Logs steps while cycling

[costisc]

Today I biked twice. Each time I told the Fitbit when I started and stopped cycling by starting/stopping the cycling activity on the device. Yet the charge 5 still logged about 5000 steps while I was cycling, in addition to my bike miles 😞

customer support told me I should manually adjust my steps and remove the extra steps at the end of each day 😞 😞 !!!

anyone else having this issue, and know of a potential fix?

[NellyG]

Yes, it happens. Your fitbit thinks that the bumps in the road are steps. The harder your tyres are pumped (I have found) the more 'steps' you get. It used to bother me but I just ignore it now. You can't stop the tracker counting steps, and it is too much bother to be adjusting the step count all the time for me.

[Heybales]

Within that Activity Record that was created, would be the steps. In this case, steps is merely a figure for display, not used in any math except adding to your daily count. You can adjust them out if you feel like you are cheating on your step total. Or use it to tell you on review of graphs that was a busy day, then when you look at details you see the bike ride.

Since biking isn't step based, the distance obviously has no bearing on the bike ride, hence the reason the GPS found distance overwrites the step-based calculated distance.

If you don't have GPS for the biking distance, then the distance is of course wrong on that record, but it at least used HR-based calculation for calorie burn.

I can get 14K steps on almost 2 hr hard bike ride, and only about 4 miles per step distance. Well, 4 miles in 2 hrs ain't a big calculated calorie burn, obviously incorrect.