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Is it possible to pair an activity with equipment?

Former Member
Former Member over 5 years ago

When I choose MTB Garmin will use my mountainbike? 

I have 3 bikes and every time I have to go in to the app and switch in Garmin and Strava

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Welcome Former Member

    The Edge will automatically connect to any active paired sensors(they will be active and in range while you are riding) but you will have to go into garmin connect to assign gear.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    You can also set a default bike in Connect.  That bike will automatically be attached to your activities.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    In Gamin Connect cycling is one activity type. So there is only one default for cycling. You can set the default to the bike you use the most so you have fewer occasions where you have to change it. However it is not able to pick a different default bike for say road, gravel and mountain biking. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin-Duncan

    Unfortunately it won't detect the set of sensors associated with a particular bike to set that in Garmin Connect, nor allow to manually set the bicycle profile so that Connect and Strava have the right data..  It is a completely legit expectation to have multiple bicycle profiles on THE premier cyclecomputer that is the 1030. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Jeff_Burns

    It actually would be a bad idea. It was like that many generations back and they replaced bike profiles with activity profiles, all for the better.  In particular many modern sensors like HRM, lights, radars are not bike specific. Second you can create an activity profile for each bike type if you wish. Certainly the auto-bike feature you request woils create more issues than it solves. We went there several years ago. Rather than that garmin took a more flexible approach with simply detecting whatever sensors are awake and working with those. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Martin868

    While I certainly see your point, it feels to me like we went backwards almost 20 years with the generic "Road Profile".  Just barely past the bad old days wired head units and manually recording the data on paper logs.. Like my old 1st gen Polar watch which had no profiles but did sync with their software over IR..  I've got to constantly change the bike after the ride as I flip between 4 bikes, and at this point I only handle it in Strava because it's such an annoyance to do it in more than one place.

    My respective combo cadence/speed sensors stay with each bike, so that's easy to tell them apart.. For folks that like separate sensors - there is the Cadence sensor permanently on the crankarm.and signifies which bike is which.  HRM/Lights/Radars are straw man since by definition are portable between bikes.   For people without a lot of sensors, it pretty much doesn't matter which bike is which since they're probably casual riders and likely to have only one bike (also probably not a candidate for an expensive 1030).  But for those of us with permanently mounted sensors like cadence, power, (and much more likely to have a stable of bikes) it would be nice to have an easy ease of use feature to help easily keep track of our miles on equipment.