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[TECH] The Orbea Optima Weld That Breaks the Frame Mid-Ride
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- Orbea Optima MY2019 and MY2020 E-Bikes Recalled in UK: Frame Weld Can Fail at Speed — Stop riding your Orbea Optima MY2019 or MY2020 e-bike immediately, verify the frame stamp code, and take the bike to an Orbea dealer for a replacement frame.
- Garmin Edge Explore 2 + Komoot: Connect IQ Crash Blanks the Screen Mid-Navigation — Hold off on relying on Komoot navigation on the Edge Explore 2 — as a workaround, push your route as a course file to the device and use Garmin's native navigation until a fix is confirmed by Garmin or Komoot.
- Garmin Edge 840 Firmware 31.33: Heart Rate Broadcast Pairing Broken for Third-Party Devices — If you use a non-Garmin wearable to broadcast heart rate to your Edge 840 or 850, hold off on 31.33 or switch to ANT+ as a workaround — wait for Garmin to acknowledge and patch the regression before updating if you haven't already.
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