Stamina insights

While you ride, get stamina2 insights 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.

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 fueled, 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

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, Edge 1040 Solar 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 alerts3.

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 compatible smartphone 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.

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.

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.

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