How to Upload Routes to Wahoo Elemnt Bolt

In this blog post, along with an accompanying, short video I explain how to upload a GPS cycling route to the Wahoo ELEMNT BOLT bicycle figurer.

For the example in the video, I used RideWithGPS as the mapping software, and in fact, someone else (the organiser of the Spring Forward Sportive) had created the road.

All I did was to sync it with the Wahoo ELEMNT smartphone app and, from there, sync it with my own GPS device. Simples!

The principle is the same if you lot want to upload routes to your Wahoo device from other software platforms: get them syncing and, hey presto, it should all just work.

Besides, whilst I don't own either the original ELEMNT wheel GPS or the ELEMNT ROAM, I am pretty sure the process is the same.

Anyhow, here is the video showing me doing it:

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How To Upload A Bike Route To The Wahoo ELEMNT BOLT (The Difficult Manner)

And past 'hard way' I of form mean 'quite easy'. Because near things about the ELEMNT BOLT are pretty easy. In fact, my first route upload experience most happened by blow.

I had an early opportunity to test the navigation capabilities of the BOLT outside my local area. Not long after buying the Bolt, I participated on a 'Wheel Twenty-four hours' organised by my baronial (note: not August – I work there all twelvemonth…) employer. Substantially information technology was a supported mini-sportive to entertain customers that aren't that bothered about golf, just are bothered well-nigh lycra (cycling of cours ebeing the new golf…).

Unnywho, the ride was in Warwickshire, which I don't know well, and the organisers supplied a gpx file of the road. Although I knew that there would be ride leaders with every group, providing human navigation rather than satellite, I idea I'd still try out the BOLT.

Here's What I Did:

1. I downloaded the .gpx file onto my work figurer.
2. Then I emailed it to my personal hotmail account (yep I however use hotmail) thinking I would probably have to do something on my dwelling house calculator afterwards.
3. In a freak moment of cocky-doubt, I decided to check my iPhone to see if the e-mail had arrived.

A quick tap on the icon within the email and the 'what do you want to do with it?' option box popped upwards. Lo and behold, in that location was an 'Import with ELEMNT' icon. Intriguing.

And reader I tapped it.

Whizz bang whooo, it uploaded just like that (well-nigh simply similar that).

Boom! There information technology was in my list of routes in the Wahoo app….

… ready to be investigated in more item:

Come Cycle Day, all I had to practise was find the route on my Commodities device and then follow information technology.

At present disappointingly, information technology was my iPhone that allow me down on the day. I didn't get many photos, certainly none of them demonstrated the navigational capabilities of the BOLT.

In whatever effect, like those created via Strava, the route file supplied by the ride organisers didn't contain turn-past-turn directions (shame on them!), so it wasn't flashing upwards directional cues to me on the ride anyway.

You'll take to look until afterward on this post in order to run into photovisualimagery of the Commodities in route-post-obit activeness (ooh Monty, you tease…).

The Even Easier Fashion To Upload A Route To Your ELEMNT BOLT

Whilst the above 'adventitious upload' (which would exist the name of my '80s revival experimental synth-pop band) filled me with a surprising amount of delight, it turns out there is an fifty-fifty easier and more effective way of uploading routes to the BOLT (and I assume the bog-standard ELEMNT as well).

I've hinted at it already.

All yous have to do is create a route in an app like RideWithGPS, make sure that your account on said app is connected with your Wahoo account, and and then sync the two. Whatsoever rides created in RideWithGPS (or whatever) should then just pop up on the list of routes, whether that'south in the Wahoo app…

… Or on the BOLT device itself.

How To Follow A Road On The ELEMNT BOLT (Whilst Riding Your Wheel)

Now this is really complicated. No, await, typo. I meant actually easy. Do this:

1. Burn up the Commodities;
2. Roll through to the maps screen;
3. Press the 'Road' button;
4. Roll downwards to the route in question;
5. Press the 'Select' push; and
6. Press the 'Start' button.

Hither is a photo of my pollex every bit it embarks on the challenge of completing step 5 in a higher place. Note how tired it looks.

Monty is an enthusiastic road cyclist with only moderate talent. He started Sportive Cyclist in 2013 to tape the journey to his first 100 mile ride, the RideLondon 100. Over fourth dimension the blog has expanded to include grooming advice, gear reviews and road cycling tales, all from the perspective of a not-very-fit MAMIL. Since you're here, Monty would also like yous to check out his YouTube channel. Also, Monty really needs to finish referring to himself in the third person.

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