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@SunsetRunner From the way I read the press release it says they are already planning to do that: "Fitbit Surge bike-tracking will be available to all Fitbit Surge users by next month in North America, on iOS and Android, with global availability coming soon" Though that sentence does leave you guessing at exactly what they mean.
I'm sure @MatthewFitbit will be posting more details/clarification soon.
Please implement cycling tracking right away. I am very disappointed that Fitbit would make public announcements that it would it be implementing this feature in April but have no target date. Just used their press releases to "market" the Surge" and then ask users to vote like. You're still thinking about it? Seems like a pretty cheap marketing ploy.
Yes a very cheap marketing policy, facebook and the like are target audiences for all the dodgy advertising methods that dont cost. If the cycling app for Surge does not arrive soon I will be selling mine.
Because they are probably worried their servers wont handle the downloads all at once. This is a reasonable strategy if their web designers dont have enough mirror servers but youd have to ask "why is that" then.
rest of worls coming later makes sense as surely they will just start to do the localisations on their final version only???...MAN...I hope I will be able to upgrade wthe Surge with the US version.
Is it possible to be able to categorise a tracked exercise as cycle? At present the only categories are run, walk and kike but it have been tracking my cycling but have to categorise it as a run!
I notice that there are a whole load of posts about tracking cycling.
In one post there is a link to a BusinessWire article about tracking cycling with the Surge. As far as I can see, you only need the Surge on your wrist to track a bike ride.
I don't think that will work.
Firstly in the Surge manual, it says that you can only use the GPS for 5 hours. My bike rides can quite easily go on longer than that....
In addition, I don't see why we should be forced to get a Surge to track cycling. Instead, I think the smartphone should do the job. Endomondo and RunKeeper already do it, and I think it's a big hole in the FitBit functionality that needs to be filled. I can track all my walks, sleep and weight but I can't track cycling. Bah.
Apologies if there are indeed plans to make the FitBit app track cycling.
I have a charge HR and would like to add cycling as an activity and the ability to add/edit the step equivalent (having a chart or suggestion for this would be great). For example an hour long pretty intense spin class registered an equivalent of about 1200 steps. This seems very low...from other equivalency charts it should be more like 15000 - 19000. At the very least I'd like to be able to edit this to be more reflective of actual activity.
The only reason I really care is for my own step count and participating in challenges, fitness wise I focus more on effort and calories (though I would like these editable as well as the suggested burn from fitbit is low as well. )
The Surge will track cycling when the April firmware release is distributed.
If you have an iPhone 5S or newer (not the 5c), MobileTrack, which is an internal app that you can set up as a "second tracker," might work for cycling. (I have a 5c so I can't check this.)
I use Strava, for mapping my rides, my iPhone battery will last 8-10 hours depending on weather. I just wish Fitbit HR monitors worked better at higher BPM, and would show on Strava.
A bike mode with Fitbit Surge only makes sense given that it has a GPS and you can track your runs, along with instanteous rate (min per mile); a feature that led me to purchase a Fitbit Surge over other products on the market. A bike mode in Fitbit Surge should be able to do the same thing, except display speed in miles per hour, or kilometers per hour, along with total distance ridden.
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