Dear Garmin, when will we have gear selection on our watch?

I am so happy I stumbled over this old thread. It deserves a bump.

I just bought two new pairs of running shoes. The plan is to alternate between them, so I need to be able to select shoes per run if I want to keep track of their usage.

I have been fumbling around in the watch and in GCM without being able to find a solution for selecting shoes at the start of a run. I started believing that I was too stupid to find the functionality. But now it turns out that I am not.

Guess I’ve never really bothered too much as I always do some post-activity stuff afterwards- change title, add notes etc. easy enough to sort out gear tracking then. 

dkatchalov said:

Gear selection in Garmin Connect Mobile is a complex, multi-step affair.

It's not that difficult to add gear while editing the activity afterwards - open the activity, click on the three dots, add or remove gear, select. How hard is that?

I too would like Garmin to do something about this but my requirement is a little different
I have an Edge 810 with profiles for 2 of my bikes, both of which have GSC-10 sensors. When I select a profile for a given bike the correct sensor is picked up and only that sensor, so the Edge definitely knows which bike I am using. On my 3rd bike I use the Fenix, again connecting to the GSC-10.

Activities for all 3 bikes are always logged in Garmin connect against my default cycling bike and I have to manually correct any activities that are not on that bike.

The reason it is important to me is that I wish to maintain usage data for each bike for various servicing/replacement reasons

i asked the same already for a long time. i have three bikes as well and it is so stupid, that it is not possible to assign gear and sensors to an activity. it would be so easy to implement and this has been asked for quite often.

if i give one of my bikes to friend and ride with him i even have to deactivate all sensors used on the other bike.

Has there been any update on this? I just switched over to Garmin from Strava. I liked that after every run in Strava you can choose the gear you used. This is great for people who cycle through multiple pairs of shoes at once and want to keep track of mileage. 

And you can do this in Garmin Connect mobile and interweb.

But the OP's comment was a request to have the ability to do this from the watch before starting an activity.

Just saw this post and I thought you would want to switch gears with the watch...

As I have lots of gear, also some fun gear as my dog, a sauna, my runlight, the bakery at the end of a morning run, my kids, the gym..., I like to assign them when I have time, preferably in the train to work. Doing that before an activity would be a hazzle!

Ask Garmin the feature

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/

The more people ask, the better our chance to get it is high!