Run different timing gate sets during one activity

5106766
11 days ago

I was just doing my first runs and testing the new timing gate function.
I really like it and it was one of the main reasons for me to get the edge mtb. But I might be stupid but I can only do one set of gates per activity?

So I was recording a E-MTB Activity on my after work tour.
This tour includes two trails. For each trail I setup a series of gates. While I am in my activity I started the timing for trail one and did some laps there which worked fine.
After that I wanted to do the same for trail two but this didn´t work. The edge told me I would have to start a new activity to start my other set of gates.

Is this the way it is intended?

  • 0 10 days ago

    I’ve also been testing the Timing Gates feature. I haven’t encountered your specific issue – I think it’s enough to go to the menu, select Timing Gates > [choose Timing Gates] > Ride.

    My problem is that I might have misunderstood how the feature works. It seems that Timing Gates only work within a single activity. Once the activity is saved, all the lap times are erased. When you start a new activity, you start again with no times recorded.

    I thought it would be possible to race against times from previous activities – something like more accurate, personal Strava segments. In my opinion, Timing Gates only working within one activity makes them kind of useless.

    It was actually the main feature why I bought the Edge MTB, so I really hope they improve it in the future to make it truly useful