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Black Friday is on its way and my eyes are on a wahoo bolt v2
I have a specific question for anyone that has used or owns one…
I’ve been the owner of several garmin units in the past and have enjoyed them but tend to ignore probably 50% (at least) of the features, looking at the wahoo as a start and go device
Not having seen anything relating to this anywhere so asking here in the hope of some help
Scenario…
Plot a route that will involve staying somewhere overnight…
Question…
Does the bolt v2 have a pause or stop function that will let me turn it back on in the morning and carry on the planned route from where I am? Whether it be to continue or join the route from the nearest point
I understand that garmin devices do have this function but I’ve never been able to get it to work as I’d like (probably user error more than device incapabilities)
Thanks in advance STW brethren
No experience of the V2. The V1 will recover the ride if you switch it off and on again, however they also have a tendency to crash once a ride reaches a certain length... Not an issue for most people, but it becomes one on multi-day rides. Would be interested myself to know if that's been resolved with the V2, because apart from that I much prefer them to Garmin.
I loaded a 3 day trip on my 'old' roam and it was fine, but my brother's new Bolt V2 would crash!
However, turn on your Wahoo on day 2 of the ride and when you get to the waymarked route it will snap on to it and start directions.
I've never had a problem with this on my v1 bolt or v1 roam. However, I rarely use it. If I need it I'll just stitch a ride together using an app etc.
Not sure about the V2, but on my mk1 Element Bolt, you can load a route and start anywhere on it.
It will bleat for a few seconds that you are off the route until it works out where you are and then just carry on fine.
I do this quite a bit as I've found some local rides on ridewithGPS that were created close to me but obviously not right from my front door.
Rather than retrace them from my house, I just load them and ride to the most suitable joining point and it then follows the route once it recognises I'm on it.
In your scenario I imagine you can just stop the ride on day 1 and save it, then on day 2 you could reload the route and start riding again.
I can't see why this would be different for the V2.
I'll be keeping an eye out for a good price on a V1 roam or bolt on Black Friday.
I think they're both hovering around £180/200, hopefully there will be a reduction to shift the V1 versions.
Unless anyone here suggests the V1 bolt & roam no longer make sense?
I love my v2 and have never had any issues with it crashing despite some multiday adventures.
One thing to be aware of though - if you turn it off mid ride it will "restore" it when you turn it back on HOWEVER you have to turn it on within something like 5-6 hours or it saves the previous ride and you need to start a new recording. Obviously you won't loose any data and you can restart the route and join it at any point seamlessly again.
If you want a multiday trip in one file just stitch the GPX files together when you get home. Loads of free websites do this if you do a quick google search.
One option is to not turn the device off at all but you'll probably want an external power source plugged into it.
Thanks all, really appreciate the comments, some really helpful points made,
The issue I had with garmins previously was that it’d only give me an option to “navigate to start” and just would not let me start the route from wherever I was and sort itself once I’d found myself back on track, some pretty disastrous weekends (from the planned…plan) have been had from this very issue
Think I’m going to plump for the bolt v2 if the deal is right
In the meantime, I might download a copy of the manual for the bolt and see if that sheds any more light
When you load a route on the V2 it asks if you want to navigate to the start. Just select no. I also have auto re-routing turned off
Interestingly…I just found this on the wahoo website…might explain why some of the units crash for multi day rides
Turn by Turn navigation is limited to 200km for route files that do not include embedded cues.
Take Me Anywhere navigation is limited to 100km.
V1 bolt is fine when starting mid way through a planned route. It'll just pick up from wherever you start. Wahoo handles navigation much better than Garmin in my experience. It's simplicity just works.
@r8jimbob88 tried that several times with the garmin units I had, I found they just tend to throw a strop and refuse anything else but as previously mentioned, that could well (probably) just be down to user error
@butcher I’m starting to see that a lot
The more I read into it the more a summary of garmin vs wahoo I once saw make sense
garmins are for the tech heads, wahoo is for the people who just want to go
I’m very much in the latter camp, i can appreciate the more tech side of things and those who like and use that, me?! I like to just go somewhere and briefly look at how I’ve done after, seems the wahoo units are a little more biased for that kind of thinking