GPS tech (Garmin, Hammerhead, Wahoo, RWGPS, etc)

I want a hammerhead.
I don't £350 want one though.

Will wait until they give in and distro through Zyro and get one on trade

Also gonna buy one of these for the grrrl because it's cute and she occasionally needs to find her way to places she hasn't been before in London
https://global.beeline.co/pages/beeline-velo-2

New V2 ones often pop up on the Wiggle Ebay page (tri-sport-resort) go for around the £220-250 mark

My Stages Dash L50 went back yesterday.
I liked it better than any other GPS I've used but they weren't able to fix the glitches despite two firmware updates.
They've got new devices out now that look a lot better. I might get one of them when the software has bedded down.
Back to phone app for now. Let's see how the battery consumption is on a 600km DIY this weekend.

600km DIY

Where are you off to? We're doing a 200 tomorrow from Evesham. Using GWR to get there. #pray4hippy

France / Belgium / Netherlands / Germany. Dunkirk via Geraadsbergen, some bits of Flanders and a loop into Germany.

Basically I am going to ride to where we are going on holiday while they drive. Means I'll get to bivvy in bus stop somewhere instead of the stopover at mother in laws, but we'll go back again on the way home, so I don't mind missing one visit.

Can you not ride back and miss both? !

I can't say I didn't think of it, but meeting up with the car on the way to catching the ferry = stressful!

It's a nice hilly 120km from the place to MIL's so I expect I'll ride that.

bivvy in bus stop

You know it's not a race - there's probably much nicer options available since you're not 'riding until you're barely awake'.

My thoughts exactly!

Sure, but I haven't planned a stop so will just wing it.
Just as well as ferry is late so probably won't get to hotel tonight until 1:30.
Also I'm out of practice bivvying, new kit to test, etc.

Edge 1040 release is imminent, so first 'leaked' vids are out.

https://youtu.be/rcJu_rk5q9c

https://youtu.be/4W6And-0QWM

Does that mean 840, 540 too? Does the range tend to refresh around the same sort of time?

That's bigger than a phone and probably still from 2001.

USB C would be nice. I wonder how much they'll give me for the 1030 trade in.

"I would summarize: feels like new much faster and responsive launcher on almost the same HW"

How did he get one? Surely I must be on their Best (Abusive) Customer list by now.

EDIT: stop repeating yourself

This is from the Garmin forums, haven't seen anything about 840 or 540.

Edge - Released*
1030 - 08/2017
520+ - 04/2018
530 - 04/2019
830 - 04/2019
1030+ - 06/2020

• - 2021
  ?? - ??/2022
  
  

*DC Rainmaker in depth review

1040 release rumored for 8/6

USB C is a big thumbs up, but the hardware and software still looks old school.

Why would they change? They know all the people that have used them for years will buy them again and phones are still not good enough for a lot of use cases and the people that are just doing jollies are already only using their phones for this so it's not like they're missing that market. "Serious cyclists" need a bike computer, not a 7", £1000 phablet.

I'm definitely hating on Garmin less these days. Their stuff has finally got reliable enough that I'm not having to double check file copies, reset units mid-race, etc. I can see myself waiting another year and buying a new one and offloading the previous oldest model I've got again. I'll feel dirty for giving them more money but there's still nothing better out there for my usage.

Any sign of a new Wahoo on the horizon. An updated Roam perhaps, with a bigger and better screen?

Have the Bolt v2 issues been resolved?

I don't think so - the Roam came out in 2019, I think, so still relatively new.

My Bolt V2 works fantastically - I didn't have the issue that people like DC Rainmaker talked about at launch (but I live in Derby so not a huge city), and have had no issues at all since I bought it nearly a year ago.

What are the bolt V2 issues? I've not come across anything negative.

I love mine, did a 90 mile route to Oxford the other day with turn by turn etc, still had 58% battery left. Fantastic device.

Recently acquired a V2 Bolt to replace my Elemnt which had given pretty good service over 6 years or so.

Bolt seems to work fine. Two minor issues which also happened with the Elemnt:

• Pairing with phone is sometimes patchy / slow. Occasionally have to restart phone to get it to work. Often don't bother to pair it anyway.

• After switching off the device and closing the phone app, phone still tries to reconnect to the device via Bluetooth. Have to restart phone to stop this happening in the background (there is probably another work around for this).

My main issue with bolt v2 is that when you go off route it becomes very unclear which line is your route and which lines are the streets. 50 shades of grey and you have to guess which shade is yours.

I wrote two emails (6 months apart) to their support suggesting they add an option to add a colour to the line of the route because I think it's a major usability flaw that should be encountered by many.

Attaching some photos of what I mean. It is super hard to understand which way you have to go.

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Mine's been pretty good and just reliably navigated round 700km or so of offroad in Scotland.

But it's definitely slower than Bolt v1 & the map lags a bit, which can be annoying if you're trying to navigate fast. Maybe runs about 20metres behind where you actually are (at a total guess). Am guessing this is probably hardware related as they've not fixed this in any of the updates. But that aside it's been pretty good and the colour screen is nice. Coloured coded elevation profile is useful (though sometimes dispiriting).

After switching off the device and closing the phone app, phone still
tries to reconnect to the device via Bluetooth. Have to restart phone
to stop this happening in the background (there is probably another
work around for this).

You need to select 'exit' from the reconnecting bit to stop it doing that. It's not that obvious. Agree about phone pairing sometimes being unreliable, though one of the updates seemed to improve that for me.

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