Today is a multicoloured day of slightly extending product lives with new Product Variants. We have $18/£15 straps for the Polar OH1 (reviewed here) and two somewhat luridly coloured Wahoo Elemnt Bolts for £200. Users of the Polar BEAT app with a Polar HRM (H10/OH1) now get Polar’s smart coaching features for free.…
Some relatively longstanding bugs have been ironed out with Wahoo ELEMNT (reviewed here) and BOLT firmware. Specifically I know the Assioma and PowerTap problems were somewhat annoying for a notable section of users. Anyway; all should now be good: Details are (link to: WahooFitness for firmware versions WF09-1937 & WF42-1937) My workaround to ‘recover sensor…
There is a great early-season cashback deal directly from Wahoo on the ELEMNT* with £50 cashback in the UK and $80 cashback in the USA. Terms and Conditions apply: Purchases between 15th May to 15th June 2018 and the cashback is provided by Wahoo Fitness. Research with the quick Wahoo Elemnt Review, links to: the5krunner.com…
A look at my TdY with a gadgety twist I have just returned home after family visits and the long course at the Tour de Yorkshire. The course is 80ish miles (129km and over 2km of vertical) taking in the varied and beautiful Yorkshire countryside on, what was, a perfect-to-slightly hot and windless day. Results:…
My cycling mojo is currently somewhere off with the fairies or has slipped into my running shoes. I reckon this has led to a 40w dip in my FTP or it could just be that whenever I try to get on two wheels I am over fatigued from lots of running and unable to perform…
There is some interesting powermeter firmware news from Favero. EDIT: There will be more detailed news on this subject on 24 April. I guess you are here because of Favero’s teaser email! It looks like their OVAL/ELIPTICAL firmware mods, which are now in beta, will go live in April 2018 (Source: AC @favero).This will be…
Here are most of the gadgets I’ve been using for me over the last month or so. I’m not sure they are my ‘favourite’ ones per se but I’m using them ‘properly’ for meaningful training stuff rather than just trying to break them or seeing if the GPS is accurate or not. There is nothing…
Super accurate optical heart rate monitor. But is it the best arm-worn solution for heart rate monitoring?
I have to say I am getting VERY VERY bored while trying to pick fault with the accuracy of the WAHOO TICKR FIT optical armband A few weeks ago my opinion was that the Polar OH1 probably very, very slightly edged it in terms of accuracy over the Scosche Rhythm+. But now I can’t find…
I’ve used the Wahoo TICKR-FIT optical HRM STRAP a few times but mostly for aerobic runs and really had nothing of any interest to report in terms of accuracy. All looks good so far. But today I decided to invent a test as I needed a more challenging run in any case. And this seemed…
Wahoo’s TICKR Fit optical HRM has just hit the shops. It’s an exciting sign that Wahoo are continuing to introduce new, and usually innovative, products. Whilst the TICKR Fit is nothing too amazing to shout about, I do have a personal rather strange interest in heart rate monitors so I will, no doubt, have a…
In this Wahoo Elemnt Review I’ll pull together all my hands-on cycling time with the Elemnt over the last 4 months and try to be as succinct as possible in summarising what was a highly pleasant experience. Background Wahoo Fitness started selling the Elemnt in Q1.2016 and the smaller Elemnt Bolt followed in Q1.2017. They…
Great device. Good price. Possibly best I’ve seen (Edit…no it’s not…try the Amazon link which clicks through for £177 on Black Friday despite the price shown) I use it…for me. Good for the more ‘serious’ cyclist type person ie if you want apps and weird stuff…don’t buy it. If you want to get better at…
My initial moan about the ELEMNT was that I couldn’t give a proper name to each of my paired sensors. WAHOO support also confirmed this. But you can do it. so now I’m happy. As the title might imply; if you fiddle around you may well just figure out how to do things. Fiddling with…
The Best Cycling Computer is looked at here across a range of types of cyclists and what they need their cycling computers for.
Ok, Ok , WAHOO have messed up by not calling it the CLMB. But the BLT/BOLT jokes probably put that line of jokery to bed a few months ago. The CLIMB is a small, missing part in the overall SMART TRAINER experience. In a nutshell: the CLIMB lifts the front of the bike up or down…
WAHOO KICKR Review v3 aka KICKR17 In this WAHOO KICKR Review we consider whether the 2017 iteration is WAHOO’s best yet. Maybe it is? espeically when combined with WAHOO’s recent announcements to support: structured/scheduled workouts; the new Bolt; and the new KICKR-CLIMB. The KICKR17 smart trainer makes a compelling case for anyone considering upgrading their indoor bike…
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with Mr & Mrs ELEMNT recently. (BOLT + ELEMNT). They are a very pleasant couple and always fun to spend some time with. One of the issues with their still relatively short-lived marriage has been a lack of physical workouts (ahem). Specifically structured workouts. Yesterday’s ELEMNT app…
WINTER IS COMING For the KICKR smart trainer, WAHOO have knocked a whopping £100 discount from retail prices if you want to buy from their online store. There is a FURTHER £250 ie a total of £350 discount (here) for reconditioned KICKR units in what seems to be a special one-off promotion. I imagine there is limited…
These are some unstructured thoughts on the first phase of my move from Garmin EDGE to all things WAHOO. Part of an ongoing series of musings (see menus above) on ‘The Great Garmin Migration‘. Well, something like that. I’ll write a more formal piece later. There are several striking things that stand out to me and…
