I’ve used it on my 530 at the Tahoe Trail 100 and the Truckee Dirt Fondo. Worked great at both events on the off road climbs.
It’s a cool feature for sure, but when you are in the hurt box it’s not always great to know you’ve still got 2 more miles to climb!
GPLama said there’s a Wahoo update coming real soon and hinted that the 840 might not compare too favorably to it
Edit: Actually I guess he was hinting that Wahoo had an improved climbing feature coming that’s better than Climb Pro. Not hinting at new hardware
For those who currently daily drive a Wahoo head unit: are you considering jumping ship to Garmin, especially considering the state of Wahoo as a company?
I currently have a Bolt v2 and have generally been happy with it….until today coincidentally when only half of the route got uploaded from the Elemnt app and I was having issues with the live track link and getting phone notifications ported to it.
Peculiar timing I say and easily could have been a one off but the 840 is looking tempting….
Ability to modify unit display via phone and free ride climbpro???
@dcrainmaker @gpl please find some dark web hack so we can use these software upgrades on the 830. 
I have a Karoo 2. While the better battery life would be worthwhile, I really don’t go on long multi-day rides. I’m resisting the tech-fueled upgrade cycle that gets super hyped on Youtube. Not jumping on the bandwagon this round. I’m happy to just get outside and ride.
Currently have the 1030 that I get with the bluelight discount as my missus is a police officer, I think I got it for about £380 2 years ago… Never liked the size of the screen, always felt like i had a tablet in from of me. But I found the 530 to small hence going bigger.
Annoyingly they wont have the 840 on there for a while, but I think I’ll take the jump anyways as I managed to resist temptation with the 1040 upgrade.
the 540/840 look like great devices but it really bugs me - probably more than it should - that the bezzels on the non solar are as big as the solar version.
Just seems like lazyness on the part of garmin - or maybe they were worried that the solar versions would be an even harder sell if the screens were bigger on the non-solar versions?
I moved from an 820 to 1040 a few months ago. Largely because my 820 battery was only lasting about 3 or 4 hours. I was about to get cataract surgery too, so figured that the big screen would be handy. Now that I’ve had the surgery though, I can see really well, so a smaller screen would be fine. Swapping the 1040 for the 840 would be tempting, but given the pricing it’d cost me a fair bit to switch. I’d prefer the neater form factor, but I really don’t love the increased bezel size (I understand it, but solar is a gimmick for 99% of users at the moment). My 1040 battery life is insane without solar.
So I guess I won’t switch. But I also guess now that I’ve got a 1040 I’m not really the target market for the 840. Maybe I’ll wait for the 850…
I’ve found Strava routes consistently off by a few 100 metres. When I route using Ride With GPS, climb pro spot on. That’s here in Ireland anyway. I’ve no idea why or where the issue is - if I use strava segments for climbs it’s accurate!
How did you get your strava routes into the Garmin? From one of GPLama’s recent videos, I think the issue is with importing Strava routes into Garmin connect, and then sending them to the device. I think if you load the Strava route the same way as a ridewithgps route (as a file via the NewFiles folder), it should be better.
(I mostly use ridewithgps too myself, so maybe I just haven’t come across it).
Just the standard strava sync with the Garmin. tbh it’s more faff connecting the device (which I can’t do on work device) than recreating or uploading into Ride With GPS. Then there’s a Connect IQ App to upload the route from Ride With GPS (pinning them should work too, but more hit and miss).
I bought a 1040 and really like the screen size. Ideally I’d have something with a screen size in between the 540 and 1040 but the larger 1040 is nice and battery life is terrific.
Can anyone tell me how many data fields can be displayed on the 840 at one time? I’ve found screenshots with as many as seven. Thanks
I have a Bolt V2 and am switching to the 840 Solar. Wahoo navigation is very annoying when you go off route.
I think DC Rainmaker’s YouTube video showed that the 840 supports up to 10 data fields on a single screen.
^^^
the 530 has 10 fields, and its fair to assume the 840 has the same since it basically has the same screen size and pixels. Here is an example of a ride summary screen with 10 fields:
Is it just me or these new Garmins are very expensive?
prices went up
Quick research:
530: $299 original MSRP
540 Base: $349 (roughly 17% increase)
830: $399.99 original MSRP
840 Base: $449 (roughly 13% increase)
1030: $599 original MSRP
1040 Base: $599 (same)
Seems like a reasonable increase with inflation in mind and product improvement. The 10#0 example is interesting since it implies they are holding to a possible price ceiling, while increasing the most at the lowest price point. Not sure what really drives the deltas here, but they aren’t out of line from what I see.
I did it last year, I went from Bolt V1 and Rival watch to Garmin 1040 and Forerunner 955. It wasn’t so much the state of the company that did it, and I still prefer the UI/UX of Wahoo’s devices and apps in general, but grew frustrated with the lack of software reliability. Frequent crashes mid-activity, sometimes sensors would just stop working, had to factory-reset them multiple times (which at the time required setting everything up from scratch,) I just got tired of all of it and jumped ship.
I don’t love the UI on the 1040 in particular, but it’s not so much worse than Wahoo’s that I regret switching, and so far both devices have been rock solid in terms of reliability, so I’m pretty happy with them.