Originally Posted by
Steve B.
Can you clarify that the profile for the bike that is set on the unit automatically gets ported up to Sport Tracks upon the completion of the ride and the ride is saved ?
No, what I was trying to say is that I use the equipment feature in the PC/local version of SportTracks to track mileage for maintenance purposes.
Example 1 - I have 17 pieces of equipment that I've entered in SportTracks as "part of" my road bike: two wheels, a pair of pedals, a cassette, brake cables, derailleur cables, chain, chain link, bar tape, two sets of brake pads, rear derailleur, RD hanger, tire 1, tire 2, tube 1, and tube 2.
Example 2 - I have 1 piece of equipment that I've entered in SportTracks as part of our trainer bike: the chain.
For every ride I import into SportTracks, I select which bike I rode. All the parts get updated with the mileage. If I used a different set of wheels (not often, but I might swap them because I've got the usual pair off for the truing stand) then I can easily unselect the individual parts for that ride, and select the original set of wheels which I also entered into SportTracks.
When I take a piece of equipment off the bike long term, such as putting on a new chain, then I uncheck the "currently in use" box for the old chain, and assign the new chain as in use and part of the road bike or the trainer bike.
That way, I always know the hours used, miles used, age, expected remaining life, etc., of every individual piece of equipment I care to track. Seventeen on one bike may be overkill, but it's so easy to set up that after I discovered the feature I figured why not. The same feature can be used for shoes, shorts, whatever you might care to track.
I'm not particularly interested in an on-bike odometer, or a Strava odometer, because I want more detail than those offer. I'm not against them, but they're irrelevant for me, because I'm more interested in the mileage on my chain, cassette, tires, etc. And those come on and off a single bike, and a single odometer reading for a specific bike will not tell me how many miles I've ridden that tire. I've got to keep a record outside the odometer reading for the frame/bike.
[But the 1000's profiles will let you keep individual odometer readings for a bike, as long as you always use the profile exclusively for that bike.]