Pretty good breakdown in DC Rainmaker.

Strava Sues Garmin

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In doing so, they are demanding that Garmin cease selling effectively all of their fitness/outdoor watches, as well as cycling computers. Additionally, they're asking for a bunch of feature removals on Garmin Connect.

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Seems kind of short sighted and dumb to me. Would Strava even exist without Garmin?

Why are they doing this? Strava doesn't even make wearable devices. They simply piggyback data off of them.

I cancelled Strava this year and never realized how much they lock behind the paywall now.

I only use Strava to link my garmin and Zwift together to back feed TriDot. If not for the TriDot training piece I wouldn't use Strava. It is a necessary parasite in my data tracking and only to get credit for completing a session in TriDot.

Ragoo said:

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I only use Strava to link my garmin and Zwift together to back feed TriDot. If not for the TriDot training piece I wouldn't use Strava. It is a necessary parasite in my data tracking and only to get credit for completing a session in TriDot.

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I do similar but just to get Peloton Rides to my Garmin haha

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Ragoo said:

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I only use Strava to link my garmin and Zwift together to back feed TriDot. If not for the TriDot training piece I wouldn't use Strava. It is a necessary parasite in my data tracking and only to get credit for completing a session in TriDot.

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I do similar but just to get Peloton Rides to my Garmin haha

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i'm the opposite. i have everything feeding into strava and never look at any other portals. but i'm not doing zwift or tridot.

intervals.icu > *

I don't even know why I have Strava, I'm not really a runner or cyclist. Just links my Tonal workouts, skiing and golf walks.

htxag09 said:

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Ragoo said:

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I only use Strava to link my garmin and Zwift together to back feed TriDot. If not for the TriDot training piece I wouldn't use Strava. It is a necessary parasite in my data tracking and only to get credit for completing a session in TriDot.

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I do similar but just to get Peloton Rides to my Garmin haha

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Wait how do you do this? It annoys me so much that I can't export Peloton to Garmin natively.

I had Strava for a month then figured out it's a social media app masquerading as a workout app. I'm sure that's an overreaction but when I had some random lady in Mississippi start following me and it wasn't clear how to turn that **** off I cancelled. I just wanted to ride and track my rides. I didn't need the "look at me" aspect of it and that seemed to be a core focus for them. Much happier with Ride with GPS and most events these days feed routes into that app anyway so it works well.

I use Strava every day and couldn't care less if there is a random Garmin logo somewhere on the app as long as it still works as designed. I could see how Strava wouldn't necessarily want that though. Hope they resolve.

I use them both extensively and just want them to get along. I look at both to analyze workouts, but prefer strava over garmin in terms of analyzing the workout. I love looking at my previous history / rides to compare my current vs previous performance. While I find looking at others interesting, reviewing myself is the most value

For my metrics I use Stryd pretty much solely now. Don't get on Strava much anymore but did recently and seemed like everything is behind a paywall now.

Regardless, seems like an interesting lawsuit seeing at least one of the things they're saying garmin did that had a patent….garmin was doing before they even applied for a patent. And without garmin users I don't see how Strava has a business model.

Your last points seems important here. Strava doesn't generate data they aggregate and repackage it.

Suunto is also suing garmin.

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2025/10/02/strava-sues-garmin-over-patent-infringement-claims