Quiver vs Strava My Gear
Strava already records your rides, and its My Gear feature can track bikes, shoes and bike components against that activity history. Quiver serves a different job: a sourced record of factory parts, specifications and changes to your own build.
What Strava My Gear stores
Strava lets you add bikes and shoes in its website or mobile app. A bike record includes a nickname, bike type, weight, brand and model; its help centre says a bike or shoe model cannot be added when it is missing from Strava's list. The gear help guide describes those fields and the available gear controls.
Bike components are available on Strava's website. For each component, Strava asks for a type, brand, model, weight, date added and optional notes. Activity distance is tracked against gear assigned to rides. This makes My Gear useful for seeing how much a bike and its components have been used, while the part details are entered as a log.
The documented component fields describe identity, weight, timing and notes. Strava's gear documentation does not describe fields for per-size frame geometry, fork travel or standards such as axle spacing. Quiver's catalog pages can show published specifications and geometry where those details are available and sourced.
| Quiver | Strava My Gear | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Keep a sourced record of each bike's build, parts and costs | Track activities and mileage on bikes and components |
| Getting a bike in | Find matching factory parts and published specifications from a bike name | Enter a bike's details; its model must be available in Strava's list |
| Component details | Factory and owned-part details, with sources and uncertainty shown | Type, brand, model, weight, date added and notes |
| Component mileage | No ride tracking | Distance accrues from activities assigned to the gear |
| Per-size frame geometry | Published geometry where available, with source context | No geometry fields described in Strava's gear documentation |
| Adding components | In the app | Strava website only |
| Replacing a part | Keeps a bike's component history | Only one component of each type stays associated with a bike; replacing a retired component removes the old one from the list |
| Export | JSON or CSV for bikes and parts | Strava offers a bulk account archive download |
| Price | Free, or $9.99 once for Pro | Current region-specific pricing |
What Strava does better
The ride record. Strava connects activity tracking with routes, segments, training insights and a social network. Assigning a bike to an activity builds its mileage history as you ride. These are core parts of Strava's product, and Quiver does not record rides or compete with them.
What Quiver adds
Quiver starts from the bike model and helps identify matching factory parts and published specifications for models in its catalog. It keeps source context and marks unconfirmed values, and can show frame geometry by size when published data is available. Your own upgrades and costs can sit alongside that factory baseline.
Strava's component log is useful for part use and mileage. Quiver's focus is the build record: what came on the bike, what changed, what it cost and where the specification came from.
Use both
Strava can count the miles; Quiver can keep the build details. Quiver does not sync with Strava, so you can keep using Strava for every ride without moving your activity history.
Strava product details were checked on against its gear help guide, developer gear reference, data export guide and subscription page. Pricing and features may vary by region and change over time. If something here is out of date, email [email protected] and we will update it. Quiver is not affiliated with Strava; Strava is their trademark, used here to describe their product.
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