Tiiks vs bikested: A Parts Catalog vs a Rider Operating System

bikested wants to be the only app a cyclist needs: Health miles, form, news, recalls, and an AI that knows the garage. Tiiks is the catalog those extra surfaces are not.

You close the door, glance at the watch, and the week’s kilometers are already in Apple Health. bikested reads those miles — from the watch and from other apps — and builds reminders from the distance you actually rode. That is not Strava. It is a Health pipe into a garage that also wants to be your form chart, your recall inbox, your news desk, and an AI that knows the bikes. The tagline is “The only app a cyclist needs.” That is a rider operating system. It is a large claim. It is not a parts catalog.

Tiiks does a narrower job on purpose. Native iOS and Android. Strava distance on the bike and on each fitted component. A real catalog with specs. Verified rider reviews that carry mileage. Service or replace. Full history. A widget. Twenty slots. If you wanted news, a public bike profile, and a chat that has read your garage, bikested has more surfaces. If you wanted the cassette to have a name and a review at real kilometers, those extra surfaces are not the catalog.

What bikested actually is

bikested — the listing says bikested: bike service & rides — is an app from Tomas Ross, with a home at bikested.com. It says it is built for the cyclist, not just the bike. The garage covers road, gravel, mountain, e-bike, and city, with photos, components, setup, and history. Reminders come from miles you actually ride. Those miles come from Apple Health, including the watch and other apps that write there. Components can carry weight and condition. The checklist mind is familiar: chain wear checks, brake inspections, lubrication, wheel truing.

Then the OS opens. An AI assistant knows your garage and your rides. A Rider tab shows weekly distance, twelve-week form, a streak, and a per-bike breakdown. Reporter watches safety recalls on your exact bikes and parts, plus cycling news and deals. You get total cost of ownership and a PDF service history. You can publish a shareable public bike profile, a timeline, calculators, and milestones. The core is free. Plus unlocks unlimited bikes, unlimited AI, the PDF, an upgrade advisor, and cost forecasting, with a fourteen-day Plus trial. That is a lot of house around a garage.

What Tiiks remembers

Tiiks reads Strava and puts that mileage on the bike and on each fitted component. The part is a catalog part, with specs, not only weight and a condition field. Reviews are from riders who attach real kilometers. The history is the bike’s, not a public profile unless you go looking for an audience. We ask service or replace. We ship a Home Screen widget. We do not run a news desk, a recall reporter, or an AI that wants to talk about the garage. The bike is the product. The rides are the evidence.

A rider OS versus a parts product

bikested is built for the cyclist: form, streak, news, deals, an AI, a public profile. The bike is one room in that house. Tiiks is the opposite architecture. Twenty slots, catalog, reviews, history, widget. If you wanted one login that also tells you the week’s form and a recall on your frame, they have more rooms. If you wanted the chain to be the center of the room, an operating system is a lobby. Lobbies are where a cassette goes to wait behind a headline.

Apple Health miles versus Strava on named catalog parts

Health miles are real miles. They are not Strava-on-named-catalog-parts. A watch can write distance into Apple Health. Other apps can too. bikested uses that total to fire reminders. Tiiks uses the Strava ride to move the bike and each fitted component, and the component has a catalog name. A Health total can tell you that you rode. It does not, by itself, tell you which cassette did the kilometers or what another rider saw at that mileage. Do not let the word “automatic” collapse those two pipes.

News, recalls, and an AI versus verified rider reviews

Reporter and the assistant are extra surfaces: safety recalls on your exact bikes and parts, cycling news, deals, a chat that has read the garage. Useful if you will open them. They are not a catalog of verified rider reviews with real mileage. An AI that knows you own a bike can still invent a confident sentence about a chain it cannot show specs for. We put the review next to the part, with the kilometers attached. You can disagree with a rider. You can see how far they rode.

A public profile versus a private bike history

A shareable public bike profile, a timeline, calculators, milestones — bikested will let the garage face outward. Plus adds a PDF, an upgrade advisor, and cost forecasting. That is a rider who wants an audience or a tidy export. Tiiks keeps a full bike history so the next cassette is not a guess. The history is for the next decision, not for a profile page. If you came to publish the bike, they have the surface. If you came to remember the bike, we kept the file.

Who bikested is enough for

Stay on bikested if you want a rider OS: Apple Health miles, a form tab, recalls, news, an AI, a public profile, and a garage that covers city bikes and e-bikes in the same breath. The free core is enough to test whether you will live in those rooms. Choose Tiiks if you already ride on Strava and you want those kilometers on named catalog parts, with verified reviews, twenty slots, and a service-or-replace history on iOS and Android. “The only app a cyclist needs” is their line. A catalog is a different need. Do not buy a news desk to look up a cassette.

Questions we get

Is Apple Health the same as Strava for wear?

No. Health can collect distance from a watch and from other apps. That is a rider total. Tiiks reads Strava and puts that ride on the bike and on each fitted catalog part. A Health mile can be real and still not know which wheel did it. If your rides already publish to Strava, you are in our pipe. If your rides only exist as a watch ring, you are in theirs.

Does the AI replace a parts catalog?

It knows your garage and your rides. That is a chat with context, not a catalog with specs and verified mileage reviews. Unlimited AI is a Plus feature. It will keep answering. It will not become another rider’s 4,000 km on the same chain. We shipped the catalog and the reviews instead of the assistant.

What about recalls and news?

Reporter will watch safety recalls on the bikes and parts you entered, plus news and deals. That is a real surface if you will use it. It is still not a review with kilometers. Tiiks does not run a newsroom. We track the part you fitted and the miles it has already done. If a recall matters to you as a inbox, keep a tool that does inboxes. If the cassette matters, keep a catalog.