Wahoo Fitness ELEMNT Bundle Bike Computer

Since it made its name producing indoor suffer machines some might call them trainers, we've long associated Wahoo Fitness with pain. The company has recently expanded its purvey to include GPS enabled head units, though, so the ELEMNT Bike Computer Bundle has begun changing that association from stationary pain to mobile, fully engaged exploration. The ELEMNT itself is well equipped for navigating routes and charting data, but the addition of a TICKR heart rate monitor, RPM speed sensor, and RPM cadence sensor expand its capabilities to include even more ride metrics. All of this means we'll still be using it to more effectively inflict pain on ourselves intervals and hill repeats are calling, but we'll at least be on actual roads instead of dripping sweat onto the living room floor while doing it. Keeping with its bent for innovation, Wahoo created a free ELEMNT app designed specifically to set up and manage screens, pairings, and general settings wirelessly from your smartphone. It's available for iPhone models 4S and newer and Android 3. 2 smartphones with Bluetooth 4. 0. The bad news is that you can't set up or really use the ELEMNT without a smartphone, but the exceptionally good news for those of us who do have a smartphone is that managing settings from the app makes getting started and using the ELEMNT about a million times easier than any other cycling computer on the market. No more digging into a rabbit warren of menus, sub menus, and sub sub menus while squinting at a tiny screen, hoping you don't accidentally fat finger the wrong item and have to start over. Instead, it's just easy peasy scrolling through user friendly, highly readable screens on your smartphone. In addition to the included ancillary sensors, the ELEMNT can pair with Wahoo's KICKR line of power trainers and transition seamlessly from the road to indoor torture time. This functionality allows riders to control workouts from the head unit without any fuss from trying to make s...