Hi everyone, my first new bike in 17 years is incoming! Does anyone use a good maintenance app to keep track of things like ages of components, when to rewax chains, etc? I’ve been using just a spreadsheet but I was wondering if there was a more elegant solution.
Thanks
If you use iOS then I can recommend mainTrack:
Otherwise Pro Bike Garage is another popular choice with apps for both iOS and Android:
ProBikeGarage. This app does require you to have a Strava account because that’s where it’s getting your activities. I believe the app developer is considering also getting the activity data from Garmin Connect because Strava has been making it challenging for developers.
Pro bike garage would be great if they do go to Garmin for me.i don’t use Strava. Only thing then is I would have to make sure that I change the bike in the “gear section”
If you’re on Strava, you can do it there. If you go to your profile and the ‘Bikes’ menu, if you click on one of the bikes, you can add components (or retire components) and Strava will keep track of the date installed, date removed, and the kilometers of use.
This is true but it’s such an underdone and neglected feature. It’s way better to install a free app, connect it to Strava and let it help you out. The maintenance reminder features alone are worthwhile. The interface for entering and replacing parts are also much improved.
Try out Hubtiger. I’ve been using it for a couple of years and it does a decent job.
Another option is the Ceramic-Speed app. Imports rides from Strava, supports multiple bikes and individual intervals per component. However lately it’s been a little buggy and I wish I were able to assign more than one of the same component per bike (e.g. wheelsets incl. cassettes, multiple chains). With this I’ve finally convinced my wife to also track her bikes so she can answer my question of “how much riding did you do since I last waxed your chain?”
I might check out one of these other options mentioned here.
I use intervals every day!! Thanks for the notice and thanks for such an awesome product!!
Oh wow - I’m also a big intervals.icu fan. Great to see you here as a member!
I also didn’t realise there was gear tracking on the site. Nice!
There’s a Mac & iPhone app called Rubitrack that is mostly a training-diary and analysis app, but also has equipment usage logging.
I use a good old-fashioned Excel spreadsheet. This has been my go to for the last five or six years. The other part that I really enjoy is when the time comes to sell a bike, I have an entire maintenance log that I include when advertising or sell the bike and give to the buyer. I have been able to get my asking price for each Bike because of this I believe.
I’ve been using intervals for gear & component tracking recently, has been working great, thanks David! Also useful for tracking battery life on some devices I’m testing 
I’ve starting using intervals.icu for my components as well. Love the site David, thank you! I’ve been a supporter fora few years now.
I used to use Maintrack but for my use case, it was too cumbersome. I have a gravel bike with two wheelsets that I often swap around and that was just a pain to handle in Maintrack.
What I’m doing now is I have a Zapier automation that pulls all my strava rides into a Google Sheet. There is a rides sheet and there is an equipment sheet for the bike, with all the bits in a different column. In the rides sheet, I copy everything from the last ride, except if something has changed. Long story short, I can see how much each component has run in handy pivot tables.
That sounds nice as it is independent of any other apps that might just one day be gone. Would you mind sharing your sheet / a template of that?
Sure, I created an almost empty one here:
I have a cargo ebike as well, that’s a lot easier as I don’t swap the bits on that, it’s just tracking things on it.
Basically, when you buy/start using a new component, just add it to the component list and then when you use it, just link on the data sheet - the pivots will pick things up automatically.
This is the Zapier Zap that I have in place - this copies all the necessary info from the Strava ride into a Google Sheets row.
I hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions. I made this for myself, so the way it works might not be super logical for others.
I use the gear tracking and maintenance logs within Ride with GPS. It can be used for both actual activities and also for future reminders.
What I really like about intervals.icu is that as long as your power meter can pass its ID to your GPS unit, intervals can automatically figure out which bicycle was used for a particulare activity. Thus, intervals provides a very accurate usage amount (miles/km and hours) the component (chain, tires, battery) was used.
