Hmm, struggling to see what you get for your extra £100 if you go for the 745 instead of the 255, except music, which isn’t something I’d want.
You can get a 255 music version and it’s still cheaper.
CONTACTLESS-NFC PAYMENTS
STRAVA SEGMENTS LIVE ON DEVICE
ALTIMETER TYPE
COMPASS TYPE
ANT+ GEAR SHIFTING
That’s about it.
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OK, so basically nothing that I want and the battery life is worse on the 745 
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I have a 6x pro, go for it, worth every penny.
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The Fenix 6 is great, very functional. As an ex apple watch user though, the display is always disappointing.
I got mine at a big discount on Amazon Day last year and the next one is coming up in July so if you can hold your horses you might be rewarded.
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Fenix/garmin doesn’t work with UK banks.
I will never understand the priority people put on battery life, but you are certainly in good company.
The 255 is likely all a triathlete really needs. But life is about wants too.
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That depends on the events you are doing!
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Well, no - race day is the least important day to track. That’s my point.
SBR times and distances all provided by the race organisers.
OW Swim - it lies anyway.
Bike - it’s annoying on a watch cause you can’t read it, a bike comp displays power perfectly.
Run - no watch on sale today cannot cover the slowest marathon.
“Simples”.
*If you exclusively do tri
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Not true. It clearly just doesn’t work with (any of) your bank(s). I have my santander credit card on my 945. Admittedly I don’t have any of my other debit or credit cards on it as none of the others are signed up
Depends what you want to track. I agree with you when just thinking about the individual sports. But on two or three occasions, I’ve had full race time goals, and using multisport mode to track the whole thing has given me the extra added nudge to keep pushing when the going got tough by flipping to the overall race time page.
Admittedly you could achieve that with a casio, but it’s easier to have a single device for my strava uploads. I do separately use a bike computer for that middle segment, but start that once up to speed and don’t upload anywhere
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You’ve actually just reminded me. Anyone can get a Curve card, for free, and then load any card you want into the curve app
I got a Santander credit card specifically because it does
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I have mine hooked up to Santander, works fine
Edit: beaten to it by some margin, Smug mode toggled off.
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garmin 935 sxxt in open water mode 
As GB said. People doing multi day cycle events or bike packing, not just Tri stuff. Its another item to NOT need to charge if it can last a couple of days.
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John Lewis selling the 6 X Pro for £360 and the 6 Pro for £310.
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That is an amazing price! I’d convinced myself that the 255 did everything I needed, but for an extra £10, why wouldn’t you buy the Fenix 6 Pro?
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