Hammerhead Karoo

[Neville Bailey]

Does anyone use a Hammerhead Karoo bike computer?

Reviews seem very good. 

[Zebra]

IIRC, GP Lama (serious/in-depth/trusted reviewer) was pretty impressed with the unit; maybe check out YouTube, he had quite a comprehensive review….

[betaboy]

I loved mine…. But you gotta setup properly to maintain your battery.  I didn’t want to follow the sheep and get Garmin.✅

[Neville Bailey]

6 minutes ago, betaboy said:

I loved mine…. .✅

Why aren’t you using one anymore?

[Furbz]

Love mine, it’s lovely not having to worry about when your Garmin is going to stop working. 

[michaelbiker]

I have had the Karoo 2 and just upgraded to the Karoo 3. It’s an excellent device. I had the Karoo 2 for about 4 years.

Standouts for me are the screen, navigation, the extensions, easy to use - it’s Android under the skin and the size. Its also not Garmin, so you don’t lose 6 years of your life every time you want to change a setting.

They release new stuff with bug fixes every couple of weeks.

[Neville Bailey]

Is it possible to enable auto-pause on the HH? 
 

I currently use a Garmin Edge 530 and use the GarminIQ data field to show an overlay of the speed of incoming traffic picked up by my Varia. Is something like that possible on the HH?

[michaelbiker]

9 minutes ago, Neville Bailey said:

Is it possible to enable auto-pause on the HH? 
 

I currently use a Garmin Edge 530 and use the GarminIQ data field to show an overlay of the speed of incoming traffic picked up by my Varia. Is something like that possible on the HH?

So it has auto pause and it does work with the varia. It doesn’t show the actual speed of traffic or I haven’t looked for that field but it does show the red / yellow / green bar down the side with number of vehicles etc.

[betaboy]

16 hours ago, Neville Bailey said:

Why aren’t you using one anymore?

Bike got stolen during the week 

[Neville Bailey]

16 minutes ago, betaboy said:

Bike got stolen during the week 

Oh no, that’s a bummer. 

[Neville Bailey]

Ordered my unit and expecting it to arrive in the next day or so.

Looking forward to the new experience!

[Neville Bailey]

With my move from Garmin to Hammerhead Karoo, I now have the problem of not getting Discovery Vitality points. The only way around this that I can think of is to record my rides with both my Garmin (in my back pocket) and my HH, and only have the HH link to Strava.

Any other more elegant solutions?

[nonky]

20 minutes ago, Neville Bailey said:

With my move from Garmin to Hammerhead Karoo, I now have the problem of not getting Discovery Vitality points. The only way around this that I can think of is to record my rides with both my Garmin (in my back pocket) and my HH, and only have the HH link to Strava.

Any other more elegant solutions?

ever tried an apple watch? 

[Neville Bailey]

3 minutes ago, nonky said:

ever tried an apple watch? 

I do have an Apple Watch.

Now that you mention it, I know that HH can sync to Apple Health, which I think can be linked to Discovery Vitality, correct?

[nonky]

45 minutes ago, Neville Bailey said:

I do have an Apple Watch.

Now that you mention it, I know that HH can sync to Apple Health, which I think can be linked to Discovery Vitality, correct?

even simpler, use the apple watch to record your ride, as It's accurate enough for the points.  If the battery isn't great, switch the watch screen off.

[michaelbiker]

1 hour ago, nonky said:

even simpler, use the apple watch to record your ride, as It's accurate enough for the points.  If the battery isn't great, switch the watch screen off.

Yip. I do this and it works fine.