Choose which activities wear a component

By default, every component on a bike counts every activity on that bike.
That's right for a chain or a bottom bracket, but wrong for parts you
swap by activity: trainer wheels and outdoor wheels, winter and summer
tyres, or six pairs of shoes where you only wear one pair per activity.

There are two ways to fix that, and you can use them together:

• Ride types: indoor or outdoor, and road, MTB, gravel,
  e-bike or e-MTB. This uses what Strava already knows about each activity.
  You set it once and never think about it again.
• Tags: your own words, like roadshoes or winter, that you
  put in the Strava activity title as a hashtag. This is for the choices
  Strava can't know about, like which pair of shoes you wore.

If you set neither, nothing changes: every activity counts, as before.

Ride types

Use this when a part only belongs to one kind of activity, for example a
wheelset that lives on the trainer.

1. Open the component and stay on its Overview tab.

2. Find the Which activities wear this card.

3. Switch off Include all activities.

4. Tap the chips you want:

   • Where: Indoor or Outdoor. Indoor means an activity marked as a
     trainer activity or a virtual ride (Zwift and similar).
   • Type: Road, MTB, Gravel, E-bike, E-MTB. This is the sport type
     you pick in Strava.

   Tap once to include (filled), twice to exclude (struck through),
   a third time to clear.

5. Check the summary line ("Counts: Outdoor · Gravel or MTB") and select
   Save.

How the chips combine:

• Inside a group, any chip counts: Gravel + MTB means gravel or MTB
  activities.
• Across groups, both must match: Outdoor + Gravel means outdoor gravel
  activities only.
• An excluded chip always wins: not E-bike skips every e-bike activity.

If the component is on more than one bike, you get one rule per bike. The
same wheels can be trainer-only on one bike and outdoor-only on another.

You can also set a rule while installing a component: open Which
activities wear this in the install or Add to another bike window.

The bike's own indoor setting (on the bike's settings page) still
applies first. If the bike doesn't count indoor activities toward wear,
an Indoor rule on one of its components won't add wear there. The
card warns you when that happens.

Tags

Use tags when the choice is yours, not Strava's: which pair of shoes, or
which set of seasonal parts.

Make your tags

1. Go to Components and open the Tags tab.
2. Add a tag, for example roadshoes. A tag is one word: letters, digits
   or _, up to 30 characters. Don't type a space; road shoes would be
   read as two words in Strava.
3. Optional: sort tags into groups. Tags in the same group compete
   with each other (see below). A typical setup:
   • Shoes: roadshoes, mtbshoes, gravelshoes
   • Season: winter, summer

Put tags on components

• From the Tags page: select N components next to a tag and tick
  the components that carry it. Handy for putting winter on your fenders,
  winter tyres and lights in one go.
• From a component: in the Which activities wear this card, use
  Add a tag… (or type a new one) and select Save.

How an activity picks components

When an activity's title contains one of your tags, each group is checked
on its own:

• The title names a tag from a group → components with tags in that group
  only count the activity if they carry one of the named tags.
• The title names nothing from a group → that group has no effect.
• Components without tags always count, like your chain.

Example with the setup above:

Hashtags that aren't one of your tags (#coffeeride) are ignored. So is
case: #RoadShoes matches roadshoes. A tag has to match the whole word,
so #road doesn't match roadshoes.

Forgot the hashtag? Then the activity counts for everything, the same as
before you had tags. Nothing silently stops counting.

Setting it up in Strava

WatchMy.bike only reads your activities. It never changes anything in
Strava, so the hashtags and sport types are things you set in Strava itself.

Add a hashtag to the activity title

Put the tag anywhere in the title, with a # in front: Sunday loop #roadshoes.

• Strava app, right after an upload from a device: the Quick Edit
  sheet opens by itself. Edit the title and select Done.
  (Strava: Activity Quick Edit)
• Strava app, any activity: open the activity, tap the ⋯ menu in
  the top right, choose Edit, change the title and save.
• Strava website: open the activity, select the pencil icon on the
  left, change the title and select Save.

The hashtag goes in the title. Strava also has its own built-in
Activity Tags (Race, Commute, Workout and a few more). Those are a
different thing and aren't read for this feature.

Set the sport type (for ride types)

The Type chips use the sport type you choose in Strava: Ride, Mountain
Bike Ride, Gravel Ride, E-Bike Ride or E-Mountain Bike Ride. If an
activity was saved as the wrong one, change it:

• Strava app: open the activity → ⋯ → Edit → tap the current
  sport type → pick the right one → save.
• Strava website: open the activity → pencil icon → Sport
  drop-down → Save.

(Strava: How do I change my activity type?)

Indoor activities are recognised from Strava's trainer flag or the
Virtual Ride sport type, which Zwift and similar apps set for you.

When do changes show up?

After you edit an activity in Strava, Strava tells WatchMy.bike and the
component distances are recalculated automatically, usually within a
few minutes. Past activities count too. Adding a hashtag to an activity from
last month moves that activity's distance to the right component.

Changing your mind

• Every change to a rule or a tag recalculates the whole history of the
  components involved, including their service intervals. The card tells
  you the old and new distance.
• Renaming a tag doesn't rename anything in Strava. Activities whose
  titles still use the old word stop matching, and the Tags page warns you
  before you confirm.
• Deleting a tag or a group removes it from its components, and their
  distances are recalculated.