Pro bike garage ride count

31/01/26 16:58 Filed in: Gear

I've been using Pro Bike Garage as my maintenance record and scheduling app since the Feedback Sports maintenance app was sold to another vendor who decided to take it US-only. PBG has some great features that I really appreciate. This entry is about a specific feature that I only noticed the other day. Ride count. If you tap into a specific bike you can head one level deeper and find a whole screen of data, most of which are greyed out for me as someone who paid for the app but doesn't subscribe for premium. But ride count is there.
It prompted me to go into Strava and unretire my old bikes, just to see how many rides they went on.
The numbers weren't that big, really. Peak is my old Madone nearing 1000 rides.
But my DH bikes hardly get any use at all. The old V10 recorded 39 rides in Strava - I think there were a handful not in Strava as at least at first I had no computer on the bike. The newer Sender is only up to 29. I couldn't believe it at first, but if I get in 10ish visits to Thredbo each season and spend half of them on my Enduro bike and half on my DH bike that's only 5 rides per season. And I don't take it out much (at all!) when I have to push it up the hill. So four seasons and 29 rides is correct.
Where it all started to go wrong for me was when the thought of dollars per ride cropped up. My advice - don't go there. Sure, the old Madone and my Checkpoint are both sitting around $6/ride. The price of a cup of coffee for each ride to get coffee? With so few outings, the two DH bikes don't add up. They're in the territory of premium bike hire at resort prices. Sure I could have had someone else's hire bike and never worried about maintenance, but also never having a choice about tyres, grips, position - anything really. I'll stick with my own bike.

Reminds me that my dad used to like talking about how people could save money by taking taxis instead of buying their own car. And for a lot of people that's probably true. But like hiring a bike, taxis remove a lot of choice and freedom. I notice my dad never opted out of car ownership for a taxi. And I don't plan to opt out of bike ownership for a string of hire bikes.

Two of my retired bikes didn't have nearly enough rides on them for expectations: my old commuter Cannondale only had 100 rides and a couple thousand kilometres - I used it for daily commuting for 14 years (around 7000 rides) and my Superfly XC race bike had barely more than 100 rides on it - I probably rode it 100 times just in races. They are clearly missing out on some Strava data. A quick look at old Strava files shows no bicycle associated with each old ride - I don't know when Strava added that feature but clearly not back in 2012 when I first started using the app (and both of these bikes pre-date that).

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Pro bike garage ride count