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Any thoughts here on why Giant are clearing out the L200/M200?
I get Stages have collapsed and folded into Giant but the devices, whilst not cutting edge, seems alright.
Perhaps theyre not clearing stock... maybe disrupting the bike computer market by bucking the trend for prices in the £hundreds. Maybe...
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I think it is most likely that they are clearing stock.
I don't think it has been resolved what happens to the remains of the Stages business. Hope is that Giant will pick it up and keep the good bits running with the people, but they may not. SRAM are also a possible buyer, or others. There's a discussion on DCRainmaker, but no updates for a few weeks.
I think it is unlikely there will be any firmware updates for these and, if they go wrong, it would be just a refund or, after two years, bad luck! I recall Stages had their dev team in Ukraine and who knows what has happened to those poor guys. Even if they have escaped Zelensky's press gangs, I expect they might have more pressing concerns than my GPS tracking drifting a bit under trees!
Good to hear it's at least working properly! I hope you get on with it.
I've done about 10 rides with it now and am happy. I'm using it in preference to my Garmin. The only issue I've had is the GPS does occasionally drift off. It's not as often as every ride but it has happened a few times now. I've found that if I change to a different screen for a few seconds then flip back to the map screen it tends to fix itself straight away. If I leave it on map it takes longer to come back.