Any thoughts as to how good the Roam is off-road? I'm mainly thinking of town bike paths, countryside gravel routes, fire roads etc. But also a bit of mountain biking.
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They are excellent, but are really to be used following a pre-determined route. So, plan a route on an app such as ridewithgps, Sync to wahoo and follow it.
As above, it has many functions out there, pre-planned routes, on the fly directions, etc, i prefer just to head out and use it for hunting new bits, it's not OS maps, which at the start i hated, but i actually like it now, it gives you all the known bridleways, paths, etc, so you can aim for them to join up routes and trips, it gives all the direction stuff you need and on the go info, is it worth the money, not too sure on that to be honest, but it does what i want it to do, so happy overall.
I had a thread about this a couple of days ago trying to decide between that and an edge 530. Ultimately I went with the Garmin as it has trail forks integration with forksight which I think should be useful and it's £70 cheaper. I've not used it yet so not got any real life experience just yet beyond setting it up. It is more of a faff setting it up than the Wahoo seems to be but it was an hour or so fiddling whilst the Mrs watched bake off professionals last night. And now it works with different set ups and data displays are adapted for the different riding I do (road/MTB/bikepacking).
Garmin connect is now much more useable and I'm thinking it may be a potential Strava replacement for me given I have a vivoactive too.
If you aren't embedded in Garmin then the wahoo does seem to be good and I like their company ethos. If I wanted it just for road riding I'd probably have gone for the Wahoo but the additional MTB functionality pushed me to the Garmin.
I use my roam for road and MTB. At first I thought i would miss the detail of the OS maps, but for the most part i am using pre-planned routes which have been built on OS maps,but in reality the map is cleaner and more helpful. Overall, the roam is excellent, no nonsense and unlike the Garmin is utterly reliable.
So the roam can be used to just “explore” without having to have a pre planned route? Also can you put in addresses or postcodes ?
There are decent reviews explaining all the bits about it from DC rainmaker and GPLama on YouTube. From the reviews the native navigation functionality is not that strong, it seems to focus more on linked apps. It depends on how you work whether that is a positive or negative.
Thanks for the replies everyone. Sounds like the Roam would be what I'm looking for.
I've got a bolt and the mapping is basic but OK when you have a route put in. The roam has slightly better mapping, but as I'm using a garmin forerunner watch (which is brilliant, I might add) I'm tempted to move to garmin for the MTB computer if/when the bolt dies. Trailforks on the computer would great, would stop me having to pull out the phone every 5 minutes.
And I wouldn't need to record on both the wahoo and forerunner to get the wahoo to upload to strava, and the activity in garmin connect.