Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
Here's what DCR had to say.
this is gonna have big ramifications for the bike computer industry – both consumers and other competitors. For their competitors, the news will undoubtedly give them heartache, likely more so Wahoo and Stages than Garmin. Inversely, consumers should be celebrating this. Hammerhead’s been doing some incredible stuff over the last year especially, and unquestionably this will help further that goal. There’s only so much you can do with limited resources to compete with the resources of a company like Garmin’s size, and this will certainly help those efforts.
Also says Hammerhead is keeping all of their staff and priorities and working independently.
Saw his write-up on it - I agree with him. I think this is probably a pretty strong move for SRAM and I think it's great for consumers too. They're going to put downward price pressure and increase the demand for features and better displays on Garmin. They're going to make Wahoo really up their game on navigation and display. All good.
Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
I've been thinking since last fall that a big map on my stem all the time would be nice. I wfh and ride on my lunch break lately because of daylight so it'll be spring before I can really benefit from the maps. I've been doing my homework and the K2 seems like the obvious one to buy. By leaps and bounds for my use case.
But I have Di2. Says they'll continue to support it and I know they know they'll sell more supporting Di2 long term. But how can my first reaction not be
and then
?
I've had Karoo's since they first came out from the Kickstarter campaign and I've been a tester for quite a while. I think it's a great product. It fits my use case perfectly too. What I really like is that I side loaded a weather radar app (it's running on straight up Android). I can connect the K2 to the internet through my phone and so I can get realtime weather radar on my bike computer while I'm riding with my position shown. In the spring when the weather here is unstable, that's pretty handy for riding around rain squalls. You can also put a sim card in it and skip the phone. I've been contemplating that too.
They've done a nice job with it - you can get audio turn by turn directions out of it with a BT speaker or ear bud (which I very much like). Lots of features like that really refine the bike computer experience especially if you're navigating with it. Their Varia implementation is best in class over even Garmin IMO.
J.