Does anyone apart from me just get on their bikes and ride them?

[DRM]

I like to record my rides on strava, not interested in kom's or such like, only to see how I have improved over the year, and see how far I've ridden.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Irrespective of logging mileage or tyre wear or strava segments or cadence or.........

Why am I so easily satisfied? & darn my uncompetitive nature.

Yeah. Mon - Fri certainly.

But I run naked too.

 

[Justinslow]

Ermmmm, see below "veloviewer"...............

 

[ianrauk]

Ermmmm, see below "veloviewer"...............

What does position chart 1st to 100th mean?
Also what are podiums & segments scores mean?

 

[summerdays]

Seeing as I make maps for a living based on the sort of data that strava is collecting from you all, it would be a bit churlish to not join in myself. I use my Garmin for following a route and to collect a few stats. I use Strava to record all these as it is easy and simple. I take a look at my stats and am pleased to see when I am doing ok, but I tend to judge my ride by how much fun I had, the chats with friends and the new places discovered, not getting rained on is a bonus.

One reason I do record my rides on Strava is so that any data that is collected and possibly used by others includes me and my type of cycling rather than just fast Lycra clad men.

 

[Milkfloat]

One reason I do record my rides on Strava is so that any data that is collected and possibly used by others includes me and my type of cycling rather than just fast Lycra clad men.

From a data point of view, I love slower cyclists, it makes it so much easier to work out that they are a bike and not a car, but please don't ride so slowly that I think you are a pedestrian.

 

[zizou]

I record everything, that doesnt mean i'm always hammering it and trying to improve times on segments and smashing myself, i just like to record the rides and keep track of where i've been - occassionally i'll use a site like http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/map.php which will plot every ride you've ever recorded on strava - its great seeing just how much of the local area (and not so local) that ive covered by bike.

 

[summerdays]

From a data point of view, I love slower cyclists, it makes it so much easier to work out that they are a bike and not a car, but please don't ride so slowly that I think you are a pedestrian.

Only up hills

 

[Tin Pot]

Irrespective of logging mileage or tyre wear or strava segments or cadence or.........

I know I'm not in training or trying to maintain heart zones or optimising my power vs aero position, but so many people seem to keep logs of this and records of that and know to the n'th degree how far they are off a KOM on strava or their Eddington number or the duration of every ride and when it rained on them back to 4th of March 1977 just after teatime.

I feel like some sort of oddball because I just go out and pedal to where I want to go and get off and do what I need to there and then get on and pedal home again or I just go out and pedal around for the sheer darned heck of it without giving the slightest thought to whether I'm 5 seconds faster than last week and am up to 3rd on the towpath KOM or whatever.

Why am I so easily satisfied? & darn my uncompetitive nature.

No

 

[Dan B]

I'd like to just get on my bikes and ride them, but when I get back I always feel compelled to start Cyclechat threads about just getting on bikes and riding then

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Ah, another prescriptive "why doesn't everybody do it like I do?" thread. I prefer to just let people ride their bikes however they want. The more cyclists out there the better, regardless of how they do it.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I like my Garmin and Strava so I know where I'm going and where I've been - never a certainty, specially if I'm pulled along by others.
I like to look at the routes others did, to get ideas for rides, to find out about hills to avoid

 

[outlash]

Reminds me of when I was looking around at garmins and I asked a mate if he thought one with HRM was a good idea. His reply was 'I don't need one of those to tell me I'm knackered!'.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Almost. For utility and beer stuff I'll change my shoes because I keep on lifting my feet off flats. And keep warm, so that can mean a bit more dressing up against the weather. But pretty basic stuff. If I'm out for exercise, though, I'll tend to take the computer. If I'm likely to ride an unknown route, I'll wear a helmet (it's a psychological not a logical thing with me). Too old for Strava and too mean for Garmin.

 

[mjr]

I just ride, but I do usually press the record button on my phone. Every month or three, I load the recordings into pytrainer on my computer. I think most of the current "social" riding competitions like Strava are basically antisocial and encourage/reward racing in inappropriate places... but if some people need that sort of thing to enjoy cycling, I guess that's good overall because it keeps them healthier and saves the NHS some money. For me, cycling is about going places more than going fast.