Review on 🚴 Wahoo ELEMNT Bolt GPS Cycling Computer by Bishop Terry

An entry level device in a company that didn't learn enough from the other device manufacturers that made it. for many more years. First, software bugs: don't count on them to record your history correctly. When connected to the Wahoo Element app for Android, the history on your phone invariably shows error after error or sync error. Later they will show up on the phone and the sync error will go away, but that's not necessarily a good thing (see below). * But a big problem will never go away; You can only connect to download a great ride, not download all the time. If you just try to download the latest ride, clearly showing that it was recorded correctly on the device, it will not download or show up on your phone! Only the latest rides are loaded (all automatically, hooray*), but not the latest one. Then their terrible misunderstanding of UI programming: instead of choosing which voyages you want to download, you start stuffing your phone and trying to download them all! In my case, many many trips. There is no automatic selection and you have over 50 rides. If you don't need them, you have to delete them one by one instead of automatically selecting them all and then deselecting only the ones you don't need. I don't want to skimp like Garmin. Next, as said; They've learned little from the user interface design that's been used in Garmin and Polar devices for years. For 20 years, both have allowed you to set the speed threshold for your autostart while driving. Why might this matter? A very technical climb on a mountain bike or a very steep road climb will hit the UNREGULATORY SPEED THRESHOLD and stop the recording! So the hardest part of your ride isn't recorded and calculated when you look at your workout on the map, it doesn't show your heart rate or record that time or distance (e.g. you just lost a mile of the hardest climb because You weren't going fast enough! On Polar and Garmin computers, the speed threshold is configurable, so you can get speed granularity up to 1 mile and hour, which is good for such cases. You can't install it on Wahoo computers. It just won't register!A very steep climb like the Brasstown Baldy in Georgia or the Boulder Flagstaff Apex in Colorado?Forget it!Your hardest part won't be registered!Furthermore, this font is not adjustable to the timing of your trip.Therefore it will be used in the will always be too small compared to the other columns on the screen unless you zoom in and delete hen the other columns you want to see on the page. Now the font for the time of day is one size larger (so when they're next to each other on the page, the time of day is always one size bigger and you have to squint to see the travel times relative to the time of day). They think it's more important than the number of fonts over the total drive time, and in most cases the exact opposite is true. And finally, the path to many confirmation requests. When I want to end a ride, I just press the button on my Garmin watch and it stops, turns off and saves automatically. To turn it off, just press and hold the button on the Garmin and you're done. With Wahoo's and the designer's failure to understand good UI programming; You have to keep confirming what you want to do. You want to turn it off with a long press, confirm with Yes. If you would like to complete the trip, please confirm this with Yes. It goes on and on with every action. Finally, when you turn off without saving the trip, it doesn't prompt you to save the trip lol (or autosave like Garmin did), it just deletes it. From the good: battery life! Also, it's a form factor. and the LCD is generally better to see than the new Garmin color, but other issues make it not a worthy replacement. They could have kicked it out of the park if they studied other devices on the market that have been doing it many, many years longer than the Wahoo; but they just couldn't, so we have just another mediocre recorder.