Pairing a Sensor with a Bike
Pair a sensor with the bike it's fitted to, and optionally pin a profile, so new rides are matched to that bike automatically.
Setting up automatic matching for the first time? Start with Auto-matching rides to bikes.
Pairing tells Componentry which bike a sensor lives on. From then on, any new ride that records that sensor is matched to that bike, and wear is added to its components.
Which sensors to pair
Pair sensors that stay on one bike:
- Electronic Shifting (Di2 or AXS groupset)
- Power Meter fitted to the bike, such as a crank or spider power meter
- Speed Sensor, Cadence Sensor or Speed/Cadence Sensor mounted on the bike or on a wheel
Leave a sensor unpaired if you move it between bikes, such as power pedals you swap around. If one ride records sensors paired with two different bikes, Componentry goes with the sensor most firmly fixed to the frame: an electronic groupset first, then a power meter, then a speed or cadence sensor. The ride's profile then comes from that bike. Keep each pairing to the bike the sensor is actually fitted to so it never has to choose.
Heart rate monitors and trainers can't be paired; they never decide the bike.
Pair from the Sensors page
- Open Sensors and click Edit on the sensor's card.
- Choose the bike under Pair with Bike.
- Optionally choose a Profile (see below).
- Click Update.
The card now shows the bike under Paired Gear, and the sensor drops out of the unpaired count in the menu.
To remove a pairing, open Edit and click Unlink, or choose Unpair sensor under Pair with Bike and click Update.
Pin a profile to a sensor
If a bike has profiles, you can pin one to a sensor. Every ride matched through that sensor then uses the pinned profile, ahead of the Indoor/Outdoor match and the bike's default profile.
The classic case is a sensor that only goes on the bike with one setup: a speed sensor on the hub of your race wheels, or a power meter built into one wheelset. Pin it to Race and rides with those wheels only wear the race wheels.
- In the sensor's Edit sheet, pick the bike first. The Profile list only offers that bike's profiles.
- Choose a profile, or Auto (use bike default) to let the bike's usual profile rules decide.
- Click Update. The bike and profile save together.
Changing a sensor's bike clears its pinned profile, because a profile belongs to one bike. Deleting a profile sets any sensor pinned to it back to Auto.
The bike's How profiles work panel names any sensor pinned to one of its profiles.
Pair from a bike's settings
You can also manage sensors from the bike itself:
- Open the bike and click Settings.
- Paired sensors lists the sensors paired with this bike. Click Unpair to unpair one.
- Pair a sensor lists bike sensors that aren't paired with any bike. Click Pair to pair one with this bike. Heart rate monitors and trainers aren't offered.
Pairing or unpairing a sensor here clears any profile pinned to it, so a sensor moved to another bike never brings the old bike's profile with it. Pinning a profile is only available from the Sensors page. The bike's page also shows a Connected Sensors card with everything paired to it.
What happens to past rides
Pairing only affects rides that arrive after you pair. Rides already in Componentry keep their bike. To move older rides onto the bike, select them on the Activities page and use Assign Bike; see Activities.
Troubleshooting
A sensor I use isn't on the Sensors page. It appears after its first ride arrives as a FIT file from Garmin, Wahoo or Hammerhead, or from Upload FIT files. Rides that only come from Strava don't include sensor details.
A ride went to the wrong bike. Check the pairings of the sensors on that ride (the badges under Reported Electronics show the ones that reported a battery level). A sensor that moved bikes is the usual cause.
The ride went to my default bike instead. None of the sensors on that ride are paired with a bike. See Auto-matching rides to bikes for the full order.