What have you bought/upgraded today.

[buttahflake]

New rubber for the gravel rig! 700x50, they were wicked easy to setup with just a floor pump, also grabbed the Trackr radar from Wahoo





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[singlesline]

Does the TRACKR do anything different from the Garmin Varia?

I have the Garmin on my road/gravel bike with a Wahoo Bolt up front and everything seems to work fine. But it breaks my personal rule about only buying devices that charge with USB-C; made an exception as a "safety device" but I hate having to find a micro-USB cable for it. Might be enough to justify a switch...

[buttahflake]

Not exactly sure, does the Garmin have, ‘brake lights’? The tracker gets brighter when you are braking or decreasing speed quickly

[Treycal]

Does the TRACKR do anything different from the Garmin Varia?

I have the Garmin on my road/gravel bike with a Wahoo Bolt up front and everything seems to work fine. But it breaks my personal rule about only buying devices that charge with USB-C; made an exception as a "safety device" but I hate having to find a micro-USB cable for it. Might be enough to justify a switch...

After reading DC Rainmaker’s review of the Wahoo, if you have any custom mounts for your Garmin, don’t make the switch. The Wahoo mount is 1mm bigger than the Garmin and won’t fit in Garmin mounts

Cue the rant about bicycle equipment companies and their stupid different “standards”.

[Dee Hubbs]

I got a Garmin Varia (515, not the camera version) at the start of the season. This is a GAME CHANGER for road riding. Best $150 Ive ever spent on cycling gear. I wish I bough one of these years ago. The confidence on the road with knowing and understanding when cars are approaching from behind is unbelievable. I have it paired to a Garmin 840 head unit, with the tone alerts turned off, but Vehicle position LED, and threat alert colors (how fast they are approaching) turned on. I also utilize the pattern light mode, the rear light is solid red, and as a car is detected it begins to flash. This allows my wife (if riding behind me) to know a car is coming by seeing my tail light start to blink. My other buddy with a Garmin 820 has my Varia paired with his computer, so when we are ridding together he sees the alerts the same as me, he just needs to adjust the distance it shows the cars, based on if he's in front or behind in the group. If you ride on the road, and use a head unit (Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Bryton) go spend $150 (on sale at all retailers) on this device.

[XXX-er]

""Care to elaborate? If my Ebike shit the bed without warranty support, I would be hard pressed to replace with same brand. ""

Santa Cruz dealer is literaly 3 short blocks away so I call shop bro you got a Med green Vala 70 awesume I will take it cha-ching

I really like the Santa Cruz product and i like th VPP design and the Santa cruz part is not the problem its the fucking Shimano North America part who can or will not sell me an EP8 motor


On th eother side of the pond an LBS in England told me he an get a new EP8 in 3 days so the engine is are available but Shimano NA choses not to support


I would not recommend anyone buy an E-bike with a Shimano motor I find it interesting that SC actualy changed their E-bike design from VPP to 4 bar cuz a Bosch engine would not fit in a VPP so SC are also done with Shimano


I have bought bikes from out of town and its not a problem with an acoustic bike to wrench a few things but IME you REALLY want local support for the Eeb which is why I bought local and i just hope the Bosch is good