Wahoo TICKR Heart Rate Monitor

Do not last – I have had about 6 at $100 a pop over the past 2 years. I have learnt my lesson - they always stop working properly for various reasons. Don’t buy these.. it’s just money down the drain!! Show details

It will eventually let you down – Does everything it says it does, easy to set up fast to connect. The drawbacks are when it gets wet the strap will get loose. Then you'll either have inaccurate high readings or no readings at all. I've had several units. They've all suffered the same fate rusted out on the inside through body moisture getting into the actual module. Show details

Simple to set up, easy to use – Bought mainly for indoor racing on zwift and have been using for about 6 months. Was easy to set up and link and had no problems with it like the other reviews. Excellent battery life being used for 30-60 min per ride every 1-2 days and will last weeks. Seems fairly accurate against another HR monitor but you do need to make sure it’s placed correctly well above the wrist or on the upper arm to get accurate readings. Show details

Chart zoom-in doesn't work on my iPhone 11 – Chart zoom-in worked on my old Samsung, but not on my iPhone 11 which I bought to replace the Samsung. Without zoom-in, the charts are useless in that all you get say, for a 2 hour bike ride on your heart rate chart graphic is a meaningless squiggle drawn across a 50mm wide screen. Did complain about it via Wahoo Support but all I got from them was a statement that the zoom-in feature did not work on the iPhone 11. Show details

wonder if this ever works for anyone – it worked for the first 2 rides then failed. Not able to detect heart rate at all. Replaced new battery made it work for 30 mins then completely gone now. Another issue I found is plastic hinge on battery cap just got broken while replacing a battery. I'm requesting replace on this to Wahoo and see how they will respond. Show details

Junk product – My second Wahoo product and both have proved useless within a few months. The screen display on my first ELEMNT failed completely on my 5th ride (never got wet or went off-road and got impacted or crashed or anything). Now with my TICKR i get the same issue as reported by many customers - intermittent failure of the heartrate measurement - eg… Read more

showing HR of 225 before I've even warmed up - gets totally stuck on a number (often 225, or 195) when my actual HR is about 110-120, or even 60-70 before I even start my workout. I've worked through all Wahoo's instructions and diagnostics many times (keep contacts moist, careful cleaning, battery invert / replace, re-connect & pair again etc etc) but it's just a very poor quality, high maintenance gadget which only actually works about 1 day in 5, and then usually craps out half way through a workout. AVOID !

Waste of money – My second Tickr has died with similar issues to the first. Low or extremely high HR values relevant to the effort made. Sometimes it will come good after 20-30mins of activity. Completely useless when you’re doing an effort. Jumped through way too many hoops getting the first one replaced with wahoo. An obviously faulty and poor quality product.… Read more

I can’t even be bothered sending this one back. Now there is also perspiration seeping into the battery compartment which is exacerbating the reliability issues. I have wahoo bike which I love. But the tickr is an absolute waste of money. Don’t buy one.

Disconnects randomly, very poor battery life – I purchased a Wahoo Tickr HRM to replace an old ANT only Garmin that is many years old. The Wahoo seemed to get good reviews. In summary ... it works well enough as a HRM, but the connection is unreliable and you would need a truck battery to get 12 months battery life out of it. My Garmin HRM needed a new battery every 12-18 months, depending… Read more

on use, and has been totally reliable over many years. I wanted a bluetooth HRM so chose the Wahoo. The Wahoo needed a new battery less than 3 weeks after first use, and then has needed a new battery every 4 weeks since. It also disconnects randomly. At $2 a battery that's an operating cost of $25 to $30 a year just in batteries, along with the frustration of it disconnecting every other ride. I tried a warranty claim ... still waiting. The warranty response seems to be as random as the bluetooth connection.

So after 3 months the Wahoo HRM is already in the bin. I bought a Garmin HRM which has been rock solid ever since.

UPDATE. A further two months have passed and I am _still_ waiting on a warranty claim for my Wahoo HRM. The local distributor keeps dithering and Wahoo themselves seem to have a "who cares" attitude, referring me back to the local distributor.

It would appear that my Wahoo HRM has a fault as the issue of poor battery life does not seem to be endemic to the model. But my recommendation is to be _very_ wary of purchasing any Wahoo products in Australia. Wahoo themselves offer no warranty support, referring warranty claims to the local distributor . The local distributor could not care less, and Wahoo don't care about the poor performance of the local distributor. Your Wahoo product is, to all intents and purposes, unwarranted in Australia. Be warned.

Not reliable – I have owned the Tickr for 10 months now and it has been a very frustrating experience when riding my bike. Occasionally it will work flawlessly and other times it just give crap data, like low readings for an entire 3hr ride or stupidly high readings in the over 200bpm range. Sometimes it stubbornly starts low and then 30 - 60min later it finally… Read more

catches up and starts outputting something that looks about right. Problem is is no longer trust the data, how am I supposed to be sure it is outputting correctly this time? I have tried all the tricks, Battery change, wetting, cleaning, using all sorts of different gel solutions, I have changed straps, and checked it with different jerseys, but there is no guarantee it will work this session just because it worked last session using the same set up. It really messes with your ride history, how hard did you actually ride? what zones were you really in? I think it is a piece of cheaply made Chinese crap sold under a 'respected' banner name. Yes it's cheaper than some of the other brand names, Yes it does record r -r HR Variability which is a bonus if your into that, Yes it has cool LEDS....but it doesn't work as it should and I'm sick of messing around with it. I will be buying a Polar HRM next.

Does not work properly – Latest update….. I contacted Wahoo and they sent me a new Tickr to replace the one that was not working. Excellent service. This heart rate monitor just does not read the bpm correctly. Sometimes is just will not sense the heart and has no out put. Then when it does pick up the heart rate it’s super slow. I can be push the big watts 350, and the… Read more

heart rate is 120 when it should be 160 bpm. Sometime is can slow down even when I am ramping up the watts. Yes the first thing you do is wet the strap and chest, get the position correct, change the battery…. But still it’s not good. I tried Everything it just does not work proper….it’s crap!

I have used two other heart monitors with no issues, and I have a Zwift setup that I use 4 times every week so I know what the heart rate should be reading. Do buy it. Buy a Garmin as it works .

Hey…the Wahoo kickr is excellent. … not the TICKR Heart Rate Monitor it’s CRAP!