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

Group editor, Mountain Biking UK and Cycling Plus

James is the group editor of the best-selling magazines Mountain Biking UK and Cycling Plus, and their associated digital editions and websites. He has worked on MBUK since 2013, became editor in 2019 and took over at Cycling Plus in 2024. An NCTJ-qualified senior journalist with a postgraduate diploma from Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture, JCW joined the cycling media world in 2012. Previously, he’d worked as a reporter and sub-editor on daily newspapers. After a stint as operations editor on BikeRadar, he worked for Triathlon Plus and the ahead-of-its-time ChopMTB. JCW has been an avid cyclist his whole life, progressing from a Chopper-style Raleigh Commando to a Raleigh Sprint road bike before discovering mountain biking in 1992. Since then, he’s amassed a huge amount of knowledge and riding experience, in the UK and abroad. He can often be found riding the trails of South Wales on his latest long-term test bike or custom-built RAAW Jibb, hitting North Somerset cycle paths with his kids, scything down the Cheddar Gorge on his road bike or heading to work on his mutant e-commuter. As well as editing MBUK and Cycling Plus, JCW contributes regular product reviews and other articles.

Height: 6ft 2in (188cm)
Bike size: XL