September brought your bike records into the conversation. Componentry now connects to Claude, so you can ask what needs attention and get an answer from your own bikes. Each bike also keeps its receipts and insurance, electronic groupsets pair as sensors, and reminders follow a part when it's replaced. Here's what shipped.
Ask Claude About Your Bikes, and Get Answers From Your Own Records
Ask what needs attention before the weekend, how worn a part is, when you'll need a new chain, or what was replaced at your last service. Connect Componentry to Claude and the answer comes from your own bikes, with the same cards and figures you see in Componentry. It works in Claude on the web, the desktop app, and the mobile apps, and you only connect once.
You can also set up a bike, add or correct parts, record a service, and create reminders from the conversation. Claude shows you what it's about to save and only saves once you agree, and it can't delete anything. The steps are under AI assistants in your account, and the guide covers what it can and can't see.
Keep Your Bike's Paperwork With the Bike
The moment you need a receipt is rarely a convenient one: a theft claim, a warranty question, a resale listing. Each bike now keeps its purchase date, price, and receipts, plus an insurance policy with a reminder before it renews. You choose how much warning you want, from a week to 60 days, and the reminder repeats every year.
Service logs and maintenance checks take the workshop's invoice too, as a photo or a PDF. Every bike also shows how far it has really been ridden, including the distance it covered before you started tracking it, and you can correct that starting figure. Available on web and mobile.
Pair Your Groupset Once, and Every Ride Finds the Right Bike
Your head unit already records your Shimano Di2 or SRAM AXS groupset on every ride. Componentry now lists it under Sensors as electronic shifting. A groupset stays on one bike, so pair it once and every ride it records goes to that bike, even when you swap wheels or power pedals between bikes. Sensors shows a count of anything still waiting to be paired.
You can also add and name sensors yourself, and those names appear on ride battery badges and in low-battery alerts. Sensors your head unit connects to over Bluetooth, such as many power meters, now identify the bike as well.
Reminders That Follow the Part and Stay Due Until the Work Is Done
Replace a part during a service and its reminders now move to the new part, with the same schedule and a fresh start from the day it went on. A new chain keeps its lube schedule, so its power-loss estimate stays accurate. Retire a part with nothing fitted in its place and its reminders go with it.
A reminder that comes due now stays overdue until you complete it, and the next one is scheduled from the day you did the work. You can pause a reminder and resume it later, and the reminders page filters by bike.
Also Shipped This Month
- Activities open as their own screen in the app. Your route is drawn across the top when the ride arrived from Strava with one attached.
- See what changed after an update. Release notes appear the first time you open Componentry after an update, on web and mobile, and stay available under What's new in Settings.
- New component types. You can now add a derailleur cage or oversized pulley wheel system as its own component, along with track wheels and track tyres.
- Every Garmin cycling profile now syncs. Gravel, mountain bike, cyclocross, and e-bike rides come through along with the rest. Run a Garmin historical import from the Apps page to fill in any rides that were skipped.
- Paired rides count their power. Pair a head unit ride with its Strava activity and Strava's power feeds the chain wear model, which matters most if you ride without a power meter.
- A refreshed help centre. Every guide has been checked against the app as it is today, with new guides and screenshots throughout.
- A faster mobile app. It starts quicker, uses less memory, and is ready for iOS 27. The minimum iOS version is now 16.4.
A Round of Fixes
- Rides no longer appear twice after connecting a head unit. With Strava history already imported, the Garmin, Wahoo, or Hammerhead copy of each ride was added alongside it and both counted towards wear. The head unit ride now replaces the Strava copy and keeps your title, route, bike, and tags. Affected rides have been merged and the wear recalculated.
- Every ride on a two-ride day now counts. A second ride recorded on your phone the same afternoon was being read as the head unit ride from earlier. Rides are now matched on start time and distance together.
- Phone-recorded rides arrive on their own. With a head unit connected, a ride recorded another way now comes in as soon as Strava publishes it.
- Turbo trainer rides count as indoor. Trainer sessions recorded on a head unit were being read as outdoor rides. They're now classified as indoor and existing rides have been corrected, so wear lands on your indoor setup.
- Indoor rides find your trainer bike. When no sensor identifies the bike, an indoor or virtual ride goes to the bike with an indoor profile.
- Chain lube tracking holds until you lube the chain. A repeating lube reminder coming due was being treated as a fresh lube, which reset the distance since your last one. The clock now restarts only when you complete the reminder or log the lube in a service.
- Strava imports from your phone arrive complete, with the route and the weather you rode in. Re-run an import over a date range and older rides are topped up without duplicates.
- Distance reminders created on the web now use your distance unit. If yours isn't the default, check the intervals on reminders you set up on the web before this update.
- Long sessions stay steady. Pages no longer arrive half empty after a while spent moving between bikes, activities, and service logs.
On the Blog
13 new guides this month:
- How to Replace Handlebar Tape: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide — wrap direction, handling the levers, and the signs it's time.
- Hydraulic Brake Fluid: Why It Needs Attention Even Though You Can't See It — how often to bleed, and why mineral oil and DOT can never be swapped.
- Basic Bike Maintenance at Home: The Tools, Skills, and What to Leave to a Shop — a realistic starter kit and the six skills worth learning first.
- Best Bike Maintenance App in 2026 — seven apps compared on features, integrations, and pricing.
- Suspension Service Intervals: Why Fork and Shock Service Is Measured in Hours, Not Miles — what Fox and RockShox mean by ride hours.
- How Long Does a Bike Last? The Frame Usually Isn't What Fails First — how steel, aluminum, carbon, and titanium each fail.
- Bike Maintenance Resources: The Best Places to Learn, and When to Use Each — organised by what you're trying to learn.
- Wheel Bearing Service: When to Service High-End Hubs Like Chris King or DT Swiss — what each manufacturer publishes, and how to tell if yours is overdue.
- How to Do Your Own Basic Bike Maintenance With Componentry — turning what you know into a tracked, repeatable routine.
- Bike Maintenance App vs Spreadsheet: What Each One Actually Requires From You — where a spreadsheet holds up and where it breaks down.
- The Watts You Can Actually Recover: Componentry's Drivetrain Breakdown Comes to Mobile — recoverable watts split into contamination, lubrication, and chain stretch.
- How to Track Bike Mileage by Component, Not Just Per Bike — why the bike's odometer and the chain's are two different numbers.
- When to Replace a Chainring: Signs of Wear on the Part Nobody Checks — what worn teeth look like when there's no manufacturer spec to go by.