Originally Posted by
WhyFi
To bump and seek clarification/expansion -
After several months with a 530, I'm finally getting around to setting this up for multiple bikes. I've got an Activity profile named after each bike (just two at this point, one road, one gravel). I have the data screens set up as desired for each bike/activity profile, with appropriate fields for the given sensors on each bike.
Is this as far as it goes? Now I just select/confirm the correct Activity Profile prior to a ride? Is there a way for the 530 to do this automagically based upon available sensors detected? Is there even a way to associate specific sensors with specific bikes/Activity Profiles?
What about the bike under your Gear? Do you still need to change it post-ride if you're not riding your default bike or is there some way of associating the a bike entry under Gear with an Activity Profile?
Thanks in advance!
Yes, that’s it. Activity Profiles could be a better feature if Garmin would get off their collective asses and have that data ported to the Connect app as a completed ride upload. I asked for it about 5 years ago, zip. It would be useful if you could link a pan activity to a particular bike, would the automatically assign a completed activity to a particular “gear” or bike. Right now that’s not available and you have to manually edit the ride info.
The way Garmin deals with sensors is smart. They are agnostic as to which bike or activity you use. The device sees the active sensor and uses the data, thus no need to manually swap or tell the device which sensor is in use. It works, which is not always the case with Garmin stuff, thus I’d leave that alone.