Originally Posted by
Milton Keynes
Well, for one thing, as people have pointed out, bikes can be transported so if it's a GPS unit it will read the distance/speed of the drive to the start of the ride and the drive home as part of the ride. And frankly, it's no big deal to push a button. When I ride, I have to turn on all my bike lights, so activating Strava at the beginning of a ride and then shutting it off at the end is no big deal.
I think that it's such a silly conversation for members to come up with a device solution for somebody who doesn't want to have to push a button to start a ride, and also comments on not needing or wanting to push a button/turn a key to operate a car, push some buttons to operate a microwave, push buttons on a TV remote, on a phone, etc..... Kind of odd really, the world is now full of electronic devices that all require button pushes, maybe the OP is just old and cranky like me and is tired of all the intrusive technology in our lives. I used to write down in a book, the particulars of a ride as generated by my old style cycling computer. Then in the early 2000's migrated to a cloud based activity log that was much more useful, then discovered that a Garmin could track the activity and upload automatically to the cloud, I could view my information and go back and add data like "charged Di2", which then told me how many miles ridden between charges. A crap ton of useful and sometimes useless data. Having be able to give me TBT on roads I was not familiar with was a game changer and made the device worthwhile and I'm perfectly happy to push buttons to gain that utility.