Time of day, speed, HR, cadence, grade, Di2 gear selection on main page. On other pages elevation, feet climbed, temperature, route etc. I also have Bolt. Shame mapping is so useless on it though. Having Whatsapp and text notifications etc is really useful.
If actually have more screens than I need: One main screen with speed, 3s power, cadence, duration, heart rate, temperaure and gradient, next is some kind of summary page with avg. speed/power, total ascent, distance. Then, another one with more overall information like time, battery level etc - and then the more specific pages like a "climbing screen" with climb profile, current gradient/cadence and two more with the map and turn instructions. I'm on the main screen most of the time but there are specific situations where I use the others, indeed. Well, it's a 2016 Garmin, though....
Heart rate and incline, on the climb screen. For the rest, I don't really look at the head unit that much, except if following a track on my Bryton 420.
On my Wahoo (Bolt v2), there are LEDs at the top. They can be used for various things. When following a route, they indicate the next turn by flashing in the corresponding direction. In "normal mode" I configured them to indicate my current speed in comparison to the average speed. If the LEDs to the right are on (blue), I am above my average speed. If the LEDs to the left are on (I think it's green), I am below average speed. If only the center is on, I am around my average speed. You can also do the same for RPM and I think even for power output. This is a very neat feature.
I’ve had my wahoo for about 3 years & it’s by far the best cycling related purchase yet. Also in certain conditions it’s much better with the proper buttons rather than a touch screen & the battery is brill as in after a 100 miles ride it still had 38% left 😮
The live share can actually show more. I am a disabled veteran and so have medical problems. With the tracking turned on, my wife can see where I'm at, my speed, and heart rate. It gives her peace of mind as there have been a couple of times my heart rate went really high and wouldn't come down. I had to call her to come get me.
My favourite thing about my Wahoo is that it connects directly with TrainerRoad and automatically pulls my workout for the day giving me the option to stick to the same training plan and ride regardless if indoors or outdoors. My intervals are always there and ready to go when I start my ride in the morning! Super handy! My training screen would usually have W3s, W20s, Target Power, Cadence, Interval Timer.
The gradient forecast is on the climbing page and is based on route data, so it's only available when you are actually following a planned route AND the route included elevation data when you synched it. However, the climbing page will display the current measured gradient whether you are on a route or not.
Pairing it with Strava and using it to track your time against a goal is great. Loop training is a good feature. Some people in a group I ride with have a traffic radar on the back of their bikes and get an alert so they can be first to yell "car back"
@@cubatea Thanks for the information but Im interested in Wahoo making a radar for their products. I believe there is another brand of radar out there also but I'm not interested. I have a Wahoo Element Roam and I would prefer to keep my purchases of accessories with the same brand. If I had a Garmin I would most definitely be purchasing the Garmin Radar to go along with it. I'm sure Wahoo would do really well if they offered a Wahoo Radar. I sent them the recommendation to make one and they said they would pass it on to their development team. So, I will just wait and see if they come out with one. Again, thanks for the suggestion! Best regards!
Dear Manon and the GCN crew,thanks for all the great work! If anyone could explain the lap button that’d be wonderful !Would love to be able to use it for some intervals. Many thanks to all of you Phil
I love my Wahoo head unit paired up with my Garmin radar showing the little car icon coming from behind. Also the gradient color chart showing the upcoming climbs.
@@chellobod2531 I have a Garmin 1030+ and this has never happened. Maybe Garmin head units play better with the Garmin Varia radar. Do you have the Varia Radar app open on your phone? Even if it is in the background, it may still try to connect to the radar unit. So make sure the Varia Radar app is closed on your phone.
I have my Elemnt Bolt for 5 years and it works great. Occasionally I have to manually upload a ride, maybe once or twice a year. The rubber gaskets in two places stopped securing tightly and Wahoo told me they can't fix it. I used simple clear tape two years ago and it worked perfectly. Thanks for the great video.
I love my Bolt and have heartrate VERY bold at the top of the page, then cadence, speed, and distance showing-if I reduce the text size a bit then I have power as well but I only have a power meter on my road bike not my gravel or mtb. The heartrate is so important as I have/had a heart issue (Superventricular tachycardia) and crashed twice with broken bones because of it. I have now had 2 heart ablations and according to my cardiologist I am fixed……..however I still consider it the most important metric for me.
i used the LED on top of my Bolt to display my HR zone. I find this useful to quickly gauge either to target zone or potentially for older people this is more important to monitor compared to speed or distance
Thanks as always for the video. Getting my first head unit this week. Been using my Forerunner, and it’s been terrific, but looking forward to a bigger screen for these 50+ year old eyes!
As with most tech I own I probably only use about 10% of the functionality of my wahoo elemnt bolt, but pop up notifications and live tracking are nice bonuses to the basic metrics I use on my display.
I have the Elemnt Bolt V1, have had it for about three years. It works great no complaints. I only wish that Wahoo had a trade in program. I would love to upgrade but can’t justify it if my current computer works fine.
You can pause the trip. Turn it off. Have your coffee/cake break. Turn it on again and resume. Didn't know that. (you'll have to reload your ride but your activitydata will not be reset)
Could have touch on how you can use the LED lights on the Wahoo to give you additional information. turn by turn direction, speed , heart rate, etc. Its a cool feature.
Wow!!! I didn’t know you can set an alert to tell you when to hydrate and eat!!..I’ve been sitting here pondering on switching to the Garmin 830 but now I may just stay put!😀🙌🏿..Great video! I definitely need to spend more time in my element app!!#beginnerlol
@@gcn Question…can it also indicate recovery time too?…Ex. I believe the Garmin 830 gives you a recovery period based upon your ride. Does the wahoo element bolt have the same capabilities?
@@Lookingforamiracle the wahoo element 2 is very good for me. Its a bit small for navigation if you rely on that a lot. Other than that, great. Battery life is a no issue for me. I dont do multi-day trips. I would say the battery lasts at least 14 hours.
Having just got back to the UK after cycling 8700km in North America I found that making routes in motels using there WiFi didn't always work, then I learned how to us my own Hot Spot to connect to the Roam. Re routing was bad on the Roam and the Garmin 830 they both need to do work on that feature.
I love my Wahoo as it has worked very well and this video is great to show some features I would like to use. Hopefully these work with the Element Bolt. Very useful video👍👍. I also agree that the Wahoo works much better than a touch screen unit and I will not get a Garmin again as they are clunky and have constant updates.
Big question on Bolt V2. I can have just 4 data pages showing at a good size. One large at top plus 2 across next row but smaller, plus a single field on bottom, also smaller. But has a blank area next to it! If i 'page out' to make fields smaller I get just one large field on top plus 6 small ones below, 2 per row. SO why cannot i get FIVE fields...one large on top then two rows of 2??? Instead of the 4 that has a blank area on bottom row? Really frustrating as paging out to get 7 means that six are a tad small to read for me. FIVE fileds would be ideal if that final one was filled in. Hope you understand.
I have a Garmin and controlling it from the hoods with the Di2 hidden top buttons is a game changer. I am not sure if the Wahoo does this but I can start and stop the recording, scroll between windows, turn on the back light and start lap timing without taking my hands off the hoods.
Generally very happy with my bolt2, except the handling of Live Segments. Simply switching off the segment when GPS reception is too low (how low actually?) makes for a horrible user experience. Can't finish any segment when there's trees around.. Which tend to be on mountains. My old Garmin 520 handled this much better by just being inaccurate for a bit and then recalculating when reception is back.
Can you specify which mount you are using and where did you buy it perhaps ? I have a canyon ultimate sl 7 and want the same clean setup. The included mounts do not provide this. Thank you.
Not a fan of the Di2 battery level coverage. What GCN somehow failed to mention of this much-requested and missing feature, was it is not possible to add Di2 battery strength as a data field on any of our screens. Instead, we have to go into the settings menu, navigate to the Di2 device and click "more" to see battery level. Not something one can easily do while riding and paying attention to the road. Easier to just hold a shift lever for a couple seconds and observe the led read-out before heading out.
I bought a Garmin Edge 130. Far more clever than the wired in thing it replaced, but very basic in comparison. Breadcrumb mapping is very basic, but as I mainly ride within a 30km radius of home, I pretty much know where I am! As I age though, my near vision is getting worse.. some of the 5 fields I use are getting harder to see... might need a bigger computer soon!
Anyone know what bolt model/version Manon had? I have the original and can’t find the same custom alerts or summit info discussed in the video? Any idea, tips or tricks on this? Cheers all
Tip for pages: if you have more than one bike, create pages for each of those bikes, e.g. only one bike has a powermeter, no need to show it when on the other bike. Tip for switching pages with DI2: program button on top of the levers for switching pages on Wahoo (to be programed in Shimano's app E-Tube). So for switching pages you don't need to take your hands off the hooks. Showing DI2 battery status seems to be only with latest generation? At least I complained to Wahoo 2 years ago that DI2 battery is not shown ... and still isn't for R80xx series. So maybe only for R81xx?
@@donnys1309 Best solution because adding pages will get very frustrating since you have to scroll through all of them each time you wanna check something on another page and then come back to the main page.
I've been out on short rides and got a surprise visit from friends or family followed by them texting me to ask where I'm at. Thanks to my Wahoo I get the text message notification right on my screen and I can pull over, retrieve my phone, and then communicate with them.
@@chellobod2531 With older Shimano Road Di2 groupsets (pre-12-speed), yes, a D-Fly unit and an extra wire (150 mm will do) are needed to give the groupset the ability to communicate with other devices wirelessly. As for Shimano Road 12-speed groupsets, they can now do that out of the box. No extra hardware necessary.
while I really liked my Wahoo bolt (I have 3 of them), I've come to hate Wahoo as a company over the last 5 months. Earlier this year (around April), they decided to remove support for external BLE heart rate monitors. I realized this when all of a sudden my bolt wasn't receiving data from my ECG chest device. After trying to troubleshoot the problem myself, I sent a message off to their tech support. Their answer was it was a problem with the external heart rate monitor. Unfortunately for them, our company develops electronic devices, including wearable devices, so after testing the Wahoo in our labs, it was clearly a problem on the Bolt side. Only after being confronted with this evidence, Wahoo admitted it was a problem with their firmware and offered to send me one of their HR monitors to 'solve the problem'. Since HR monitors use industry-standard Bluetooth communication, it was odd that, for some reason, their HR monitor continued to work while external ones all of a sudden did not. I mentioned that to them and suggested that it was a very odd bug in their firmware, or more logically, they decided intentionally to disable the functionality of external devices. Well, now we are 5 months later, and they still haven't 'fixed' what they claim to be a bug. Fact is, everybody who bought a wahoo device prior to this intentional downgrade and uses an external HR monitor has been disadvantaged. It's also very unethical anticompetitive behavior and I hope their competitors catch on to it and exposure them on it.
I have an Garmin 800, which is naturally getting a bit long in the tooth, but I would love to upgrade it.. I basically use speed (kph), cadence, heart rate, plus elapsed time and distance ( km’s)…
People knowing joining you while you're out on your ride doesn't seem so bad ... it's the one's going to your home while you're on your ride that you want to worry about!
Is there an option from Bolt2, to add a graph/indication of your pedaling wattage and torque ratio between the pedals? Yes I do have dual-sided power meter.
Hi hi there!!! I just wondering because I misunderstood something there. Do you need a power meter to be connected with the unit to show you up the wattages?
Is there an option on these computers to switch to a mountain bike mode? Or are they specific to road cycling. I don’t see one on mine and I want to put it on my mountain bike. Used in for road the last couple years
There is one metric I miss. I do a lot of riding countryside and I pass a pretty substantial amount of farm animals each ride. Wish my bike computer could count the number of cows, pigs and sheep I pass on my ride! Always curious about that statistic but counting them manually is pretty difficult while concentrating on the road ahead as well!😅
@@gcn Just realized another feature along the same line! Garmin should add a cow detection system to the Varia rear view radar! Perfect for Si! Never have to be worried about a cow sneaking up from behind for a vicious attack!!
Brilliant comment. I count the number of deer I see every ride and put the number in my strava comments field. I like counting manually because it gets my attention off the road in front of me but I wouldn't mind an automatic counter that could alert me to look in a specific direction to see the deer.
correct me if I'm wrong but i use element too and it shows summit of the climb only if I chose a route to go. And also you can use the route page on the descending after climb for the corners
Just fyi, the current Wahoo firmware isn't recording "gears" from your rides, I have a ticket open with them about it... you can look at older ride history and the gears info is there, but nothing since the last firmware came out. Also, a caveat for the di2 battery and gear selection is having the wireless module in di2 if you're on the older versions with wired shifters.
I understand that GCN uses Wahoo (sponsorship has its perks/caveats) but it would be great - and properly *global* - to also address these features as they appear on Garmin and Hammerhead units. Sure, it wouldn't be sponsor-specific but it would be a better help to the worldwide audience of this channel. Just my $0.02 - your mileage may vary.
Garmin Connect is more of a unified ecosystem. While with wahoo, you'd have to look at out sourcing your data to a subscription service for any meaningful data analysis, and you'll find yourself in subscription hell real fast.
Why not just use your cellphone as a head unit? You have to bring it with you anyways. I have yet been convinced that I need a dedicated HU in place of my cellphone plus app(s). Im open to being convinced but this video still hasn’t done it.
My reason for a dedicated head unit is that i don't want to be interrupted by calls/messages during riding. I know theres do not disturb mode but I'd be tempted to have a look for messages anyway. With a head unit my phone stays in my back pocket. Also on long rides there isn't the problem of running out of battery on your phone because you're using a second device. I like the feeling of not having to worry about that incase i have to make an emergency call.
how to know through the wahoo elemnt bolt v2 head unit the battery life of electronic shifting batteries on the go ??? once way to know is to look at the derailleur while shifting and check the LED color indicator .. can the same be seen on one of the data tabs on the head unit without getting into its sensor settings ??? also how to know through the head unit If the sensors are connected through bluetooth or ANT ???
If you do this detailed close-ups, why did you not use that nice aero wahoo spoon style holder instead of that chunky other brand one? If I was wahoo I would not be very happy about this.
I've had a wahoo for about a year now and keep having trouble with navigation, maybe someone here could help me. First when I load a route for navigation and ride I get visual indicators of an upcoming turn but I only get an audio indicator far in advance of a turn and then right as I hit the waypoint. I wish I could get the audio indicator of a turn just a few meters in advance of the turn , rather when I've hit the waypoint. If I'm not watching the head unit I find myself going past turns. It is frustrating to have to watch the head unit to know the turn is coming. Secondly when using the built in point to point navigation system the wahoo often wants to send me on high volume, high speed streets rather than bike friendly routes. It seems like a bike specific navigation unit would be more savvy with routing. Is there a way to tell the system to use more bike friendly streets.
Also my experience that navigation ion the Wahoo Bolt has its shortcomings. Synchronising a trip from smartphone is often troublesome and not working. Could be the restricted storage of the Roam(?) or a unsolved software problem.
Tip: don't use the map rerouting feature because it's terrible. If I go past my turn, it just beeps and squeaks instead of planning a sensible alternative.
Does it pair with your phone and verbally provide: navigation, traffic updates, heart rate, speed & cadence, current zone information? Will it pair with a Garmin watch and add heart rate data to screen and strava? Does it pair with Garmin speed and cadence sensors? Can you download/create custom data fields and download apps like Komoot? Does it have a current weather/wind direction screen?
I have loved my Bolt V2 until recently but Android app has become buggy. The "Take me to" feature no longer works. I can type or copy in an address but the screen does not respond. The notifications permissions from the phone also must be reset each ride. Are others seeing this?
A Wahoo bike computer can do may thinks more you don’t want! He can turn off in a middle of a long tour. He can loose all connections to your power meter in the middle of a tour, and sometimes a wahoo bike computer can just loose GPS in the middle of a tour. That’s my experience with my super expensive roam. Thanks wahoo.
Did you get in touch with the support? I was an early adopter and my first Bolt did something similar back in 2017. Without question, Wahoo changed it to a new one. I'm still using that without any issue.
Mmm... I've just upgraded my aging O.G. Bolt with the new Edge 1040. Fancy me😁 No more subscription hell. Garmin Connect is more of a one-stop-platform.
Wahoo support: passed on to developer, ticket closed, never heard from again. Eg -dismiss custom alert, often pauses ride -page zoom to 5 fields but only shows 4, 5th is blank etc - overall it’s a good product let down by customer support
What data do you have on screen for your rides?
Time of day, speed, HR, cadence, grade, Di2 gear selection on main page. On other pages elevation, feet climbed, temperature, route etc. I also have Bolt. Shame mapping is so useless on it though. Having Whatsapp and text notifications etc is really useful.
Coffee stops? ;)
If actually have more screens than I need: One main screen with speed, 3s power, cadence, duration, heart rate, temperaure and gradient, next is some kind of summary page with avg. speed/power, total ascent, distance. Then, another one with more overall information like time, battery level etc - and then the more specific pages like a "climbing screen" with climb profile, current gradient/cadence and two more with the map and turn instructions. I'm on the main screen most of the time but there are specific situations where I use the others, indeed.
Well, it's a 2016 Garmin, though....
Heart rate and incline, on the climb screen. For the rest, I don't really look at the head unit that much, except if following a track on my Bryton 420.
speed, grade, clock. dragon queen's insignia. #AllHailToTheDragonQueen
I never have to worry about how many gears I've got left on a big climb, I've never got any left.
Oh good to know that this is not only happening to me. Really strange how these gears always disappear
I feel this
😂
That's never stopped me trying to downshift a couple more times though.
@@glenni249 every time!
On my Wahoo (Bolt v2), there are LEDs at the top. They can be used for various things. When following a route, they indicate the next turn by flashing in the corresponding direction. In "normal mode" I configured them to indicate my current speed in comparison to the average speed. If the LEDs to the right are on (blue), I am above my average speed. If the LEDs to the left are on (I think it's green), I am below average speed. If only the center is on, I am around my average speed. You can also do the same for RPM and I think even for power output. This is a very neat feature.
I loved this feature in the good old Cateye's wired computers. I'm glad they tought something similar.
I’ve had my wahoo for about 3 years & it’s by far the best cycling related purchase yet. Also in certain conditions it’s much better with the proper buttons rather than a touch screen & the battery is brill as in after a 100 miles ride it still had 38% left 😮
The live share can actually show more. I am a disabled veteran and so have medical problems. With the tracking turned on, my wife can see where I'm at, my speed, and heart rate. It gives her peace of mind as there have been a couple of times my heart rate went really high and wouldn't come down. I had to call her to come get me.
Very useful tool! 👍
I also use it just to give the comfort that I am safe
I'm guessing you discussed the HR issue with your Physician? Chapeau! (from another vet)
If you're using a watch for heart rate, they can be erratic, or so it seems to me.
@@stevek8829 The answer to that is don't use an optical heart rate sensor for vigorous exercise, use a heart rate strap
My favourite thing about my Wahoo is that it connects directly with TrainerRoad and automatically pulls my workout for the day giving me the option to stick to the same training plan and ride regardless if indoors or outdoors. My intervals are always there and ready to go when I start my ride in the morning! Super handy!
My training screen would usually have W3s, W20s, Target Power, Cadence, Interval Timer.
I love the gradient forecast functionality on the Wahoo for the climbs. Pretty accurate too.
So I cannot find this on the V2. Is it a paid for field? Or what setting or where located please?
@@stephencharles6932 Press the page button.
The gradient forecast is on the climbing page and is based on route data, so it's only available when you are actually following a planned route AND the route included elevation data when you synched it. However, the climbing page will display the current measured gradient whether you are on a route or not.
@@jefferycampbell2243 ah ha. Following a planned route for first time that I will load tomorrow morning, so hopefully it will appear….
Never have a stable gradient reading on Wahoo. Bounces all over the place inaccurately. Even had the unit replaced.
Pairing it with Strava and using it to track your time against a goal is great. Loop training is a good feature. Some people in a group I ride with have a traffic radar on the back of their bikes and get an alert so they can be first to yell "car back"
The radar is made by Garmin 👍
@@thomasbrooks2549 there's a Magene one now as well
Wahoo NEEDS to make a radar for us Element users!!!
@@SolarReturn1966 the Wahoo connects to the Garmin radar. Works brilliantly
@@cubatea Thanks for the information but Im interested in Wahoo making a radar for their products. I believe there is another brand of radar out there also but I'm not interested. I have a Wahoo Element Roam and I would prefer to keep my purchases of accessories with the same brand.
If I had a Garmin I would most definitely be purchasing the Garmin Radar to go along with it.
I'm sure Wahoo would do really well if they offered a Wahoo Radar. I sent them the recommendation to make one and they said they would pass it on to their development team. So, I will just wait and see if they come out with one. Again, thanks for the suggestion! Best regards!
Dear Manon and the GCN crew,thanks for all the great work!
If anyone could explain the lap button that’d be wonderful !Would love to be able to use it for some intervals.
Many thanks to all of you
Phil
I love my Wahoo head unit paired up with my Garmin radar showing the little car icon coming from behind. Also the gradient color chart showing the upcoming climbs.
I have to put my mobile phone in airplane mode so it doesn't cause my Varia to disconnect from my Roam. Has anyone else got this issue?
@@chellobod2531 I sometimes get a disconnect and resync when first turning on the Varia Radar. But once it's sync, I don't loose connection.
@@chellobod2531 I have a Garmin 1030+ and this has never happened. Maybe Garmin head units play better with the Garmin Varia radar. Do you have the Varia Radar app open on your phone? Even if it is in the background, it may still try to connect to the radar unit. So make sure the Varia Radar app is closed on your phone.
I have my Elemnt Bolt for 5 years and it works great. Occasionally I have to manually upload a ride, maybe once or twice a year. The rubber gaskets in two places stopped securing tightly and Wahoo told me they can't fix it. I used simple clear tape two years ago and it worked perfectly. Thanks for the great video.
I love my Bolt and have heartrate VERY bold at the top of the page, then cadence, speed, and distance showing-if I reduce the text size a bit then I have power as well but I only have a power meter on my road bike not my gravel or mtb. The heartrate is so important as I have/had a heart issue (Superventricular tachycardia) and crashed twice with broken bones because of it. I have now had 2 heart ablations and according to my cardiologist I am fixed……..however I still consider it the most important metric for me.
i used the LED on top of my Bolt to display my HR zone.
I find this useful to quickly gauge either to target zone or potentially for older people this is more important to monitor compared to speed or distance
How does that work ?
Good question!
I didn’t know about that feature regarding what gear you on. That is definitely going to help me. Thanks
Thanks as always for the video. Getting my first head unit this week. Been using my Forerunner, and it’s been terrific, but looking forward to a bigger screen for these 50+ year old eyes!
As with most tech I own I probably only use about 10% of the functionality of my wahoo elemnt bolt, but pop up notifications and live tracking are nice bonuses to the basic metrics I use on my display.
I have the Elemnt Bolt V1, have had it for about three years. It works great no complaints. I only wish that Wahoo had a trade in program. I would love to upgrade but can’t justify it if my current computer works fine.
You can pause the trip. Turn it off. Have your coffee/cake break. Turn it on again and resume. Didn't know that.
(you'll have to reload your ride but your activitydata will not be reset)
Great tips. I’m about to purchase a Bolt so finding your video is a definite +…thank you.
Could have touch on how you can use the LED lights on the Wahoo to give you additional information. turn by turn direction, speed , heart rate, etc. Its a cool feature.
It is a great feature too!
Wow!!! I didn’t know you can set an alert to tell you when to hydrate and eat!!..I’ve been sitting here pondering on switching to the Garmin 830 but now I may just stay put!😀🙌🏿..Great video! I definitely need to spend more time in my element app!!#beginnerlol
Thanks, glad it was useful!
@@gcn Question…can it also indicate recovery time too?…Ex. I believe the Garmin 830 gives you a recovery period based upon your ride. Does the wahoo element bolt have the same capabilities?
Same here..lol
I always enjoy your personality.. old vid now.. but don't know how i missed this one. :- )
I love my custom alerts:
Every 10 mins: WATER (sip some water)
Every 30 mins: CARBS
Rather than a bike computer, this video made me want to get a jacket to imitate Manon's casual open jacket look on the bike.
I thought a while between a garmin or a wahoo. Today i have ordered the wahoo device. Looking forward to it 🎉
How is it so far? I am planning to buy one but concerned about the battery life. Is it still as good as before? @99cya
@@Lookingforamiracle the wahoo element 2 is very good for me. Its a bit small for navigation if you rely on that a lot. Other than that, great. Battery life is a no issue for me. I dont do multi-day trips. I would say the battery lasts at least 14 hours.
Having just got back to the UK after cycling 8700km in North America I found that making routes in motels using there WiFi didn't always work, then I learned how to us my own Hot Spot to connect to the Roam. Re routing was bad on the Roam and the Garmin 830 they both need to do work on that feature.
I love my Wahoo as it has worked very well and this video is great to show some features I would like to use. Hopefully these work with the Element Bolt. Very useful video👍👍. I also agree that the Wahoo works much better than a touch screen unit and I will not get a Garmin again as they are clunky and have constant updates.
This is amazing! Loving it.
Big question on Bolt V2. I can have just 4 data pages showing at a good size. One large at top plus 2 across next row but smaller, plus a single field on bottom, also smaller. But has a blank area next to it!
If i 'page out' to make fields smaller I get just one large field on top plus 6 small ones below, 2 per row.
SO why cannot i get FIVE fields...one large on top then two rows of 2??? Instead of the 4 that has a blank area on bottom row?
Really frustrating as paging out to get 7 means that six are a tad small to read for me.
FIVE fileds would be ideal if that final one was filled in. Hope you understand.
That annoys me as well.
I have a Garmin and controlling it from the hoods with the Di2 hidden top buttons is a game changer. I am not sure if the Wahoo does this but I can start and stop the recording, scroll between windows, turn on the back light and start lap timing without taking my hands off the hoods.
Yes, Di2 D-FLY buttons are supported as well for Wahoo Left and Right buttons. This definitely should have been mentioned!
@@chuckb4375 But you need the Shimano D-fly unit to do this, except when you have the new DI2 12 speed
My bike computer just reminds me that I'm getting older and slower
Generally very happy with my bolt2, except the handling of Live Segments.
Simply switching off the segment when GPS reception is too low (how low actually?) makes for a horrible user experience.
Can't finish any segment when there's trees around.. Which tend to be on mountains.
My old Garmin 520 handled this much better by just being inaccurate for a bit and then recalculating when reception is back.
"a spot of bother" . . . that phrase is going to stick with me as I approach the free range cow in the road.
Can you specify which mount you are using and where did you buy it perhaps ? I have a canyon ultimate sl 7 and want the same clean setup. The included mounts do not provide this. Thank you.
Not a fan of the Di2 battery level coverage. What GCN somehow failed to mention of this much-requested and missing feature, was it is not possible to add Di2 battery strength as a data field on any of our screens. Instead, we have to go into the settings menu, navigate to the Di2 device and click "more" to see battery level. Not something one can easily do while riding and paying attention to the road. Easier to just hold a shift lever for a couple seconds and observe the led read-out before heading out.
I bought a Garmin Edge 130. Far more clever than the wired in thing it replaced, but very basic in comparison. Breadcrumb mapping is very basic, but as I mainly ride within a 30km radius of home, I pretty much know where I am! As I age though, my near vision is getting worse.. some of the 5 fields I use are getting harder to see... might need a bigger computer soon!
The Wahoo Elemnt Roam is perfect for that I find! It has a much bigger display than the Bolt.
Anyone know what bolt model/version Manon had? I have the original and can’t find the same custom alerts or summit info discussed in the video? Any idea, tips or tricks on this? Cheers all
Tip for pages: if you have more than one bike, create pages for each of those bikes, e.g. only one bike has a powermeter, no need to show it when on the other bike.
Tip for switching pages with DI2: program button on top of the levers for switching pages on Wahoo (to be programed in Shimano's app E-Tube). So for switching pages you don't need to take your hands off the hooks.
Showing DI2 battery status seems to be only with latest generation? At least I complained to Wahoo 2 years ago that DI2 battery is not shown ... and still isn't for R80xx series. So maybe only for R81xx?
I put power data at the bottom of the page. When I'm riding with the bike without power meter, I just zoom out the power fields.
@@donnys1309 Best solution because adding pages will get very frustrating since you have to scroll through all of them each time you wanna check something on another page and then come back to the main page.
I've been out on short rides and got a surprise visit from friends or family followed by them texting me to ask where I'm at. Thanks to my Wahoo I get the text message notification right on my screen and I can pull over, retrieve my phone, and then communicate with them.
I love the gear data. I use it all the time, whether I'm on the big chain ring or small.
Don't you have to fit an extra in-line gadget to communicate with the head unit?
@@chellobod2531 With older Shimano Road Di2 groupsets (pre-12-speed), yes, a D-Fly unit and an extra wire (150 mm will do) are needed to give the groupset the ability to communicate with other devices wirelessly.
As for Shimano Road 12-speed groupsets, they can now do that out of the box. No extra hardware necessary.
I run SRAM etap AXS and it does not require any extra modules. Not sure if it uses ANT+ or Bluetooth but it just works great.
Any guide to set up intervals
while I really liked my Wahoo bolt (I have 3 of them), I've come to hate Wahoo as a company over the last 5 months. Earlier this year (around April), they decided to remove support for external BLE heart rate monitors. I realized this when all of a sudden my bolt wasn't receiving data from my ECG chest device. After trying to troubleshoot the problem myself, I sent a message off to their tech support. Their answer was it was a problem with the external heart rate monitor. Unfortunately for them, our company develops electronic devices, including wearable devices, so after testing the Wahoo in our labs, it was clearly a problem on the Bolt side. Only after being confronted with this evidence, Wahoo admitted it was a problem with their firmware and offered to send me one of their HR monitors to 'solve the problem'. Since HR monitors use industry-standard Bluetooth communication, it was odd that, for some reason, their HR monitor continued to work while external ones all of a sudden did not. I mentioned that to them and suggested that it was a very odd bug in their firmware, or more logically, they decided intentionally to disable the functionality of external devices.
Well, now we are 5 months later, and they still haven't 'fixed' what they claim to be a bug. Fact is, everybody who bought a wahoo device prior to this intentional downgrade and uses an external HR monitor has been disadvantaged. It's also very unethical anticompetitive behavior and I hope their competitors catch on to it and exposure them on it.
do you think the problem has been fixed?)
That was 100% Hank on the phone...
What kind of microphone are you using when you’re riding because I can’t hear the air. It sounds like a really good microphone.
What mount are you using in this video? How do I get the Wahoo to be out like that and not wrapped around the handle bar
I have an Garmin 800, which is naturally getting a bit long in the tooth, but I would love to upgrade it.. I basically use speed (kph), cadence, heart rate, plus elapsed time and distance ( km’s)…
Neat trick would be replacing the noisy cameramans moped for some quiet electric one 😌
My heart goes out to that pitiful moped
People knowing joining you while you're out on your ride doesn't seem so bad ... it's the one's going to your home while you're on your ride that you want to worry about!
I really have been enjoying my wahoo, and i recently started using the work outs on the app as well.
Do you still like it? Is the battery life still good as before?
Is there an option from Bolt2, to add a graph/indication of your pedaling wattage and torque ratio between the pedals? Yes I do have dual-sided power meter.
Hi hi there!!!
I just wondering because I misunderstood something there.
Do you need a power meter to be connected with the unit to show you up the wattages?
Is there an option on these computers to switch to a mountain bike mode? Or are they specific to road cycling. I don’t see one on mine and I want to put it on my mountain bike. Used in for road the last couple years
There is one metric I miss. I do a lot of riding countryside and I pass a pretty substantial amount of farm animals each ride. Wish my bike computer could count the number of cows, pigs and sheep I pass on my ride! Always curious about that statistic but counting them manually is pretty difficult while concentrating on the road ahead as well!😅
Now that would be an impressive feature!
@@gcn Just realized another feature along the same line! Garmin should add a cow detection system to the Varia rear view radar! Perfect for Si! Never have to be worried about a cow sneaking up from behind for a vicious attack!!
Brilliant comment. I count the number of deer I see every ride and put the number in my strava comments field. I like counting manually because it gets my attention off the road in front of me but I wouldn't mind an automatic counter that could alert me to look in a specific direction to see the deer.
Bike computer... and here's me still using print outs of maps kept in a plastic sleeve..
correct me if I'm wrong but i use element too and it shows summit of the climb only if I chose a route to go. And also you can use the route page on the descending after climb for the corners
Why is the volume of GCN videos 5-10dB above any other channel? * madly adjusts the volume *
For custom alerts, I prefer having an alert telling me to eat when I've burned 400cal.
Great acting at the end Manon 🤣
Hank nearly kills himself for GCN challenges. Then gets labelled as an annoying stalker by Manon. 😂
Do i need any extra things to be able to have what gear I'm in show on the wahoo?
I dont have bluetooth shifters
I’m still rocking the garmin edge 1000 that i bought back in 2014.
what mount you have where u put your wahoo?
what stem mount holder do you recommend for the wahoo?
The out front one for me as I have my phone attached to the stem via quad lock
Will Wahoo show electronic battery levels/current gearing for SRAM as well as Di2?
I just bought a wahoo today.. looking Forward to getting used to it.
How’s it so far? And how’s the battery now?
Hello, would you please provide me with the model of this canyon bike? Thanks.
Just fyi, the current Wahoo firmware isn't recording "gears" from your rides, I have a ticket open with them about it... you can look at older ride history and the gears info is there, but nothing since the last firmware came out. Also, a caveat for the di2 battery and gear selection is having the wireless module in di2 if you're on the older versions with wired shifters.
I don't have that problem with my 105 setup..lol🤭✌️
Is this the Bolt v1 being shown?
You can also check the battery status/levels of the sensors you have paired to the Wahoo.
This is a useful one!
I understand that GCN uses Wahoo (sponsorship has its perks/caveats) but it would be great - and properly *global* - to also address these features as they appear on Garmin and Hammerhead units. Sure, it wouldn't be sponsor-specific but it would be a better help to the worldwide audience of this channel. Just my $0.02 - your mileage may vary.
Speed, distance, time.
Enjoy your surroundings. There is a reason we ride outside
I wonder how many of the glowing reviewy replies to this video are guerilla marketing?
Perfect timing, I'm just trying to decide between the Wahoo and the Garmin 530.
Go for the Wahoo. It's very user friendly and readable on sunny days.
I have owned both Garmin and Wahoo, try both and decide for yourself
Garmin Connect is more of a unified ecosystem. While with wahoo, you'd have to look at out sourcing your data to a subscription service for any meaningful data analysis, and you'll find yourself in subscription hell real fast.
Hope this video helps with the decision!
Live location sharing sounds good, my wife can follow the progress of my rides from home.
Hi there! Does anyone know where to find the headset mount used in the video? I have the same handlebars which are great but normal mounts don’t fit…
One feature on my head unit which came to my aid when I was knocked off my bicycle by a car was "incident detect".
Sorry to hear this! But yes, it's a really useful feature included on many head units now
I didnt know this, How does that work?
Why not just use your cellphone as a head unit? You have to bring it with you anyways. I have yet been convinced that I need a dedicated HU in place of my cellphone plus app(s). Im open to being convinced but this video still hasn’t done it.
My reason for a dedicated head unit is that i don't want to be interrupted by calls/messages during riding. I know theres do not disturb mode but I'd be tempted to have a look for messages anyway. With a head unit my phone stays in my back pocket. Also on long rides there isn't the problem of running out of battery on your phone because you're using a second device. I like the feeling of not having to worry about that incase i have to make an emergency call.
GPS uses up you phone's battery. On a long ride, where you might need it in an emergency or to look something up, it can be a problem.
Try a 7 hour ride with a cellphone..
I absolutely love the reminder feature 😍🍔🥤
how to know through the wahoo elemnt bolt v2 head unit the battery life of electronic shifting batteries on the go ??? once way to know is to look at the derailleur while shifting and check the LED color indicator .. can the same be seen on one of the data tabs on the head unit without getting into its sensor settings ??? also how to know through the head unit If the sensors are connected through bluetooth or ANT ???
If you do this detailed close-ups, why did you not use that nice aero wahoo spoon style holder instead of that chunky other brand one? If I was wahoo I would not be very happy about this.
I've had a wahoo for about a year now and keep having trouble with navigation, maybe someone here could help me. First when I load a route for navigation and ride I get visual indicators of an upcoming turn but I only get an audio indicator far in advance of a turn and then right as I hit the waypoint. I wish I could get the audio indicator of a turn just a few meters in advance of the turn , rather when I've hit the waypoint. If I'm not watching the head unit I find myself going past turns. It is frustrating to have to watch the head unit to know the turn is coming.
Secondly when using the built in point to point navigation system the wahoo often wants to send me on high volume, high speed streets rather than bike friendly routes. It seems like a bike specific navigation unit would be more savvy with routing. Is there a way to tell the system to use more bike friendly streets.
Also my experience that navigation ion the Wahoo Bolt has its shortcomings. Synchronising a trip from smartphone is often troublesome and not working. Could be the restricted storage of the Roam(?) or a unsolved software problem.
Does anyone know which mount she is using currently Canyon is out of the Wahoo mounts?
Tip: don't use the map rerouting feature because it's terrible. If I go past my turn, it just beeps and squeaks instead of planning a sensible alternative.
For the Bolt 2 I find that the re-routing works very well.
Does it pair with your phone and verbally provide: navigation, traffic updates, heart rate, speed & cadence, current zone information?
Will it pair with a Garmin watch and add heart rate data to screen and strava?
Does it pair with Garmin speed and cadence sensors?
Can you download/create custom data fields and download apps like Komoot?
Does it have a current weather/wind direction screen?
I have loved my Bolt V2 until recently but Android app has become buggy. The "Take me to" feature no longer works. I can type or copy in an address but the screen does not respond. The notifications permissions from the phone also must be reset each ride.
Are others seeing this?
@global cycling network What's up with the Canyon? Where's your Orbea?
Could you make a video as a step-by-step how to make your trainings via wattages?
Bolt v2 had more attractive led, when using planned route the led will tell u when to turn right, left or straight
Custom workouts, i.e. automatically from TrainingPeaks as per your training calendar.
"I love to customize my wahoo!"
*uses the default main wahoo page
GCN - sponsored by Wahoo
It’s would be great if you make a video for Gamine device also.
That will not happen as long as Wahoo is throwing money at GCN
Love my Garmin
Which is better, the roam v2 or bolt v2
Some of the functions (at least the climbing ones) are only for the V2. Might be good to know (:
What mount are you using on your Canyon for the head unit?
A Wahoo bike computer can do may thinks more you don’t want! He can turn off in a middle of a long tour. He can loose all connections to your power meter in the middle of a tour, and sometimes a wahoo bike computer can just loose GPS in the middle of a tour. That’s my experience with my super expensive roam. Thanks wahoo.
Did you get in touch with the support? I was an early adopter and my first Bolt did something similar back in 2017. Without question, Wahoo changed it to a new one. I'm still using that without any issue.
Mmm... I've just upgraded my aging O.G. Bolt with the new Edge 1040. Fancy me😁
No more subscription hell. Garmin Connect is more of a one-stop-platform.
Wahoo support: passed on to developer, ticket closed, never heard from again. Eg -dismiss custom alert, often pauses ride
-page zoom to 5 fields but only shows 4, 5th is blank etc
- overall it’s a good product let down by customer support
Can you review the latest Garmin 1040 solar please.
GCN cant mention the name Garmin as long as Wahoo are sponsoring the channel
I have a Garmin, I'm just here for the MANON PARTY
what mount does she use?