RiderState | Cycling GPS Game

[Deleted member 35268]

Looks good, a different slant on Strava

road.cc says...
"RiderState is a smartphone app for cyclists that tracks your location, the idea being that you conquer as many streets and roads as possible in your local cycling area. The world is divided up into tiles and the aim is to dominate as much of the map as you can."

http://road.cc/content/news/136918-conquer-roads-riderstate-smartphone-game-app-cyclists

Google Version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riderstate&hl=en

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Can't I just ride my bike, like I have done since the late 70's/early 80's, without competing with others?

 

[bpsmith]

Can't I just ride my bike, like I have done since the late 70's/early 80's, without competing with others?

Of course. Others can also compete without bothering you too.

 

[bpsmith]

@Rooster1 I happened to see this on Twitter today too. Looks interesting.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Of course. Others can also compete without bothering you too.

If only....

Now instead of complete strangers cycling up alongside me and asking "are you so-and-so off Strava and are you doing a segment?" they can witter on about tiles as well.

 

[bpsmith]

If only....

Now instead of complete strangers cycling up alongside me and asking "are you so-and-so off Strava and are you doing a segment?" they can witter on about tiles as well.

I am not going to argue with you again. You don't like tech and new challenges of this nature. I am a geek who was born for stuff like this. We will never agree, so let's not go there is what I meant.

The difference between this and Strava is that speed has nothing to do with it.

 

[jefmcg]

Android version us in English, but terms and conditions, which you have to agree to, are in two romance languages.

 

[Cuchilo]

Looks like a bit of fun . I'll give it a go , can always delete it or just not use it if its rubbish ( read don't win everything )

 

[John the Monkey]

Now instead of complete strangers cycling up alongside me and asking "are you so-and-so off Strava and are you doing a segment?" they can witter on about tiles as well.

That has never happened to me.

People do ask if I'm "Doing the Audax" occasionally. Generally they are nice people, on interesting bicycles.

 

[Dogtrousers]

No one has ever cycled alongside me and engaged me in conversation about Strava segments. In fact the only conversation I ever get is a heavily Doppler-shifted "morning" or "on your right" as riders whizz by.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

That has never happened to me.

People do ask if I'm "Doing the Audax" occasionally. Generally they are nice people, on interesting bicycles.

No one has ever cycled alongside me and engaged me in conversation about Strava segments. In fact the only conversation I ever get is a heavily Doppler-shifted "morning" as riders whizz by.

Come to Sussex. I can show you are road or two where it is a frequent occurrence, and not just ime. The last time it happened, in October, I was just giving it some beans because I was running late.

I've only been asked if I was doing an Audax once. I wasn't. I've never been asked if I was doing an audax when doing an Audax.

I was once asked, many years ago, if I was doing a night-time mtb orienteering event. I think I answered, given our location at the time, "What are the odds that we aren't do you think?"

 

[Cuchilo]

So shall we set up a cycle chat group on it and dominate the uk ?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Are you uncompetitive in general or just when cycling?

You raise an interesting question. Entirely happy to compete in many areas of life, including several sorts of cycling, when I consider the goal and competition to be a meaningful one. It may be SCR , it may be bragging rights at the bar or cafe, it may be for a silly medal. But it will be a real world thing. Dominating a virtual tile in an app is a goal fabricated purposely with the intent of getting people to use the app. I find that a little childlike in approach. It speaks of 'prizes for all' as if, in this case, by coming up with a worthless enough goal everyone can win by dominating their own patch. Designed to appeal to those not fast enough to dominate things on Strava?

Now, for instance, I started using Strava this summer but only to record my running. And veloviewer to track my 'performance' and progress woeful though though they are. I rarely record my cycling on Strava. I don't give a toss about Strava segments when cycling (or running) but if on a real world ride if someone says "race you to the...." I'll compete as much as my meagre abilities allow. I may even be the one doing the 'saying' that kicks-off the race.

Running is an activity in which I compete primarily against myself and the clock, and the bathroom scales, though secondarily I may compete from time to time with a group of real live people I've actually met and raced against, in real life. But that tends to be in real life real races with numbers and timing chips and race vests and pointy elbows and everything. Or parkruns; which aren't races.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Interesting, GG (if almost entirely off topic). I'm generally uncompetitive, to the point that I detest having to overtake other cyclists (almost as I much as I detest feeling duty bound to say hello to them) just in case they get the impression that there is some kind of competition. In the rare event that I do really judge that a rider ahead is going slower than my chosen pace then I either change route or have to flog myself to death to make darn sure I put some distance between us.

When I was a runner I only ever competed against the clock.

The reasons for the above aren't high-minded. It's just that if I competed, I'd lose. And there's no fun in that.

 

[John the Monkey]

The reasons for the above aren't high-minded. It's just that if I competed, I'd lose. And there's no fun in that.

I think everyone does (lose) - Strava is so prevalent that it's massively unlikely that mere mortals will top the leaderboards, even if you take the top speeds reported on some segments as being attainable by humans.

It is quite nice to see when you've acheived a PB, and it does have one of the better interfaces of the mileage tracking apps to work with a Garmin (and, I think, as GrumpyGregry pointed out, one of the only, if not the only ones to have privacy zones). The competitive side of it seems a bit bro-y and aggressive though. The rhetoric around this app ("dominate", really?) is similarly unappealing to me. Still, so long as it harm no one, do what thou wilt, &c