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

Was concentrating too much on the job and forgot to take pictures, I soldered the wires from the new battery chip onto the old chip board, leaving the IC so theres two in series. Moment of truth…. And it turns on!

Screw it all back together, adding some grease to the seals and checking charging functionality. All seems ok, sitting with it for this charge to ensure it doesn’t heat up or anything.

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Having issues with my bolt v1 where it seems to be crashing mid ride. Has happened twice in past month — first time it eventually hard reset and lost my routes, second time rebooted fine. Seems to happen when zooming in/out of the map with poorer gps signal. (Also only happens when I ride north!)

Looking at other forums people have had similar issues. Has anyone here had anything similar? Really quite worrying, I’d rather not be stuck out in the middle of no-where without directions/map.

I have had exactly the same on my Bolt v2. It only happened once. I agree that it needs the combination of poor GPS signal + zooming out and in due to failure to update location. I haven’t replicated those conditions and I rarely need to zoom out so it doesn’t bother me much.

Two (I think) recentish Garmin Firmware updates seem to have fixed the battery problems on my existing Forerunner 945 so that means I can hold off buying a 255S Music until I see one at a really good price (£250 or under).

Apologies if this has been answered already - recently bought an Element Bolt V2 on the forum and cannot get it to charge with any of my USB-C chargers. Battery is at 20% and it appears to work fine except charging. Should. I be using a specific charger?

Edit: turns out need to use a cable that is usb-a at the charger end. Upgraded from Bolt V1 to this V2 so I could unify all my tech under the same usb-c charger but now have to keep a separate one just for this. Thanks Wahoo! :(

Just stumped up for 255s at 320 EUR. Wanted black but refuse to pay for the music. The 265 is priced at 500 plus euro so can't see 255 coming cheaper soon.

255 Music in black is £275 with new customer code SIGNUP25 at Sigma

Edit: Larger version though

Yeah, I've tiny wrist so large no good, thanks though!

good work!

RWGPS has a routing issue I'm probably being stupid about so maybe someone here can help. I assume that given it's winter, a lot of the mountain passes are closed so it's routing me (for example) from the Col du Telegraphe to the other side of the Galibier by going down and riding around the mountain rather than riding to the top and down the other side. Likewise to get to the Agnel it's sending me on a 190km detour rather than the last 10km of the climb.

Is there a flag to set or something?

Swap the map to OSM or some other type and try again?

Even with the standard road maps it blocks the Agnel. I've switched to Komoot for now; it has its issues but I can tweak the exact route later in RWGPS

Yeah, looks like it's closed so someone would've updated OSM to reflect that and you can't route there (unless you use the Draw Lines option)

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submit a support ticket for it, they'll reply and fix it asap

Thanks @hippy and @skinny

Basically the advice is if the maps don't work, use the line drawing. In the end I did it in Strava, imported, added some extra control points and I'll tweak the rest later

RWGPS has line drawing mode as well.

Once you understand which area is a blocker (most of the time it's a single point - if not - you might be going against traffic), you set points around it, set routing mode to "draw lines" and then just drag the route between points - should be a straight line.

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Problem is it's about 60% of the climb up the Agnel (RWGPS confirm it's due to the road being closed as it's winter). Anyway, as I said, Strava doesn't care so I did it in Strava and will tweak it in RWGPS later.

Yeah it's a bug for sure

Their response was:

We do not have a function to ignore seasonal road closures

Then some advice to try different maps but none worked (or at least none that were useful in this case worked).

I don't see why strava komoot are ok but rwgps not, must be the way they're importing osm. But it's weird google maps won't work either. They're right, normally swapping map bases helps. I've seen this issue before on other passes, Stelvio etc.

Gpsies used to have an option to evenly space gpx waypoints.
Is there another way to do this?
Thanks

Gpsies used to have an option to evenly space gpx waypoints.

Is there another way to do this?
Thanks

If using waypoints then you are using a gpx route file is there any particular reason for that over using a gpx track file?

Out of sheer interest - what are you trying to achieve / what's the use case?

By definition waypoints are to point way, not to be spaced evenly.

Yes, it's annoying. I have come across this trying to plan TCR routes in the winter in the past.
And using straight line mode is a bit of a pain when you've got 36 hairpins.

I think I ended up just waiting until May to do it last year.