SHIMANO CONNECT Lab to be Discontinued

I received an email from SHIMANO at the end of March announcing the termination of their cycling training platform, CONNECT Lab:

We regret to inform you that the SHIMANO CONNECT Lab will end on March 31, 2027.

Prior to the end of the service, certain functions will no longer be available according to the schedule below.

■ End of Availability for Certain Features
As of May 26, 2026, the activity transfer function from E-TUBE RIDE to SHIMANO CONNECT Lab will no longer be available.

■ Scheduled End of Service March 31, 2027

As an owner of a SHIMANO power meter, this is disappointing. While many of the analytical services offered by SHIMANO CONNECT Lab are available via Garmin Connect, Strava, and Intervals, none of those services support Force Vector analysis, which is one of the primary functions of the product. I even went so far as to download GoldenCheetah but this appears to be a hot mess that doesn’t want to run on macOS 261.

Force Vector analysis
Force Vector analysis

Strangely, I can’t find any public mention of this termination on the SHIMANO website. SHIMANO, shamefully, seems to be leaving their customers in the lurch.

Footnotes

  1. It’s not notarised and required special permissions to run via Settings -> Privacy. Once those permissions were granted, it still didn’t launch because it couldn’t “find the R libraries”. ↩