Lezyne Mini GPS review

Small but with plenty of features

Our rating

4.5

100.00

95.00

160.00

You can connect Bluetooth heart-rate monitors, power meters and cadence sensors

James Costley-White

Published: December 22, 2018 at 12:01 am

Our review

If you want an enhanced bike computer rather than a full-on MTB sat-nav, this is hard to beat Buy if, You want an enhanced bike computer and don't need sat-nav-style mapping

Pros:

Small and light (36g with mount) but has lots of features; phone app adds useful extra functionality

Cons:

It’d be good to be able to turn it off with a single button press; I wish I could review rides on the device itself

The diminutive Lezyne Mini GPS is a top option for riders who don’t need OS mapping but still want a range of ride info at their fingertips.

Although the screen is small — 22x26mm — you can set it to show just two data fields at a time, which keeps things easy to read. The five customisable screens can be used to display info relating to speed, time, distance, elevation and temperature.

You can also connect Bluetooth heart-rate monitors, power meters and cadence sensors.

The black-and-white screen keeps battery life reasonable, it’ll easily last for a weekend ride and couple of shorter blasts.

You can’t view past rides on the device itself but can if you connect to Lezyne’s phone app, which also allows easy settings tweaking. If you leave the two paired, you can receive messages on the Mini GPS and upload rides to Strava. It even offers turn-by-turn navigation on pre-uploaded routes.

One annoying glitch is that you have to cycle through the bike profiles you’ve set before you can turn it off. I also struggled to get it to update to the latest software, though that may have been due to a slow internet connection. These are small niggles with an otherwise excellent device though.

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James Costley-White

Editor, Mountain Biking UK magazine

James Costley-White is the editor of Mountain Biking UK (MBUK), the UK's best-selling mountain biking magazine, founded in 1988. James, aka JCW, has been an avid mountain biker since 1992, during which time he's amassed a huge amount of knowledge about the sport and tons of riding experience. He can regularly be found riding the trails around Bristol and South Wales. As well as editing MBUK, JCW contributes regular product reviews and other articles to the magazine. He's a fully-qualified professional journalist, certified as a senior reporter by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), and holds a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Culture. As well as heading up MBUK, he's worked for other cycling titles including BikeRadar.com, ChopMTB.com and Triathlon Plus magazine, along with the Bristol Post, Western Daily Press, Gloucestershire Echo and Gloucester Citizen newspapers, in print and online.