Strava 'Bagging'

jibberjim

dw300 wrote:

Weather sucked today! I hate the wind.

Tailwinds are great for Strava segments!

Ben6899

I joined the club.

Gazzaputt

Bloody cat1 rider going round hoovering all the KOM around my way. I just don't think that's right!

Graeme Jones

Tried searching for the club but can't find it any help guys?

pdsalmon

Strava seach is poor...

http://app.strava.com/clubs/bike-radar-road-forum

nickel

Bloody strava. Went for a fairly gentle 30 miler last night, gave it the beans on one fairly gradual climb to claim a KOM, all good but on my way home I thought as I felt good I'd detour to have a crack a retaking a segment I lost a couple of weeks back. The result: I absolutely killed myself and blew up spectacularly then limped the last 5 miles home with my tail between my legs. Damn you strava!

Graeme Jones

I have Joined.
Still a newbee what is the KOM status-King of Mountains? How do you get one do you have to get certain rankings/speed etc?

dw300

Graeme Jones wrote:

I have Joined.
Still a newbee what is the KOM status-King of Mountains? How do you get one do you have to get certain rankings/speed etc?

Fastest time on any segment .. simple as that .. well, almost.

thecrofter

Graeme Jones wrote:

I have Joined.
Still a newbee what is the KOM status-King of Mountains? How do you get one do you have to get certain rankings/speed etc?

Go out and ride, upload your track and you'll no doubt find there will be some segments on your route that have alraedy been logged by others, if not you can create your own segment and if anyone else rides that stretch and uploads they will appear on the leader board for the segment....then you have some competition

amaferanga

The novelty of Strava wore off for me pretty quickly. Deleted my account. The truth is a KoM means feck all to most people (just fun), but then there are the losers who take it seriously and go out specifically to beat people when the weather conditions are right or as part of a groups ride, etc. Its all a bit silly really. I had a KoM ahead of Dean Downing before deleting my account, but there's absolutely no doubt as to who is the better cyclist so what does having a KoM actually mean? Nowt....

jgsi

And that is why this is in Cake Stop and not in Training.

thecrofter

Got a bit of a battle going on my local commuting hill. Buckled myself to get KOM on Wed last week then lost it last night, by 4secs. So I thought, there's no way I can get much faster. This morning, took the 4secs. 1st equal again on KOM, Ya beauty!

http://app.strava.com/activities/15638189#291577875

Dmak

amaferanga wrote:

The novelty of Strava wore off for me pretty quickly. Deleted my account. The truth is a KoM means feck all to most people (just fun), but then there are the losers who take it seriously and go out specifically to beat people when the weather conditions are right or as part of a groups ride, etc. Its all a bit silly really. I had a KoM ahead of Dean Downing before deleting my account, but there's absolutely no doubt as to who is the better cyclist so what does having a KoM actually mean? Nowt....

They're just petite victories, that is all but to someone like me who's a tad competitive they provide great motivation and turn a workout into a game. They also provide intensive intervals, great for improving fitness.

I tried to get a 27+mph KoM yesterday despite a 15mph headwind, complete and utter fail. :roll:

Does the use of "KoM" bother anyone else? I assume it means King of Mountain, there aren't any around here and most of my sections are sprints......

dw300

amaferanga wrote:

The novelty of Strava wore off for me pretty quickly. Deleted my account. The truth is a KoM means feck all to most people (just fun), but then there are the losers who take it seriously and go out specifically to beat people when the weather conditions are right or as part of a groups ride, etc. Its all a bit silly really. I had a KoM ahead of Dean Downing before deleting my account, but there's absolutely no doubt as to who is the better cyclist so what does having a KoM actually mean? Nowt....

me-109

I've just started using it but already I've got a max 109 mph. Not sure I had it in the 11 either! :roll:

thecrofter

Do I need a premium membership to flag a ride?

Someone's just stolen the KoM I got back this morning by over a minute, doing 38mph with a HR of 86bpm.

nickel

amaferanga wrote:

The novelty of Strava wore off for me pretty quickly. Deleted my account. The truth is a KoM means feck all to most people (just fun), but then there are the losers who take it seriously and go out specifically to beat people when the weather conditions are right or as part of a groups ride, etc. Its all a bit silly really. I had a KoM ahead of Dean Downing before deleting my account, but there's absolutely no doubt as to who is the better cyclist so what does having a KoM actually mean? Nowt....

I just find its a good training tool, causes me to push harder on climbs than I normally would and its useful for tracking progress on different hills without having to time yourself with a stopwatch everytime. At the end of the day its just a bit of fun.

dw300

Me-109 wrote:

I've just started using it but already I've got a max 109 mph. Not sure I had it in the 11 either! :roll:

That's not Strava's fault, it's your GPS data.

thecrofter wrote:

Do I need a premium membership to flag a ride?

Someone's just stolen the KoM I got back this morning by over a minute, doing 38mph with a HR of 86bpm.

Can you even flag a ride? You can flag a dangerous segment, but I'm not sure about a ride. However, use the support ticketing system and just give them the ride's URL and explain that he wasn't on the bike during that bit. Support link at bottom of page, then its about the 3rd tab along I think "Submit a request".

turboslave

Bit of harmless fun unless your a bad loser, I use it for intense interval training which has resulted in my TT times dropping giving me 3 pb's in the last 3 races, not bad for a 47 year old ex smoker.

alihisgreat

amaferanga wrote:

The novelty of Strava wore off for me pretty quickly. Deleted my account. The truth is a KoM means feck all to most people (just fun), but then there are the losers who take it seriously and go out specifically to beat people when the weather conditions are right or as part of a groups ride, etc. Its all a bit silly really. I had a KoM ahead of Dean Downing before deleting my account, but there's absolutely no doubt as to who is the better cyclist so what does having a KoM actually mean? Nowt....

Its supposed to be fun.

why take it so seriously?

me-109

dw300 wrote:

Me-109 wrote:

I've just started using it but already I've got a max 109 mph. Not sure I had it in the 11 either! :roll:

That's not Strava's fault, it's your GPS data.

What do you mean 'fault'!? Did I say there was anything wrong with the figures? :-)

thecrofter

dw300 wrote:

Me-109 wrote:

I've just started using it but already I've got a max 109 mph. Not sure I had it in the 11 either! :roll:

That's not Strava's fault, it's your GPS data.

thecrofter wrote:

Do I need a premium membership to flag a ride?

Someone's just stolen the KoM I got back this morning by over a minute, doing 38mph with a HR of 86bpm.

Can you even flag a ride? You can flag a dangerous segment, but I'm not sure about a ride. However, use the support ticketing system and just give them the ride's URL and explain that he wasn't on the bike during that bit. Support link at bottom of page, then its about the 3rd tab along I think "Submit a request".

AHHH, Thnx. Seems to has disappeared now anyway.

dw300

Me-109 wrote:

dw300 wrote:

Me-109 wrote:

I've just started using it but already I've got a max 109 mph. Not sure I had it in the 11 either! :roll:

That's not Strava's fault, it's your GPS data.

What do you mean 'fault'!? Did I say there was anything wrong with the figures? :-)

Lol .. Graeme Obree will be gutted!

aclivity

I've joined, after claiming my first KoM last night. Luckily my segment isn't ridden much, and last night was good conditions, lower headwind than usual, it was raining so no pedestrians out. Over the winter I tend to have that stretch to myself so will plan to beat my record after the clocks go back, but it fair killed me to get that one!

I don't see it as something serious, and don't log all of my rides. The biggest challenge for me is beating my previous times; riding a Brompton in the city I'm never going to be the fastest overall, but I can still look to improve my own times!

dw300

aclivity wrote:

I've joined, after claiming my first KoM last night. Luckily my segment isn't ridden much, and last night was good conditions, lower headwind than usual, it was raining so no pedestrians out. Over the winter I tend to have that stretch to myself so will plan to beat my record after the clocks go back, but it fair killed me to get that one!

I don't see it as something serious, and don't log all of my rides. The biggest challenge for me is beating my previous times; riding a Brompton in the city I'm never going to be the fastest overall, but I can still look to improve my own times!

43 members now ..

I'm interested to see if anyone has a good year of data .. I'm sure people would be interested in seeing segments that you ride daily or weekly illustrating the increasingly fast times. If you're new to Strava .. pick a segments and click on 'My Results' on the left beside the leaderboard.

turboslave

45 members now

ShutUpLegs

aclivity wrote:

Over the winter I tend to have that stretch to myself so will plan to beat my record after the clocks go back, but it fair killed me to get that one!

Thats the spirit

amaferanga

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

amaferanga wrote:

The novelty of Strava wore off for me pretty quickly. Deleted my account. The truth is a KoM means feck all to most people (just fun), but then there are the losers who take it seriously and go out specifically to beat people when the weather conditions are right or as part of a groups ride, etc. Its all a bit silly really. I had a KoM ahead of Dean Downing before deleting my account, but there's absolutely no doubt as to who is the better cyclist so what does having a KoM actually mean? Nowt....

Its supposed to be fun.

why take it so seriously?

We all know what people are like. It's only fun when you're winning. And there's always someone taking it ridiculously seriously trying to get a KoM. I'll just stick with my real racing....

jibberjim

amaferanga wrote:

We all know what people are like. It's only fun when you're winning. And there's always someone taking it ridiculously seriously trying to get a KoM. I'll just stick with my real racing....

For me Strava is much more interesting for the social aspect of seeing what your ride companions were doing - how and how badly we managed to drop someone on one of the hills - hearing about other rides from the club that I wasn't on through the comments etc. It also provides a good way to define the parts of rides where people are free to go as fast as they want because they know where the regroup point will be - without having to have that discussed.

Also the historical performance of any segment is useful to compare performance quickly. KoM's aren't that interesting, but they're still harmless.

dw300

jibberjim wrote:

amaferanga wrote:

We all know what people are like. It's only fun when you're winning. And there's always someone taking it ridiculously seriously trying to get a KoM. I'll just stick with my real racing....

For me Strava is much more interesting for the social aspect of seeing what your ride companions were doing - how and how badly we managed to drop someone on one of the hills - hearing about other rides from the club that I wasn't on through the comments etc. It also provides a good way to define the parts of rides where people are free to go as fast as they want because they know where the regroup point will be - without having to have that discussed.

Also the historical performance of any segment is useful to compare performance quickly. KoM's aren't that interesting, but they're still harmless.

Zat's a bingo!