Edge 550 is the compact GPS bike computer featuring a vivid colour display with buttons to give you the right insights, guidance and fuelling advice to perform better than ever. Some training and performance features require a compatible heart rate monitor, power meter or both.

Features

• Smart Fuelling Alerts: When using power guide or following a workout, get guidance on how many grams of carbs and millilitres of water you should be taking on throughout your ride with alerts based on your current fitness, course demands, heat and humidity.
• Garmin Coach Training Plans: Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with personalised Garmin Coach training plans; Garmin Cycling Coach plans even adapt to your training, recovery and demands of the course.
• Advanced Training Features: See insights backed by sports scientists with power guide, real-time stamina, cycling ability and more.
• Real-Time Weather Updates: Monitor the weather, and make more informed decisions in-ride with radar and wind direction overlays when used with your smartphone and the Garmin Connect™ app.
• Groupride: Stay connected on group rides1 with in-ride messaging, live locations and incident detection alerts2; see in-ride leaderboards for climbs and real-time data compared to other riders.
• Road Hazard Alerts: Get alerts for road hazards reported by fellow cyclists, and contribute your own edits1.
• Training Status: Evaluate your performance indicators to see if you’re training productively.
• Heat And Altitude Acclimation: See how your body is holding up with heat and altitude acclimation.
• Cycling Ability And Course Demands: Compare your cycling ability to the demands of a course to focus your training.
• Daily Suggested Workouts: Get daily ride suggestions based on your fitness level, current training load and VO2 max.
• Ride-Specific Routing: Get routing suited to your ride, and see favourite routes from other Garmin cyclists.
• Bike-Specific Mapping: Ride with preloaded maps that include worldwide MTB trail data from Trailforks.
• Forksight Mode: See the names of trails up ahead, their distance, elevation and more.
• Map Manager With Wi-Fi® Connectivity: Add, swap or update maps for free via Wi-Fi on your device.
• Real-Time Stamina Insights: Stamina insights show how much energy you have left at your current effort.
• Power Guide: Manage efforts with recommended power targets based on real-time stamina and wind1.
• Climbpro Ascent Planner: See remaining ascent and grade when climbing to gauge your effort and view nearby climbs on the map.
• Cycling Dynamics: Advanced cycling metrics give insight on performance from variable conditions.
• Enduro And Downhill Ride Profiles: The enduro ride profile tracks total ascent and descent from each run and for the ride overall. The downhill profile laps each time you finish a descent.
• 5 Hz Gps Recording: See greater detail about the lines you take down the trail with multi-band GPS with 5 Hz GPS recording while using the enduro or downhill ride profiles.
• Set Timing Gates: Set timing gates throughout a course to track split times and better understand your performance in real time.
• Mtb Dynamics: Track mountain biking metrics such as jump count, jump distance and hang time.
• Grit® And Flow™ Metrics: Grit rates the difficulty of a trail. Flow measures how smoothly you ride it.
• Turn-By-Turn Directions: Stay on track with turn-by-turn directions and alerts.
• Back To Start: Get back on track — or back to start — if you’re lost or want to go home early.
• Nutrition And Hydration Alerts: Stay fuelled on a ride with notifications when it’s time to hydrate or eat.
• Gear Ratio Analysis: After the ride, see time spent in each gear ratio when paired with your electronic shifting.
• Compatibility With Varia™ Devices: Pair your Edge bike computer with your Varia rearview radar and smart lights to see and be seen.
• Incident Detection: This feature sends a message with your location2 to emergency contacts after an on- or off-road incident.
• Livetrack™ Sharing: Loved ones can follow your location in real time and see data such as speed and course plans1.
• Bike Alarm: A PIN-protected alarm loudly sounds from your Edge bike computer if your bike is moved. You can also receive a notification on your compatible smartphone that your bike has been moved when your Edge device is paired and within range of Bluetooth® connectivity on your smartphone.
• Inreach® Device Compatibility: Stay in touch wherever you ride by pairing with a compatible inReach device3.
• Smart Notifications: Receive texts and alerts on your Edge cycling computer, when paired with your smartphone.
• Smart Trainer Compatibility: This Edge bike computer can pair with your indoor bike trainer to track your home rides.
• Ebike Compatibility: Connect to your eBike that’s compatible with ANT+® technology.
• Connect Iq™ Store: Download custom data fields, and get apps and widgets from our Connect IQ Store smartphone app.
• Electronic Shifting Connectivity: Configure select shifting systems to control your Edge bike computer and view battery life, swipe through data pages and more.

Specifications

• DIMENSION: 54.6 x 92.2 x 16.8 mm
• WEIGHT: 110 g
• WATER RATING: IPX7
• DISPLAY TYPE: Liquid crystal
• DISPLAY SIZE: 2.7" diagonal
• DISPLAY RESOLUTION: 420 x 600 pixels
• COLOUR DISPLAY: Yes
• BATTERY TYPE: Rechargeable lithium-ion
• "BATTERY LIFE: Up to 12 hours (demanding use)
• Up to 36 hours battery saver mode"
• BATTERY SAVE MODE: Yes
• IN-RIDE POWER COMPATIBLE (POWER MOUNT AND GARMIN CHARGE BATTERY PACK): Yes
• Maps & memory: Yes
• ABILITY TO ADD MAPS: Yes
• WI-FI® MAP MANAGER: Yes
• BASEMAP: Yes
• INTEGRATED TRAILFORKS TRAIL DATA: Yes
• STORAGE AND POWER CAPACITY: 32 GB (internal memory only)
• WAYPOINTS/FAVOURITES/LOCATIONS: 200
• NAVIGATION ROUTES: 100 Courses
• HISTORY: Up to 200 hours

• GPS: Yes
• GLONASS: Yes
• GALILEO: Yes
• BAROMETRIC ALTIMETER: Yes
• GYROSCOPE: Yes
• ACCELEROMETER: Yes
• AMBIENT LIGHT SENSOR: Yes
• 5 HZ GPS: Yes
• MULTI-BAND GNSS: Yes
• MAGNETOMETER: Yes
Daily smart features
• CONNECTIVITY: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
• CONNECT IQ™ (DOWNLOADABLE WATCH FACES, DATA FIELDS AND APPS): Yes
• ON-DEVICE CONNECT IQ™ STORE: Yes
• SMART NOTIFICATIONS: Yes
• TEXT RESPONSE/REJECT PHONE CALL WITH TEXT (ANDROID™ ONLY): Yes
• WEATHER FORECASTS: Yes
• REAL-TIME WEATHER MAP DISPLAY: Yes
• REALTIME SETTINGS SYNC WITH GARMIN CONNECT™ MOBILE: Yes
• CONTROLS SMARTPHONE MUSIC: Yes
• VIRB® CAMERA REMOTE: Yes
• SMART TRAINER CONTROL: Yes
• SMARTPHONE COMPATIBILITY: iPhone®, Android™
• GARMIN SHARE: Yes

• ASSISTANCE: Yes
• LIVETRACK: Yes
• GROUPTRACK: Yes
• GROUP RIDE (CYCLING): Yes
• GROUPRIDE COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS: Yes
• RIDER-TO-RIDER MESSAGING: Yes
• INCIDENT DETECTION: Yes (includes off-road)
• GROUPRIDE DATA COMPARISONS: Yes
• GROUPRIDE INCIDENT DETECTION: Yes
• COMMUNITY GENERATED HAZARDS REPORTING: Yes
• FIND MY EDGE®: Yes
• BIKE ALARM: Yes
• WEATHER ALERTS: Yes
• INREACH® COMPATIBLE: Yes

• CALORIES BURNED: Yes
• INTENSITY MINUTES: Yes

• CUSTOMISABLE SCREEN(S): Yes
• DOWNLOADABLE TRAINING PLANS: Yes
• DAILY WORKOUT SUGGESTIONS: Yes (event specific)
• PRIMARY AND SECONDARY WORKOUT TARGETS: Yes
• AUTO PAUSE® AUTOMATIC TIMER HALT: Yes
• INTERVAL TRAINING: Yes
• ADVANCED WORKOUTS: Yes
• AUTO LAP® INTERVAL TRACKING FEATURE: Yes
• VO2 MAX: Yes
• TRAINING STATUS - CYCLING: Yes
• TRAINING LOAD - CYCLING: Yes
• TRAINING LOAD FOCUS - CYCLING: Yes
• REAL-TIME STAMINA - CYCLING: Yes
• CYCLING ABILITY ANALYSIS: Yes
• COURSE DEMANDS ANALYSIS: Yes
• TRAINING EFFECT: Yes
• RECOVERY ADVISOR: Yes
• VIRTUAL PARTNER: Yes
• RACE AN ACTIVITY: Yes
• SEGMENTS: Yes
• AUTO SCROLL: Yes
• PHYSIO TRUEUP: Yes
• UNIFIED TRAINING STATUS: Yes
• SMART FUELLING: Yes

• CLIMBPRO ASCENT PLANNER - CYCLING: Yes
• CLIMBPRO - COURSES: Yes
• CLIMBPRO - FREE RIDING: Yes

• COURSES: Yes
• ALERTS (TRIGGERS ALARM WHEN YOU REACH GOALS INCLUDING TIME, DISTANCE, HEART RATE OR CALORIES): Yes
• FTP (FUNCTIONAL THRESHOLD POWER): Yes
• MTB DYNAMICS: Yes
• GRAVITY MTB RIDE PROFILE SUPPORT (DOWNHILL, ENDURO, EENDURO): Yes
• TIMING GATES: Yes
• COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA™ RADAR (REAR-FACING RADAR): Yes
• COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA RADAR CAMERA: Yes
• COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA™ LIGHTS: Yes
• COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA HEADLIGHT CAMERA: Yes
• POWER METER COMPATIBLE: Yes
• POWER GUIDE: Yes
• TOPOACTIVE MAPS - CYCLING: Yes
• TRENDLINE POPULARITY ROUTING - CYCLING: Yes
• POPULARITY HEATMAP: Yes
• CYCLING DYNAMICS COMPATIBLE: Yes
• EBIKE SMART RANGE ROUTING: Yes

• EDGE® REMOTE: Yes
• VARIA™ REMOTE: Yes
• ANT+™ ELECTRONIC SHIFTING: Yes
• SHIMANO DI2 SYNCHRO SHIFT INTEGRATION: Yes
• SRAM AXS INTEGRATION: Yes
• GEAR RATIO ANALYSIS: Yes
• EXTENDED DISPLAY (ALLOWS A GARMIN WATCH TO SHARE DATA SCREENS ON EDGE®): Yes

In the Box

• Edge® 550 GPS cycling computer
• Flush Out-Front Mount
• Standard Mount
• Tether
• Charging/data cable
• Documentation