I had two VivoActive watches (3 and 4?), and switched to Wahoo Elemnt Rival for this exact reason. Many times, I would be a half hour into a ride before the Garmin kicked in. I've had the Rival for almost 2 years, and it hasn't given me any problems. The wait to connect to GPS is at most 3 minutes,

Yeah, I am having the same issue. And my rides/runs are not syncing from my devices too. I keep having to uninstall and reinstall, then re-pair the app with my Rival and my Roam. They (the devices and app) have worked correctly fewer times than they have not in the last four months especially. I uni

Wahoo elemnt Bolt + elemnt rival here. Already had the bike computer and as they seem to be discontinued I both the rival used for cheap. The thing is that wahoo has a built in triathlon mode which automatically registers split and transition times

Eh, let’s not get carried away here. They had a lot of Kickr Bike v1 issues, the Tickr HRM is notoriously bad with just dying randomly despite good care, and the Rival watch is pretty much universally seen as a disaster of a watch. That said, I’m not switching to Garmin. I have a Kickr Bike, SpeedPl