Why Connect Your Garmin With Trailforks?
Trailforks Ridelogs in the app:
The Trailforks Ridelog feature has several purposes:
1. Your ridelogs are a personal log of the rides you do each year.
2. Trailforks also analyzes ridelog data to generate regional trail usage statistics that trail associations can use to help plan and advocate for trails.
Sample: ridelog statistics for Squamish
3. Additionally, Ridelog data is used to calculate average riding times for trails; this works as a guide to help improve trail accuracy and to assist in navigation.
Through the Trailforks App users can access anonymized ridelogs to discover routes taken to access a trail.
Garmin devices are popular, so we make it easy to import your Garmin activities into Trailforks for the benefit of the community & personal use.
Steps To Connect Your Garmin
1. Login to Trailforks.
2. Navigate to Settings under your Profile.
3. Go to 'Connections,' where you can connect with your Garmin account.
4. Authorize Trailforks with Your Garmin Account
5. Setup Auto Importing of Your Garmin Activities, including the Privacy level of your imported activities, your Default Activity Type, and your Bike Type.
You can set it and forget it! Once set-up, Trailforks will automatically import your Garmin rides in the background, usually within an hour after posting.
FAQ
Do the Trailforks ridelogs have privacy settings?
Yes, you actually have even more privacy controls than in Garmin. You can have completely private rides, or rides that are public but the map & location is hidden. Trailforks also scans each ride for sensitive or illegal trails and marks your ride as private if we detect any private trials so that only you can view it.
When you set-up the Garmin auto-importing, you can set-up your default privacy settings, or you can change an individual rides controls at any time.
I track non-mountain biking road rides on my Garmin, can I exclude these rides?
Yes, if you have imported bikes to your Trailforks profile from Garmin, you can then exclude Garmin activities that are imported based on bike type.