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Did first long distance test of Elemnt Bolt at weekend and seems huge improvement over Garmin - recorded whole of Bryan Chapman audax as one track without issues. TBT navigation worked fine -the occasional roundabout instruction seemed slightly confused, but just switched it to map view for those. Didn't fear it crashing when switching between pages or anything. Charged reliably via Igaro D1. The auto upload to Strava at the end went funny and came out at 100km, but did it via the phone app instead and came out absolutely fine. It'd be nice if there were more ways of getting TBT tracks onto it (I used ones from someone else's ridewithgps which worked fine, but I do miss Garmin's ability to generate them automatically). I worry slightly that the rubber charging port cover looks a bit flimsy and could eventually break if charging it on the go too much.
But basically I'd recommend it. The ability to control stuff from phone and load up new routes, etc is great - if you're away from home with no computer you can still do everything.