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Batteries, one-tap service reminders, and Activities on every bike and component

More and more of a bike runs on a battery: electronic shifting, a wireless dropper, power meter pedals, the remote on the bar. Until now WatchMy.bike only knew the e-bike battery. Now every battery can be tracked, setting up a service reminder takes one tap, and the Activities tab of a bike or component looks and works like the Activities page. A lot of this started with an email from a rider who asked for exactly these things: thank you!

Track every battery on your bike

  • Battery is a new service type on any component. Log a charge, or a new coin cell, with Record Service → Battery

  • After two charges you see how many times you've charged it and how long the last charge lasted, in km and riding hours

  • A battery icon next to the wear ring shows roughly how much charge is left, on the component cards and the component's Overview

  • When it needs charging, it shows as Charge due in your dashboard's To do, and on the Condition page with a battery icon and a Charge badge

  • About to ride on the dashboard lists your bike's batteries, emptiest first

  • Two new component types: Shifting Battery (Drivetrain), for a removable Di2 or AXS battery you move between parts, and Remote (Cockpit), for dropper remotes, lockouts and AXS Pods

How it works, step by step: https://watchmy.bike/help/maintenance/track-batteries

Service reminders with one tap

  • Every component and bike now shows Add with one tap suggestions in its Service Intervals: for example Chain wax / lube every 300 km and Check chain wear every 1,000 km on a chain, Lower leg service every 50 h and Damper service every 125 h on a fork, Dropper service every 200 h, Brake bleed and Full bike service every 12 months on a bike. One tap creates it, tracking from today

  • Battery suggestions too: Charge battery every 20 h on an AXS derailleur and 45 h on a dropper, Power meter battery every 40 h, Replace coin cell every 18 months. They sit a little before the maker's number on purpose: a charge too early costs nothing, an empty battery mid-ride costs you your gears

  • The values come from the manufacturers (RockShox, Fox, SRAM, Favero, Garmin) and from my parts lifespan guide. Every number stays editable

  • Just added a component? It asks Set up reminders? with the ones that fit already ticked. Untick what you don't want, or Skip

  • Add Interval shows the same Suggestions at the top of the form, so a tap fills in the name, the interval and what it records as

An interval remembers what kind of service it is

The interval form has a new Records as setting. A Charge battery reminder records as Battery, a chain lube one as Lubrication, so Record Service on that reminder already has the right type selected. Suggestions set it for you.

Lubrication, and name your own service

  • Lubrication is its own service type now, next to Cleaning

  • Pick Custom in Record Service and type what you did ("Replaced cleat bolts"). That name shows in your service history instead of "Custom". A reminder that records as Custom fills in its own name

  • Utilities → Record Service: after Just log a service you can tap what you did ("Or pick what you did:"), so a lower leg service or a charge gets its own type and reminder

Activities on every bike and component

  • The Activities tab of a bike and of a component now works like the Activities page: one year at a time, the calendar and weeks chart, and the activity details next to the list, with Outdoor / Indoor

  • On a component you only see the activities that counted for it. Where a wear rule counted less, the row says how much it counted. When a component was on more than one bike, you can filter by bike, and opening an activity highlights the component in its list

  • The totals on both tabs are a compact row now, so on a phone you get to the activities straight away

  • On the Activities page itself you can Search titles (handy for your #tags) and filter by ride type: Road, MTB, Gravel, E-bike or E-MTB

Smaller things

  • On a phone, the Service Intervals header no longer cuts off Add Interval

Questions or ideas about any of this? Let me know, I read everything.