Originally Posted by
Steve B.
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?
1A Garmin Edge 500 never a single issue. Still have it but bought an 810 to have instant upload.
1B Garmin Edge 810 Bluetooth connection drops out often and sometimes need to unpair and pair again to connect. Screen is difficult to read.
2 Ability to control other things like lights
3 Have never used one
4 Don't know
5 Garmin updates are often useless. One of the 810 updates made for very difficult bluetooth connection.
I hope the recent competition makes Garmin a bit more focused on putting out a better product. I hate that they seem to rush things to market that are half baked and needing updates almost immediately. Most of their updates are fixing basic functionality that should have worked correctly out of the box.