How to track biking to have distance?

[BlueKnight]

Can I track miles ridden on my fit bit or is it limited to time and pulse only?

Moderator Edit: Updated Subject For Clarity.

[RobertoME]

Hello @BlueKnight, let me start by giving you a warm welcome to the Fitbit Community! It will depend of the tracker you have.

Any tracker is capable to calculate distance by multiplying your walking steps and walking stride length. Similarly, your running steps are multiplied by your running stride length. 

I saw on your Community profile you have paired a Charged 2, so you can use the bike activity with connected GPS to have distance.

1. On your tracker, press the button until you get to the Exercise screen.
2. Tap to find the exercise of your choice.
3. Press and hold the button to start the exercise. If you see a phone icon at the top, that exercise offers connected GPS and your device is connected to a GPS signal. If the phone icon has a line through it that means your tracker is not connected to your phone or your phone is not connected to a GPS signal. If the phone icon has an animated dashed line next to it, that means your device is trying to find a GPS signal.
             
4. During your workout, tap your tracker to scroll through your real-time stats or check the time of day.
5. To pause your workout, press the button. Then press the button again to resume the exercise.
6. When you’re done with your workout, press and hold the button to stop recording. You’ll see a flag icon and a congratulatory message.
   
7. Press the button to see a summary of your results. With each button press you’ll cycle to a different set of stats. You can view your exercise summary one time. 

Syncing your tracker stores the workout in your exercise history. There you can find additional stats and see your route if you used connected GPS. 

Hope this information helps. Let me know if you have other questions!

[BlueKnight]

Nice but when I ride the phone stays at home, will this be an issue ? I have auto recognition turned on for bike so why do I need to turn it on anyway., I also posted another question regarding riding my  motorcycle and it reading the ride and the fit bit recording it as an exercise even with everything turned off. Whats with that, true it does not record but as soon as I turned everything back on it recorded the whole days ride. 

[RobertoME]

Hello @BlueKnight, thank you for your questions. Leaving your phone indeed is a big deal since the GPS data is provided by your phone, so not having your phone won't allow to track this information.

Also you have auto-recognition of Outdoor Bike with your tracker, but this option won't display any distance data from your exercise. So is optional to use either Connected GPS or SmartTrack but keep in mind both will provide you different type of information.

About your question of riding motorcycle, I'm wondering what are you referring with turning back on everything? What is recording your tracker when you ride your motorcycle? If your tracker is reading data while you are riding your bike, note your tracker in the essential form is motion sensor and most of the times when it detects a constant vibration, your tracker might translate this information as exercise. If this is the case, what I do is to remove my steps using the driving activity. If you need more details about this please review the following post.

Hope this information helps. See you soon!

[BlueKnight]

Yes I was told to go into the tracker app and turn everything off but that really does though good it's pretty much pointless. I was told to download another app and turn it on before I ride and that would remove the steps however floors are still counted on my display but it seems to remove the calories burned at the steps happy extended it's still not an accurate reading so I think my best bet would be to just take the watch off when I ride it's pretty much pointless at this point


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