Best cycling computers 2024: GPS units for routing and training

The best cycling computers can enhance your ride, whether that is by helping you explore new routes or by allowing you to train more effectively.

Male cyclist using a Wahoo head unit, one of the best cycling computers.
(Image credit: Future)

The best cycling computers give you access to huge amounts of data from your ride and allow you to navigate flawlessly across unknown terrain. If these features aren't of interest to you, cheaper units will still track your ride for uploading to apps like Strava or simply record it for your memories.

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Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.


Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.


For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 


She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.