I really hate a messy cockpit with GPS, lights etc spread over the handlebars. Â I like to have things aligned and centred if at all possible.
My latest incarnation on #1 comes after swapping out my old Garmin for a Wahoo.
K Edge mount for Integrated Bars
Fitting a K-Edge mount means I have a mount with interchangeable puck.
K-Edge mount with Go Pro mount
That means that I can hang a Go Pro mount underneath.
Headlight with Go Pro style mount
So with a Headlight with a Go Pro style mount from the helmet fitting kit (and a bit of filing).
Wahoo with Headlight underneath.
I can then hang the Headlight under the Wahoo.
Which I just realised gives me a bit of a Starship Enterprise look. Â Give me all you’ve got Scottie………….
Starship Enterprise
I have a similar set up with my BarFly mount. My light (Bontrager Ion) doesn’t have a GoPro style mount, so it attaches with a rubber band mount.
BTW, have been riding with a Wahoo ELEMNT Roam for a little bit now and will hopefully soon have a review of it posted up on PEZ>
My previous setup was similar with the light on a rubber band mount but that was not as clean as my new rig as the light fouled on the gear/brake cables as would point off in odd directions as a result.
I thought about the ROAM but it was not available when I really needed a new GPS with a long battery life.
My set up using rubber band to affix my light. I have a Light & Motion front light that has a way to attach a Go Pro style mount, but compared to my Bontragr Ion it’s crap (the battery doesn’t last very long).
Always striving for the compact cockpit. Riding with a stem end-cap analogue clock on training bike, my Pedalwan has a digital clock on his road bike and 27.5 as do I on my 29er. LH and RH out front for Garmin. As well as Knog lights. Here and now Garmin seems like a sin! Bugger!
I’m trying to get my brain round how the stem end (top?) cap works as a clock. Personally, I discovered a really neat idea of putting mine on my wrist………….
Ah, quick Google search and I see what you mean. some of them stick up too far for my liking but some others look quite neat – though on balance I’ll stick with my collection of wrist watches.
Nice bars – it would be a shame to ruin the flow.
And congrats on ditching the Garmin. Best thing I ever did.
As you said – the Wahoo “just works”. Though as it syncs all your routes in Ride With GPS and Strava and I’m a bit of a route hoarder (I like maps), I’ve had to cull both somewhat as I had some 200+ routes that synced to the Wahoo! Had to start giving them sensible names so that I could find them on the Wahoo too.
To be clear, you mean the routes synced to your Wahoo app on your phone, right? From there, you load whatever route you want to the ELEMNT, Bolt, or Roam for riding. But that’s still a shit-ton of routes, mate!
I set up my Wahoo to auto sync with Strave and Ride With GPS. In that mode it downloads all routes you have stored in both. As you say – I had a shit ton or routes!