The biking pc market is an more and more crowded house. One model you could not have thought-about is Sigma, however the newly launched Sigma ROX 12.1 EVO is seeking to change that, and matches the options supplied by lots of the greatest biking computer systems.
As its identify says, the ROX 12.1 EVO is, an evolution of the Sigma ROX 12 biking pc we reviewed in 2021. It is primarily based round a three-inch color touchscreen, augmented by 5 case-edge buttons, with a display screen format and font that Sigma says ensures wonderful readability.
There’s color mapping and route steerage included with turn-by-turn navigation. The machine will provide three route choices to succeed in a specified vacation spot, particularly the urged, best and shortest. You too can obtain routes from Strava, Komoot and different apps, or create one in Sigma’s app or on the machine itself.
The Sigma ROX 12.1 EVO additionally supplies six sport profiles, together with highway biking, gravel, e-biking and indoor biking, plus you’ll be able to create as much as 20 of your personal. You too can import exercises from TrainingPeaks and different coaching apps.
In addition to connectivity with the same old coronary heart price screens and energy meters, the machine additionally helps rear-view radar, digital gear shifting and lots of e-bike methods.
Connectivity to exterior units is feasible by way of each Bluetooth and ANT+. Bluetooth Low Power connectivity is used to pair with a smartphone, which permits the ROX 12.1 EVO to show incoming messages, calls and e-mails. It might probably additionally transmit a misery name and GPS coordinates if the machine detects that the consumer has crashed.
There’s the same old journey monitoring performance too, with the Sigma ‘Journey’ app permitting you to analyse and share your knowledge or set machine preferences.
The Sigma ROX 12.1 EVO covers a lot of the performance supplied by opponents, together with Garmin, Hammerhead and Wahoo, though the latter doesn’t at the moment present a touchscreen.
There are a couple of areas the place the ROX 12.1 EVO falls in need of its opponents although. For instance, the three market leaders now present on-the-fly climb profiles that work even if you’re not following a pre-planned route. What’s extra, Garmin’s newest Edge 840 and Edge 540 GPS items have the choice of photo voltaic charging to extend their battery life.
Different manufacturers with GPS biking computer systems embody Big/Phases, whereas you may get a lot of the performance of a biking pc on the greatest biking watches, even when the smaller show is quite much less readable.
You should purchase the Sigma ROX 12.1 EVO, which is the model’s first bike pc to be made in its house nation Germany, as a stand-alone machine or a bundle with both a gray or white case. The machine by itself is priced at €379.95, whereas the bundle worth is €479.95. Extra info on the brand new ROX 12.1 EVO will be discovered on the Sigma web site.
