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Old 11-10-19 | 10:05 AM
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Bikes: Roadie: Seven Axiom Race Ti w/Chorus 11s. CX/Adventure: Carver Gravel Grinder w/ Di2

Originally Posted by Koyote
Dr, you've used both? Care to elaborate?

Thanks for the response!
Garmin's IDGAF attitude towards software development and QA in their cycling division products. It has been a thing since the Edge series first came out. Many a Wahoo user is a veteran Garmin user who refuses to give that company a single dime more of their hard earned money. Garmin used to have a monopoly....now that other people are building competitive products and consumers have a choice--they're leaving. The reason Ride with GPS and FIT File Repair Tool exist, among lots of others (Bike Route Toaster etc.)...is because Garmin didn't developed their own consumer bike routing and corrupt-file repair tools in house...and left other people to pick up the pieces to implement desparately wanted features....whike they were too busy with Garmin Connect and making it not suck. It has truly been a Microsoft-level of abysmally minimal effort half-finishing products for a decade.

That is the shortest answer to a decade long soap opera of love/hate with Garmin's cycling products. I used most all the Edges from Edge205 to 1000, and then Wahoo got my love and $$$. I had enough.

The Roam itself is a tough value proposition, given how good the competition is and the price.
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