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Fitbit wheel sensor?
11/13/15 at 7:35pm
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Fitbits look interesting.  Does anyone know if a wheel sensor exists that ties into the watch?  I'd like to be able to easily track and upload my rides.  I use a cyclometer now and record the data but I never really do anything interesting with it, mainly maintenance intervals.  I don't think GPS is too accurate.

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Re: Fitbit wheel sensor?
Reply #1 - 11/16/15 at 12:57pm
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I don't think any of the fitbits will connect to external sensors, at least looking at the specs for the Surge (the high end GPS Surge doesn't at least).  You'd want something with ANT+ or whatever to connect to sensors.

Garmin makes a bunch of watches, as does a couple of other brands.

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Will do, thanks.
  
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Reply #3 - 11/19/15 at 12:34pm
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FWIW, I just got a Vivoactive + wheel sensor.  Will have it in the dirt this weekend to see what kind of accuracy the combo gets (been running strava directly from the iphone).
  
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Reply #4 - 11/20/15 at 4:06pm
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I have one like this that I got for Christmas a while back. Didn't fit my bike so I never used it. Still in box (mostly).

If interested, I'd let go of it for $40.

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