There's a newer model of this product. It's been replaced by the Wahoo ELEMNT BOLT V2, you may want to check out that review instead.
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I’d send you an ikea bolt in exchange :) you know the extre one that is left in the package once you’ve completed the assembly!
Hi! :)
I need a bike computer
I would really love it!
For me.
My Garmin is dying a slow death….
Cool thing
Wahoooooo love this!
Very nice bit of kit that
Lightning BOLT
Best bike computer out there! Need it!
Yahoo!
Need a replacement for my Garmin
Bolt!
Awesome, perfect for my bike commute.
Wouldn’t mind ending up winning this!
Yahoo? Wahoo!
Need one!
I would love to get my hands on this!
Yes please
Awesome giveaway!
Looks great!
Wahoo:)
I will take it. Thanks
Wahoo! Me too!
You know, everyone will now be disappointed if you DON’T do that. (bolt)
Full gas !!!!
Be nice for family to track during races!
Exciting! Thanks for all you do Ray!
My wife has this and I still have a simple one, I look like a schmuck
nut screws washers and bolts ;)
Toujours de la place sur le guidon de mon CAAD12
I wanna win this bolt unlike how the other one just did…
Sweet potatoes
I’d love to get one!
I’d be nuts if I won this! :p
I’m in!
Bike computer :))
could make me take up cycling!
Sureee …
Would love a proper bike computer!
I need a new bike computer after my last one died
Oh yes please! Reason to replace my Garmin.
Its beginning to feel a lot like Christmas ?
Gimme a big present DC rainmaker
Integration with Strava is cool!
Slick stuff! Go Wahoo
Would love to win :)
do you Wahoooooooooooooooo!?!?!?!!?
I need this – I’m the unlucky owner of an unstable Garmin 810….
Nice
Oh yes, and with a battery that would last longer than just half a ride (Edge 520). I wouldn’t say no to that.
Nice giveaway
Needed to replace my garmin edge my son took ?
Gimme it?
I have been making due with a Garmin 500 with a cracked screen for 2 years. Finally getting a replacement that I could easily read would be AMAZING.
Yippppeee!!!! I mean wahooo!!!!
nice piece for my sport bike – I love it
Top banana
The one i would have bought exvept it came out a month too late!
Very cool
Woho!
I want it!
Nice.
hoping…
me
I need it! I need it now!! ;)
Let’s do this!
Would love to win one of these bike computers :)
Woehooo BOLT!
Wahoo!
Bye Garmin, it’s been real.. time for the new revolution!
Oh yes please – just killed a Garmin 820 :(
Would look great on my bike
Chicken Dinner ?
Yes please
Oh I would love it
Yes please!
I’m nuts for this giveaway!
Yes, please!
Voor op mijn racert
Hi
Il est POUR MOI ! :-)
Yes, please!
Ready to dump my garmin
would be nice not to need the V800 for my rides
Would love to try!
Yes, I would love tonhave a wahoo
Yes!
Yes please!!
Nice.
Yes please.
I could really use this!
Wahoo!
yahoo!! eh… wahoo!
Let me in
Do I need to buy a powermeter for this?
Sign me up
Yes please :)