Following Update 1.34, the Bosch EBike Flow App Will Now Track Your Ebike Skills

Are you looking for a thrill when riding your ebike and keen to compare yourself with others? Then the latest feature in the eBike Flow app for the Bosch Smart System will be right up your street. In addition, update 1.34 brings greater control over your fitness programme, as well as minor improvements to navigation, gear shifting and secure locking of your ebike.

1. Update 1.34 for the Bosch eBike Flow app introducing Trick Check
2. Heart rate data becoming part of statistics
3. Saving favourites for navigation
4. Smoother mechanical gear shifting with eShift
5. Faster unlocking with Bosch eBike Lock in the new version of the app

1. Update 1.34 for the Bosch eBike Flow app introducing Trick Check

What am I actually capable of? It’s a question we’ve all probably asked ourselves from time to time. Sometimes it’s about really important things – and sometimes it’s about our skills on the ebike. Bosch has now integrated an option into its eBike Flow app that allows you to record small tricks such as jumps, wheelies, manuals and stoppies. The feature automatically recognises exactly what you’re doing on your ebike – provided the trick meets the following minimum requirements:

• Jump: distance > 0.5 m, duration > 0.15 s
• Wheelie/manual: Distance > 2 m, angle of inclination > 15°, speed > 5 km/h
• Stoppie: Angle of inclination depends on speed, duration > 0.3 s

If you’ve pulled off a distinct trick and the Smart System has registered it, the ebike display will immediately show you initial details on distance, duration, height or angles for eight seconds. However, for a detailed review of the recordings, we recommend checking the app after the ride has finished. During the ride, an audible signal sounds as soon as something has been recorded.

Only selected displays and motors compatible with Trick Check

Ebike manufacturers should have activated the function on Bosch Kiox 400C and Bosch Purion 400 displays as standard. You can check this directly on the display, for example. Simply navigate through the settings for the display fitted to your ebike. Trick Check should then appear there and be switched on.

If you use a different display, you’ll need to do this yourself. However, it’s incredibly simple. Navigate to the relevant menu item in the display settings and enable Trick Check manually. At this point, you can also decide whether you want to switch the beep on or off.

This will not be feasible with the Bosch Intuvia 100. The display lacks the necessary connection to the ebike system. Consequently, it cannot recognise your tricks.

Displays compatible with Trick Check in the Bosch Smart System:

• Bosch Kiox 300
• Bosch Kiox 400C
• Bosch Kiox 500
• Bosch Purion 200
• Bosch Purion 400

A second limiting factor regarding compatibility with the feature is the specific Bosch ebike motor. Essentially, only motors from Bosch’s Smart System meet the necessary technical requirements. And even within this group, a total of six motors are excluded: the Bosch Performance Line, the Bosch Performance Line PX, the Bosch Performance Line Speed, the Bosch Cargo Line, the Bosch Active Line Plus and the Bosch Active Line.

Motors compatible with Trick Check in the Bosch Smart System:

• Bosch Performance Line CX – BDU384Y
• Bosch Performance Line CX-R – BDU384Y
• Bosch Performance Line CX Race – BDU374Y
• Bosch Performance Line CX – BDU374Y
• Bosch Performance Line SX – BDU314Y

2. Heart rate data becoming part of statistics

In future, you’ll also be able to view retrospectively in the eBike Flow app just how high your heart rate spikes during each trick – whether from joy, exertion, excitement or whatever the reason. Naturally, this only works if you’re wearing a Bluetooth-enabled heart rate monitor on your chest or wrist. Since February 2024, you’ve been able to view these values on the Ride Screens whilst riding. However, they haven’t been saved separately until now.

Bosch has now found a way to store the data permanently. This is done via the ‘Statistics’ menu. There, the data is saved separately for each individual ride. Bosch shows you both your average heart rate and how it changed over the course of the ride.

The only exception is, once again, the Bosch Intuvia 100. With this display, you’ll have to do without this feature.

3. Saving favourites for navigation

To make navigating with your ebike easier, Bosch is introducing shortcuts for three locations you visit regularly. Once set, these can then be added as favourites whenever you plan a route via a new button on the map. For many of you, likely candidates would be your home, your workplace if you’re a commuter, a favourite destination, your favourite bike shop or your favourite café. As mentioned, you’ll unfortunately have to limit yourself to three.

You can select your favourites in the quick menu of the Ride Screen in the eBike Flow app or on the Bosch Kiox 300, Bosch Kiox 400C and Bosch Kiox 500 displays. As soon as you start navigation from your current location, you can set one of your favourites as your destination via the shortcut.

4. Smoother mechanical gear shifting with eShift

If you’re heading to one of your favourite spots and using the eShift function alongside a mechanical derailleur or hub gear system, gear changes will be smoother following the eBike Flow app update. This is thanks to a new partnership with the Czech manufacturer Gearsensor. They offer a solution in which the motor briefly suspends its assistance at the moment of shifting, so that less load is placed on the drivetrain and the system wears out less quickly.

Gearsensor has developed sensors for this purpose that are integrated directly into the shift cable. When you operate the shift lever, the shift cable moves. The sensor detects the movement and ensures that motor assistance is interrupted for a few milliseconds. The Bosch Smart System now supports such GS shifting solutions. Gearsensor has been available for other ebike drives for some time. More than 20 international ebike manufacturers use the system.

5. Faster unlocking with Bosch eBike Lock in the new version of the app

Not more secure, but more convenient. With the update to version 1.34 of the eBike Flow app, Bosch has improved a detail of the eBike Lock digital anti-theft system. The feature allows you to use your smartphone as a key for the ebike system. This means that when you return to your parked ebike, you simply take out your smartphone to unlock the digital immobiliser on the Smart System. This will be quicker than before. The manufacturer promises twice the speed when unlocking. In our own tests, we came quite close to this figure. You can therefore assume that this will take only half as long in future.

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