New MySmartBike App from Mahle: Heart and Motor in Harmony

Shortly after the turn of the month, there is news from Mahle. The manufacturer of the X35+ drive has fundamentally revised its app concept. In future, it will be based on three pillars, that is to say three applications. The most interesting app for you is probably the “MySmartBike” app.

Matching the compact, lightweight drive, the new app has been given a decidedly sporty orientation. With the help of the application, you can record training cycles and routes, for example. Important parameters such as incline, decline, heart rate, lap times and total times are recorded. These can be viewed on your smartphone unhurriedly after the whole ordeal.

Screen of the demo version MySmartBike app from Mahle

Overview on the smartphone, analysis on the PC

Mahle has also implemented a version of the “MySmartBike” app for desktop PCs. This not only provides a clearer presentation than on an eight-inch display, but probably also additional functions at the same time. So, anyone who has always wanted to evaluate the tours on their Mahle-powered ebike in as much detail as possible will have more opportunities to do so in future. The display of health data, topographies of the routes ridden, the retrieval of route information and connection with services from third-party providers such as Strava and Co. have been announced. Of course, you can use this extra information in subsequent training sessions.

If you want to be even more specific, you can tell the motor exactly how much support it should give you while riding. This is based on certain ranges of the heart rate, which you specify and couple with a degree of motor power that you also select yourself. If your heart rate increases, the ebike will compensate by increasing the power of the motor. When you return to your predefined comfort zone, the motor shifts down a gear accordingly. We have not yet been able to test how well this works in practice. On paper, however, it reads very promising. At least, if you want to get to grips with your own riding experience on the ebike at this level.

Additional applications for other user groups

If all of this sounds like too much minutiae, rest assured that the “MySmartBike” app will of course also provide you with essential information such as the charging status and other information about the bike’s status in real time.

In addition to the “MySmartBike” app, Mahle has presented two other apps. “SmartBike Lab” is aimed at specialist retailers and “Production” at manufacturers of ebikes. With these additions, the manufacturer wants to give its solutions more connectivity. In the long term, the Spanish-based company has certainly set its sights on a future in which intelligent sensors on the bike interact with artificial intelligence to ensure an exchange of information between the participants in road traffic and enable completely different applications.

In computer graphics, the exchange of data between ebikes and other vehicles already works smoothly. With the new apps, Mahle is taking the next small step towards the practical implementation of this idea.

For the moment, the vision still seems to suffer from a few teething problems. For example, the new products were supposed to be available in the Google Play Store and the App Store from the end of November. As of today, this is not yet the case. We are keeping our fingers crossed that this will change in the next few days.

Pictures: Mahle GmbH