lmao what a debacle. fixed by the end of the year??!?!
wow this is wild
Crap. Ive got 5 hundy burning a hole in my pocket that I was thinking of getting the Coros bike GPS with.
There is zero chance I’d dump money on a Coros given how they haven’t fixed shit.
OTOH I’ve been pretty pleased with the rate of updates the Karoo3 has gotten - it’s not perfect but the extensions/plugins stuff is useful (I have eat/drink reminders and wind info fields) and they’ve polished rough edges over time. It’s dumb but the only big feature I wish it had is the speaker “bell” that the Garmin 1050 has.
Anyway I wouldn’t stray outside Garmin/Wahoo/Hammerhead if you value ongoing software updates.
because in many cases it would produce even more complex types of artifacts like the former, and compound those GPS tracking artifacts, unless they also turn up the aggression on “snap to map” smoothing which will produce its own artifacts
We’re talking about speeds ranging from like 10 to 18 mph. This is exactly what riding a bike looks like when represented in this style of graph.
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Whelp.
Without reading this thread, I just picked a Coros Pace 4. It looks like they fixed all those massive bugs, but we’ll see how well supported it is.
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I want to ride Zwift in my basement so my son can come down and thing I am generating electricity for the house while riding. It seems to be the same exact kind of crappy app it was 5 years ago. Is there anything better? I don’t want to use Woosh because of its foundations in blood money.
They’ve changed the game plenty in the last 5 years. But kind of depends on what your expectation is for the app to change. I don’t think graphically it can improve that much while still working on phones/tablet’s/uncle bill’s 10 year old laptop.
A lot of improvements require different hardware too - like trainers that support wifi, zwift controllers or a bike with integrated controllers, etc.
Rouvy seems to be the most populate alternative amongst people I know.
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I think a part of it is that I have spent a few years staring at zwift. I guess I’ll give rouvy a try and see if it’s cool.
Wife has rouvy. It looks more like a real bike ride. Sometimes you get passed by cars which really bums me out.
Zwift is expensive now which bums me out. $20/mo. It used to be like $13??
And i guess you don’t get a free trial every month anymore. I logged in to try to do my free 25km this month and i was locked out of doing anything except previewing and had to pay.
the zwift app frustrates me endlessly as well. I’m going to another app when my subscription ends
yeah $20 seems like too much for what it gives me. I don’t use the social aspect at all. I just want ERG control. Which I could probably do for free with a bunch of other apps.
can’t you do it for free in wahoos app or do they make you pay? you have kickr right?
we have it for free in the stages app, but it wont let you connect any other brand’s trainer.
My Dash would control the Elite trainer I had. I could do erg or a planned workout.
I’ve never tried it with the Bolt, but I bet it’s similar.
Yeah, any modern head unit should do ANT+ F-EC or BLE trainer control protocol, but it’s usually nicer to use the big screen on your phone if you’re riding the trainer.
Really the decider is where you’re getting your workouts and how easily you can import them into the device you want to control your trainer. The less steps the better.
Coros Dura Y/N?
Any horror stories or effusive praise?
Buddy of mine did a long ride in summer with no shade and the battery % was higher when he finished than when he started.
He says the dial feel is not very nice.
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I haven’t used mine enough to decide.
dial feel is bad. I prefer my wahoo that doesn’t have a touch screen. I think I need to take more time with the app to get the screens set up how I want, not super sure how customizable they are though. last ride I went on it kept changing to a different screen without me touching it? not sure if the dial was getting bumped or what.
battery life is sick. haven’t had issues syncing routes over from third parties.
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