battery type | Rechargeable lithium-ion |
| Display Resolution | 282 x 470 pixels |
| GPS | Yes |
| Dimension | 2.3″ x 4.6″ x 0.8″ (59.3 x 117.6 x 20.0 mm) |
| Weight | 4.7 oz (133 g) |
| Battery life | 45 hours See Details |
Maps & Navigation
| External memory storage | 64 GB internal memory |
| Waypoints/favorites/locations | 200 |
| Basemap | Preloaded Garmin cycle map |
| Navigation Routes | 100 Courses |
| Ability to add maps | Yes |
| History | Up to 200 hours |
Features
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
| Extended display (allows a Garmin watch to share data screens on Edge®) | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia Radar Camera | Yes |
| Courses | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia™ lights | Yes |
| Integrated TrailForks trail data | Yes |
| Downloadable training plans | Yes |
| Popularity heatmap | Yes |
| Group LiveTrack | Yes |
| Intensity minutes | Yes |
| Interval training | Yes |
| Gyroscope | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | Yes |
| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | Yes |
| Touchscreen | Yes |
| Varia™ remote | Yes |
| Race an Activity | Yes |
| Power guide | Yes |
| ClimbPro - Courses | Yes |
| GLONASS | Yes |
| Group Ride (Cycling) | Yes |
| Smart Notifications | Yes |
| Simulation of descent | No |
| Incident Detection | Yes (includes off-road) |
| Battery save mode | Yes |
| Find My Edge® | Yes |
| Calories Burned | Yes |
| Customizable data pages | Yes |
| On-device location search | Yes |
| Vo2 Max | Yes |
| Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | Yes |
| Training status - Cycling | Yes |
| eBike Smart range routing | Yes |
| Virtual Partner | Yes |
| Controls smartphone music | Yes |
| Multi-band GNSS | Yes |
| MTB Dynamics | Yes |
| Power meter compatible | Yes |
| Physio TrueUp | Yes |
| inReach® compatible | Yes |
| Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map) | yes (multi-region) |
| Trendline Popularity Routing - Cycling | Yes |
| Ambient light sensor | Yes |
| Recovery advisor | Yes |
| LiveTrack | Yes |
| Cycling ability analysis | Yes |
| Rider-to-rider messaging | Yes |
| On-device course creator | Yes |
| ClimbPro - Free Riding | Yes |
| Magnetometer | Yes |
| Barometric altimeter | Yes |
| On-device Connect IQ™ Store | Yes |
| Weather forecasts | Yes |
| Auto Lap® | Yes |
| Auto Pause® | Yes |
| Power Glass solar charging | Yes |
| ANT+™ electronic shifting | Yes |
| Shimano Di2 Synchro Shift integration | Yes |
| Water rating | IPX7 |
| Primary and secondary workout targets | Yes |
| ClimbPro Ascent Planner - Cycling | Yes |
| Bike alarm | Yes |
| Color display | Yes |
| Measured Cadence | No |
| Accelerometer | Yes |
| Measured Power | No |
| Daily workout suggestions | Yes (event specific) |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | Yes |
| Training load - Cycling | Yes |
| Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile | Yes |
| Auto scroll | Yes |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® |
| Smart trainer control | Yes |
| Segments | Yes |
| Real-time stamina - Cycling | Yes |
| Training load focus - Cycling | Yes |
| training effect | Yes |
| Galileo | Yes |
| In-ride power compatible (Power Mount and Garmin Charge battery pack) | Yes |
| Cycling Dynamics compatible | Yes |
| Weather alerts | Yes |
| Course demands analysis | Yes |
| Edge® remote | Yes |
| Assistance | Yes |
| Advanced workouts | Yes |
| Unified training status | Yes |
| VIRB® Remote | Yes |
*Please note that our specifications may be impacted by running substitution changes, we highly recommend confirming the specifications of our products at the time of sale. *Recommended Retail Prices are subject to change without notice and may vary from store to store depending on freighting and assembly costs. Please read our Terms & Conditions
*Giant & Liv Bicycles are available for purchase online, but due to warranty regulations, must be shipped to qualified Giant dealers, as bicycles must be assembled by a qualified bike mechanic in an approved store - This is an international policy and usually will require an additional fee to build the bike. This will be confirmed by one of our online staff after purchase of the bike.
