Anything for Peloton miles?... Asking for a friend.

 Every degree below 0 C should add an extra point per mile.

 Seriously. This challenge is biased against those of us whose trails are closed and the roads are icy mud and dangerous AF. At least wait until fatbiking starts in earnest

 I was gonna say this, for me, temps are dipping into the teens (F) and there’s more snow and ice to come.

 No, no, that doesn't sound fair at all... From Australia where the weather is positively barmy and there are next to no virus restrictions. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going for a 3hr ride...

 @bonkmasterflex: you can ride in your driveway and get points as long and if you record it on Trailforks, twice as many points. You get to play and not pay a dime. Congratulations and good luck.

 @Ktron: he he he.... !! Nice!!

 Both? lol

 But Strava syncs to Trailforks so... pretty sure that also counts.

 @TekNullIOG: You get a 2x multiplier bonus if you record using Trailforks.

 @TekNullIOG: I don't think so in this case. Just like the Emily Batty challenge last year, you must use the Trailforks app to hit "record" to make it count. The Garmin/Strava sync'd data doesn't count towards these competitions. Even though they are sync'd and can be seen in your Trailforks account, they don't count towards the challenge.

 @neons97: Strava and Garmin syncs count, and have in all the previous competitions. The only difference is you get a bit more points if you use the Trailforks App to record in this contest.

 @canadaka: I tried using Trailforks to track my ride today but even with all power management disabled for the app, I literally had to restart it about 10 times and it would never make it through a trail without it getting killed/crashing or whatever happens.
In fact I kept an eye on it and double checked my settings, still logged about half the distance according to the app. compared to Strava, so the 2x multiplier wouldn't really pay off I don't check my phone every few minutes
I know you're working on native apps but if you'd like some details shoot me a PM!

 It’s Kms in USD

 Like pounds but for distance.

 @N-60: 17.6 football fields of distance.

 @RonSauce: 16 Canadian football fields

 that's typo there should be Smiles guess

 I always default to metric, but I lost this battle. Our largest audience is in the USA, so the contest was optimized for it. :/

 a bike chain that has 123 795 links, hope that helps

 @canadaka: Force them to change! Don't punish the rest of us! Maybe a Trailforks contest will be the trigger to allow the USA to catch up to the 20th century!! You'll be famous!

 @juicebanger: 4.89 European football fields.

 How many inches is that?

 Freedom digits.

 @joostd: men perceive it as 10 but women know it’s 5.

 About 36 165 AAA batteries

 16475.47 doughnuts per guns

 @juicebanger:
Or 27 vacant hockey rinks.

 @johnnygolucky:
Internet inches?

 @johnnygolucky: derived from the British Imperial System. So unlikely.

 @BreakLikeTheWind: more like Free Dumb digits

 It is equivalent to 40,480 Timbits

 You're a sick motherf**ker Mack

 Quit your job so you can ride all day. Problem solved.

 Lights!

 Stick some lights on and get to it, our trails are covered in snow already aaaand it gets dark at 4

 And we have a couple feet of snow five months a year.

 @Jvisscher: I live in Kelowna and it's more like 2-4 months of the year

 @lehott: I moved to 100 Mile (four years ago) after living on Dilworth and Kal Lake and Joe Rich since the 80's. The snow shows up in Oct. here and doesn't melt until april or may. A lot like Joe Rich. I rode in snow on our trails in the 99 in october and it melted off in may of this year.

 @garrisond5: My Job disappeared so I genuinely do this. Every cloud :oD

 Oooh look at you showing off with your not locked down gainful employment still

 @garrisond5: Hahah it would be great if someone created a matrix table with the 2 options and optimised it for the time it takes to earn the set. My math skills end here, waiting for a smart cat to solve it.

 Move to Cornwall and you'll get pasties and more light

 My thoughts exactly.

 Also my first thought

 They just found out. COVID delays.

 Chill, your head might start leaking.

 I heard Russia actually hacked the contest with $5k of Facebook ads. Time to spend the next 3 years and hundreds of millions on nothing lmao!

 @stonant if Ur not first Ur last

 Yeah, distance is a pretty silly metric. My road bike commute is on a flat, paved bike path, and Trailforks recognized it.

 Yes this exactly, I’d love a Trailforks Apple Watch app

 to be honest. I just came back form a 2h ride at 7 degrees C and used TF for recording and it only used around 10% battery. I expected worse, especially with my old phone. I set it at 5sec Intervalls, so that helps.

 @mitochris: I just came back from a ride a bit over 3 and a half hours, sub-freezing temps mostly (north Utah canyons/mountains), brought a battery backup but didn't even get below 50% until the very end... started at full charge, only lost about 8% over a 2k foot descent. Honestly very pleasantly surprised.

 A minimap on Apple Watches would be a game changer! I do not like having my phone mounted on my handlebars and my cycle computer does not display a map, so just being able to quickly look at my wrist to see where I am on the trail would be a sweet feature

 Ok update did an hour 45 min ride today started at 70- something% and I'm very glad I brought a battery pack. Go figure.

 I think they call these "first world problems".

 You may submit your results on a Zip disk.

 @suspended-flesh: My zip drive is broken. But I've got plenty of rewritable minidiscs lying around.

 How are they vague? If you use the "Trailforks App" you get 2X multiplier. Any other method of saving your ride to Trailforks will not get that multiplier.

 @canadaka:
My phone doesn’t have the juice to record my rides using any app for the rides I usually do. Especially in the cold. But woe is First World me
That’s okay though. I’ll just forgo the 3x multiplier and be stoked about y’all offering up this generous and fun contest. Stoked!!

 @canadaka: I said b*************tch

 @canadaka: well you make a trail forks gps watch then and ill do that, otherwise, its too cold for my phone to work so ill be using garmin

 @chubby5000: back up battery?

 @waffleShirt: I miss the MiniDisc

 @thisspock: you can still use a garmin, just plug it into your computer then upload the .gpx file to trailforks

 I agree or maybe offer them a separate contest for an e drive train

 Go nuts, do whatever you want. Im gonna Crip walk all my miles.

 You must ride an entire trail start to finish AS MAPPED on Trailforks to get the trail counter.

 @canadaka: if I ride 5 marked trails in a ride, do I get a multiplier for each one? Or do you only get 1 multiplier per ride, no matter how many trails you ride?

 Nvm, dumb question, disregard lol

 @canadaka: Rode the same trail again yesterday, this time logging with the Trailforks app. The trail is recognized in the Trailforks ride log but the counter is still at 0.
Is it necessary to do a separate log for the trail, not including transport sections to/from the trail? And if so, what about two or more laps on looped trails?

 @Nygaard: The criteria was set to >1 trail, I changed to >=1 trail. I also re-scanned your ride, it not has 2X points.

 Ride your bike to the trail... bonus miles.

 Just curious, have you ridden the new deore 12 speed or the axs dropper?

 You're basing this on much experience obviously. So if you win, send me the AXS Reverb and I'll send you a OneUp V2.

 @b1k35c13nt15t: 100% done. Take the reverb. In writing here in the comments so all can see.

 @hardtailparty: Yep. GX I just don't like how it shifts. The feeling of sram is not for me and I know how to strip down and rebuild Shimano drivetrains having made a few franken derailleurs in the past. Also changing cables on sram you need to unscrew the cover, hook, then wind in the cable? Took a peak at one the other day fixing a mates bike and was not into totally figuring it out. I then I looked over at my shifter. Shimano, click to small cog, take old cable out shove in new. Tension cable and index. Beautiful. Simple. KIS sram.

The reverb is still a reverb with more electronics to mess about with. GF, friends, too many bad reverbs, bob and squish, constant bleeds, poor weather change tolerance. Hydraulics are just not the solution for droppers IMHO. Simple air can cable actuated. Boom done, easy to maintain, and easy to service.

 Have you actually used an axs dropper?

 @monsieurgage: no fuss with sram. no winding. exactly same procedure as shimano.

 @monsieurgage: have you actually used 12 speed deore yet? I know the mags rave about it, but I've been having issues with it, along with SLX and XT. My local shop has replaced over 40 12 speed shimano clutches/derailleurs already. They said they've never had so many warranty issues than with the new shimano 12 speed stuff.

I just see a lot of people repeating the "sram crap, deore 12 speed is the best thing ever" with zero experience with the new shimano stuff. If you've used it, and you love it, great. I'm just surpsied how many people repeat that sentiment without experience.

I've used both, and I'll take GX over shimano xt 12 speed myself. That said, I get that a lot of people love the shimano stuff. I loved the 11 speed, but the 12 speed is leaving a lot to be desired.

 Its fucking free! Just don't enter and keep your shitty opinions to yourself.

 @hardtailparty: would it be possible to move the battery pack internally?perhaps future iterations from Rockshox, However the current AXS dropper looks great, but that square under the saddle ruins the aesthetics

 @lehott: i sure it would be possible but it comes with a lot do downsides. I know aesthetics are very important to a lot of MTBers but to me, I'll take ease of serviceability, features, and ease of use over aesthetics every day.

If you want wireless with different looks, you could go with the Magura dropper, which is awful to use in my opinion, but it'll look nice.

Adding more stuff to the bottom of a dropper will mean you have less available room to fit it in your frame. Don't forget that sram uses the same battery for their axs shifter, which is really nice. If they had a different battery shape/design for their dropper, it would mean more spares to carry and less compatibility.

Also, if they made it internal, you'd have to remove your dropper anytime you wanted to charge or change batteres. There's also a good chance that it would get greasy/grimey inside the seat tube.

To me the biggest downside would be losing available drop due to the seat tube taking up space for the battery. I'd rather have 30mm extra drop than a dropper that photographs well. I'll take a 180mm dropper over a 150mm any day, but I know some people take aesthetics over function every time.

I buy a bike to ride it, not to look at it. For next aesthetics are a nice to have, provided they don't get in the way of function. If a product can look great and lose zero function, that's always ideal, but with our current technology and development, i don't see a great way to mount a battery inside the seatpost without a bunch of functional compromises.

Sram has done an amazing job with their v1 of a wireless dropper. It works extremely well, it's easy to swap batteries, it's instantaneous, and super easy to install. All at the cost of a bit of aesthetics. Not bad.

I get it though, that bsttery bump isn't sexy to look at, but everything else about the dropper is pretty spot on.

here's a reason nobody else has mastered the wireless dropper.

If your battery was insider you'd lSo it'd look nice, but

 gnarcouch.com/2020/05/30/5-a-month-for-strava-is-too-expensive-says-guy-with-60000-sprinter-van-and-11000-bike

 www.trailforks.com/blog/view/response-to-criticism-that-trailforks-is-now-charging-for-access

 Nice flex, bruh, do you even lift though?

 still free they only charge for pro user

 Don't run.

 @lukeisdumb: I quit paying for Strava because of eBikes. Only reason to use Strava is the social aspect, and segments. My friends bugged me about using Strava again which is the only reason I started using again at all. Besides, given that I am homeless and drive an 8 year old economy car, your example is pretty stupid.

@elyari: "Your area" is pretty worthless. So the app is worthless without paying.

@kingpine: Rock climb, but I suck at it. That wasn't even a flex, I have WAY better things to brag about than just that I like to ride.

@rjmogul: Only in "Your area", which is worthless. I already know my area.

@stoo61: I was a runner, then triathlete, before I started riding MTB's. I just happen to be naturally talented at bikes, running is something I have to work for. And since my girlfriend things running 20 miles is just a little run, I have to work to keep up with her. We did do 40 miles together as one of our first dates.

 @JSTootell: Haha im just messing man, good on ya. I too do cross training....MTB, Road, Gravel, Single speed....my knees can't do running anymore and thats fine by me.

 @stoo61: I am amazed how narrow minded some people are with their cults (not limited to MTB). I meet runners that hate bikes, endurobros that hate any bike that isn't nearly exactly their bike (hell, just +/- 10mm travel and people get divided), and of course everyone hates triathletes (even triathletes hate themselves).

 @JSTootell: Hahaha it is weird. I rode a lot more road this year because of the Covid and daaamn I can ride my MTB so much further, do more laps, investigate that next Glen. So much more enjoyable.

Gravel is new to me but its exceptional, especially in the winter to stay off the even more dangerous roads. The sense of adventure/exploration is unparalleled. ALL THE BIKES!!!

 That's a good question I'd also like answered... I assumed not, better safe than sorry, so I saved public, but I'd rather it be private.

 Yes for this contest rides can be private.

 User name checks out

 You can connect your Garmin account to Trailforks via the Trailforks website.

 Thats what you get for riding instead of trolling pinkbike.