Here are 9 Amazon Prime Day Wahoo deals we think you should jump on, and one we'd avoid
There's up to 43% off smart trainers, plus a best-ever price on the enormous new Elemnt Ace computer, but here's a better alternative
Wahoo doesn't often do big sales, even in the face of Amazon Prime Day or Black Friday.
Most of the year, its website includes a small selection of 'reconditioned' smart trainers with a modest discount, as well as a handful of merchandise.
And when Wahoo does decide to get involved with the Prime Day bike sales, it's usually with a solitary product.
Today, however, that changes. As highlighted in our Prime Day live report, there's a host of Wahoo deals.
This includes a flat discount of 15% across a host of products, plus a bigger discount on others, such as Speedplay pedals and the Trackr heart rate monitor.
The deal is available in both the USA and the UK, although the specific products on sale differ between the two countries.
In this page, we'll highlight some of the key deals, but if you want to browse for yourself, hit the link above for your respective country.
But not all good discounts are good deals, and in the case of the Wahoo Elemnt Ace, we think there's a better alternative at an even better price. Yes, it's a top-of-the-range bike computer, but we didn't think it was very good when it was reviewed, and as such believe you'd be better off spending less money on a full price new Roam v3 – You can buy us a drink to say thank you with the spare change.
Top Prime Day Wahoo deals USA
Starting with the best value smart trainer in not only Wahoo's range but quite possibly on the market, the Wahoo Kickr Core. With its fixed legs and 5.4kg flywheel, it's a bit cheaper than the top-tier Kickr trainers, and an incredibly popular option for taking your training indoors onto the likes of Zwift.
The Kickr Snap is another affordable indoor smart trainer. This one keeps your rear wheel in situ, letting you spin the flywheel by placing your rear tyre against a drum. The result, admittedly, is a slightly less realistic ride feel, but at a much lower price.
The Trackr heart rate monitor is the first to offer a rechargeable battery, rather than needing a replacement every six months or so.
The Kickr Bike (v2) is a full-function indoor smart bike that lets you leave the bike in the shed and saves tracking dirty tyres through your house.
The Kickr Rollr takes indoor training to a different league. Rather than having your bike bolted hard into the trainer, this one lets your bike sit free on the rear roller, held upright with your balance and the A-frame at the front.
Top Prime Day Wahoo deals UK
The Kickr V6 is not quite Wahoo's range-topping model - that accolade goes to the Kickr Move - but as an everyday trainer with top-tier features such as WiFi connection, 2200 watt resistance, accuracy of over 99%, adjustable feet, and Wahoo's famously simple setup process.
The Kickr Core is a pared-back version of the Kickr V6 above, with fixed legs, a lighter flywheel and less accuracy. This version comes with the Zwift Cog single sprocket, and the Zwift Click electronic virtual shifter to make gear changes silent and to ensure compatibility with all modern bike groupsets.
The Speedplay pedals offer double-sided entry. By putting the closing mechanism in the cleat on the shoe, rather than the pedal body itself, it makes for a lower profile design with easy entry and the iconic lollipop design.,
The Trackr heart rate monitor swaps the traditional coin cell battery for a rechargeable li-ion battery, helping you save money in the long run, and reducing waste in the process.
The deal we'd avoid
In our opinion, here's one you should avoid.
The Ace is Wahoo's biggest bike computer, and the most expensive, too. It's the biggest on the market, and if you read our Wahoo Element Ace review, you'll see that, unfortunately, we didn't like it.
Recent firmware updates have certainly helped iron out some of the software-based issues, but it's still too big to work with most out-front bike computer mounts, and to put it bluntly, the wind sensor at the front is a bit of a gimmick.
Our advice: Instead of dropping £460 on a discounted Ace, buy a Wahoo Roam V3 at full price for £399 instead. It's a far better option.
It's still pretty big, but not so big that you need to buy extra computer mounts or adaptors. It works brilliantly, and the features all behave themselves, and finally, you aren't paying for additional hardware you're unlikely to actually use.
Josh is Associate Editor of Cyclingnews – leading our content on the best bikes, kit and the latest breaking tech stories from the pro peloton. He has been with us since the summer of 2019 and throughout that time he's covered everything from buyer's guides and deals to the latest tech news and reviews.
On the bike, Josh has been riding and racing for over 15 years. He started out racing cross country in his teens back when 26-inch wheels and triple chainsets were still mainstream, but he found favour in road racing in his early 20s, racing at a local and national level for Somerset-based Team Tor 2000. These days he rides indoors for convenience and fitness, and outdoors for fun on road, gravel, 'cross and cross-country bikes, the latter usually with his two dogs in tow.
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