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It's a shame that this won't be prioritized. It makes the gear tracking feature inconvenient enough that I don't rely on it, which makes it pretty useless. My indoor bike and outdoor bike are two separate bikes, but I have to manually change it every time. I don't want inaccurate mileage on my outdoor bike. 

Adding my support for this idea. I have my bike added as equipment and have it as a default for rides but then when I ride and sync a Peloton ride, Strava can't distinguish so I have to manually remove my bike every time. Alternatively, if I removed my bike as the default, I'd have to manually add my bike for every outdoor ride

It's such a simple change… Don't understand why Strava resists

It's particularly frustrating because Strava has so many different types of cycling rides: Ride, E-Bike Ride, Virtual Ride, Mountain Bike Ride, Gravel Ride, E-Mountain Bike Ride… So it would be so easy to add another and the resistance to a stationary bike without some weird distinction for Virtual Rides is arbitrary and feels more like a eff-you too people who use stationary bikes

I'll point out that the Garmin app was able to handle this