nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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- You want hills? We got hills
No problem. We will stop at Malton for, based on last year's timings, a late lunch. Someone will be running Glympse for the ride so you'll be able to see exactly where we are on the day
Wahoo Elemnt Bolt
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Andywinds
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Since using the BOLT I am very pleased with it. My club has a RideWithGPS account which I can now login to and export TBT routes into my own account.
With regards to using rides created with Strava, I just route this manually with RWGPS, a 50 mile route only takes about 5 mins at most. If you are wanting to convert a ride that you have just uploaded to RWGPS with TBT directions then you would have to upgrade your account from free to paid. Without this you can use the "breadcrumb" method to navigate which is ok. No issues with black and white screens either. The BOLT has no concept of re-routing so if you miss a turn the device will bleep and the LED's turn red.
There are no plans at this stage for Wahoo to fix the ability to export cue sheets from Strava at this time.
The device is customized via the smart phone and does not require being plugged into a PC. Built in WIFI is useful. The screens can be changed to suit your own requirements, and the settings should suite all.
With regards to using rides created with Strava, I just route this manually with RWGPS, a 50 mile route only takes about 5 mins at most. If you are wanting to convert a ride that you have just uploaded to RWGPS with TBT directions then you would have to upgrade your account from free to paid. Without this you can use the "breadcrumb" method to navigate which is ok. No issues with black and white screens either. The BOLT has no concept of re-routing so if you miss a turn the device will bleep and the LED's turn red.
There are no plans at this stage for Wahoo to fix the ability to export cue sheets from Strava at this time.
The device is customized via the smart phone and does not require being plugged into a PC. Built in WIFI is useful. The screens can be changed to suit your own requirements, and the settings should suite all.
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Andywinds
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It's so quick and easy to do, and lets face it you're only doing it once per ride!
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
I create my routes on cycle.travel, save it as a TCX and then upload it to Ride With GPS. I sync this all accross to my Elemnt and taa daa, there's your Turn By Turn route ready to ride.
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Andywinds
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Is cycle.travel free to use for creating routes to export?
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
It sure is. The proprietor, Richard Fairhurst, is about as fine as a fellow can get out there. It is an amazing site. He is in the throws of building an iOS app for it. Have a play. It's brilliant. I really like the 'Suggest a Ride' function which suggests three circular routes from your start point (home for example) You choose the distance and load it to your device, and hey presto, off you go. It routes you via the most cycle friendy options too. And of course you can manipulate the route to suit. It's amazing. Have I said that?
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Andywinds
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This looks really good, do you know if all the cues will be imported into Ride With GPS? I created a route with 104 turns, but it Ride with GPS it is only showing 8 turns?
From what I can see, the points are indicated on the map, but the que sheet is only showing 8 turns.
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Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
Hmm. I downloaded a 100km Audax last week as a TCX (that's important NOT a GPX) and the cues all came out and gave me a 300m 'notification' before each turn on any page on my ELEMNT. Because I have a free GRWPS account, the only thing it didn't give me were the specifics of each control. And the info controls have their instruction on the Brevet card anyway. Not important.
A paid for GRWPS gives you superior routing options but as I find Cycle.Travel better anyway, I only use it as a 'go between' for Turn By Turn routes for my Elemnt.
Edit: If you save it as a GPX it will give you a 'breadcrumb' route so I assume less cues.
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A paid for GRWPS gives you superior routing options but as I find Cycle.Travel better anyway, I only use it as a 'go between' for Turn By Turn routes for my Elemnt.
Edit: If you save it as a GPX it will give you a 'breadcrumb' route so I assume less cues.
HTH
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Andywinds
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it doesn't matter too much, our club Ride with GPS has hundreds of routes that I can download into the BOLT, so I'm all good really.
r04DiE
300km a week through London on a road bike.
OK, many thanks. Its just that Garmins do funny things when you plug them in, like shut down, for instance! I will be riding 15 hours and over, so I will be needing some extra power.
Milzy
Guru
On basic settings with no gps running I reckon I could hit 15 hours on my fully charged bolt. The best cycle computer on the market. Garmin sucks and are for square heads not cool enough to see the light with element.
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
As a heads up, Wahoo have a substantial sale on these devices at the moment. Worth taking a look 
r04DiE
300km a week through London on a road bike.
It does seem that way - that's why I am happily coming out of square-headedness!
