My word that bolt is small and light! Screen crisp and clear. I will set up a route later and see how easy it is for these tired ageing eyes to read but all looking good so far
I hope its not buyers remorse?
Should you've gone for the Elemnt?
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I hope its not buyers remorse?
Should you've gone for the Elemnt?
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Too early to say Andy. Hated having my iphone6 out in front on bike while away so something small and light v attractive. Will update later
If you have the cheap Garmin out front mount,. You can modify it to take the Wahoo Elemnt/bolt.
Take out the puck, (two Allen bolts underneath) then rotate 90°. With a Stanley knife, cut off on one of the cut outs an extra 1mm to widen the cutout. Now your mount will work with the Wahoo
Take out the puck, (two Allen bolts underneath) then rotate 90°. With a Stanley knife, cut off on one of the cut outs an extra 1mm to widen the cutout. Now your mount will work with the Wahoo
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<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
Did it not come with a mount Andy? Or you need more than one?
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Liking bolt at moment. I think maps and screen size are going to be fine. Syncs easily with strava and ride with gps. Just uploaded a rwgps route in seconds.
<Tommy>
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- Location
- Camden, London
I've done little more than take my bolt out of the box for now. First impression is it's heavier than my 520, but feels like it can take a knock or two so that's good. Having buttons on the front is definitely a winner, and they're big enough to hit when struggling along.
If you're using BigRingVR, all you have to do is drop them into the right directory with the same base name (ie foo.mp4 foo.gpx) and BigRingVR will automatically find them and use them. It's sooooo easy.
And consider this. If someone were to put the files up on dropbox, gdrive, etc, we could share our local rides in hi-def with each other.. Hmm....
For bkool you have to downsample the video to fit into whatever limitations they have this month, then load each into their upload software and hope like hell it'll actually upload.
Wahoo Elemnt. First proper ride with navigation loaded from strava routes. It all works with a slick ease that just isn't there with Garmin.
Create routes and n strava is a doddle, then without doing anything it appears on the Wahoo app on the phone, I just send it to the Elemnt. The sensors work much better on the Elemnt, maybe because they're all Wahoo aswell, speed, cadence, and HR..
Display is easy to read, easy to adjust on the fly.
Very pleased with the Elemnt
Create routes and n strava is a doddle, then without doing anything it appears on the Wahoo app on the phone, I just send it to the Elemnt. The sensors work much better on the Elemnt, maybe because they're all Wahoo aswell, speed, cadence, and HR..
Display is easy to read, easy to adjust on the fly.
Very pleased with the Elemnt
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
Nice 1 Andy. Was it an old strava route or one you created? Did you use turn by turn directions?
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
A Strava route doesn't support turn by turn, you have to plot with ridewithgps for them. The thing I like most is that it just works, it doesn't crash and lose rides. If you have a wahoo turbo you can also use the elemnt to control the turbo or even ride Strava routes stored on it.
As Paul says, I didn't have turn notification. The routing is so easy to see, the maps are minimal detail so don't clutter the screen. It did alert me when I went off track because I plotted down a dirt track, which was very poor so we went around on the main road
