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  • flimflam_machine
    flimflam_machine Posts: 263
    Well fettle my shifters! I actually caught a green light crossing Vauxhall Bridge Road this morning! I created a new Strava segment (Chelsea Bridge to Lambeth Bridge) in celebration.

    A question, how does one find out which SCRers were on a particular route at the same time as you. Does one need to "Upgrade to Premium"?
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    BigMat wrote:
    Uh oh! You just lost your KOM on Redbridge-Wanstead climb to Marco Pinotti by 45 seconds.


    :evil: :lol::lol:

    And you got a reply from the man :)
    http://app.strava.com/rides/16204097
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    dhope wrote:
    BigMat wrote:
    Uh oh! You just lost your KOM on Redbridge-Wanstead climb to Marco Pinotti by 45 seconds.


    :evil: :lol::lol:

    And you got a reply from the man :)
    http://app.strava.com/rides/16204097

    So cool!
  • Paul E
    Paul E Posts: 2,052
    Boom!
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Gussio wrote:
    dhope wrote:
    BigMat wrote:
    Uh oh! You just lost your KOM on Redbridge-Wanstead climb to Marco Pinotti by 45 seconds.


    :evil: :lol::lol:

    And you got a reply from the man :)
    http://app.strava.com/rides/16204097

    So cool!

    I only rode that segment by mistake on way back from Hog Hill once. Have no recollection of it, so maybe its a potentially faster stretch than my KOM made it appear. Still, the power the guy was putting down is pretty staggering - a whole new level of chapeau!
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    BigMat wrote:
    Gussio wrote:
    dhope wrote:
    BigMat wrote:
    Uh oh! You just lost your KOM on Redbridge-Wanstead climb to Marco Pinotti by 45 seconds.


    :evil: :lol::lol:

    And you got a reply from the man :)
    http://app.strava.com/rides/16204097

    So cool!

    I only rode that segment by mistake on way back from Hog Hill once. Have no recollection of it, so maybe its a potentially faster stretch than my KOM made it appear. Still, the power the guy was putting down is pretty staggering - a whole new level of chapeau!

    2% incline for 0.6 miles. That's like 3 Balham Hills in a row :shock: :shock: :shock: :wink:
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  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    dhope wrote:
    2% incline for 0.6 miles. That's like 3 Balham Hills in a row :shock: :shock: :shock: :wink:

    Yeah, don't believe that you can't remember it!
    FCN 9 || FCN 5
  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    Slow conditions up Box the other day but in a small group of 4 one of our men led us to the top in a decent time. I was at the back, amazing how many watts I needed to stay with it. For me to go that sort of time solo would need 500watts for 5 mins which I think for the foreseeable, is beyond me.
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    So annoying. Rode like a demon this morning. Made myself sick. Almost certainly claimed at least dozen KOMs*. Garmin lost all data for the entire ride. Bah!

    *I sadly have no evidence to support this FACT
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    vermin wrote:
    Threw up, no accurate record of what went on
    Sounds like a good night
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    Buried myself on an offorad lap of RP this morning only for Strava to show that I rode through Hounslow. WTF?
  • aeon
    aeon Posts: 167
    ^erk. bloody frustrating. i backup my laps with a stopwatch now... strava is consistently out by double-figure seconds.
    FCN 10 - Crosstrail
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Just smashed a segment, but it's a hidden one... not a dangerous one... just goes into hiding

    I want my KOM on display damnit

    http://app.strava.com/rides/16911221#312094485

    from this ride
    http://app.strava.com/rides/16911221
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  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    Apparently I rode in with JZed this morning. I don't recall being overtaken?
    FCN 9 || FCN 5
  • Pufftmw
    Pufftmw Posts: 1,941
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Just smashed a segment, but it's a hidden one... not a dangerous one... just goes into hiding

    I want my KOM on display damnit

    http://app.strava.com/rides/16911221#312094485

    from this ride
    http://app.strava.com/rides/16911221

    Unhide it??
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  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    Having just switched from blackberry to iphone I logged my commute on strava this morning.

    Apparently I touched 49.4 mph (note MPH not KPH). I suspect strava is not entirely accurate, given that
    a) I was on the Brompton and
    b) I didn't soil myself.

    Anyway seems like a fun app and cheaper than a cycle computer.
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  • twist83
    twist83 Posts: 761
    Famous last words seems like a fun app ;)

    You will not think that in a few weeks/months when you hurt everywhere and attack every ride like a Stage of the Tour!
  • Koncordski
    Koncordski Posts: 1,009
    twist83 wrote:
    Famous last words seems like a fun app ;)

    You will not think that in a few weeks/months when you hurt everywhere and attack every ride like a Stage of the Tour!


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  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    Yeah I guess so, I can see that temptation. Now I know where the segmnets are there will be an urge to push it.

    I did reasonably well on one segment that coincides with my commute as I was drafting a lycra clad roadie on the Brompton, until we both had to slam on the anchors for a U-turning Taxi.

    I think they should have segment times split by SCR bike category.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    t4tomo wrote:
    Yeah I guess so, I can see that temptation. Now I know where the segmnets are there will be an urge to push it.

    I did reasonably well on one segment that coincides with my commute as I was drafting a lycra clad roadie on the Brompton, until we both had to slam on the anchors for a U-turning Taxi.

    I think they should have segment times split by SCR bike category.

    You'll soon notice those quiet bits when no-one was about, where you took a little breather - no longer exist.

    Strava is always watching you....
    _
  • twist83
    twist83 Posts: 761
    Strava knows when you are sleeping, it knows when your awake!
    You better watch out, You better not cry, Better not pout, I'm telling you why: Strava is coming to town. He's making a segment, And checking it twice, gonna find out if it turned you inside out. STRAVA is coming to town!

    (see what I did there?)
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    You'll soon notice those quiet bits when no-one was about, where you took a little breather - no longer exist.

    Strava is always watching you....

    You mean like - Why did my average speed drop over that section? - oh yeah I slowed down to follow a well presented, lycra clad, female, backside.
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  • lockstock666
    lockstock666 Posts: 131
    Had to drive through the big smoke yesterday. (I'm a west country type) Along embankment there were sooo many bikes at around 7:30pm. I was actually jealous, even though it was starting to rain!
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    twist83 wrote:
    Famous last words seems like a fun app ;)

    You will not think that in a few weeks/months when you hurt everywhere and attack every ride like a Stage of the Tour!

    Stranger and stranger is that i don't have Strava nor indeed any phone/device able to utilise this (I only have a work blackberry on which i can't load my own software) and yet I still push myself when riding the infamous Balham 'Hill' as I know this is a strava segment despite the fact that i have no way of knowing how I'm doing on it compared to any other day or any other rider (aside from those on the road at the same time as me)...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    t4tomo wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    You'll soon notice those quiet bits when no-one was about, where you took a little breather - no longer exist.

    Strava is always watching you....

    You mean like - Why did my average speed drop over that section? - oh yeah I slowed down to follow a well presented, lycra clad, female, backside.

    No more like "someone is going to notice I chilled on this segment. That will mean they think I am weak. Oh f*ck it, pedal harder!!"
    _
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    are people really sad enough to start analysing other peoples data in detail. looking at your own stuff I can understand, bothering to check up on your mates????

    Besides in London you have traffic lights, traffic, fat blokes on Boris bikes clogging up the cycle lanes , etc to contend with.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    t4tomo wrote:
    are people really sad enough to start analysing other peoples data in detail. looking at your own stuff I can understand, bothering to check up on your mates????

    Besides in London you have traffic lights, traffic, fat blokes on Boris bikes clogging up the cycle lanes , etc to contend with.

    If you're thinking it through that much on the bike, you need to pedal harder.
    _
  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    t4tomo wrote:
    are people really sad enough to start analysing other peoples data in detail. looking at your own stuff I can understand, bothering to check up on your mates????
    .


    Course, all part of the fun! Not on the commute though, its dull.
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  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    I like looking through mates rides, always good to see other people are suffering too. Although does make me feel bad if they've gone out and I haven't...
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  • twist83
    twist83 Posts: 761
    As willy said. All a bit of fun. I follow mates so dont have to trawl I see their rides in my feeds. Good motivator as well.

    I introduced our Landlord to this and we compete over segments on the way to work. He is a lot fitter than me and a couple of times I have overtaken his segment for him to then go and find 10-15 seconds and rinse/repeat. He even went out one night and road 8 miles to retake a segment and failed by 1 second.

    His words on returning were this Strava is going to kill me. Are you trying to kill me LOL

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