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How do I assign gear (bike) to activity profile?

Can I assign a bike to a activity profile?

I have a Mountain Bike and a Road Bike that I use often. I have cadence/speed sensors on each and share a heartbeat monitor for both.

When syncing with connect, strava and mapmyride, I have to go back and choose which bike I used. Is there a way to automate this?

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rfeigen over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin-Matthew +6

Hi,

Anyway to get this to distinguish between road and mountain biking?

it would be really nice to have multiple items associated to each activity profile (Road, Mtn, Trainer, Run, etc...)

for example…
3085182 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Matthew +6

Garmin why have you not responded to the actual commonly asked question. Gear tracking doesn't work if the wrong gear is credited for an activity. Can Garmin once and for all tell it's customers why…
3144182 over 2 years ago +6 suggested

I submitted a feature request here: www.garmin.com/.../

I suggest we all do the same. Maybe if Garmin gets a bunch of requests for the same feature, they might implement it.

Here is the text of my request…

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0 StuGotz over 2 years ago

Over 6 years pending. This is quite ridiculous for what is seemingly an easy development request to fulfil. I just submitted the following to the Feature Request link supplied in the thread, if anyone is interested in submitting something similar.

The gear tracking functionality of Garmin is very incomplete. Please allow for associating specific bikes to more Activities than a generic "biking" activity. You should be able to track trainer gear for indoor biking activity, or a Mountain Bike for an outdoor MOUNTAIN Bike Activity, and/or a road bike for an outdoor non-MTB activity.

You should also be able to associate "other" gear to a bike, to be able to track mileage on individual component to help track Service Intervals. Once you perform a service, you should be able to reset the value, but still keep the overall total mileage tracking for the gear until it's retired.

Of course, the bike used in an activity should also come over in the API to Strava.