Bike and other gear usage tracking

Think the assignments are a bit off.

Default gear in that box relates to activities.

The PM should be added as a component like your chain.

See here bike:

Component:
(this PM replaced a retired one)

I would think once it’s the default bike for activities it should update the calculations, failing that you can add the gear to activities manually in list view as detailed above.

Reading this now the use of generic term ‘gear’ suddenly seems slightly confusing given ‘gears’ are also a specific bike component….

Thank you for the reply. Your suggestion doesn’t lead to what I want to do, because I have multiple bikes I ride “Gravel Ride” or just “Ride”. So I don’t want to set a default gear for the ride type.

I purchased the bike in the Screenshot in August 22. It has a PM with a unique Power Meter serial (I assume it’s the ANT+ ID). Ideally, I’d want intervals to calculate the ODO using that unique identifier instead of a ride type.

If you have multiple bikes you ride gravel or road your suggestion doesn’t work.

I’m just showing you how to connect a PM to your bike in settings. Currently it’s setup incorrectly.

You need each bike setup as gear(bike) and each PM setup as components(power meter). Then link each one to the relevant bike.

Then you can add the bikes to activities - if defaults don’t work I guess you will need to assign them manually.

Once intervals knows what bike was used for what activity, and the purchase date of the PM, it will update the ODO, if that makes sense? You can see in my example above the new PM has done significantly less miles than the bike.

I don’t see how setting up the PM as Gear on the bike has anything to do with the ANT+ ID. I don’t want to track the ODO of my PM but want to track the ODO of my Bike using the ANT+ ID of the PM as unique identifier.

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I can’t set the ANT+ ID for the gear only set a default activity to a certain ANT+ ID. But it doesn’t seem to work as I intend it to or I’m just doing something wrong. Hope it’s clear now, what I want to do? Thanks again for your help

Actually I’m sorry I genuinely can’t understand what you’re trying to do!? :crazy_face:

Perhaps someone more advanced will come along…

Maybe I’m not explaining it right. English is not my first language. So thanks for bearing with me.

I’ll try again:
You can add a Bike using “Add Gear”
You can set default gear and use one of the many filters @david implemented.
So for example if you have a road bike, you set “Ride” to default to Roadbike A.
If you ride indoors you can filter indoor rides to default to “Indoor Bike” and so on.
If you have multiple bikes you ride the same activity type, you want a unique identifier between those bikes, so ride type doesn’t work as a differentiator for the ODO to track the correct values
So you can use for example the ANT+ ID of your PM (what I’m trying to do) or many combinations David has intended to use with this feature.

edit: seems like I need to manually assign “Gear” to the data first. This would be much easier if the filter for PM Serial would work - which it doesn’t or I’m too dumb… help?

edit2: found the filter - seems I’m just oblivious sometimes. It’s right there under “all activities”

I still battle with some odd behaviour. I have a reminder set to wax the chain and “purchase”/installation date is 1st of may. Since installing this chain I have done 3 rides on that bike and it seems to track the last manually added rides. I was able to fix this but the purchase date in the reminder tab always gets reset and it won’t track backwards

so, finally was able to fix my mess. You have to set up the gear, components and reminders BEFORE you edit old activities. Going forward I expect this to work flawlessly. Just need to make sure to set it up beforehand.

thanks for reading my monologue :smiley:

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I was busy investigating your case but seems like you found the solution yourself. :+1:

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thanks, and sorry for spamming the thread…

It was actually an interesting case for gear assignment and I learned from it, so thank you for posting the question and solution.

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I still cannot wrap my head around how do this effectively. 2 framesets, 4 wheelsets, 3 cranksets, 8 chains, 4 front sprockets, 6 cogsets, about a dozen different tyres. Any activity could see any combination. I think I’d need a dozen virtual bikes. Tags? Cannot set reminders on tags I don’t think. Plus I’d need a tag for front wheel 1 - 4 rear wheel 1-4, then each tire, each chain. I guess that could be done. If I could just set everything up as gear and then I could just add gear to the activity. Otherwise I guess its bike 1 -to who knows. I guess I just virtually build a bike for each activity. I’m open to suggestion

You’ll definitely run into limitations with that sort of setup. I have 4 virtual bikes for one of my bikes, one for each wheelset to make it fairly quick to assign. But even then, I had a race where I swapped a wheel mid race and had no way to show that well. (splitting the ride would have been the only way).

But the basics is that I make sure to change any setup on here when the setup in real life changes aside from wheel changes. So when I swap my chain, I do so right away for all of the virtual bikes. When I swap a tire, I do so on the virtual bike that corresponds.

Also, I’m not sure from your question on tags; but if you’re only using reminders on the gear, you can put them on the components themselves (ie; the chain itself has the reminder to rewax that is incremented for all the virtual bikes built on that frame)

Yeah… it gets convoluted quickly and you also don’t get to track your NON-bike stuffs like Helmet / Bibs / Jersey.

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Exact… if we also want to keep track of clothing, there is currently no solution.
Maybe @david wouldn’t it be better to be able to insert multiple values ​​in gear in order to also insert single components as well as complete bikes?

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I have a similar approach, two chains. Don’t want to add more gear, currently my bike is split into two gear items (each with different wheelset, but same frame. To add different chains aswell, will multiply the gear, so my idea was to solve this by custom field, but did not get into it yet.
My idea was, that I select the chain with an custom activity field, then the distance is accumulated to a “global variable” Chain1 or Chain2 depending on the selector. Is this possible? Does it make sense?

If I revoke Strava access will this break? I can/would like to assign indoor bike to TPV uploads (assuming intervals pulls activities rather than just pushing workouts) and outdoor bike to Wahoo, but not sure if that’s possible?

If gear tracking is setup in Intervals, it won’t brake. This is actually a very easy setup on the Settings page:

TPV should come in as a Virtual Ride while outdoor ides will be simply Ride and the above settings take care of that.

Ok! Have set the bikes up as default for ride and virtual ride respectively. Unticked the box to download activities from Strava…will see what happens after my TPV ride this evening :crossed_fingers:

You do need some sort of integration other then Strava for those TPV rides. If those were only fetched through Strava, they will no longer come in.
If they get to Wahoo and from there to Intervals, no problem.

Ah, so I was wrong with this. Will see what options there are.

AFAIK I’ve turned off everything Strava, my ride from TPV appeared in Intervals today… :ok_hand:

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