Assigning default gear for individual activities

I want to push this subject.

we have several bike activities (mtb, road bike, bike commute, cargo bike) and it would be very useful to define different bikes as default. 
at the moment all those activities from my Fenix6 will be "bike" and there is ONE default bike

i have to change manually to set my bike for commuting

markus

Why can't we match a bike and shoes with its activity type like in Strava (Road, MTB, Gravel etc.)?  We have to make a gear update on the event page after each ride. It would be great to be able to define separate bikes and shoes for each type of riding. It shouldn't be too difficult to do this. Thank you.

Hello

Is it possible to assign automatically the right shoes to the right activity?

I have one pair for running, one for the trails.

In the selection list, I cannot select trail when I want to automatically assign the shoes to an activity.

Thanks in advance

Br

Stéphane 

Bumping this issue. Sent in a features request. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/

Pretty simple idea. Break Automatically Add Gear into more specific activities like Indoor cycling vs MTB. I'm clearly not taking a spin bike down the mountain...

Garmin, I echo the previous sentiments.  Adding the full set of activities (or at least more than there are now, specifically around road vs trail running) to the gear default list would seem to be a simple way to eliminate this headache for your users.  Please consider this.  I have also shared this as a feature request.

fresh owner of the Instinct 2S Solar here and found this thread after the apparent surprise during setting up bicycles and activities. Would have been great to assign gear to activities like discussed before. 
To me i got the watch because it gives the impression of being a well thought out and developed system - of course i‘m joining late and it might have been this like years. At this point, seeing the ideas that went into the handling of all the features, i‘m still naively optimistic that it might get better.

but for daily use it has to work of course. My current attempt as a workaround is to have several copies of the cycling activity and name each according to the bicycle i‘d use. Doesnt this have a similar result in the long run? Collecting km per gear?

Are you aware that you can create as many bikes and-or other type of gear, and assign it to the activity manually anytime in the way you want? There is no need to create separate Cycling profiles for that. Simply remember to open the activity in Garmin Connect, after having sync it, and assign the gear if you did not use you default one. Sure, automated assignment based on diverse criteria would be nice to have, but it is not such a big deal to assign the gear manually.

Again that great idea do it manually. It is 2024, what is asked of garmin is a simple database check (go 1 level down in assignment. Problem solved) but no lets people beg and ignore them for years.
Even strava managed to do that automatically now. 
But getting used to it over the years that all garmin is able to do is break existing functionalities and not to listen to people (same as lates ski app screw up they did for Fenix 7 series).  

I'd tell it is better doing it manually, than not doing it at all. It looks like a lot of people visiting this thread are not aware that they can assign the gear manually, hence I'd tell it is important making them aware of that possibility anyway.