🏃 Wahoo TICKR HR Monitor Review

What a scrap. The only thing worse than no heart rate data is inaccurate heart rate data. It happily displays random heart rates throughout my ride. When I put it on for the first time and wet the bands as instructed, it was reading 175 beats per minute. By now my real heart rate was around 80-90. It continued to read high readings until I got home (it rarely updated new inaccurate readings). After the trip I used the utility to check if there was a firmware update and it showed 46bpm. This was

I used an HR watch for running. Sometimes this is fairly accurate, but not always accurate. That's why I bought this chest heart rate monitor. Downloading the app to my Android phone was pretty easy. Installing the app was also easy, apart from getting stuck at the last step saying "Collect information". I searched the internet and found that some people actually returned the item due to this issue. I've seen problems like this with other apps, so I knew how to fix them. All I had to do was…

I bought a Wahoo heart rate monitor to replace a Garmin sensor . I have two problems with Garmin: (1) you have to unscrew the case to change the battery and the quality of the screws was poor, which makes changing the battery unnecessarily difficult, (2) the connection to my Garmin Edge 530 was not stable (sometimes the sensor was disconnected from the Garmin bike computer not recognized!) (3) There is no display that provides information about the status (active, connecting.). That extends…