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  • Pufftmw
    Pufftmw Posts: 1,941
    BigMat wrote:
    Nice blast along Molesworth Sprint / Dual Drag this morning. Not sure how fast, but felt good topping out somewhere north of 61kph. Funny segment(s) though, have often felt good only to be disappointed, a lot depends on how clean the entry is and which way the wind blowing - headwind this morning (getting my excuses in place early!)

    I rode DD "competitively" for the first time yesterday 'cos I had business down Ladywell & thought I would try it out on the way home! Not knowing where it starts/finishes gave it a go with an Av of 28.1 mph, so I thought not too shabby. I then looked at the segment to see that even at a speed on the flat that would win many a KOM, I was still only =20th (=21st today I now see). CP's 35mph is impressive :)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Strava just mocked me.

    I got a notification that Vermin was following me and it went "Woah, you're kind of a big deal"

    Alright! Don't take the p!ss!
    _
  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Strava just mocked me.

    I got a notification that Vermin was following me and it went "Woah, you're kind of a big deal"

    Alright! Don't take the p!ss!

    Wouldn't he have to go really slowly to follow you?
    What do you mean you think 64cm is a big frame?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Strava just mocked me.

    I got a notification that Vermin was following me and it went "Woah, you're kind of a big deal"

    Alright! Don't take the p!ss!

    Wouldn't he have to go really slowly to follow you?

    Fancy a race up Whitedown?
    _
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Keyser__Soze wrote:
    it'd involve rooting your One

    Fruity talk.
  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Strava just mocked me.

    I got a notification that Vermin was following me and it went "Woah, you're kind of a big deal"

    Alright! Don't take the p!ss!

    Wouldn't he have to go really slowly to follow you?

    Fancy a race up Whitedown?

    Lets have a best of four.

    One up hill
    One down hill
    One flat into the wind
    One flat with the wind.
    What do you mean you think 64cm is a big frame?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Strava just mocked me.

    I got a notification that Vermin was following me and it went "Woah, you're kind of a big deal"

    Alright! Don't take the p!ss!

    Wouldn't he have to go really slowly to follow you?

    Fancy a race up Whitedown?

    Lets have a best of four.

    One up hill
    One down hill
    One flat into the wind
    One flat with the wind    .

    squinty.gif
    _
  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Strava just mocked me.

    I got a notification that Vermin was following me and it went "Woah, you're kind of a big deal"

    Alright! Don't take the p!ss!

    :lol:

    Vermin just got very, very wet. And couldn't go any faster up Effingham. Damn you Chasey.
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    Having only recently got an iphone and thus into Strava, one small observation from my first few days.

    A number of segments on my commute through good olde london town are pretty short sprint type segments, but often start or finish (or both) just the wrong side of a set of traffic lights that one normally has to stop at (i.e. major cross roads or for example Holborn circus roundabout) i.e segment start just before a set of lights and finishes just after. To my mind it would make more sense for them to start just after a set of lights and finish just short of the next. Whilst I think Strava eliminates stationery times from your ride, the setting off and slowing down bit will have a detremental effect.

    Is this because the person who set up the segment is a numpty and doesn't know what they are doing?

    Or is it because they once had a dream run that got them through both sets of lights at full speed so they cynically set up a segment they had an unfair advantage on?

    I suspect the latter.

    I assume only the segment creator can edit it.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    t4tomo wrote:
    I assume only the segment creator can edit it.

    Yes, the segments I've created have started after and finished before junctions just to give people a chance of riding it safely.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    t4tomo wrote:
    Is this because the person who set up the segment is a numpty and doesn't know what they are doing?

    Or is it because they once had a dream run that got them through both sets of lights at full speed so they cynically set up a segment they had an unfair advantage on?

    I suspect the latter.

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    I had a good run at one of the offending segments today as the lights half way down the segment were with me, only to get into work and to find that due to vagaries of GPS Strava had decided I have veered off the route a bit (according to strava I lept off the side of holborn viaduct) so it didn't get counted as a time on that segment- argggh!
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  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    t4tomo wrote:
    I had a good run at one of the offending segments today as the lights half way down the segment were with me, only to get into work and to find that due to vagaries of GPS Strava had decided I have veered off the route a bit (according to strava I lept off the side of holborn viaduct) so it didn't get counted as a time on that segment- argggh!
    What's the segment?
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  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    Its called "Police box flyby" holborn circus roundabout to middle of Newgate street.

    it obviously a dodgy GPS area as a lot of my rides in appear veer off the road as Snow hill joins Holborn viaduct / newgate street.

    this may be a link to the segment page on strava
    http://app.strava.com/segments/1980447
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  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Strava just mocked me.

    I got a notification that Vermin was following me and it went "Woah, you're kind of a big deal"

    Alright! Don't take the p!ss!

    Wouldn't he have to go really slowly to follow you?

    Fancy a race up Whitedown?

    Lets have a best of four.

    One up hill
    One down hill
    One flat into the wind
    One flat with the wind    .

    squinty.gif

    Not interested?
    What do you mean you think 64cm is a big frame?
  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    t4tomo wrote:
    Its called "Police box flyby" holborn circus roundabout to middle of Newgate street.

    it obviously a dodgy GPS area as a lot of my rides in appear veer off the road as Snow hill joins Holborn viaduct / newgate street.

    this may be a link to the segment page on strava
    http://app.strava.com/segments/1980447

    Yes & at least the two fastest appear to be gps glitches. I tend to give up on that sort of section
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  • hegyestomi
    hegyestomi Posts: 504
    If you thought you're fast then have a look at this:
    http://app.strava.com/segments/1113534
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Average gradient of -42.1%? I reckon I could get up to 150 or so on that.
    Sun - Rain - Snow
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Strava just mocked me.

    I got a notification that Vermin was following me and it went "Woah, you're kind of a big deal"

    Alright! Don't take the p!ss!

    Wouldn't he have to go really slowly to follow you?

    Fancy a race up Whitedown?

    Lets have a best of four.

    One up hill
    One down hill
    One flat into the wind
    One flat with the wind    .

    squinty.gif

    Not interested?

    Best of three perhaps.
    _
  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Strava just mocked me.

    I got a notification that Vermin was following me and it went "Woah, you're kind of a big deal"

    Alright! Don't take the p!ss!

    Wouldn't he have to go really slowly to follow you?

    Fancy a race up Whitedown?

    Lets have a best of four.

    One up hill
    One down hill
    One flat into the wind
    One flat with the wind    .

    squinty.gif

    Not interested?

    Best of three perhaps.

    Grin. So down hill, and flat runs only then?
    What do you mean you think 64cm is a big frame?
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    I think site admin should ahve a word with some people on hee about excessive quootingand re quoting of posts.

    Forum rules extract: "2) Don't quote the entire message that you're responding to, only the pertinent passage."


    :D:D
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    t4tomo wrote:
    I think site admin should ahve a word with some people on hee about excessive quootingand re quoting of posts.

    Forum rules extract: "2) Don't quote the entire message that you're responding to, only the pertinent passage."


    :D:D

    Allow me to summarise

    RC: Am small, go up!
    CP: Am big, better down!
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  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    dhope wrote:
    t4tomo wrote:
    I think site admin should ahve a word with some people on hee about excessive quootingand re quoting of posts.

    Forum rules extract: "2) Don't quote the entire message that you're responding to, only the pertinent passage."


    :D:D

    Allow me to summarise

    RC: Am small, go up!
    CP: Am big, better down!

    I don't know what you're both on about.
    What do you mean you think 64cm is a big frame?
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    cyclingprop wrote:

    Grin. So down hill, and flat runs only then?

    You'd probably do well at this nr my folks place.

    http://app.strava.com/segments/1387735

    It is my favourite (road) decent, though in fairness it's flattish at the first half and only really gets going in the last half.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    cyclingprop wrote:
    dhope wrote:
    t4tomo wrote:
    I think site admin should ahve a word with some people on hee about excessive quootingand re quoting of posts.

    Forum rules extract: "2) Don't quote the entire message that you're responding to, only the pertinent passage."


    :D:D

    Allow me to summarise

    RC: Am small, go up!
    CP: Am big, better down!

    I don't know what you're both on about.

    Me neither.
    _
  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Another Strava question (probably covered somewhere in this thread!)

    I've set-up 2 private segments (commutes), but it's only included a couple of random historical entries of mine. Is there anyway to make them calculate all of them?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    TheStone wrote:
    Another Strava question (probably covered somewhere in this thread!)

    I've set-up 2 private segments (commutes), but it's only included a couple of random historical entries of mine. Is there anyway to make them calculate all of them?

    Give it a day or two.
    _
  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Rick Chasey wrote:

    Give it a day or two.

    That's what I thought, but it's been 2 weeks now.
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    TheStone wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:

    Give it a day or two.

    That's what I thought, but it's been 2 weeks now.

    did the gps device track correctly over the rest?

    Might also be worth contacting the strava support site, these things do happen. sometimes editing a segment can nudge it along.
  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    roger merriman wrote:
    cyclingprop wrote:

    Grin. So down hill, and flat runs only then?

    You'd probably do well at this nr my folks place.

    http://app.strava.com/segments/1387735

    It is my favourite (road) decent, though in fairness it's flattish at the first half and only really gets going in the last half.

    I am pretty sure I would beat Rick on that, yes.
    What do you mean you think 64cm is a big frame?

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