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I've got the 520plus. It's been faultless so far. Ive been using it for navigation on road bike and using it to explore new trails on the mountain bike .
I've also used the live segments and trail forks stuff. It's good. I tend to prefer the breadcrumb style navigation but when I've allowed it to navigate it's worked well.
I've also got the 520 plus. I was also torn between the 520 plus and Elment Bolt. A friend has the Bolt, and I was upgrading from a 500.
To be honest, I'm still a bit torn. The 520 plus does some things really well - the turn by turn navigation in particular has been pretty faultless, and if you do go off course it will try and reroute you back to the course.
The elevation display is less than good, particularly compared with my old 500. The 500 used to update gradient pretty well. The 520 plus has a proper lag that renders the gradient display useless.
Battery life has been OK, certainly for normal riding. OK, but not great. On a long (12 hour) ride recently I did get a low battery warning right at the end of the ride, and I had the display turned down to 20% for the whole ride (I don't find the need to have it brighter anyway so that's not great hardship) and I hadn't been using navigation.
I've not used the Tailforks app, but I do use the Strava routes to download courses from Strava.
Still not sure what I'd buy if I was buying again.
My garmin 510 has been super reliable, no issue with it at all in years of use, will definitely get one of its successors when the time comes.
won’t be touching anything wahoo.
why not?
You can also update the bolt with the phone app theotherjonv. I wasn't aware of a way to do it with a PC or on the device itself so another learning point there.