Need Help Adding Steps to Bike Rides

[CapnHarry]

From what I've seen in the Community most people are on the oppsite page to me on this topic and do not want biking to count as steps.  My wife, daughter, son-in-law, and I compete in step count.  I'm at a disadvantage because the bulk of my exercise comes from rollerblading and biking.  The rollerblading is fine as far as steps go but I'm getting shorted when I bike.  I've seen posts where people have manually put in their steps but I don't believe it was for the Surge.  I did 18.7 miles today at a moderate pace and according to Purdue's WalkTheMoon webpage this would be the equivalent of 16490 steps.  My dashboard says 3500.  Granted this is about half again what I usually bike in an outing but my daughter and her guy are about 30K ahead of me and I was looking to make a dent in the gap.  I'd like to be able to correct this manually.  Anyone know how?

[SteveH]

It's a tricky one. The basic problem is that when biking you don't actually take any steps so you have to try and cheat the system.

You could manually log the steps (this works for any fitbit model) but the issue here is that manually logged steps don't count towards challenges or badges.

You could try to fix the fitbit to your ankle in the hope that it registers more steps. It may, but it will get your calorie burn wrong as it will think the movement of your ankle it detects is your wrist moving.

The other option - and one which you won't like - is to accept that step challenges are for steps and that biking simply doesn't count.