Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Wahoo Roam 2 for dummies !!
- Thread starter kingrollo
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figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
I knew about dark mode but hadn’t used it until last night. I’m another convert. I ride a lot at night and the dark mode reduces the glare from the unit (I ride with the backlight on permanently). I use dark mode a lot on other devices (phone, laptop etc) so I’m not sure what took me so long to convert on the Wahoo!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
For once I posted something useful! 
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
For once I posted something useful!
It's weird when that happens, isn't it?
Stopped clock and all that ...
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kingrollo
Guru
Hmmmm - seems to have a problem with how the roam calculates average speed.
On the Garmin - buy the time I had rolled of my estate the average speed after perhaps a minute cycling was around 14-16mph - on the roam it's 8mph.!!!!!
Today I was riding a route which took ages to load - I knew the start of the route so started before it fully loaded - again after a long slightly downhill start - wahoo was reporting my average as 9mph !
Seems like it takes the average(or start time) from switch on or finding the GPS signal - not when the wheels of the bike start rolling or when I press start on wahoo ?
Any thoughts ?
On the Garmin - buy the time I had rolled of my estate the average speed after perhaps a minute cycling was around 14-16mph - on the roam it's 8mph.!!!!!
Today I was riding a route which took ages to load - I knew the start of the route so started before it fully loaded - again after a long slightly downhill start - wahoo was reporting my average as 9mph !
Seems like it takes the average(or start time) from switch on or finding the GPS signal - not when the wheels of the bike start rolling or when I press start on wahoo ?
Any thoughts ?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
You need very little backlight at night. You could see if you can set it to 10% or so.
Curious. What is the display showing when you are riding? Did it have a signal when you set off? As far as I can tell it shouldn’t start calculating until you press start. The only way it would underestimate to that extent is if it didnt have a gps signal for a chunk of the journey.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Do you have it set to auto-pause when stopped?
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
My Wahoo, starts or stops in tune with the bike. Have you checked your auto-paused settings. It would be worth checking the "ride paused" settings. I don't know if Garmin has this but Wahoo will calculate and report total time elapsed, ride time and paused time.
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kingrollo
Guru
Yes. - it seems the start time is out of synch with when the ride actually starts - hence it's throwing my early average speed out of whack.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Indeed - I have just gone dark myself! It is definitely a lot better for data display. I am not so sure for navigating; I have not tried that yet.For once I posted something useful!
