Mountain Bike Maintenance
Descent-weighted strain. Suspension service intervals tied to actual hours ridden, not calendar dates. Trail conditions weight component wear.
Mountain bike tracking →For every kind of rider
Bike Maintenance That Predicts Itself
Mileage doesn't tell the whole story. Trail Hits uses the GPS data you already collect to predict when each component needs service — chain, cassette, brakes, fork, shock — based on how hard you actually ride.
Why Mileage Tracking Misses
A 30-mile ride in the rain wears your chain, cassette, and brake pads more than the same 30 miles on a dry road. A descent-heavy day on dusty trails grinds suspension seals faster than a flow-trail loop. An eBike on Boost mode pulls double the drivetrain load of an unassisted bike. Conditions, terrain, weather, and assist level all change the math.
Trail Hits reads GPS data from every ride — climbing, descending, speed, conditions — and turns it into per-component strain scores. Your chain has a number. So does your fork, your rear shock, your brake pads (front and rear, separately). When a number crosses your service threshold, you get a heads-up before the part fails.
That's the difference between mileage tracking and strain intelligence. One counts. The other predicts.
Built for Your Discipline
Each discipline wears bikes differently. Trail Hits applies a wear model tuned to how you actually ride.
Road Bike Maintenance
High-mileage strain modeling. Climbing load, wet-weather corrosion, and training intensity factor into chain and cassette wear.
Road bike tracking →Gravel Bike Maintenance
Mixed-surface wear modeling. Grit contamination multipliers, bikepacking load tracking, and tubeless sealant freshness reminders.
Gravel bike tracking →eBike Maintenance
Motor-torque drivetrain wear. Class 1/2/3 service intervals, weight-adjusted brake pad tracking, and assist-level multipliers.
eBike tracking →eMTB Maintenance
Electric mountain bike specific. Motor-load descent tracking, heavier-bike brake stress, and Boost-mode chain wear acceleration.
eMTB tracking →Adaptive Cycling
Handcycle, recumbent, and adaptive trike service tracking. Component intervals built around adaptive cycling's unique wear patterns.
Adaptive tracking →What Trail Hits Tracks
Every component your shop services has its own wear model. No more "I'll check it when I remember."
Drivetrain
- • Chain wear (with chain wax cycle tracking)
- • Cassette wear correlated to chain replacement timing
- • Chainring wear tied to gearing and effort
- • Derailleur cable / hanger condition notes
Brakes
- • Front and rear pads tracked separately
- • Rotor wear and runout reminders
- • Bleed intervals based on hours, not guesswork
- • Wet-weather pad-life multipliers
Suspension
- • Fork lower service (50hr) and full service (100hr)
- • Rear shock service intervals by hours ridden
- • Setup diary — PSI, sag, rebound, compression with photos
- • Problem Solver for tuning experiments
Tires & Tubeless
- • Tread wear modeled by terrain and weight
- • Tubeless sealant freshness reminders (60-90 days)
- • Sidewall and casing notes per tire
- • Pressure log with ride-over-ride comparisons
Service Intervals, Decoded
Discipline-specific guides on what wears, when to swap, and why mileage rules of thumb get it wrong.
Road vs Trail vs Gravel: How Riding Style Changes Service
Three disciplines, three completely different wear profiles for the same components.
Winter Bike Maintenance Tracking
Salt, slush, and the corrosion math that ruins drivetrains. What to track through the wet months.
When to Replace Your Road Bike Chain
Why the "2,000 miles" rule misses the point — rain, effort, and conditions matter more.
Gravel Bike Maintenance: Hidden Wear
Mixed-surface riding creates unpredictable wear. Where the grit goes and what to inspect.
MTB Suspension Service Intervals
Hours, miles, or descents? The full breakdown of when fork and shock service actually matter.
MTB Drivetrain Wear
Why MTB drivetrains die faster than road, and what mud/wet conditions actually do to your chain.
eMTB Chain Maintenance
Motor torque doubles drivetrain load. The chain math for eMTB and eBike riders.
Adaptive Cycling Maintenance
Handcycles and recumbents wear differently. Service intervals tuned to adaptive cycling's specifics.
Bike Maintenance Questions
What's the best way to track bike maintenance?
Mileage alone misses the wear that conditions create. Wet rides, climbing, descents, and motor assist all change how fast components wear. A maintenance tracker that uses GPS strain data — like Trail Hits — predicts service intervals based on how hard you actually ride, not just the odometer.
How often should I service my bike?
It depends on what you ride and how. Chains usually need replacing every 1,500–3,000 miles for road, sooner for muddy MTB or eBikes under motor torque. Suspension forks: every 50 hours for lowers, 100 hours for full service. Brake pads: when 1mm or less remains. Trail Hits tracks each component independently using ride conditions, so the schedule is yours, not a generic table.
Does Trail Hits work for road, gravel, mountain, and eBikes?
Yes. Each discipline gets its own wear model. Road weights climbing load and weather. Gravel adds grit contamination. MTB weights descents and trail conditions. eBikes apply motor torque multipliers to drivetrain wear. Adaptive cycling has its own profile too.
Do I need to log rides manually?
No. Trail Hits syncs with Strava, Hammerhead Karoo, Garmin Connect, Ride with GPS, and Apple Health. You decide which integrations flow rides to your account. Rides assign to the right bike automatically — and a single ride can be logged to multiple bikes when a riding buddy was on a bike without tracking. Manual entry is also available for rides without GPS data.
What gets tracked beyond mileage?
Chains, cassettes, chainrings, brake pads (front and rear separately), brake rotors, fork lowers and full service intervals, rear shock service, tires, tubeless sealant freshness, suspension setup notes (PSI, sag, rebound, compression), and chain wax cycles.
Is Trail Hits a replacement for my bike shop?
No, the opposite. Trail Hits tells you when something needs service so you book the appointment before things break. If your shop uses Trail Hits Hub, the work auto-logs to your account, component wear meters reset automatically when parts are replaced, and shop inspections build a degradation timeline you can see across visits. Trail Hits is the layer between your rides and your shop.