Leg band for bike riding

[Bmuscari]

Since the actual blaze component comes out of the frame would it be a possibility to make an elastic band to put the blaze on your leg for bike riding. Leaving it on the wrist never comes close to being as accurate when on long rides. I used to do it years ago with the bodymedia bands and it seemed to help a lot.

[MatthewFitbit]

@Bmuscari Blaze is designed to count your steps - since you aren't taking any steps while riding a bike, we wouldn't expect it to measure the distance from that activity, even when worn on your leg. A better approach would be to use Blaze's Connected GPS feature to track your ride, so that you get accurate distance and mapping records. Alternately, you could manually log the activity if you already know the distance involved.

[Rich_Laue]

The problem with beeing on the anklr is thst the only measurement that could be correct wpuld be a count in peddling. The distance would be off, unless you never coasted and have set the stride to matvh yhe geering of the bicycle. Of course the valorous will also be off, since your not walking.

[bbarrera]

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@Bmuscari wrote:
Since the actual blaze component comes out of the frame would it be a possibility to make an elastic band to put the blaze on your leg for bike riding. Leaving it on the wrist never comes close to being as accurate when on long rides. I used to do it years ago with the bodymedia bands and it seemed to help a lot.

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If you want steps, I would try popping the Blaze out of frame and putting the tracker in your pocket. I use my iPhone 5s as Fitbit tracker, and roughly about 400-500 steps per mile while biking (phone in back jersey pocket). Rode 96 miles over 6 hours on Sunday, and got about 50,000 steps for the ride. Thats less steps than I get walking fast, and my HR was considerably higher on the ride (120bpm HR while walking, 145bpm HR while riding). Still, its fun to see step credit even though I wasn't in a challenge.

If you want to accurately track the activity, then as suggested use Blaze's bike mode which will use your phone's GPS to track distance and generate a map post-ride.