Strava.com - Put your money where your mouth is

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  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    For anybody familiar with Regents Park, i'm sure you will know that after 4/5 laps it becomes a little boring.

    Well...
    http://app.strava.com/activities/37119978
  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    willy b wrote:
    For anybody familiar with Regents Park, i'm sure you will know that after 4/5 laps it becomes a little boring.

    Well...
    http://app.strava.com/activities/37119978

    Why does the elevation vary with each lap?

    When I first signed up to Strava and was experimenting, it said I was moving at an average of 7.2 km/h, even though I was lying in bed at the time...
  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    Ian.B wrote:
    willy b wrote:
    For anybody familiar with Regents Park, i'm sure you will know that after 4/5 laps it becomes a little boring.

    Well...
    http://app.strava.com/activities/37119978

    Why does the elevation vary with each lap?

    When I first signed up to Strava and was experimenting, it said I was moving at an average of 7.2 km/h, even though I was lying in bed at the time...

    Either satellite error, or someones nicked your bike.
    What do you mean you think 64cm is a big frame?
  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Picked my target segment the other day (aim at really going for it on one segment per commute), gunned it, slight headwind but felt happy, got home and found the GPS hadn't synced until I'd got part way through.....Grrrrrrrrr
    Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Picked my target segment the other day (aim at really going for it on one segment per commute), gunned it, slight headwind but felt happy, got home and found the GPS hadn't synced until I'd got part way through.....Grrrrrrrrr

    Google "Strava needs a polish"
  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    Picked my target segment the other day (aim at really going for it on one segment per commute), gunned it, slight headwind but felt happy, got home and found the GPS hadn't synced until I'd got part way through.....Grrrrrrrrr
    I did the same on Embankment yesterday morning only to find that Strava had stopped recording any data after Putney Bridge
  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    Strava seems to have gained some popularity throughout 2012 :shock:

    Jan 2012 base Mile Blast participants = 1,196
    Jan 2013 base Mile Blast participants = 34,461
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    How do I delete a ride? I appear to have taken a KOM last week on Barnet hill. By 10 seconds. In full on commute mode while carrying a mucus monster. Probably into a head wind.


    Edit. Thinking about it. Maybe I am just awesome.
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

    PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
    B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills
  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    willy b wrote:
    Strava seems to have gained some popularity throughout 2012 :shock:

    Jan 2012 base Mile Blast participants = 1,196
    Jan 2013 base Mile Blast participants = 34,461

    Yeah, but you're still nailing it - kudos!
  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    I've yet to upload a load of miles, it pleases me to see the only people doing more than me are pro's.
    Blog on my first and now second season of proper riding/racing - www.firstseasonracing.com
  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    http://app.strava.com/segments/1561809

    Top 5 on Redheugh North (thanks to the number 53 and some spirited drafting).
    I used to just ride my bike to work but now I find myself going out looking for bigger and bigger hills.
  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    Late night beer fueled cycle - f-ing a http://app.strava.com/activities/38650388#628833837
    FCN 9 || FCN 5
  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    Interesting. Strava has a ride recorded for me on 1 November 2027. But looking at the stats it seems old age will have caught up with me by then.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    http://app.strava.com/activities/39457106#645629124

    6 bloody minutes. That's pretty much the time wasted at traffic lights.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Nice.

    I see my SCR Ditchling still stands though... :wink:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Don't worry. I'll be after that soon. The segment LDN->BN looks pretty savage to get top 10

    I do have a 5th overall here: http://app.strava.com/activities/37424284#603140074 which is ok out of 1400 people!
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    It's amazing how any different routes people use for LDN-BN.
  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    http://app.strava.com/activities/39883106#655684944

    22.6mph ave for 20 mins, in full commuting attire? ...

    By heck, you Londoners are lucky I've let you off the hook for a while.
  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    just because they've not got traffic lights up north yet..
    FCN 9 || FCN 5
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    An article about Strava in the Sunday Times today having interviewed the guy who runs [url=www.http://veloviewer.com/]Veloviewer[/url].

    I can't read it all cos I can't be bothered to subscribe to the ST but it doesn't start well...

    Edit: full article on FB
    FCN = 4
  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    That rider in the ST article looks like Edds off here! Well i'm sure that's his bike :lol:

    Edit: Looks like my observation powers are strong, after reading the article it appears it is.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    That's Edds!

    (Edds: we need to have a word about the pannier rack :wink: )
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    What the actual f7ck possessed him to want that photo to be published on the internet?!?!?
    Blog on my first and now second season of proper riding/racing - www.firstseasonracing.com
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    okgo wrote:
    What the actual f7ck possessed him to want that photo to be published on the internet?!?!?

    money? just guessing like
    FCN = 4
  • mr_ribble
    mr_ribble Posts: 1,068
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    okgo wrote:
    What the actual f7ck possessed him to want that photo to be published on the internet?!?!?

    money? just guessing like

    Fame. I heard that Hollywood want to make a film about him.
  • edds
    edds Posts: 156
    It is indeed me. I was only expecting it to be a small article next to the cycling column of the paper. Didn't realise I would be page 5 of the paper (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCvS0OWCQAAXqg6.jpg:large) and on the internet.
    cjcp wrote:
    (Edds: we need to have a word about the pannier rack :wink: )

    You should have seen the look on the photographers face when he saw the rack. He tried so many different positions to try and get me standing in the way of it so you can't see it.
    edd
    --
    FCN 4-5; Giant SRC 3; formally known as edduddiee
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    Did nobody have an allen key... or an axe/blowtorch/hack saw?
  • mr_ribble
    mr_ribble Posts: 1,068
    edds wrote:
    It is indeed me. I was only expecting it to be a small article next to the cycling column of the paper. Didn't realise I would be page 5 of the paper (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCvS0OWCQAAXqg6.jpg:large) and on the internet.
    cjcp wrote:
    (Edds: we need to have a word about the pannier rack :wink: )

    You should have seen the look on the photographers face when he saw the rack. He tried so many different positions to try and get me standing in the way of it so you can't see it.

    But alas, when the photographer got back to the lightbox, he decided not to go with the shot of you straddled over the pannier rack, using your thighs to obscure the black metal, and your hand cupped tightly round the saddle.

    Reminds me of the time I was interviewed by the one and only Hugh Pym on an bit the BBC were doing about Science graduates going to work in the City. I was under the impression it would be about "transferable skills", instead the final edit portrayed me as if I had sold my soul to the devil.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    willy b wrote:
    For anybody familiar with Regents Park, i'm sure you will know that after 4/5 laps it becomes a little boring.

    Well...
    http://app.strava.com/activities/37119978

    Why? :shock:
    Ben

    Bikes: Donhou DSS4 Custom | Condor Italia RC | Gios Megalite | Dolan Preffisio | Giant Bowery '76
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  • ketsbaia
    ketsbaia Posts: 1,718
    Just signed up (yes, yes, late to the party). Managed a 4th place along Great Suffolk Street, but way off the pace everywhere else. Not too disappointed given I haven't actually ridden a bike since the end of September.

    I see Big Matt has the record for a particular section of the Old Kent Road. I'm guessing that speed was achieved coming down from the flyover, though, yeah?