![]() ![]() Primary navigation is through the touch screen, although there are four hard buttons on the side you can use to navigate if you’re on a bumpy gravel road in the middle of a race, or if you’ve locked the capacitive touch screen in severe weather. And much like a new cell phone, it takes some getting used to. SoftwareĪfter unboxing and installation, the primary contact users have with any device like this is through software. If you want, you can also customize the whole bezel with several different colors. Like the choreographed reverse origami unboxing, this was another harbinger for how the company operates both software and hardware see constant improvements and running changes. New units ship with this plug and current owners can pick one up off the website. A few months into the review period they released a new rear bezel with an attached plug that was an incredibly easy swap (they even include the tiny torx wrench required). ![]() Looking back at my initial notes from when I received the Karoo 2, I thought I’d lose the small rubber used plug to seal the USB-C charge port. I figured using Apollo was tired and this unit is so many orders of magnitude smaller and more powerful, it wasn’t illuminating, so I’d pick something else like Sojourner or everyone’s favorite, plucky Opportunity & Spirit. The Karoo 2 however, bucks this trend at 579 CAD (and it's currently on sale for 375 CAD), nearly 40% less than the feature-comparable Garmin Edge 1040.Īs is tradition with everything computer-y, my original concept was to compare the Karoo 2 to some old space contraption. They also often in at suitably-modern eye-watering prices. While basic GPS recorders with LCD screens are nothing new, modern high-end cyclocomputers like the Hammerhead Karoo 2 offer a suite of features that would have been unimaginable not that many years ago and hint at – for better or worse – levels of future integration you may either find terribly exciting or terrifying. I’ve generally seen computers as unnecessary for mountain biking, however my foray into drop bar racing at the BCBR Gravel Explorer had me looking for something with a few more features like navigation (read about that in four parts: 1, 2, 3, 4). ![]()
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