Because you need sport watch (garmin,polar,amazfit) with some smart watch features not smartwatch with some sport features (apple).

I even ditched Fenix in favour of Instinct2 (light, rugged, long battery life, straight plain display, minimum of smart functionality) - so more lumberjack type of sports watch.

They are allright, wrist and chest strap are quite near, wrist hrm takes a few seconds longer to follow HR changes compared to chest HRM.

But!

Wrist HRM are not that good for using on cycling because hand when grips and flexes around will make wrist HRM logic off balance while chest HRM will do job without problem. Add into that dust and sweat and you have slow reading and strange numbers you are experiencing.

So for all kinds of cycing , chest HRM is better choice for accurate readout.

Have Edge for cycling (road, mountain, climb) and exclusively wear chest HRM, but for everything else I use Instinct2 with wrist HRM.

Garmin (and Polar too imho) makes excellent sport watches with some smartwatch functionality, while Apple makes fashionable quality smartwatch with some sport functionality.

Dear reviewer, I and quite large percentage of active amateur and recreational cyclists prefer larger display single instrument right in front of us on handlebar or on extension, so we do not have to look onto side onto tiny screen, take palm off handle and get distracted on road or on mountain trail.

So most of us use Edge or any equivalent of it from Polar or other producers.

So no, it is not "king for cyclist", far from it.

But it is good instrument for all sports where taking look off way is not a problem.

Sincerely, greybeard cyclist.

Thx.

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Austria got it bad, half down.

Balkans was even worse.

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