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Versa and bicycle

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‎03-02-2019 00:55

‎03-02-2019 00:55

I've had an ebike since 2012, and since then I have replaced the display on the handlebars at least six times. And of course lost the number of accumulated kilometers. I read tests and reviews on Fitbit Versa, and bought it 5th of January this year - thinking the watch would register my biking distance automatically. It did not. It tells me I have been oudoor biking, in minutes. (When more than 10 minutes. One day it also told me I had been outdoor biking when I had been using the rotary snowplow. It was more appropriate when it said I had been exercising when I had used the snow shovel.) 
 
Alternatively I can start a bike exercise - I have to start a ride before I go, and then stop it when it's over. The fitbit app or website dashboard will show a map, the route, distance (!) and more. But I find no accumulated data for bike exercise.
 
So here is how I want the Versa to be:
 
  • log all outdoor biking automatically
  • logging trips lasting more than 1 minute
  • log with distance and time (like bike|exercise)
  • log with map (like bike|exercise)
  • show the total accumulated biking distance, in the same picture, easy to find
  • with editing facilities - to name the trip and comment my ride (on the website/telephone app)
 
Rigged this way, Versa could replace my Garmin Edge 1000: the trip registrator always on the wrist, no fiddling with GPS/extra equipment before and after the ride. And it would of course fit both ebikes and ordinary bikes.
 
(In case you think that ebiking is cheating: You have to pedal to get forward.)
 
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‎03-02-2019 19:37

‎03-02-2019 19:37

For a wrist based tracker like Fitbit yup measure distance, it will either need to communicate with a wheel sensor or is GPS, Fitbit has decided to go with GPS. 

 

Auto detected rides do not record the map or distance, since they do not turn on the GPS. For GPS you will need to manually start the multisport mode called bike. Distance will then be measured and displayed.

As for accumulated bike distance, are you referring to how many miles ridden over say a week, month, year?

Maybe you might want to vote on one of these suggestions

Add function for sorting Activity History

Show total distance run over the past year

 

Anybody that runs in a motorized treadmill should not complain about an e-bike, I will stick to my unicycles both pedaled and electric.

 

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