GearSense finds your sensors on its own, coaches you through every climb in real time, and connects you to your local bike shop and club. No pairing screens, ever. One quick setup, then it remembers you. Just ride.
✈ The Aviation Authority for Local Cycling
Open the app and go. GearSense recognizes your heart rate strap, cadence sensor, speed sensor, and power meter the moment they wake up — no pairing screens, no menus, no manuals. Whatever sensors you have, on whatever bike you ride, GearSense captures them. Even with no sensors at all, it coaches from the phone in your pocket.
Most apps tell you what happened once you're home. GearSense talks to you while it matters: "Climb ahead — shift down now." "Ease off — stay in your zone." Cues respond to what you're actually doing, right now, tuned to the terrain in front of you and the goal you set for the ride.
Your data doesn't disappear into someone else's cloud. Rides are stored on a small computer at your shop, your club, or your own home — and you decide what gets shared, with whom. Your local bike shop becomes the hub of your riding life again, not just the place you buy tubes.
GearSense is riding weekly with a Northern Virginia bike shop and cycling club through summer 2026, building toward an August century ride. Partner names announced as agreements are finalized.
Roll up to the shop, the club, or the meeting point. Your phone finds the day's ride on its own — no check-in, no sign-up sheet, no app wrangling.
A ride, B ride, or C ride — choose your pace group with one tap and you're in with the riders going your speed.
The day's route lands on your phone automatically — every climb, every turn, every regroup point, ready before you clip in.
Live cues in your ear as you ride — exactly when to shift, push, or ease off, tuned to the terrain ahead and the goal you set for the day.
Back at the shop, the group's progress plays live on the big screen. Ride leaders know where everyone is. Nobody gets left behind.
Your ride is stored safely and exported to Strava, RideWithGPS, or any platform you use — your ride, your file, your call.
"I visit family, rent a bike, ride somewhere new — and suddenly none of my history, settings, or pacing comes with me. I'm starting from zero."
Your profile belongs to you, not to a device. Your history, your zones, and your pacing follow you to any bike, anywhere. Sit on a different bike in a different city and GearSense still knows exactly who's pedaling.
"The best riding is where the cell towers aren't. Deep in the valley, out on the gravel — my apps just give up, and sometimes the whole ride is lost."
Submarine Mode. Everything — recording, coaching, pacing — runs entirely on your phone, no signal required. When you're back in coverage, your ride syncs on its own. Zero bars, zero lost rides.
"I get beautiful charts after the ride. But halfway up the climb, when I actually needed to know whether to shift or push — silence."
GearSense coaches in the moment. It compares what you're doing right now against your own best, sees the terrain coming, and speaks up before the climb — not in a chart three hours later. When the ride ends, your debrief is waiting.
| What You Get | Strava | Zwift | Garmin | GearSense |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pace against your own best ride (Ghost Rider) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Coming 2026 |
| Live coaching that adapts mid-ride | ✗ | Partial | ✗ | ✓ |
| Ride live with your club, in groups | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Built around your local bike shop | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Keeps coaching with zero cell signal | ✗ | ✗ | Partial | ✓ |
Everything is opt-in. Your shop and club see only what you decide to share with them — nothing gets shared behind your back, ever.
Your ride data is not for sale. No advertisers, no data brokers, no "partners." Your heart rate is nobody's business but yours.
Delete any ride from your phone instantly. Anything you chose to sync to a Hangar or cloud backup is removed on request — completely, within 30 days. Gone means gone.
Only what you choose to share. Everything is opt-in — your shop and club see exactly what you decide they can see, and nothing more. Your private rides stay private.
No. GearSense works with the Bluetooth sensors you already own — heart rate straps, cadence sensors, speed sensors, power meters. It finds them automatically the moment they wake up. And if you have no sensors at all, GearSense still coaches you using just your phone's GPS.
Nothing bad. We call it Submarine Mode: your phone keeps recording, keeps coaching, and keeps pacing you entirely on its own. When you're back in coverage, the ride syncs automatically. You never lose a ride to a dead zone.
No new username, no new password. Sign in with the account you already own — Apple, Google, or Facebook — and you're in. One tap, done. It's the same philosophy as the sensors: GearSense works with what you already have instead of making you manage one more thing.
No — and it's not trying to. Strava is where you share and celebrate the ride afterward. GearSense is the coach during the ride. When you finish, export your ride to Strava, RideWithGPS, or any platform you use — standard file formats, no lock-in. They're teammates, not rivals.
Fair warning: we're aviation nerds. Every great flight has a hangar, a flight plan, and ground control — we think every great ride deserves the same. Here's what we call things around here. You don't need this page to use GearSense. But you might enjoy it.
The small computer at your shop, club, or home that stores your rides and runs the show. Every aircraft needs a hangar. So does your ride data.
Pilots call a modern instrument panel "the glass cockpit." Yours is the app on your handlebars — speed, power, heart rate, and the road ahead, live.
Short for Directeur Sportif — the team director in pro cycling. Yours reads the terrain ahead and tells you when to shift, push, or ease off.
Your own best ride, pacing right beside you — ahead of it, behind it, closing the gap. In development now; landing after the pilot.
When the cell signal disappears, GearSense doesn't. Recording, coaching, and pacing all run silently on your phone until you surface — then everything syncs.
The big screen at the shop showing the group ride live. Ride leaders and shop crews watch the whole ride like a control tower watches the sky.
GearSense wasn't dreamed up in a conference room. It was born on the trails and roads of Northern Virginia, where founder Fathi Bouali logs his club rides, his Saturday fifty-milers, and his century rides — and where he kept hitting the same wall every rider knows: the apps could tell him everything about the ride after it was over, and nothing when it actually mattered, halfway up the climb.
So he built the coach he wanted. Thirty years of engineering systems where failure isn't an option went into it — then it was strapped to his handlebars and tested the only way that counts: on real rides, in rain and headwinds and summer heat, week after week. Every feature on this page has been earned on the road before it earned a place in the app.