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Ride Report

Every ride you record in Bike IQ produces a comprehensive report. This is the reference for everything in the post-ride screen: what each section shows, how to interpret the data, and how to get your rides out to other platforms.

For details on what happens when you end a ride (saving, discarding, Strava publishing, and crash recovery), see Finishing a Ride.

Bike IQ ride history showing monthly distance trends and a list of past rides with metrics
Ride history: monthly trends and past rides with distance, elevation, and duration

Report Overview

The top of the ride report shows the headline numbers in a grid: active duration and distance, average power and average heart rate, calories burned and Ride XP, elevation gain and loss, and average speed and cadence. Where you rode without a power meter, the power figure is labelled Avg Est. Power, so you always know whether a number was measured or estimated. These give you an immediate snapshot of the ride before diving into specific sections.

Below the summary the report is grouped into three parts. Ride Conditions holds the weather you rode in. Ride Analysis holds the worked-out sections: laps, heart rate zones, gear usage, the power curve, power balance and pedaling. Ride Data holds the plain charts of everything that was recorded second by second.

Which sections appear depends on the sensors and data available for that ride. A ride with a power meter and heart rate monitor shows more sections than one recorded with the iPhone alone.

Route Map

An interactive map displays your GPS track. You can pan, zoom, and explore the route in detail. The route polyline can be color-coded by any of the following metrics, giving you a spatial view of how your effort varied across the ride:

  • Speed: blue (slow) to red (fast)
  • Power: colored by FTP-based zones, from blue (easy) through red (maximal)
  • Heart Rate: colored by HR zones, blue (recovery) through red (VO2max)
  • Cadence: red (low RPM) to blue (high RPM)
  • Elevation: green (low altitude) to red (high altitude)
  • Grade: blue (steep descent) through red (steep climb)
  • Gear Ratio: blue (easy gearing) to red (hard gearing)
  • Wind Impact: green (tailwind benefit) to red (headwind penalty)

The color scale runs from blue (or green) at the low end to red at the high end for most metrics. Switching between metrics on the same route often reveals patterns invisible in the raw numbers. You might notice that your power dropped on a section where the headwind was strongest, or that your cadence fell as the grade increased. For a deeper look at color coding and map layers, see the Map Display guide.

Power Curve

The power curve plots your best average power at every duration, from 1 second up to the full ride length. A high value at 5 seconds reflects your peak sprint ability. The value at 20 minutes approximates your functional threshold power. The value at 60 minutes shows your sustained endurance ceiling.

Tracking this curve over time is one of the most powerful training tools available. When the curve shifts upward, say when your best 5-minute power improves from 280W to 300W, you are objectively getting stronger. A curve that shifts down signals accumulated fatigue or detraining. Individual ride averages cannot capture this level of detail; the power curve can.

Power data comes from either a paired Bluetooth power meter or from Bike IQ's virtual power meter, which estimates watts from physics using your iPhone's sensors and weather data. On a ride without a meter the section is headed Estimated Power Curve, so a curve built from estimates is never mistaken for one built from measurements.

Heart Rate Zones

A breakdown of time spent in each of five heart rate zones. This tells you whether the ride matched your training intent.

  • Zone 1, Recovery: easy spinning that promotes blood flow without adding training stress
  • Zone 2, Endurance: aerobic base-building intensity, where most training volume should live
  • Zone 3, Tempo: moderate effort that builds muscular endurance
  • Zone 4, Threshold: the intensity you can sustain for roughly an hour, where significant fitness gains occur
  • Zone 5, VO2max: hard, short efforts that push your cardiovascular ceiling

If you set out for an easy endurance ride but spent 30 minutes in Zone 4, the zone distribution reveals the mismatch. Over time, reviewing these distributions helps you build discipline around intensity targets. Requires heart rate data from an Apple Watch or paired heart rate monitor.

Gear Usage

Gear usage pairs a shift timeline with a radial dial. The timeline marks every gear change on the time axis, so you can see your shifting patterns across the full ride. The dial shows which chainring and cassette combinations you used most, each one sized by the time you spent in it.

Gear data helps you understand the relationship between cadence, gearing and power. If you consistently grind a heavy gear at low cadence on climbs, the data gives you evidence to adjust your approach.

This section does not need electronic shifting. It needs to know what you are riding: enter your chainrings and cassette under Configure Bike, then Drivetrain, and Bike IQ works out the gears from the ride itself, as described in Gear Detection. With Shimano Di2 or SRAM AXS paired, the gears are read from the groupset instead of estimated.

Elevation

The elevation profile sits directly under the route map and plots your altitude across the full ride, making it easy to pick out climbs, descents and flat sections at a glance. Total gain and loss come from the barometer rather than from GPS altitude, which is why they hold up on rides where the GPS trace wanders. See Grade Detection for how that reading is taken.

Weather

Ride-time conditions including wind speed, wind direction, and temperature. The weather view contextualizes your performance. A strong headwind explains why a familiar route felt harder than usual, and a tailwind puts fast segments in perspective.

Laps

One row per lap, with distance, average heart rate, average power, average cadence and average speed. Tap a lap to open it out: elapsed and active time, elevation gain and loss, calories and Ride XP for that lap alone. Comparing laps is how pacing and fatigue show up. Power falling or heart rate climbing across successive laps is fatigue; numbers that hold steady are pacing you got right.

Laps can be created three ways. Mark one during the ride from the lap control, from a voice command ("Mark a lap in Bike IQ") or from a shifter button set to Mark Lap. Let Auto Lap mark them for you at a set distance. Or add one afterwards from the report itself, by tapping the add button on the Laps section and placing the lap on the ride's timeline, which is the fix for an interval you meant to mark and didn't.

Power Balance

Left and right power for riders on a power meter that reports each side, with the split shown as a share and in watts. Bike IQ averages the balance over 10 second stretches rather than reading single pedal strokes, so one scrappy revolution does not skew the ride.

Below the split, the report shows how much of your pedalling stayed Within 48/52, the Difference between your legs, and how long the split was Measured over, with a chart of how the balance was spread across the ride. Anything inside 48/52 is normal. A one-line verdict reads the ride for you, and tells you when a lean is big enough to be worth looking at: a lean that shows up ride after ride can point to a bike fit issue or a weaker leg.

Pedaling vs. Coasting

One bar splitting the ride into the time you were actually turning the pedals and the time you were freewheeling, with both shares in percent. It reads the ride's cadence, so it works whether cadence came from a sensor or from the phone.

Coasting is not a fault. It is what descents and recovery stretches look like, and a hilly ride will always show more of it than a flat one. The number is worth a look on flat rides, where a high coasting share usually means the effort came in bursts rather than steadily.

E-Bike Power

On a ride with an e-bike drive connected, the report adds a section comparing your own power with the motor's. A stacked chart shows everything that went into the road, with the motor's contribution picked out on top of yours, and the split below it compares your average power with the motor's. Laps are broken out the same way, so you can see where you were working and where the motor was.

Only your own power is exported. The motor's watts never go to Strava or Apple Health, and never count toward your FTP.

Cars Passed

On a ride recorded with a radar paired, the report counts the vehicles that came past you and plots them across the ride. Busy stretches stand out as clusters, which is a straightforward way to compare how exposed one route is against another.

Tire Pressure

Front and rear tire pressure plotted together on a single chart for rides recorded with TPMS sensors. Both wheels share one timeline so you can compare them at a glance: the front line is teal, the rear line is orange, and the header shows each tire's average. Scrub across the chart to read the exact pressure of both tires at any moment.

Pressure naturally rises a few PSI as the tires warm up over the first part of a ride, then holds steady. A line that keeps drifting downward instead of leveling off is a sign of a slow leak worth checking before your next ride. The chart appears only when a ride has tire pressure data.

Editing Ride Details

Ride titles and descriptions are editable. Tap the title to rename the ride, or add a description to annotate conditions, training goals, or route notes. These details are preserved when you export or publish the ride.

Exporting Your Rides

Rides can be exported in three formats. GPX captures your route and basic metrics. FIT includes the full sensor data stream (power, heart rate, cadence, speed, and more) and is used by most training platforms. TCX carries the same per-second detail and is the format Bike IQ uses when publishing to Strava.

Share exported files via AirDrop, email, Messages, or any other iOS sharing method. The share sheet gives you access to all installed apps that accept these file types.

Publishing to Other Services

Rides can be published directly to Strava and synced to Apple Health. Publishing sends your ride data to the connected service without needing to export a file manually. See Strava and Integrations for setup instructions and supported platforms.

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