Originally Posted by
Steve B.
John, I agree with about all you’ve typed, except, it’s certainly possible to navigate with a phone. If you wonder how, go watch Darren Alff on his YT channel The Bicycle Touring Pro. He has been bike touring well on 20 years now, pretty much all year or 6 mos. of each, never once used a dedicated GPS, does all his navigation with an Android smartphone. This includes some extremely remote areas in northern Sweden, Finland and Norway as well as the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
I wouldn’t do this, not what I call (and what you describe) a great solution. I much prefer my Garmin 1030, but somehow people do get away with it !
sure. I’m a big fan of Waze and Google Maps on my phone.
My original premise was that the Wahoo navigation capabilities on their bike computers (one of which I own) are the barest of bare bones navigation capability. Their strong suit is in data recording and reliability, it’s not in navigation.
If you’re going to go from point A to point B and will not vary from the proscribed route and if there are not map inaccuracies and you don’t need street names and if you will need no other information from the bike computer along your route, then its workable.
If navigation is important to you while cycling, pick something else.