Beeline Velo 2 - Bike Computer With Navigation And Smart Routing

I was slightly underwhelmed when I first unboxed it. The screen didn’t seem as sharp as the advertising suggested, the build quality was fine and the navigation initially seemed confusing. However since using it two or three times I can say, it’s a superb bit of kit, packed with great features, backed up by a useful app allowing you to plan and generate routes. While using, it keeps you well informed on the route, it switches screens so you see the most useful and relevant information, ie gradient display, while climbing, directions once approach turns. It will also reroute you, if you decide to deviate from your route. Great value for money, well built, great battery life and easy to use.

I bought this as a small, dedicated navigation display for my bike in London, and it does exactly what I wanted. It pairs easily with my phone and uses my phone’s maps and directions, which are far more accurate than most standalone GPS units at this price. The screen is bright enough to read in daylight, and I really like the audible beeps at 100 metres and again at the turn; it’s a great reminder to glance down without constantly staring at the screen. Build quality feels a bit on the cheap side, and I do wonder how well it would survive a proper fall if it came off the bike. That said, it’s held up well so far through rain and regular city riding. Overall, very good value if you want simple, no-frills bike navigation.

This is a simple but effective bit of technology. The box is neat and well designed, it comes with the unit, a connector base unit, and flexible bands for fixing the base unit to fix it all to the frame. Key thoughts. It relies on the phone app to navigate and track rides. I appreciated the simple and effective display. The turn by turn navigation was really good, a simplified map shows the key road junctions and it beeps once to get attention and then double beeps when you need to turn. Battery life is good, I rode for 5 hours and it only lost about 25% battery so I am confident that it would be okay for a full day. Overall, this is really impressive and an excellent purchase.

What a wicked piece of kit. Sat nav for ebikes. Its witchcraft I tells ya 🤣 easy to setup and use but most importantly IT ACTUALLY DOES WORK. Highly recommended

I bought this because I wanted the novel compass feature and I wanted the simplicity of being able to ride with useful minimal information without the temptation of flicking through Garmin screens. I bought the Beeline Velo 2 trough Amazon but I spent an extra tenner to buy the optional mount to convert my Kedge out front mount into a Beeline 1/8 turn mount direct from Beeline. Both arrived in good time and good order. Set up of the Beeline App and Velo 2 was a breeze and i set out on my first "free ride" using the device today. All started well and I was enjoying the minimal aesthetic and then my Velo 2 pop off the mount and hit the road about 40 mins into my ride. It did not rise from the canvas with a few bumps and bruises (see photo). this was not run over, either by me or by a following car it simply "exploded" when it hit the road. I have to say that until then it had operated faultlessly. i stuffed it in my jersey pocket and carried on my ride. I was surprised when I got home to find that despite its obvious disarray, the Velo 2 had continued to work and had recorded the whole of my ride (hence the three stars) none of the switches work however and it ain't going back together. Feisty little bugger though. After scraping the Velo 2 off the road I got back on my bike and noticed cracks around the mounting holes on the replacement plastic mount. It would be easy to say that I had over tightened the mount when installing it but I have over 50 years experience of building and settling bikes and I am very conscious of torquing bolts correctly and not over tightening especially when the bolts fasten small bits of plastic as here. There were no visible cracks in the mount before I put the Velo 2 in it (if there had been I wouldn't have done it and I honestly do not think that I did over tighten the bolts. I cannot, however, rule out that I did over tighten them and all I can say is that if I can over tighten them with my experience of working on bikes any one can and is likely to. I also noticed that when I installed the Velo 2 in the mount it was an extremely tight fit and i wonder if it is possible that "upward pressure" from the Velo 2 on the mount caused the mount to break at a stress point (where the mounting bolts are) which might explain the absence of any visible cracks after I installed the mount and its giving way only after 40 minutes or so of riding. Either way, whether it was me over tightening or a design fault, the plastic used for the mount is too brittle for its purpose. I've given the Velo 2 three stars because, as i say, it worked as expected but I haven't had chance to use all of its features (and I won't now). If I was marking the mount I would give it zero.

This is an absolutely brilliant device, don't need to worry about mounting my phone to my handlebar and battery running out, just put this small and pretty looking device and then use the app on your phone to find a route or get directions to a destination its super easy and compact, battery last ages too.

The device is certainly a vast improvement over the Megene device I sent back, but the App and PC software are heavily flawed. And the device is nothing without the software. For long complex trips both the app and software are cumbersome to use with the base map being very poor, and the route choosing being questionable at times. The PC software has got an incognito save, ie I cant save my route!. the app being on a small devices with no physical keyboard is not as they claim the best experience, or shouldn't be. No where near really good enough for purpose. The typing in of a place name is laughable, and needs even a tiny bit of intelligence. If I am in Cumbria, my next waypoint wont be a restaurant in Korea. Was the software an afterthought? You'd think importing a GPX file would do the trick, after all the files produced by the OS software are very detailed, but NO, even in breadcrumb mode there are large discrepancies in some places .. maybe because a road has been voted as not a good route. Thats the way I HAVE to go. This really is not good enough probably because the programmers think they can write software that thinks it knows better than me what I want. Just keep it simple! copy the route exactly. Its only got 2 stars because it works better than the megene device I had. Add On. Reduced to 1 star. They have obviously been fiddling with the software because its now even worse. The web based software wont work out a route and there is no SAVE function - laughable. The app is fiddly to use if you want to modify you route. I cant get the NCR route I want. What a waste of money. Stop spending my hard earned dosh I coughed up on advertising and fix the software.

I’ve been using the Velo 2 around London on my Brompton, and it fits exactly what I need as a new cyclist. I wanted something small that wouldn’t interfere with the fold, and I didn’t want my phone out because London has snatchers. I’m not into stats or tracking. I just want simple directions. The Velo 2 nails that. • The size is tiny and never gets in the way. • The minimal design is easy to glance at while riding. • It uses my phone’s GPS, which works fine for city riding. • The turn cues are clear enough that I don’t need a full map view and perfect for just taking a quick glance. It's nearly perfect for me but a few drawbacks stand out. • You have to plan routes in their app instead of using Apple Maps or Google Maps. I’d prefer more flexibility, but it’s manageable. • The main navigation screen doesn’t show ETA. You have to tap through a few screens to check it, which isn’t ideal in London traffic. • There’s no Apple Watch support, which would make a quick ETA glance much easier. Price-wise, I think it’s crept up a bit too much. I paid £99, and I’ve seen older reviews calling it expensive at £80. It’s still cheaper than most cycling GPS units, but the device itself is pretty simple and relies heavily on your phone. It feels like it should cost less. That said, I’m still happy to support a UK-based tech company. Battery life is solid and charges quickly over USB-C. After looking around, this still feels like the best option for a small, simple, no-fuss GPS that keeps my phone tucked away and my Brompton folding clean.

Tengo un Gatmin Explore 2. Va bien, pero es tosco y limitado. Este beeline es mas sencillo, tiene menos prestaciones y es totalmente dependiente del mòvil, hasta el pinto que si no lo llevas encima, el rquipo no funciona. Tampoco sabe buscar rutas, hay que hacerlo desde el móvil. Si quieres que mida tus datos biométricos, tampoco vale. Pero si aceptas que vas a llevar el móvil, entonces las cosas cambian: es pequeño, es fácil de utilizar, las instrucciones de ruta son sencillas, lee ficheros GPX, se ve bien en todo tipo de luz. Y el precio. Resumiendo, si no necesitas la biometria, y lo tuyo es hacer salidas casuales donde a lo sumo necesitarás que te indique, este puede ser el producto a utilizar. A mi me sirve, y muy bien!

使用感はかなり良いです。スマホをナビとして利用しているときに比較して、情報がシンプルで、読み取りの認知的不可が低くて、ポタリングを楽しめます。道を走っている時の環境への没入感を感じやすい。良いですよ。品物自体は、軽量、簡素ですが、必要十分という感じです。装着の難易度は低く、簡単です。きちんとステムに止まりました。ボタンの反応も良い。スマホをカバンの中に閉まっておけるので、落としたり当てたりして壊す可能性は低くなり安心感があります。これは買って良かった。

Routing options are pretty good, compass mode is actually kinda fun and helps you to discover new routes and also not worry so much about making the wrong turn and just head in the general direction (sometimes even faster than suggested routes). Accompany phone and app required to operate the GPS computer, which might be a deal breaker for some but perfectly find as I always carrying my phone with me on my rides. App is well designed and online route planner on Beeline website is a very good option, albeit still rough around the edges. All in, this is a compact and very neat device, especially if you don't want to mount your huge phone (I'm using a folding one) to the handlebar.

Aufgrund einiger "nicht-5-Sterne-Bewertungen" war ich ein wenig skeptisch, hatte mich aber nach einem absoluten Fehlkauf des Garmin Edge Explore 2 bewußt für eine komplett andere Art der Navigation entschieden. Ich wurde nicht enttäuscht. Im Gegensatz zur schon unterirdischen Bedienerführung des Garmin passte beim Velo 2 einfach alles: - Intuitives Interface - Spielerisch einfache Ersteinrichtung - Überraschend gute Kartendarstellung in der App - Sichere und auf 10m absolut exakte Navigation Ich hatte bis gestern das besagte Garmin zum Test. ich werde das Gerät in einer anderen Rezension noch bewerten. Hier geht es aber um das Beeline Velo II, und da bin ich äußerst positiv überrascht. Top: Das Beeline Velo 2 wirkt federleicht, ultramodern und einfach funktional. Die Routeneingabe kann gekoppelt per Beeline App erfolgen oder auch per Strava (nicht so meins und auch teuer) oder als Import von GPX-Dateien (z.B. Komoot). Insbesondere letztere App hat einfach die Nase vor bei MTB-Routen, das Beeline kann das einfach nicht, muß es aber wegen der Importmöglichkeit auch nicht. Der Import kostet nichts, die Route ist danach als Nebeneffekt sicher auf dem Handy gespeichert. Mein Vorgehen war simpel: Vorgefertigte Route von Komoot als GPX im Handy exportieren, in die Beeline App importieren und schon ist man startklar. Die Navigation - auch mitten im Wald - war absolut flüssig, Abweichungen abseits der geplanten Route führen aber zu Irritationen in der Navigation. Geplante Routen in der Beeline App sind aber auch offensichtlich auf Rennradsport ausgelegt: Straßen über alles. Die Planung also in Komoot. Die Navigation ist dann superflüssig in der Beeline App abgespeichert, die Anzeige erfolgt dann auf dem Velo 2-Display. Ich konnte übrigens das Display sehr gut ablesen, auch im hellsten Sonnenschein keinerlei Beanstandung, die Fotos zeigen das auch glaube ich deutlich. Wer hier meckert braucht eventuell eine besser entspiegelte Sonnenbrille. Mein Fazit - bisher: Tolles Gerät, sehr günstig und auf Straße ausgelegt. Wer wie ich Offroad fährt braucht eine andere App, von der man die Route dann exportiert. Das kann notfalls auch unterwegs geschehen, eine mangelnde Live-Unterstützung sehe ich - auch aus Kostengründen - nicht wirklich als Manko. Die Highlights - Schnelles und sicheres GPS, auf 10m genau, auch bei 50 km/h - Klare, schnörkelose Anzeige mit dezenter akustischer ("Piep Piep") Untermalung - Keine Sensorenunterstützung (Gottseidank, dafür habe ich meine SmartWatch) - Ausgezeichnet programmierte App mit erstaunlich guten Karten, schlägt Google bei weitem - Sehr einfache Erstellung von Routen mit Wegpunkten, intuitiv und schnell - Ändern von Routen durch Ziehen an Wegpunkten (Dreiecke), wie auf dem Desktop bei Google - Sehr niedriger Preis im Vergleich mit Garmin oder Wahoo und trotzdem übersichtlicher - Ein stylisches Leichtgewicht Negativ - Routenerstellung für Rennräder und Straßen optimiert (ist mir wayne, dafür benutze ich den Marktführer) So. Ich bin ganz offensichtlich sehr angetan von dem Velo II und vergebe 5 Sterne, ohne wenn und aber :) Das Gerät hätte meiner Meinung nach einen Red Dot Award für Design verdient. Goodbye ihr alten Platzhirsche Garmin und Wahoo. Aber auch so: Klasse Teil!

STAY AWAY! It was working fine, great solution for navigation! But... Yesterday as I open the app, they now moved to start making you pay a monthly subscription for simple features! I understand if they want to add premium, complex features, yeah, add a membership option, but not for stuff as basic as voice navigation (hey gmaps and apple maps are free and both have voice guidance) Now I see that after paying over 100eur for this device, it might become useless the moment they decide to move basic navigation into a monthly subscription as well...