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ELEMNT Rival
GPS cycling computer with touchscreen display
Premium · top third of fitness trackers & smartwatches
Should you buy it??
Too early to call
One source so far — no reviewer, buyer or press cross-check yet.
Quick take
In short: what each side says
Buyers — each opened up in full further down ↓
Owners love the accurate GPS tracking, reliable heart rate monitoring, long battery life, and intuitive interface, but the lap swimming feature's inability to properly record laps divides those using
Main competitors
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The verdict
What the panel makes of it.
The Wahoo ELEMNT Rival ranks 14th for running watches, with buyers praising its accurate GPS, reliable heart rate monitoring, and long battery life, though its lap swimming feature struggles to properly record laps.
Act one
What the machines think.
Several AI models read the category and place this product — model by model, list by list, over time.
Rank trajectory?
Weeks of movement.
Act two · ★ new
What the people say.
The same product, judged by the owners who bought and filmed it — what they praise, what they knock, who it's for.
What buyers say?
What Google knows about it.
Beyond the video critics, Google pools 134 buyer ratings of the ELEMNT Rival from across retailers — a far wider, if blunter, jury. Here’s the shape of that opinion.
134 ratings · 7 written
across 6 retailers
What owners single out
The weakest buyer aspect—swimming/lap recording—directly overlaps the video reviewers' concern about the watch's pool and lap-tracking capabilities.
In their words
“Here's why: simple to use, does what I need and not full of bloatware, connects heart rate to all my devices without the need of a 3rd party app, very accurate HR readings, have checked it numerous times against my blood pressure machine and it is spot on. Long battery life and fast charge to full also good. Could go on and on. Sorry Wahoo has stopped making them, may buy a spare to have on hand j”
Scott M. · verified purchase · wahoofitness.com
“Everything it does that as GPS-related, it does well. It measured my run precisely, and it seems like it coordinates with the Wahoo bike computers as well. The only thing I dont like about it is the lap swimming feature. It does not seem to be able to record your laps. It needs a better accelerometer for that purpose. Im going to be testing it in a triathlon in a few weeks, and well see how it per”
serbialaw · verified purchase · ebay.com
as of June 22 · 134 buyer ratings?
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The recap
Where it stands today.
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