How it works
Set it up once, then it runs along with you.
Three details to get started – your rides supply the rest.
Add your bike
Enter make and model: the assistant suggests what is typically fitted. You correct whatever isn't right. Ten minutes, once.
Record where you are
Roughly how old is the chain? When were the brake pads last replaced? Rough answers are fine. BikeCare would rather carry on from an estimate than not start at all.
Ride
Rides come in from Strava or you enter them yourself. From then on BikeCare keeps count and gets in touch before something is due.
One ride
What becomes of a ride.
A ride of 84 kilometres and 1,240 metres of climbing, wet, recorded as a gravel ride: the chain is credited with more than the distance ridden, the pads too because of the elevation, and the rear tyre with exactly the kilometres ridden.
The rules
Not every kilometre is worth the same.
A distance counter tells you how far you rode. It doesn't tell you what that means for your chain. BikeCare weighs every ride by what it actually wears.
Chain and drivetrain
Every kilometre counts. Wet rides count more, because water washes out the lubricant, and so do gravel or MTB rides. Once you record a measurement, the measurement takes over from the estimate.
Brake pads
Elevation counts here as well: a flat loop and a descent of a thousand metres are not the same thing for the pads. Wet conditions count too.
Tyres
Kilometres on the road. Indoor training does not count: a rear tyre on a trainer wears differently, and counting those kilometres as road kilometres would simply be wrong.
Everything else
Cables, bearings, cassette, gears, suspension fork: by distance, by time or by both, depending on the part. Where BikeCare cannot compute something for a part, it says so instead of inventing a number.
A measurement replaces the projection. It doesn't add to it.
Every part has a state and, where it can be computed, a rough date. Measured parts get no invented date: the chain gauge beats the calculation, from the day you measure.
By itself
What happens without you doing anything.
Rides arrive
With a connected Strava account, new activities land in BikeCare by themselves, with distance, elevation and the bike you rode.
The state moves
Every ride moves the parts it wears. You see not only that something is coming due, but roughly when.
The reminder comes
By email and push, in good time. After a wet ride, sometimes a note to look after the chain.
The service log grows
What you get done takes two taps to record, and it stays with the part for good, with date, mileage and price.