I just got the bike speed and cadence sensor to use with my 920xt. Now that I have it and attached it to my bike (can’t believe how simple that was) I don’t see anything about pairing the sensors with my device. The only data I see displayed on the device is speed and distance. Does the watch itself not display cadence? Am I missing something here? I have been out of the loop for a long time, this 920xt is replacing my Forerunner 101 (not a typo), so I’m a bit behind the times here.
Okay, so, with the help of a friend via text I was able to connect the speed and cadence sensors to my device. Does it really not display cadence?
You’ll have to find the settings on the watch where you can customize the display fields. Cadence along with about 50 other options should be able to be picked from.
I don’t have the 920 but I’m guessing you don’t have it turned on to show that field. Somewhere in the settings you select which data fields you want to show on each screen and how many fields you want to show on that screen for each type of activity. On the 910 you can show 1-4 data fields. Probably just need to select cadence as a field in the bike mode settings.
Have you tried looking in one of the options menu? I would imagine that it’d be like their other watches like the 310 and 910 where you can choose to display what you want to see.
Per Ray’s review, it looks like it’s doable, however only with ANT+, so if your sensor is BT then you’re SOL
http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/11/garmin-forerunner-920xt-depth-review.html
Thanks JayZ, slowly but surely figuring this thing out. Sure would be nice if the included manuals actually gave you that information. Thank goodness for text messages and the internet.
http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/Forerunner_920XT_OM_EN.pdf
page 12 (pdf page 16)
middle of the page under “Customizing the Data Screens”
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Was just finding the link to the DC rainmaker review but yams beat me to it. Read that review, it’s great and shows you tons of the features we’d probably never figure out on our own.
This video proved to be very helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-o14r_f984
I have a feeling I will end up greatly underutilizing this device much like I do the macbook I am typing this message on.
I find the manual “wanting”. In that I “want” it to have a lot more information. But, to answer your question, assuming you have a GSC-10 (or whatever) that sends out an ANT+ signal with cadence, the 920 will pick it up. You need to pair the device - hopefully you figured that out. Then, to display cadence on one of the cycling screens, yup, just checked and the default doesn’t show cadence so, go into “Bike”, and press the . . . button, you’ll see “Activity Settings”, press “Enter”, you’ll see “Data Screens”, press “Enter”, you’ll be on screen 1, press “Enter”, you’ll see “Layout 3 fields”. To change the number of fields (between 1 & 3), press “Enter” and scroll up or down to get to the number of fields you want (1 through 4), then press “Back”. Now, go to the field you want changed by scrolling down to Field 1, 2, 3 or 4 and press “Enter”. Scroll down to “Cadence Fields” and Press “Enter”, select “Cadence” (or whatever other Cadence Field you want) and press “Enter”. Now, press “Back” 4 times and you’ll be back to the bike screen.
Hope this helps. The one I had issues with was how to change from a default of 2 or 3 data fields to 4. The manual isn’t very clear about this.
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Thanks BC Don, that’s exactly what I did. The video I linked earlier was super helpful. I see a lot of video watching in my future. I’ll probably be watching “how to” videos for my Garmin as I’m doing TrainerRoad workouts.
Chri55 … it’s almost that bad 
I wouldn’t feel too bad about it. I’m about as tech savvy as they come, and I remember fruitlessly scanning my Fenix 2 for somethig like 20 minutes before finding where to change the display options.
I have yelled at this watch trying to figure out how to run it more than any device since I had to make a boot disk to play computer games in 1995.
The problem is that you have to drill down into different menus. If you drill in the wrong place you come up empty.
I have yelled at this watch trying to figure out how to run it more than any device since I had to make a boot disk to play computer games in 1995.
The problem is that you have to drill down into different menus. If you drill in the wrong place you come up empty.
I don’t see how this watch (and the drill down menu options) are any different to any other device. In fact drill down menus are the backbone of nearly every computer and device. Having everything on a single screen would involve scrolling through options for about an hour to find the right one.
You pair stuff and change data fields in exactly the same way as my 7 year old Forerunner 305. The menu choice is Settings > Bike Settings > Data Fields. I can’t see what other options seem more viable from the main menu.
As with menu driven device it’s worth spending a couple of minutes running methodically through the menus. Once you have done that you have a good feel for how the watch is set up and where everything is. That way you also end up with a feel for everything the watch does rather then just what you initially wanted it to do.
It’s not the watch … you’re just getting old and confused
It’s not the drill down menus, it’s the lack of real world experience that programmers have when designing products.
Why else would a garmin 910 for instance as one of data screens - have a preset auto lap distance and then in turn waste a field on last lap distance? If we’re doing laps, the length of a lap doesn’t magically change even if we don’t know the distance ahead of time.
Does anyone actually use the virtual training partner? I know I don’t, it’s just an annoyance when I’m paging through screens that I actually will use - of course someone will tell I can shut that feature off. Okay, where? etc etc etc.
It’s not the drill down menus, it’s the lack of real world experience that programmers have when designing products.
Why else would a garmin 910 for instance as one of data screens - have a preset auto lap distance and then in turn waste a field on last lap distance? If we’re doing laps, the length of a lap doesn’t magically change even if we don’t know the distance ahead of time.
Does anyone actually use the virtual training partner? I know I don’t, it’s just an annoyance when I’m paging through screens that I actually will use - of course someone will tell I can shut that feature off. Okay, where? etc etc etc.
Laps are not necessarily rotations of a track or a pre-defined distance. They are simply markers. If I want to mark the workout for whatever reason I hit lap. If I am doing timed repeats I hit lapp at the start and end of each one, when i finish a repeat I can hilt lap and see how far I went in that repeat if I have Last Lap Distance turned on. Last lap distance would be used when you are lapping by time, in the same way Last Lap Time would be used if you are lapping by distance.
Initially the lap distance is preset, but not pre-fixed. Auto Lap is just turned on by default and you can change it to whatever you like, lap by time, distance.
To turn off Virtual Training Partner: Menu > Settings > Run Settings > Virtual Partner … in fact, pretty much the same place that you go to as the last time you ask to change one of the settings.
The main in menu is:
History - All your old workouts, you can view delete whatever. Not too complicated.Training - All the stuff you probably will not use, courses, run alerts etcGPS - You will probably not use this either, just shows GPS status and a few other GPS options. You can disable GPS here if indoors. You can also disable GPS straight away when you turn the watch on. When it is showing the ‘Locating Satellites’ screen just hit enter and choose ‘Indoors’ Good to do that if you are on an indoor trainer.Settings - Pretty much everything you will change is in here under Run Settings or Bike Settings.
Hope that helps.