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They finally added ebike and emtb modes to the Fenix. Rejoice!

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It's a slow roll out. On reddit garmin said they have rolled out 10% so far and everyone else will be done in due course. Rob just lucked out
 
Gordyboy said:
So does Strava now separate out ebike rides from acoustic rides automatically (be awesome if it does :cool: ).
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It has been doing so for over a year. After strava sync, you see a notification: "This looks to be an ebike ride... confirm?"
 
jerry said:
It has been doing so for over a year. After strava sync, you see a notification: "This looks to be an ebike ride... confirm?"
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Only if you remember to log onto Strava to tell it manually that it was an ebike ride. If you forget to log on and change it it’ll still record it as an regular bike ride.

now it should automatically upload it as an ebike ride and no need to do anything on the Strava side.
 
ill this roll out across all the watches? I have a Vivoactive 3 music, would be nice to have this.
 
R120 said:
ill this roll out across all the watches? I have a Vivoactive 3 music, would be nice to have this.
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It isn't listed on the Garmin forum update notes for the Vivo 3, or Vivo 4, or Fenix 5+.
Only seems to be in the Fenix 6 update of the ones I checked.
 
Whats the actual difference ?'Is it only to be categorized correctly on Strava - because I dont see any difference in Connect.
 
I like to upload my ebike rides onto Strava as normal bike rides. Keeps those pesky kom chasing road toads at bay!
 
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Rob Rides EMTB said:
Only if you remember to log onto Strava to tell it manually that it was an ebike ride. If you forget to log on and change it it’ll still record it as an regular bike ride.

now it should automatically upload it as an ebike ride and no need to do anything on the Strava side.
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Rob, I do not see an ebike option on my Strava account. Where would I find it?
 
I have V24.10 (1 November 2021) on my Fenix 5X and it’s not showing any e-bike specific activity options. Perhaps still coming🤞.
 
Thanks for letting us know. I’d have completely missed this. Long overdue.

I’ve added “ebike field nerd style” to the EMTB activity as well. I already had this installed and it was pretty easy to add it to the new activity screens.
 
Think I need a Garmin watch. Which is best to buy?
I have no clue and I'm no techy but was looking at a couple of fenix models on amazon black friday deals.
Sensible advice be appreciated thanks
 
Paul C said:
Think I need a Garmin watch. Which is best to buy?
I have no clue and I'm no techy but was looking at a couple of fenix models on amazon black friday deals.
Sensible advice be appreciated thanks
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Amazon seem to have really good deals on the 6x pro at the mo 👍

That would be the model i’d recommend
 
Fenix is too heavy for me....after some weeks I cannot have it on 24/7.
Using Fenix 4-5-6 and some special editions.

Now I'm on Loadrunner 945LTE, which has the updated pulse sensor, as the Venu2 was the first to get.
It also has eMTB profile.
 
Update: Garmin have paused the roll out of v20 due to battery drain issues. They’re working on a fix which will either be pushed as a reworked v20 or v20.10 depending on current firmware on the device.

// From Garmin support.
 
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