The Edge MTB is Garmin's first ever bike computer for mountain bikers, with mtb-specific features including jump distance and air time
The new addition to Garmin's range allows you to track jump distance and air time (plus an intriguing-sounding 'Forksight' mode) while finding new trails in this computer designed to cope with MTB's rough and tumble
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Although common amongst top-level athletes, cycling computers still aren't something that are really considered essential for more casual mountain bikers, despite their importance when used for training and the like. However, Garmin is poised to buck the trend, having launched the Edge MTB, a cycling computer built especially for mountain bikers that allows you to track your time in the air and much more.
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Built especially for mountain bikers with athletes such as Troy Brosnan and Nino Schurter giving it the thumbs up, Garmin has aimed to hit all of those MTB points, and importantly, it's built with a rugged design, says the brand. Featuring seven buttons that are overmoulded to stop crud from finding its way in, the screen features a Cornering Gorilla Glass lens, which is said to be scratch-resistant. Garmin then includes top tube and 'MTB' mounts in the box.
2025 garmin edge mtb 1.jpg, by Liam Mercer
With the aim of appealing to those with a penchant for all things gravity, the Edge MTB provides an enduro ride profile as well as a downhill ride profile with the former tracking the total ascent and descent from each run and the overall ride, whereas the latter, we're told, automatically tracks only the descents. That's ideal if your ride is uplift-assisted and you don't want to track how quickly the uplift van gets you up a hill. Riders can also set timing gates along a trail to track split times, which will be a very useful training tool for downhill riders.
To track those rides, the computer uses multi-band HPS with 5 Hz GPS recording, which apparently records location data five times more frequently than other computers, thus providing greater precision.
Of course, there are built-in maps, but they're made with help from Trailforks, taking data from the app while taking advantage of Trendline Popularity Routing to help highlight key routes that have been the most traveled by other Garmin users. Riders can also use Garmin's preloaded TopoActive maps to ride paved and unpaved paths.
2025 garmin edge mtb 3.jpg, by Liam Mercer
There's then Forksight mode. Yep, Forksight. This pulls up the names of the trail ahead of you as well as expected elevation profiles, the distance to get back to the start, trail difficulty, and more. The Edge MTB can also track how many jumps you've done through a ride, how far you've jumped, and how long you've spent in the air.
Wrapping up the computer, and there are a slew of safety features such as LiveTrack and incident detection to make riding a mountain bike in the wilderness that bit safer.
Garmin's new Edge MTB will set you back £340. We'll be getting our hands on one soon to conduct a thorough review of it, paying extra attention to the MTB-specific features.
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