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Gear Distance Not Counted from Backdated Start Date

  • July 26, 2025
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Hi Strava Support,

I recently discovered the gear tracking feature and added my bike to my account. I set the gear's start date to a point in the past (when I actually started using it), but I noticed that Strava only begins counting kilometers from the date I added the gear — not from the backdated start date I selected.

At the time I started using the bike, I wasn’t aware of the gear feature. It would be very helpful if Strava could retroactively assign past activities to gear based on the chosen start date.

Is there a way to apply gear to past activities automatically based on that date, or is manual editing the only option?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Boštjan

Best answer by bx90_2

thanks again, I have solved it … I have done it with StatsHunters 👍

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Jana_S
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  • July 26, 2025

Hi ​@bx90_2 

the fact that you have the gear doesn't mean it was used. It needs to be assigned to specific activities to have the mileage counted. 

People often have more gear and use different equipment for different activities. So I would have multiple pairs of running shoes and assign those that I’ve actually used - and a pair bought ~2 years ago might have lower mileage than another purchased only this year. 

Bottom line is - yes you’ll need to edit the past activities and add the gear. 

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  • July 26, 2025

thank you very much ... yes that is it … now I have to asign this bike to all past activities, but now I get another question: is there any way to choose maybe all Ride acivities and add a gear (bike) to all at once?

 

thank you in advance

Jana_S
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  • July 26, 2025

Not directly in Strava. Maybe some 3rd party tool..? 🤔 ​@ActivityFix I hope it's ok to tag you - can your app do that?

​@bx90_2  edit to add: this is the app I mean, https://activityfix.com but I don't use it myself so I’m not sure whether it can do this kind of mass-update of past activities (hence tagging its author to help here)

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  • July 26, 2025

yes, thank you

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  • July 26, 2025

thanks again, I have solved it … I have done it with StatsHunters 👍

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  • July 26, 2025

Not directly in Strava. Maybe some 3rd party tool..? 🤔 ​@ActivityFix I hope it's ok to tag you - can your app do that?

​@bx90_2  edit to add: this is the app I mean, https://activityfix.com but I don't use it myself so I’m not sure whether it can do this kind of mass-update of past activities (hence tagging its author to help here)

All good to tag me, and yes it can do that. But it looks like the problem has been solved already 🙂


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