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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Replacement for an edge 530?
« on: June 30, 2025, 04:15:39 AM »
I'll add my 2 cents:
My journey went like this: Garmin edge 705 -> Wahoo elemnt bolt -> Hammerhead Karoo 2 -> iGPSport BSC300
Currently I am running the igpsport and karoo 2, a coin flip usually chooses the device. Karoo 2 is great while riding, i like it for the visuals and eccentric colors as it breaks the standard color scheme everyone else uses. The climb pro feature is also pretty great but as you mentioned with your garmin, it isn't very customizable, so I usually rely on it solely for the profile of the climb. Otherwise it is an irritatingly slow device, from boot up to configuring and setting things up it is not good. The top drawer is also extremely slow which is sub optimal while riding to say the least. Oh and the battery life is the worst out of all of my and my riding buddies' experience.
I bought the igpsport a couple of weeks ago because of the battery concerns of the karoo and for the price it is great. I wish it had more field options and customizability, but honestly if you're not super particular about your setup, it should mostly cover your needs. The setup is quite finicky though as the translations are not great and the menus in the app are hard to find sometimes. It also doesn't have the climb pro feature i don't think, maybe other igpsport computers do? And as far as I can see, there is no upcoming elevation graph display, which is the only thing I am actually missing on it. I grabbed it for ~80 eur and do not regret it at all. Haven't experienced any freezing or bugs yet, but keep in mind that I haven't been testing it for long.
As for your requirements the igpsport bsc300 (I might be wrong on some points, if I am someone please correct me): I am not sure about calibrating a power meter, climb pro is missing, I've synced data to intervals.icu via strava or direct file import and it works, I am not sure there is a direct sync option though.
My journey went like this: Garmin edge 705 -> Wahoo elemnt bolt -> Hammerhead Karoo 2 -> iGPSport BSC300
Currently I am running the igpsport and karoo 2, a coin flip usually chooses the device. Karoo 2 is great while riding, i like it for the visuals and eccentric colors as it breaks the standard color scheme everyone else uses. The climb pro feature is also pretty great but as you mentioned with your garmin, it isn't very customizable, so I usually rely on it solely for the profile of the climb. Otherwise it is an irritatingly slow device, from boot up to configuring and setting things up it is not good. The top drawer is also extremely slow which is sub optimal while riding to say the least. Oh and the battery life is the worst out of all of my and my riding buddies' experience.
I bought the igpsport a couple of weeks ago because of the battery concerns of the karoo and for the price it is great. I wish it had more field options and customizability, but honestly if you're not super particular about your setup, it should mostly cover your needs. The setup is quite finicky though as the translations are not great and the menus in the app are hard to find sometimes. It also doesn't have the climb pro feature i don't think, maybe other igpsport computers do? And as far as I can see, there is no upcoming elevation graph display, which is the only thing I am actually missing on it. I grabbed it for ~80 eur and do not regret it at all. Haven't experienced any freezing or bugs yet, but keep in mind that I haven't been testing it for long.
As for your requirements the igpsport bsc300 (I might be wrong on some points, if I am someone please correct me): I am not sure about calibrating a power meter, climb pro is missing, I've synced data to intervals.icu via strava or direct file import and it works, I am not sure there is a direct sync option though.
