BIKEPARK APP
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User guide

What to press and when. Short, with the app’s own screens.

Applies to version 3.85 in the Connect IQ Store.

01Before you ride

InstallFrom the Connect IQ Store. On the watch, open it from the app list.
First START with your phoneOnce a day the app talks to our server through Garmin Connect, to count a trial day or check the licence.
GPSFINDING GPS goes away with the fix. Recording starts by itself when you move.
SettingsWatch: menu → Settings, outside a session. Phone: Garmin Connect → Connect IQ apps → Bikepark app.
Home screen during a run
Home screen during a run

02Buttons

LIGHTbacklight, no role in the app
UP · MENUprevious screen; hold: menu
DOWNnext screen
START · STOPstart, pause, “yes”
BACK · LAPend the run, menu, “cancel”
  1. LIGHT backlight, no role in the app
  2. UP · MENU previous screen; hold: menu
  3. DOWN next screen
  4. START · STOP start, pause, “yes”
  5. BACK · LAP end the run, menu, “cancel”
fēnix, epix, Enduro, Forerunner, MARQ. On an Edge bike computer START and LAP are separate keys.
  • Questions on screen: START is “yes”, BACK is “cancel”.
  • Touchscreen: on a Venu you change screens by swiping; on other watches unlock touch in the menu with “Touch”. Venu 4: a long press on the screen opens the menu.
  • Edge: START and LAP are separate keys, BACK opens the menu, swipe to change screens.

03A day in the bikepark: PARK mode

The default mode. The app splits the day into runs and lifts on its own. You just ride.

FINDING GPSThe session is on, recording starts with the fix
RUNRun time, distance and descent are counting
DETECTING LIFTA stop and a slow climb: nothing is recorded
LIFTRun closed, run card, lift time counting
RUNThe next run from the first metres downhill
One lap: run, queue, lift and the next run. This is how the label on the home screen changes.
  1. A run counts from the first metres downhill.
  2. Queue and boarding: after a stop, a slow and steady climb is DETECTING LIFT, with no recording.
  3. The lift after about 25 m up: the run goes to the history, the watch vibrates, the run card shows for 15 s.
  4. At the top the next run opens by itself once you head down.

A stop longer than 30 s pauses the recording; it comes back by itself when you move.

End a run by hand, e.g. before the queue:

BACK / LAP

Automatic detection got it wrong (a shuttle instead of a chair)? The menu, and in it:

MENUForce liftAuto

Pause for lunch and back:

STARTSTART
On the lift: this lift’s time and the last run’s time
On the lift: this lift’s time and the last run’s time

04Trail days: TRAIL mode

For days without a lift: the whole ride counts as riding, uphill included. You change the mode in Settings outside a session or in Garmin Connect.

A shuttle up the hill? Mark it like a lift and go back to automatic when you get off:

MENUForce liftMENUAuto

05Screens and fields

Nine screens, UP and DOWN switch between them. Which ones show and in what order is set in the “Data screens” menu or in Garmin Connect, where you also pick the layout and fields: seven layouts, 39 fields.

UPDOWNnine screens, one at a time
One of the data screens: you pick the layout and the fields
One of the data screens: you pick the layout and the fields

06After the ride

Saving: START pauses the session, BACK while paused opens the menu, START confirms. The menu also opens any time with a held UP.

STARTBACKSave and finishSTART
  • Garmin Connect: a Cycling / Downhill activity, every run is a lap, and the Connect IQ section holds the app’s fields: runs, lifts, times, descent, speed, heart rate.
  • Watch: menu → “Last session” and “Run history”.
Your session
Your session
Run history
Run history

07Trial and licence

2 trial days of 24 hStart a day with START and confirm, with the phone connected to the watch.
Full version: €13.99Once, no subscription. Buy here with the watch ID from the Settings → Licence screen.
Entering the codeGarmin Connect on the phone → your watch → Connect IQ apps → Bikepark app → Settings → Licence: type the code from the e-mail into the Unlock code field, save and sync the watch.
The licence belongs to the watchChanging watches? Write to us.

08When something is off

  • FINDING GPS stays on: step out from under the roof and give it a minute. The session is already on.
  • Lift not detected: detection relies on the barometer, so watches without one (e.g. vívoactive 5 and 6) are out; the list is here. On a slow lift lower the “Lift detection” threshold (25 m by default). Right now: menu → “Force lift”.
  • A run split in two: the trail has longer climbs, raise the “Lift detection” threshold.
  • “Trial over”: both trial days are used. Buy the full version and enter the code from the e-mail, as in the chapter above.
  • Something else? Write to us with the watch model and the ID from the Licence screen.