Wahoo?

[Dave 123]

Evening all,

my Garmin has been misbehaving of late, not holding charge, crap Bluetooth connection, internal screen damaged....

my question is ‘will a Wahoo fit on a Garmin Mount?

 

[13 rider]

No I think it's slightly different but can be bodged . I sure I've read about it being made to fit . A new Wahoo would comes with 2 mounts ,stem and out front

 

[vickster]

Evening all,

my Garmin has been misbehaving of late, not holding charge, crap Bluetooth connection, internal screen damaged....

my question is ‘will a Wahoo fit on a Garmin Mount?

Yes, on the stem ones, don't know about outfront. it is a much tighter fit and you have to clip the corners of mount and turn it round A quarter turn. Even with the adaptation, you can still use with a Garmin (I’ve gone from Wahoo back to Garmin)
My ELEMNT came with 3 mounts, I never used any of them

 

[mikeIow]

Just curious on reasons you went back from Wahoo to Garmin (see other thread!) - any show-stoppers with the Wahoo for you?

 

[vickster]

Just curious on reasons you went back from Wahoo to Garmin (see other thread!) - any show-stoppers with the Wahoo for you?

It became Extremely unreliable uploading to Strava, I never got on with the mapping/following the directions, no reliable on the fly navigation, clunky buttons and menus and a bit ugly!

 

[mikeIow]

Interesting, thanks.
Was this recently?
After posting my messages this morning, I spoke with a colleague (a work matter, but we soon moved on to other stuff, as always!).
Turns out he has an Elemnt Bolt, and was raving about how easy it was to use, how it linked to Strava much faster than his mate with their Apple watch, etc. He did say he mostly only uses it for the performance stuff and never the mapping.

Which Garmin did you go back to, and how good is battery and storing multi-day trips etc?
Cheers

 

[vickster]

Interesting, thanks.
Was this recently?
After posting my messages this morning, I spoke with a colleague (a work matter, but we soon moved on to other stuff, as always!).
Turns out he has an Elemnt Bolt, and was raving about how easy it was to use, how it linked to Strava much faster than his mate with their Apple watch, etc. He did say he mostly only uses it for the performance stuff and never the mapping.

Which Garmin did you go back to, and how good is battery and storing multi-day trips etc?
Cheers

Yes, over the last month or two, sold the Elemnt a few weeks back. I’d had it a couple of years, maybe the Bolt is an upgrade (I wanted bigger), Wahoo told me they had an issue with iOS and gave me a fix which never really worked and I fancied a change as I’d never really be enamoured with it anyhow. You have to do everything via the App, I prefer to be able to set things on the unit like navigation, without having to stop and faff with phone which I keep in bag.

I bought an 830, not used it much yet, don’t do multi day trips. It has a 20 hour battery life apparently. The 1030 is very big, be too much for my 100mm stem, narrow bars with crosslevers. The 830 fits neatly

if you want to research the options, DC Rainmaker is the guru (google for site)

 

[mikeIow]

Thanks. I had skimmed his (lengthy!) review only this morning!
Plenty of comments there too.
Hard to make a decision really.
I keep reading that the stated Garmin battery life is never reached - 4-5 hours has been a common comment on a few placs I was perusing this morning, and that worries me: if I'm out on a 7-8 hour day, I don't want the record to be lost - I gather there is a battery save mode that should keep that recording, but perhaps more importantly, if the navigation ends, maybe I won't get to the destination!!
Phone (or *gasp* maps!) is always the backup, I guess.

 

[vickster]

Having the screen on kills the battery life on any of these devices. You could carry a battery pack if the belt and braces type

 

[livpoksoc]

Having the screen on kills the battery life on any of these devices. You could carry a battery pack if the belt and braces type

This. There are credit card size (albeit 3-4mm thick) power banks you can pick up for under £10. Fits nicely in a saddle wedge with corresponding cable for garmin/phone etc, although I prefer a bag that sits just behind the stem so you can keep it all neat and charge on the move!

 

[Mark pallister]

17 hrs real world battery life on a wahoo roam
its streets ahead of the bolt and element
you can buy a bit that clips on the back so it dots all garmin mounts ,wahoo make the part themselves or cheap eBay

 

[mikeIow]

Yes, I had read several times that the Wahoo units have a much better battery life in real use - sounds like 12-14 hours is realistic (example here)

 

[Mark pallister]

I have a power meter ,hr monitor and a garmin varia radar running on mine and regularly do 8hr rides and it has around 50%power left

 

[Mo1959]

I rode three and a half hours yesterday and my Garmin Edge 830 battery barely dropped. I reckon it's good for a minimum of 12 hours.

 

[Milzy]

You get the mount with your Wahoo.
Wahoo's are better bang per buck.