I will have to solve that problem soon enough!
I hope I have kept the cheap mounts from my Wahoo Bolt, because I need to mount it on my road bike, my mountain bike and our bike trailer.
Wahoo is very stubborn in that it hasn’t adopted Garmin’s mount (for real, not rotated by 90 degrees and “thickened” enough to make it incompatible).
In the medium term, I think I’ll solve the issue another way: My wife might get an entry-level 3d printer this Christmas. (She is the sort of person that enjoys these.)
Thats not what I said, I said I suffer from alarm fatigue
I get woken up during the night with alarms, about servers, low blood sugar levels, fallen relatives, I just want a quiet ride, I don’t want a alarm going of every 5 mins because my blood sugars a row + 30 seconds cus that how often cars go down english road, optimal would be a fog horn going off every time a car is within 100 yards, but I ride outside to relieve my anxieties, not to build on alarm fatigue, what might be optimal for you, is not for me … hence the red light appeals
My Varia has been sitting on a shelf for the last 3 years, because .,. well above, the battery is now dead, and the Lezyne might work well enough for me
Most of my riding is rural as well. My 1030 has no sound often due to a bug or something (occasionally it comes back for a bit randomly after several months of silence), I’ve actually got use to and like the sound free notifications. If I ever get a new unit I may disable the sounds on it too.
And I was saying that I get a bit of alarm fatigue when riding in the city or along busy roads. I thought that was precisely addressing your point.
On the countryside I don’t find the alerts annoying, they are exactly what I need so that I am not surprised by a car whooshing by. The latter can happen if e. g. the car is electric and/or the road very, very quiet.
On my Wahoo Bolt v1 I can disable the alerts and just get a “string of cars” on the left/right of my display (depending on the locale, i. e. whether you drive on the right or left). I reckon you can do the same on any Garmin head unit that supports radars.
Wouldn’t that eliminate any concern you may have regarding alert fatigue?
On garmin you have 3 options for alerts, an annoying one, a single beep or no alert sound. If you set it to the third option it won’t make any noise, you will just have the sidebar display.
plus garmin head units can alert only for the first car in a series so if there is constant traffic you don’t get constant alerts (but still see them all on the display). nothing is perfect but i find it a pretty good balance of making sure you are alerted when you need to be without excessive beeping
A set is on the way to DC and GP. If any of you are in the San Luis Obispo area, feel free to DM and we may have a demo set to borrow for a day. And you can report back here. In the meantime, enjoy more insight from our friends at Art’s Cyclery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dc4E_NMPOk
