This is a poll somewhat and is an attempt to determine what decisions folks used to move to Wahoo/Lezyne/Polar/Hammerhead vs. Garmin. Really an attempt to determine the current state of the GPS cycling computer. These things are pricy and I’m wondering who is doing it best currently.

Partial reason is my 810, while mostly reliable for 16 mos. of use, has recently had the touch screen freeze twice in 4 rides thus a replacement maybe forthcoming. A recent set of posts by TimothyH on how his Garmin 820 only gets about 4-5 useful hours with the data screen on, disturbed me as that's just a complete failure on Garmin's part to provide a product that meets its own descriptions. It's fraud really.

Which begs the question. What's better ?.

1) How has your Garmin (insert model here), given you headaches ?
2) What features do Garmin's do better ?,
3) What does your Wahoo/Lezyne/Polar do better ?
4) Do the others crash as well ?
5) Have the others provided good software updates, or at least other then the sometimes useless fixes Garmin's provide ?

Feel free to add questions and answers not listed here.

I’ll start with mine:

810, had 3 crashes with lost rides early on, with the first Garmin had me reset the unit. Sometimes a crash as a result of stopping a navigation of a course while the device was in motion. I learned to stop riding, then stop the course. Recently had screen freezes, tracking was still active, just no touch screen control. Restart saved the route (I’ve since deleted all my saved rides/courses/segments, etc…). The user's manual is useless thus setup was not easy and non intuitive. The Garmin technical writers just think different and don’t seem to be cyclists or follow what a lot of other cycling electronics understand.
Possibly the navigation is best. TBT is pretty good, the color screen and resolution for my 62 year old eyes is good. Navigating menus has gotten better with use.
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