How to track bicycling

[Jpayga]

How do you trac bicycling or other non walking activities

[SunsetRunner]

I use cyclometer and you can use it for steps  / running as well.  You can customize it as you wish.  I use it mostly when cycling as I typically ride solo and it send out an email every 30 minutes with an updated location, distance and time to my wife and son.  You can adjust that to your liking.

it will track steps - just have to go into the the info on it.  you can download for either iPhone / android.

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[olive114]

My nice new Flex2 tracks cycle and swim really well. xx

[FerdinandFitbit]

Hi there guys, good to see you in the Community Forums! 🙂

@SunsetRunner, thanks a lot for sharing this alternative with us! I'm pretty sure many users will find it helpful!

@olive114, I'm glad to hear that your Flex 2 is working great for you! 😄

If you guys need anything, let me know!

[jgenov]

Ok logged is not the same as tracking.  Log means I have to track on a diff device and log on Fitbit .

[Hapb]

I want to gos track my bike ride. My Charge 3 auto recognises the ride, but I want to track my ride, distance and times.

[SunsetRunner]

It seems that it's possible to start tracking a ride on the bike with gps from the tracker/clock.  But I can't seem to find the same option in the app on my phone.

The software coupled with this tracker is not on par.  I never thought I would say this, but Samsung has acutally managed to make a better software than another company.  I thought their software was flawed, but this is on another level.  

Why isn't there an option besides run/walk to start gps-track a ride on my bike? 

[SunsetRunner]

*My tracker is a charge 3.

[Melanie26]

How do you track bicycling from the app on your phone? Especially for android phones. 

Thanks!

[jderekh]

Yah, that didn't work.

First, there is nothing labelled activities in my dashboard in fact there is very little text at all in the dashboard it is mostly icons.  

[olive114]

I have what looks like a little man waving arms about and he is in a 5 sided diamond shape as I out in that would do active days for 5 days-each line goes green as I do them. I you click on him then you get up a list of activities-well, I do. xx

[chuckie61]

I also use Strava, and today used both. Fitbit ad me riding 14.3 miles, and Strava had me down for 18.1 Quite a difference. Even the elevation was different by about 175'. I also stopped at a grocery store foe some watermelon slices, and a cold drink, which Strava paused, fitbit didn't.

 Not sure who is off, but I'm going to map a ride in my car. If the fitbit is off, major disappointment.

On app it gave me some what around 4000 steps, but only have .25 miles 1487 calories 115 mins of exercise. In the excerise it's recorded 14.43 miles.

[Robin278]

Thank you!


Sent from my iPhone

[Beeeee]

There is no "Log" on the Dashboard.

[Springer521]

Does the cycle meter work for stationary bikes? Just did 45 minutes of cycling @ 21 MPH. Using Fit Bot choices shows I burnt 96 calories which is so inaccurate.

[Cobragal]

I do the same.  I am going to put it on my wrist today when cycling, as I’m not in a challenge, and I want to see what it actually records. 

[chuckie61]

i find that it is somewhat difficult to stop when you are done riding.

[ossimer]

Tie it to your shoelaces....

[KaddyR]

What about importing a GPX file into fitbit.  I use RunKeeper to track and log my bike rides and it generates a GPX file that I import into Strava.  Why can't the same be done for fitbit or can it and I just can't find where to do such?

[davbeau]

i.e. do it manually.....  not much use.

[MFAlvarez]

Thanks. Can I track biking with Ace 2 Fitbit?