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  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    gabriel959 wrote:
    Got a KOM last night coming back home...

    http://www.strava.com/segments/5230919

    beat 48 sixteen by one second. He will be wishing he was 48:14 now surely...
    FCN = 4
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    A segment from a ride this morning I was sure I had a personal record on, and yet doesn't show because the segment has been flagged as hazardous

    It blatantly isn't : http://www.strava.com/segments/4060322 you can see from the street view on there, it's just a road and a wide one at that.

    The only reason I can think of its that it's a 60mph limit with sometimes fast traffic as the road is wide and straight, but that's no reason to have a segment cancelled as the road is perfectly safe to ride on and you don't go through any junctions and it's up hill!

    Is there any way to reverse the decision?
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Wasn't trying on this segment but managed to put another 7 seconds onto my KoM

    http://app.strava.com/segments/4749350

    However I was trying to reclaim this segment but failed.

    http://app.strava.com/segments/5115932
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    On my commute, two new segments have appeared in the last two days, one yesterday and one today. Yesterday's new segment is now mine :)

    http://app.strava.com/segments/5461527

    Sometimes it advantageous to be a 'fuller figured' cyclist :lol:
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    Only just noticed the club leaderboard section on the club pages. Quite good. 8)
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  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    OK so I dropped my phone after a decent ride, battery came out. When the phone's powered down on a ride before I've generally been able to recover the data next time I fired up Strava. Any idea how to get it back?
    I used to just ride my bike to work but now I find myself going out looking for bigger and bigger hills.
  • mudcovered
    mudcovered Posts: 725
    Initialised wrote:
    OK so I dropped my phone after a decent ride, battery came out. When the phone's powered down on a ride before I've generally been able to recover the data next time I fired up Strava. Any idea how to get it back?
    Start a new ride recording. At that point the app usually spots the unsaved ride and asks if you want to upload it. :)

    Mike
  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    Yeah, tried that as that's what worked before, seems to be lost for good :cry:

    Shame as it was ~14.5 miles in ~50 mins, most 90-100 RPM spinning session and there are a few PBs I might have picked up on the way.

    Oh well, mental note, don't pull phone from pocket until stopped!

    In other news my phone has a new power button that works so should be more reliable and I'll miss fewer rides as it'll turn on as soon as I press the button not when I press it how it wants to be pressed at the time. Never buying a Samsung Phone again.
    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
    Sold my soul to the devil with a big 666.. http://app.strava.com/activities/83071849#1695131671
    FCN 9 || FCN 5
  • jonnyboy77
    jonnyboy77 Posts: 547
    Looked at my ride to work this morning where I rode along the A316 Twickenham to Richmond. I noticed that it listed a segment called "Gainsborough Road Climb" as Cat 4 ...

    http://www.strava.com/segments/3684002 shows a 115m Elev Difference! This can't be right, can it? Certainly my elevation adjusted GPS measured more like 2m! http://www.strava.com/activities/84779612#1740694776

    I'm not overly bothered, but it looks rediculous

    - Jon
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  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    likely just means whoever created the segment did it with a phone. create a support case and they'll recalculate it.
    What do you mean you think 64cm is a big frame?
  • daddy0
    daddy0 Posts: 686
    jonnyboy77 wrote:
    Looked at my ride to work this morning where I rode along the A316 Twickenham to Richmond. I noticed that it listed a segment called "Gainsborough Road Climb" as Cat 4 ...

    http://www.strava.com/segments/3684002 shows a 115m Elev Difference! This can't be right, can it? Certainly my elevation adjusted GPS measured more like 2m! http://www.strava.com/activities/84779612#1740694776

    I'm not overly bothered, but it looks rediculous

    - Jon

    Had the same thing with a segment I got KOM on. Someone then flagged it as dangerous, probably not because it was dangerous, but because of the weird elevation. As it was my first KOM, I wasn't having that, so I contacted Strava support and they unflagged the ride and flattened out the corrupt elevation data. If you can be bothered then send the URL of the segment to support and advise them what to do.

    I'm still KOM, but 2 other people have managed to match me since:
    http://app.strava.com/segments/2962991
    https://cyclejames.wordpress.com/
  • daddy0
    daddy0 Posts: 686
    cyclingprop wrote:
    likely just means whoever created the segment did it with a phone. create a support case and they'll recalculate it.

    In my experience only Garmins seem to record bad elevation data; I've not seen a phone do so yet. I'm sure that both are likely to screw up from time to time though.
    https://cyclejames.wordpress.com/
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Got a KOM and I guess someone has a email...

    yes it's singular and to be honest luck played it's part, didn't need to slow for road, no wandering dogs etc. But A KOM nevertherless but for how long....
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,818
    Well done, that's a very good run along there for that distance. Surprised you didn't meet any dogs or small children, there seemed to be loads around when I went through. People are grimly hanging on to the good weather, as am I.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    I got a stupid (undeserved KOM) the other day. An utterly stupid 10 second segment on the flat on the edge of a village in East Yorkshire. Funny thing is, Strava reckons I was doing 38mph yet when I look at the performance data it shows 9.8mph at the start of the segment, 30mph at the end of it and a straight line between the two. How that averages to 38 mph I do not know particularly when the data on the Bryton site shows correctly that I was doing 18mph all the way.......

    Amusingly I got a whole raft of top tens on the Trans Pennine trail from Hornsea to Hull. I'd done almost 100 miles at that point and, after the horrors of Hornsea, just wanted to get to the train. The trail is an old railway line that almost straight lines all the way to Hull but the surface varies from nice and smooth to sub Paris - Roubaix. So I just hammered it at 18mph and ended up with 3rd place for the whole length behind at least one MTB! Not a good way to finish a long ride though....!
    Faster than a tent.......
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Have people been getting the MTFU emails from Strava when they get beaten on a segment/KoM? I've lost a couple in the last week and not had the email and only found out by looking at the segment.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    redvee wrote:
    Have people been getting the MTFU emails from Strava when they get beaten on a segment/KoM? I've lost a couple in the last week and not had the email and only found out by looking at the segment.

    I had one a couple of days ago. I think someone created it for the ride they had just done - it's a bonkers segment all the way from Bolton Abbey to Airton - there's miles of it! I suspect I instantly gained and lost the KOM :lol:

    Would be a doddle to get it back though if I could be bothered!
    Faster than a tent.......
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Well done, that's a very good run along there for that distance. Surprised you didn't meet any dogs or small children, there seemed to be loads around when I went through. People are grimly hanging on to the good weather, as am I.

    So was I but they where all safely in the middle distance!

    It is a silly segment, one day someone fast will shoot though, though I suspect I could get a fair bit faster since that was when ill and with a heavy bag on back.
  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    Argh, got someone who I believe to be a cat 2 on my route now who is hoovering up a lot of the longer KOMs. I wouldn't mind but from their speed profiles it looks like they take a very lenient view to lights :s
    FCN 9 || FCN 5
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    http://www.strava.com/athletes/583131/segments/leader

    This is my one and only KOM. The segment doesn't seem to have followed the road very accurately and seems to wander into a nearby field. For some reason I am the only one to have picked this up which makes me KOM. Not even the person who created it. Which I think is quite weird...
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Mikey23 wrote:
    http://www.strava.com/athletes/583131/segments/leader

    This is my one and only KOM. The segment doesn't seem to have followed the road very accurately and seems to wander into a nearby field. For some reason I am the only one to have picked this up which makes me KOM. Not even the person who created it. Which I think is quite weird...

    Strava Needs A Polish might cure the wandering and lose you your KoM.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Mikey23 wrote:
    http://www.strava.com/athletes/583131/segments/leader

    This is my one and only KOM. The segment doesn't seem to have followed the road very accurately and seems to wander into a nearby field. For some reason I am the only one to have picked this up which makes me KOM. Not even the person who created it. Which I think is quite weird...

    Strava does do some funny things. There is a silly segment in Leeds up the Station ramp to the cycle point. When I looked at the leaderboard, I noticed that the fastest rider had done it in 6 seconds at a speed of 70mph. And the next few were all averaging about 36mph from a standing start and round a sharp right hander.

    When I looked at the individual plots, it turns out that all of them are of riders who a)have dodgy GPS's that don't follow the road accurately and b) were actually following a route that sort of parallels the station ramp but goes underneath it; they hadn't even done the segment! You have to get to about 15th place before you find a time that hasn't been achieved either by riding a different route entirely or by dodgy GPS signals.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Rolf F wrote:
    Strava does do some funny things. There is a silly segment in Leeds up the Station ramp to the cycle point. When I looked at the leaderboard, I noticed that the fastest rider had done it in 6 seconds at a speed of 70mph. And the next few were all averaging about 36mph from a standing start and round a sharp right hander.

    When I looked at the individual plots, it turns out that all of them are of riders who a)have dodgy GPS's that don't follow the road accurately and b) were actually following a route that sort of parallels the station ramp but goes underneath it; they hadn't even done the segment! You have to get to about 15th place before you find a time that hasn't been achieved either by riding a different route entirely or by dodgy GPS signals.
    GPS is a bit weird with reflections so it is probably due to the underpass.

    I notice that Strava seems to sometimes create segments. Today I went for a slow walk with a group and on uploading found I had a KOM, with my position being 1st/1... Not much of an achievement.
    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=6404
  • bobbygloss
    bobbygloss Posts: 317
    jimmypippa wrote:
    I notice that Strava seems to sometimes create segments. Today I went for a slow walk with a group and on uploading found I had a KOM, with my position being 1st/1... Not much of an achievement.
    I think Strava creates segments for Cat 4 or larger hills, if they don't already have one. Also if a ride is uploaded and you make a segment on it, then delete the ride, the segment will remain.
  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    So.... Who is this then?:
    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... times.html
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  • Gallywomack
    Gallywomack Posts: 823
    Any mysterious masked strangers taking part in the Catford & Bec hill climbs on Sunday? Maybe that was his warm-up.
    Pompino
  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    Gallywomack wrote:
    Any mysterious masked strangers taking part in the Catford & Bec hill climbs on Sunday? Maybe that was his warm-up.

    Hang on a minute...

    JP - Jack Puller - National Hill Climb champ...
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    If you find yourself knocked off you KOM Strava spot, fear not*!

    Simply go here: http://austin.craigslist.org/bik/4101417809.html and hire a Cat 1 or Pro rider to get it back for you!

    Easy peasy.


    *So long as you live in Austin, Texas**



    **For now. Don't underestimate how fast this might spread.
    Swim. Bike. Run. Yeah. That's what I used to do.

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  • bluefinch
    bluefinch Posts: 20
    Long but well written piece on two well-publicised Strava-related deaths in California:

    http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/strava-files

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