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I "need" a bar mounted GPS.
It will be used by two riders in the house (me and my older son (14)).
We use Komoot (son) and OS maps (me) for route planning.
Son will use mainly on road in daylight. I will use off road and regularly at night over winter.
I think I'd like some mapping but it just needs to be high level. Ideally able to plot a bail out route without resorting to a phone if it's persisting down.
Turn by turn navigation.
Ideally no phone/app dependency while riding. Otherwise I'll have to try and work out how to deal with connecting via 2 phones.
Don't need "training stuff"
Shortlist so far...
- Wahoo or Bolt (V2 at £250) (I also see the v1 roam is on sale at £180 at the moment)
- Garmin Edge Explore 2
- Garmin Edge 830
The Wahoo seems to be quite dependent on the app to set routes so that might be a pain with two users and one unit?
The Explore seems to tick most of the right boxes - assuming the touch screen is ok in the wet?
The left field option is something like a Bryton or Sigma unit that doesn't do mapping (each?) And go for breadcrumb/waypoint based approach and accept the phone may be needed in a dry pouch for a major reroute.
Anyone got any useful first hand experience especially around the two people / one unit problem?
IME the Edge 830 doesn't handle wet weather that well - if you forget to lock the screen you might find that the water "presses" all sorts of random buttons on the touch scren and you and up stuck on a screen you don't want and can't shift off it unless you find something to dry the screen with.
The Hammerhead Karoo is the least phone dependent head unit. It sits on you Wi-Fi at home. You add a route to their website and that syncs to your head unit. You can put a SIM card in it or hot spot to your phone out and about. I don’t think you can plot a new route without the internet. But you can just follow to Map and drop pins and ask it to navigate to them. It might sync to Komoot it does to Strava for planning and logging