I rode a 2021 RT with the large, split, TFT screen today, using the Connected app. It really was very good. The bike found my phone via Bluetooth really quickly and then established a Wi-fi connection pretty fast, too. I simply asked the app to give me Park Lane to Walkers’ cafe in Suffolk, via the fastest route. This it did in seconds. Once I got to Writtle (Chelmsford) I purposely went all the way on B roads, the Connected app simply adjusting really fast. All in all a good experience.
The only thing I haven’t tried now is creating a bespoke route in BaseCamp and exporting it to the Connected app. I can’t see any reason why it shouldn’t load perfectly but we shall see. I’d also like to see how the app treats going off a bespoke route, created with shaping points and maybe a few via points. I’ll be interested to see how it treats any recalculation or if (like my Garmin) the recalculation can be set to prompted ‘Yes or no’. I see it has a skip waypoint option, so I’ll be interested to see how the app treats that recalculation, too.
At the stop at Walkers’, the Connected app reconnected with the screen in seconds. The Wi-fi connection took a little longer to reconnect but was always reliable throughout the day.
PS The salesman at Park Lane was sure that the bike holds its own Wi-fi network, onto which the phone attaches itself to. It’s all smoke and mirrors to me; I’m just happy that it works.