£250 Cycling GPS shootout! | Garmin vs Wahoo
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Garmin Edge 530 or Wahoo ELEMNT Bolt? If you've got £250 to spend on a GPS, where should you spend your money? Here's our Garmin vs Wahoo side-to-side comparison
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Which one are you going for?
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I bought the Elemnt Bolt purely and simply because of the USB-C. I'm not throwing good money after bad with Garmin while they persist with using micro USB. I've burned through two Garmin devices in past 4-5 years where the micro USB port died (out of warranty). So the other features take a back seat. Get with the program Garmin! Early days, but love the Bolt.
Wahoo every time, good customer care if you have any issues. My rubber buttons covers came off after 3 year and they sent me a new replacement.
My Bolt arrives tomorrow. The deciding factors were field colors change to show your performance zone for power and heart rate, the ability to zoom to show fewer/bigger data fields or more/smaller fields, and the diagonal dimension is small enough that the 1/4 turn mount still works when mounted between my aero bars (the 530 was too big).
I still use my old Garmin Edge 130. Unless you regularly need on-screen mapped navigation (the 130 uses a "bread-crumb trail'") the small size & low cost of this unit is a winner. I also like the fact that Garmin allows outside developers to make apps: I use one that gives windspeed & direction which is really useful. Sometimes tempted to "upgrade", but then I think : do I really need all this info on a screen in front of me all through a ride? If I get lost, I can pull out my phone & check Google maps. There's a danger that you can end up paying more attention to your cycling computer than to the landscape you are cycling through. Raise your eyes, children, raise your eyes to the glories of the world around you :)
Some issues I've had with the 530: it's a bit hard to press the lap and stop buttons due to their awkward position at the bottom of the unit. If you want to edit a ride in Strava that's already been transferred to the unit, the process for updating the route in the unit is a bit of a pain. Finally, when it gives directions or sharp bend warnings it always gives them at the same distance from the turn no matter how fast you're going, so it could either give you the warning way before you need to turn on a climb, hiding the screen that you were using, or it will give it a couple seconds before you have to turn on a descent, making it hard to react to the information. Other than that I like the unit and looking at this review I think I made the right choice. I love climb pro and Wahoo has nothing like that so that's pretty much a deal-breaker for me.
Wahoo. They have amazing customer support.
I bought a Wahoo Element Roam. Loving it.
I've used the 530 and Elemnt Bolt2 for months.
No-one mentions it but I find the Bolt2's auto-pause, of late stopping and touchy restarts, gives a lower ave speed than my true ave moving speed. Strava always corrects this on load-up, but it would be an easy fix to allow users to set a minimum speed eg 8 kph.
The 530 is great but putting the 'enter' button on the top right hand side instead of bottom right, confuses many users.
Overall- I prefer the 530 because ave speed on screen is important to me.
I've told Wahoo about my auto-pause problem and all they said was "It's a GPS variation" This is not correct, the distance ridden on with the Garmin 530, Garmin 130 and Strava were the same as my Bolt2's. The moving time on the Bolt, is several minutes longer.
Leaving out auto-pause and moving time on the Bolt2, the Garmin 530 and Bolt2 are great units.
Bolt has done me proud. Battery is easily has stated at 15 hours in my experience. I don't use the app that often, nor some of the features, it does everything I need it too; I also received £50 off, so that was probably what swung it in the end for the original purchase.
yeah that kind of discount is gonna sweeten the deal! and they're both really good
530 is a nice computer. I am not a fan of touch screen. The Garmin 530 is neat and tidy.
I bought the Edge 530 and its been brilliant. Easily 15 hours battery, the hill pro is probably my favourite feature, the navigation both on and off road has been virtually faultless. I don't understand people's hate towards it. Yeah the app isn't great but that's about the only downside.
the hate must be from a prior generation is all i can think of.
Wait and see what happens after a few software updates
I got the new Wahoo Element Bolt V2 for £149.99 as my Wahoo Element broke when I came of my mountain bike, got in touch with Wahoo and they gave me 40% discount on the Wahoo Element Bolt or Roam , so I chose the Bolt V2, you wouldn't get that deal from Garmin 😉👍
lies lol garmin support is great as well
@@moshinhussain nar Garmin stuffed up years ago when they put live segment on the devices and it crashed my 810 they offered to exchange it, but would cost me £75 for there firmware cock up... finally went with Wahoo in 2015 ... Garmin just an expensive paperweight 😉🤣🤣
Interesting, Garmin gave me 30% of a replacement 1030.
What country do you live in dude?
If you are in the middle of nowhere with no phone signal, can you use the map in the wahoo phone app?
highly recommend this purchase
I've got a bolt and considering a change to Garmin as Wahoo customer service/support is terrible
I just took delivery of the Wahoo and I'm getting GPS accuracy to 1 meter. Yay.
“If you are buying for navigation…” you will NOT be happy with the 530. I owned one for a 18 months and, leaving aside all the bugs in the firmware during that period, the re-routing on the 530 is worse than useless. It consists almost entirely of ‘Do a u-turn’. Garmin promised a firmware update to bring re-routing to the same level as the 1030 Plus but that never happened before I got rid of mine. If I was spending this amount on a bike computer it would be the Wahoo every time.
but if navigation is your thing wahoo is even worse, its not even close
I use a wahoo Bolt V1, but I wouldn't dream of using it for general navigation. It can manage displaying a pre-planned route, since this is really what it was built for, training or racing and following a planned activity. It does have pretty good map data though. I bought the wahoo because it was a good price and my head knows I don't really use most of the features offered by premium GPS units.
@@Carftymk seriously
If you're buying something for navigation, you should just look elsewhere or get a phone mount so you can run google maps. Neither one is very good
@@quarkonium3795 trying to use a mobile phone as a cycle computer brings its own set of fresh problems. The limiting factor here was not the screen or the buttons, it was Garmin’s refusal to update the firmware with similar navigation to the 1080Plus, which has worked perfectly for me since I offloaded the 530.
my Garmin connectivity drives me insane its so unreliable and has got worse. ..... about to upgrade to Wahoo Bolt as I hear connectivity much better.
What most people could really use is ‘Bike Play’ - a CarPlay / Android Bike for cycling.
Just need a head unit that uses the phone that you already bring in your pocket .
Google maps Navigation would crush both the others.
Would love to eliminate my buggy Garmin 530
I agree with you. Would love to have that instead of another device to charge. Data usage might be an issue. My carrier seems to think unlimited data is 30GB a month, which is plenty but if I start using my phone as a live cycling computer it could be an issue.
What about battery life
I just bought a Bryton Rider 750T.....not tested yet. It delivers more for less. I used a Garmin 520 for years but speed, altitude and GPS accuracy were not more then a guesstimate.
I have a Bryton 750 and I'm returning it. Main reason is that its very difficult to download routes onto the Ryder. I've tried from RWGPS, Strava, and even a route I rode with the 750. No routes downloaded so I havent been able to evaluate nav. Also havent been able to configure D-Fly to work with my Di2 extra hood buttons.
IPX7 my arse. 530 leaks in the altimeter hole and the altimeter will never properly work again and Garmin is very shoddy and slow at getting a return resolved. Generally Garmin are shit at replacing their faulty products, my Forerunner 225 failed after 13 months and they wanted £150 to replace with a recon, robbery.
Why even mention late notification on the wahoo when it’s no longer an issue. #ReeksofBias
I have Garmin 1030 but I like the sound of the wahoo app as Garmin is fiddly and time consuming to set up
youre not wrong, but it offers much more
any (unofficial) news about edge 540?
From previous Garmin product cycles we would expect to see an edge 540 and 840 in April/may this year - likely to also be some solar charging variations
I just wish one of these would be able to navigate in a city. Both are useless, especially wahoo. Google maps though, absolutely fine so what can't these expensive devices specially made for it do it?
I get 30 hours on my 530.
I cannot afford either, after research I opted for the XOSS Bike Computer G Plus Wireless GPS. It was £22 from Aliexpress. It works great still after 2 years. I am never sure what kind of money these guys have, it's far more than me for sure. They always pimp out products at the top end, like there cheap as chips!
Lol stop being poor
i can't wait to sell my bolt for a 530
What's the reason?
Garmin Connect has been established as a one stop shop for your data analysis, and fitness tracking, while with wahoo it's subscription hell. You need to pay more on monthly subs for any mainingful analysis 😢.
Remove the vases 😀
Garmin includes phenomenal training plans. Wahoo does not.
Can someone please tell me what size bicycle would be more suitable for a 5ft8 person, a 27.5 or a 29? Thank you.
Not that simple. Make friends at a bike shop maybe, and they would be happy to help.
Wheel size is not based on height, it's based on personal preference. If you're using 27.5 and 29 as sizing options, you're doing it wrong
Off topic but I'm 5'9 and I've owned a 29er and now have a Fuji 27.5 SLM hardtail. I prefer the 27.5 since its more nimble on the technical climbs. The 29er even in a small 17" frame seemed too big and felt heavy.
All these bike computers should have radar built in like VARI. They should all have better screens with millions of colour options and customisation as in computer software packages. There should also be 3rd party software plugin apps for information mapping etc. Gee you'd think we're back in the 1990's not 2021. The whole world of technology is going backwards rather than forwards in my opinion. Oh yeh and a little tip always look forward at the viewers of your videos, looking at your buddy is annoying.
you should have a look at what kind of bike computers you could actually buy in the 1990s :-)
First
Lose that stupid background music