Has something changed @Jane11 

Good luck! in my case, with thinkrider x5 neo trainer and Powerful app, it still doesn't work, it's outrageous.

It has been a few days now. Looks like it has been been solved when virtual ride is done from iFIT. Let’s wait a couple more roses just to be sure 

something HAS changed !!! Weird that isn’t it 

For me nothing change.

If someone from Strava analyzes the case reflectively, they would realize that the opposite makes sense, that is, if you do a roller activity, that you cannot change it to a normal bicycle, so as not to falsify records, just the opposite of what we are being made to falsify records unintentionally.  I have had several complaints for appearing as a KOM in sectors made with a roller.  In short, Strava shows signs of extreme inflexibility.

I  am on a roll here.. maybe I should ask about virtual rowing.

i create rowing workouts in iFIT they are virtual but they come in Strava as physical rows. No possibility to change the activity type.. shame that.. thus me having to specify on the activity title that it actually is a virtual Row. Please Strava 

That was short lived…. Today s ride came up a physical ride

Hello,

Thanks to all who have replied and commented on this topic.  As previously mentioned, Virtual Ride/Run activity types are reserved for activities which contain GPS, distance, elevation, and time data from a simulated (virtual) route. The activity must be originally recorded as a virtual activity using a supported virtual trainer or treadmill.

We understand that a number of you have used the virtual activity type in the past to keep your indoor ride statistics separate from outdoor rides.  You may be interested in this idea which was submitted as a feature suggestion on our Ideas Board.   We encourage you to add any additional comments and votes/kudos to it. 

Each one of you has valuable feedback on how to improve Strava. We love hearing from you and will do what we can to surface hot topics and trends to our product teams.  Thanks for your continued feedback and input.

@Jane11 My last few gym bike (iFit) rides have imported as Virtual!

Amazing that isn’t it.. I have the same symptoms as you 🤪 my rides are coming in without ANY change on my use of iFIT as virtual ride. My next fight, enabling me to change a virtual row done in iFIT. It comes into Strava as a real row, but I CaNNOT change it afterwards… bummer that isn’t it 

I've enjoyed using Strava over the past few years. I like to keep my Virtual Rides (inside rides) stats separate from my outside rides. I'm not interested in competing against anyone else. It's all about keeping track of how well I'm doing and where I can improve on a daily basis. I don't understand why there was a need to make the change in the first place. A simple fix to this issue would be to just put it back the way it was. It worked fine the way it was, Please put it back the way it was. 

I am upset now. iFIT pushed an update onto my bike...Didn’t finish. Bike is now KO. Raised a ticket with the iFIT people. Anyhow, I am making up for this with my rower, BUT this now comes up as a real row and not virtual.

can’t change into a Virtual Row. Noticed that they are also some rowing segments.. and well you know the story. Please Strava, allow me to change my Row Activity into a Virtual Row Acticity. 
thank you 

Dont take away functionality! Just had layoffs at Strava, im ready to walk away. I need virtual rides back

Maybe more layoffs would help. Being reactive to your base seems like 101 level stuff

I do not use GPS at all except rarely. It now insists that every ride I do is a 'virtual ride' and it won't let me change that.

Sad that the majority of us seem to be using virtual ride for our indoor bikes on trainers (dumb or smart).  And now there's no option for that.  This is really not a good solution. To remove something that people use regularly and offer no solution.

I have read the request for an "indoor trainer" or "dumb trainer" ride - and at this point I just hope you give us something.

Am I missing something?  Until very recently, I had a "virtual biking" Strava biking type option, like gravel or mountain (which are excellent options).  The app is still linked to my Wahoo account and smart trainer - and records rides - but the option to chose a "virtual ride" as type has disappeared. Last year, I could make my trainer the default bike in the winter.  But a recent app uptake wiped away that option.  Could you clarify what why we can no longer chose virtual rides as types and how we can change the default bike (because this too is no longer obvious)?

No your not missing anything, they removed the option, and even though loads of people on this thread and others have highlighted how stupid that is they don't listen 😕😕

That idea doesn't work! Please give us an "Indoor ride" or put "virtual ride" back the way it was!

Along with others here, I am considering not renewing my Strava. The overwhelming response to this change - in multiple threads - should tell you to listen to your paying customers.
PLEASE don't try to justify the change - do something positive about it.

What’s going on? I can’t record my Knetic ride as virtual anymore. This is not acceptable. Please bring this feature beck. 

Virtual was working for my wahoo kicke till early last week. It is now registrating kicker activities as normal rides which is incorrect 

This is understandable but leaves out spin classes for me with heart rate monitor data.
I can either enter the ride manually as virtual ride without HRM data or record the class as a ride to pick up the HRM.

The feature I would like is a way to capture spin classes where HRM data is captured and I can manually enter other data like distance, cadence, power from data on the bike screen.

thank you