Tiiks vs TrailRig: Catalog Mileage vs a Suspension Workshop Notebook

TrailRig is a local-first MTB garage with fork science, invoices, and parts that carry kilometers between bikes. Tiiks is named catalog parts, verified reviews, and Strava on the slots.

You set the sag, write the clicker counts on a piece of tape, and want the fork to remember the hours, not just the weekend. TrailRig is built for that bench: a digital garage that lives on the device, a component list that goes well past a drivetrain, and a Pro tier that treats Fox, RockShox, Marzocchi, Öhlins, DVO, SR Suntour, X-Fusion, and Formula as charts you can actually use. That is a suspension workshop notebook. It is not a parts catalog with verified rider reviews, and it does not claim Strava.

Tiiks tracks the other half of the same bike. Twenty slots, a real catalog, reviews that carry mileage, and Strava distance on the bike and on each fitted component. If you came to set a coil spring and stalk a spare shock, you are in TrailRig’s shop. If you came to know what cassette you have and how far other riders got on it, you are in ours. Pretending one app is the other wastes a Saturday.

What TrailRig actually is

TrailRig — MountainBike Component Tracker, “For cycling enthusiasts,” from Zoran Prole — is a maintenance log and digital garage for mountain, gravel, or road. There is no account. The data stays on the device. You can record frame, fork, shock, drivetrain, brakes, wheels, and dozens more, with brand, model, serial, price, weight, and photos. Kilometers on a part are automatic in the sense that they follow the component when you move it between bikes. A needs-attention card and per-bike health dots tell you what is loud. Fork and shock intervals can be ride-hours, distance, or time, with background reminders. That is a serious local garage.

Pro is a one-time in-app purchase. It unlocks a Suspension Setup Assistant with those brand charts, sag targets, and a coil spring calculator; Damping Profiles and Tire Profiles; spare-part search and a Price Stalker; invoice scanning to add a build; an Invoices Vault with insurance and warranty reminders; a Cost Dashboard; iCloud Sync; a Home Screen widget; and a QR build-sheet. You can export, encrypt, and restore full backups. No ads. No tracking. If your happy place is paperwork plus fork science, the checkout is honest.

What Tiiks remembers

Tiiks is native on iOS and Android. Strava rides put distance on the bike and on each fitted component. The part is a catalog object with specs, not only a row you typed. Verified rider reviews include real mileage. The decision we surface is service versus replace, with a full bike history behind it. A Home Screen widget keeps those parts in front of you. We do not ship sag targets, a coil calculator, or an invoice vault. We remember the named part and the kilometers it has already done.

A local garage versus a catalog other riders already wore out

TrailRig keeps the garage on the device. No account is a real feature if you do not want a login between you and a serial number. Brand, model, weight, photos, a QR build-sheet — that is ownership, documented. Tiiks puts a real parts catalog under the same slots, with specs and verified reviews that already have kilometers on them. Your fork can have a serial in TrailRig. Your cassette can have a name and a review at 3,000 km in Tiiks. Both are records. Only one is a catalog other riders already used.

Suspension science versus service or replace

This is TrailRig’s home turf, and it should stay there. Ride-hours on a fork, damping profiles, tire profiles, sag, coil springs, charts for the shocks people actually buy — that is workshop science. Tiiks does not pretend to be that notebook. We put mileage on twenty slots and ask whether to service or replace. If you live in air-spring pressure and rebound clicks, TrailRig is the better bench. If you live in chain, cassette, tyres, and pads that wear with the road, we stayed on that job.

Paperwork and a Price Stalker versus reviews with mileage

Scan an invoice, vault it, set insurance and warranty reminders, watch a Cost Dashboard, stalk a spare — TrailRig treats the build as a file you can encrypt and restore. That is how a careful garage survives a stolen laptop. Tiiks does not become your accountant. We put verified rider reviews next to the part, with the mileage they actually rode. A receipt proves you bought it. A review at real kilometers is evidence of what it did. You may want both. They are not the same drawer.

Kilometers that follow a part versus Strava on the slots

TrailRig lets kilometers stay with a component when it moves to another bike. That is the right model for a shock you swapped. They do not claim Strava as the source. Do not invent one. Tiiks reads Strava and puts that ride on the bike and on each fitted component automatically. The part is named from the catalog; the history stays with the bike. If you need hours on a fork without an athlete connection, TrailRig is built for that clock. If you need Saturday’s ride on a named cassette Monday morning, that is the pipe we use.

Who TrailRig is enough for

Stay on TrailRig if you want a local-first MTB garage, fork and shock intervals in hours, a one-time Pro unlock for setup charts, invoices, and a Price Stalker, and you do not need Strava or a cross-brand review catalog. Choose Tiiks if you want named catalog parts, verified reviews with mileage, Strava on twenty slots, and a service-or-replace history on iOS and Android. TrailRig is the better suspension workshop notebook. Tiiks is the better named-part mileage and reviews product. Use the one that matches the bench you actually stand at.

Questions we get

Does TrailRig connect to Strava?

Not that they claim, and we are not going to costume a local garage as an athlete sync. Kilometers on a part follow the component between bikes. That is their model. Tiiks reads Strava and applies the ride to the bike and to each fitted slot. If you need both hours on a shock and Strava on a cassette, those are two tools, not one checkbox.

Is TrailRig only for mountain bikes?

The store subtitle leads with mountain bike, and the suspension tools are built for that world. The garage itself is for mountain, gravel, or road. You can log a road bike here. You will still be in a product whose Pro tier is fork science and invoices. Tiiks will take the same road bike and put catalog parts and Strava mileage on it. The label on the box is a hint. The features are the product.

Can I keep TrailRig for the fork and Tiiks for the drivetrain?

Yes, if you can stand two sources of truth. TrailRig is the notebook for sag, hours, and the vault. Tiiks tracks named drivetrain and contact parts from the catalog, with reviews and a widget that already received the ride. Do not ask either app to impersonate the other. A shock chart will not review a cassette. A catalog will not set your coil.