Strava's Premium service will pay for smartphones that break in cycling accidents
Fitness-tracking app Strava is introducing some new perks for subscribers of its Premium membership option, which go on top of the additional in-app features the service already provides. Chief among the new perks is an offer for accidental damage coverage to phones or GPS devices through Sunday’s Insurance. The coverage is good as long as you broke your phone while recording a cycling activity with Strava.
The insurance is for members in the US, UK, and Australia, and it offers customers free accidental damage coverage up to $600 for cycling accidents. There are some pretty tough criteria to qualify for the claim, though: Sunday’s Insurance defines it as “a bicycle impact or crash in which your bicycle is sufficiently damaged to be...