Fitbit Surge gets bike-tracking features

Fitbit Surge biking

Fitbit is adding support for outdoor bike tracking to its Fitbit Surge “super watch,” allowing riders to see distance, duration, average speed, heart rate, calories burned and the time. Like that’s the case with other supported exercise types, these stats are automatically synced to the Fitbit app dashboard to review routes, speed and elevation in more detail.

“Our users are passionate about fitness and have consistently requested a way to track their outdoor cycling activity,” said Tim Roberts, VP of Interactive, Fitbit. “We are delivering this feature on Fitbit Surge for active consumers looking to track and better understand performance during rides, in addition to their other workouts.”

Fitbit will also launch Multi-Tracker Support, which lets users seamlessly switch between different Fitbit trackers.Feature wise, the new capability adds real-time bike stats, bike exercise summaries both on the app and web dashboard, along with the ability to see historical progress. In addition, biking has been included in the multi-sport mode to enable users to easily record different exercise types.

This week, Fitbit will also launch Multi-Tracker Support, which lets users seamlessly switch between different Fitbit trackers throughout their day or week, so they can use the “right tracker” for any occasion. The service supports connecting up to six Fitbit trackers (one of each model) and MobileTrack (iOS only) to a single Fitbit account, and will automatically know when a user switches from one tracker to another.

Fitbit Surge bike-tracking will be available to all Fitbit Surge users by next month in North America, on iOS and Android, with global availability coming soon.

The Fitbit Surge “super watch” (that’s how Fitbit likes to call it) offers GPS tracking, continuous wrist-based heart rate, all-day fitness tracking and smartwatch functionality in one device with up to 7 days of battery life.