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Just bought one of these after years of Garmin usage... just done 3 days of riding the epic flattyres MTB coast to coast and the only downside was this bloody thing... basically any steep uphill meant it stopped registering any speed... I,m no Pantani but I was defo moving 😉 this means I lost overall height and distance compared to riding buddies. It also did this under any tree cover(handy for mountain biking in forests) after stopping it seems to take about 15m of riding to reactivate too!...
Am I alone in this ? Do any updates cure it? Or should I just send it back and get a new Garmin because at the moment its not fit for purpose 🤔
My recent firmware update seems to have helped. You can also disable auto pause.
Cheers buddy... yes I disabled autopause... and turning off the beeping beeping helped too! It's had a firmware update this morning so hopefully a spin tomorrow will be better 🙏
My mate has a Roam, i have a garmin. All his mtb rides are shorter than mine. That said i've taken a punt on one as i'm sick of the like tracking failing on garmin.
Did you not read the reviews first?
Nope unfortunately mate has previous model and loves it so recommended new one... silly me thought a manufacturer would test things like tree cover ... Bwlch Y Groes steep hills before launch?... having read reviews wouldn't have touched it!
Have you also got a separate speed sensor? These help with tree cover. (Commute is partly through a wooded area and without the sensor my speed drops off a cliff).
Also if you had read the review you would have seen the first firmware update mentioned, there has been a second since.
Had one of these in my basket last week, decided to hold off while they iron out some of the issues.
You’d think they’d want to get most stuff running smoothly before releasing!
I think there are international laws against producing bike GPS units that aren’t riddled with bugs. It’s the only explanation that makes sense.
I've got a V1 and it was shocking on singletrack until i got a speed sensor.
My gf has just got one and we also struggled with a slow to unpause problem and it being quite poor in tree cover.
Im hoping the new update works to resolve this.
Ian
I have one. GPS takes longer to get a fix than anything else I've used but once it's got one it seems pretty reliable. Use a speed sensor so no phantom pausing.
It is pretty buggy though - data fields can disappear, routing occasionally misses turn notifications, if a sensor dies or drops out it continues to use the last value, the backlight keeps resetting to off, live track doesn't show other riders, and smaller UK roads just appear as thin lines on the map. Screen is polarised so check with sunglasses if you can.
I'm not particularly bothered about the bugs but the apathetic response of Wahoo support is really letting them down, along with the restocking fee they charge if you want to return it.
It is pretty buggy though – data fields can disappear, routing occasionally misses turn notifications, if a sensor dies or drops out it continues to use the last value, the backlight keeps resetting to off, live track doesn’t show other riders, and smaller UK roads just appear as thin lines on the map. Screen is polarised so check with sunglasses if you can.
I've not seen any of that (yet) but it sounds like you have a Friday last thing one.
Left wahoo last year after v1 was consistently buggy and became quite unusable at times. Also had issues with their HR sensors. Real shame, good unit and it had worked well for several years
along with the restocking fee they charge if you want to return i
Oh dear, given all the issues that may be a deal breaker.
Always been a Garmin man but fancied something different this time around, Wahoo don't exactly help themselves.
the apathetic response of Wahoo support is really letting them down, along with the restocking fee they charge if you want to return it
It may be that Wahoo’s packaging isn’t tamperproof and if you’re careful unpacking it and look after the device you can repackage it all nicely and return it to the retailer as unused with no evidence of use, having discovered it’s full of bugs and realised you don’t want it.
I haven’t done that, before you ask. And I definitely haven’t done it twice.