Wahoo looking shaky ..
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Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby MichaelB » Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:35 am
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wahoos ... n-payment/
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby warthog1 » Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:57 am
Doesn't sound good.
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby redsonic » Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:01 am
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby LateStarter » Thu Apr 13, 2023 10:16 am
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby MichaelB » Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:05 pm
With you there.LateStarter wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 10:16 amThat's just great, will spur Garmin/Tacx into even lower levels of customer service and software quality.
My Bolt v1 is still going well albeit batt life getting shorter, but don’t see any decent option out there for the next replacement.
Garmin still seem incapable of getting a decent UI but instead add more and more ‘features’ that people rarely use.
Hope they get themselves sorted out and keep going !!!
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby trailgumby » Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:37 pm
Too late. They screwed up the pedal body redesign big time. The plastic body is smaller in diameter than the metal ring, leading the cleat spring to hang up and not want to release. It's particularly nasty if you run a lot of varus wedging like I do on the left foot.
The only cure is to hit the metal ring with a Dremel and carefully grind 0.2 to 0.3mm off the ring outer diameter so it's flush with the rest of the pedal body.
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby warthog1 » Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:51 pm
I have never used Wahoo so can't compare UI.MichaelB wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:05 pmWith you there.LateStarter wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 10:16 amThat's just great, will spur Garmin/Tacx into even lower levels of customer service and software quality.
My Bolt v1 is still going well albeit batt life getting shorter, but don’t see any decent option out there for the next replacement.
Garmin still seem incapable of getting a decent UI but instead add more and more ‘features’ that people rarely use.
Hope they get themselves sorted out and keep going !!!
140k km on Garmin edge devices though.
Power, HR, radar, navigation.
It all works fine and I don't really see what it doesn't do or is difficult to use?
Just did a ride with navigation on, radar going and power pedals.
Got home it uploaded on wifi and it is on Strava without me needing to do anything.
Touchscreen, great battery life and reliability out of my edge 1030plus.
Don't know what it doesn't do?
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby MichaelB » Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:13 pm
The UI with the Touchscreen models is better than the button ones.
I've tried but do not like the touchscreen on the 1030 I tried. With the buttons, it's the nested menu options that are painful.
An example - on the 520+ that I tested for BNA. I wanted to put a new data field on one screen, and move position of an existing. 64 button pushes later, achieved And it took several goes, as pressed the wrong button at the wrong time.
With the Wahoo, it's a 10 sec swipe & select job.
Had the 520 when it 1st came out and it was buggy at bejeesus !! 1030/1040 is too big for me (and too exxy).
The other thing I REALLY like with the Wahoo is the zooming of the fields within the screen. There are issues with the Wahoo as well, but nothing like Garmin.
Meh, each to their own
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby warthog1 » Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:47 pm
Can't remember how I set mine up but I don't remember it being hard to do.
Perhaps wahoo is easier, I haven't used it.
Yeah the 1030plus is expensive but I got a Garmin refurbished one for basically half price.
Uses 3% of its battery per hour with all that stuff running and I have 10 fields displayed on the main screen and can read them all with my failing eyesight still.
Swipe L or R for a different screen.
Yes each to their own though.
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby warthog1 » Thu Apr 13, 2023 4:15 pm
https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/train ... er-review/
I am a bit of a Garmin fan boy I guess
Varia RTL515
Vector 3 PM pedals (×2 pair)
Edge 1030plus.
All have the functionality I need and are reliable.
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby MichaelB » Thu Apr 13, 2023 10:39 pm
Like the 1030, too big for mewarthog1 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 4:15 pmThe battery life would annoy me at 8 hours but these are supposed to be quite good if Garmin is not for you.
https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/train ... er-review/
I am a bit of a Garmin fan boy I guess
Varia RTL515
Vector 3 PM pedals (×2 pair)
Edge 1030plus.
All have the functionality I need and are reliable.
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby queequeg » Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:44 pm
I got a 25% discount from Garmin through my health insurance, so it knocked $500 of the price. My Neo went up in smoke a couple of months ago, about 4 months out of Warranty. Garmin replaced it free of charge anyway, so their service on that front can't be faulted.
The 25% discount I get really puts the Wahoo gear at a disadvantage. I am looking at the 840 or 1040 as a possible upgrade for my Audax riding. My 530 has been great for everything except navigation, which is terrible (it can't route to an address or POI on the 530). I have been a bit in the doldrums with my riding recently as I lost my mojo, so looking to reignite that and build up my fitness again.
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby warthog1 » Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:22 am
Quiet enough and does the job.
I only use it when away at work when I couldn't ride otherwise (on call). Trainer work is a sh it alterative to real riding imo. Been on holidays for a month and have not considered doing any zwift for a moment.
My lord wahoo must've sold some trainers and head units during COVID.
I am no financial analyst but their business management had to be severely flawed it seems to me?
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby MichaelB » Fri Apr 14, 2023 9:01 am
Some companies have the extra revenue sources etc to cope, but MANY companies are struggling
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby warthog1 » Fri Apr 14, 2023 9:27 am
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby blizzard » Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:18 am
That's my read on the situation, geared up assuming the demand was going to last, took on a heap of debt as it cost almost nothing. Now demand has dropped and interest rates have gone up they're getting pinched from all directions.MichaelB wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 9:01 amI think the issue re their business issue, like many, is they geared up massively in response to the Covid demand and now are over-capitalised and over stocked and too many employees for the current reduced demand as well as supplier issues.
Some companies have the extra revenue sources etc to cope, but MANY companies are struggling
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby g-boaf » Tue Apr 18, 2023 1:39 pm
I also have a Neo2 which is a backup. Prefer the Kickr - quiet and way better than messing with chains and cassettes putting bikes on a trainer.
I hope Wahoo manages to keep going.
My only Garmin stuff is Edge 1030 Plus and a Garmin HRM strap. I have a smaller non touch screen Edge stored away but I never use it, the battery capacity is rubbish and using it is the ultimate in frustration. Touch screen is so much simpler.
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Re: Wahoo looking shaky ..
Postby AUbicycles » Sun Jul 23, 2023 12:59 am
Like most companies, the impact of Covid and indoor boom and oversupply and remnants of the supply chain irregularities suggest it will be a continuing process, but it looks good for the brand.
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