Strava... errm optimists

[Leodis]

I was just checking segments in my area, I am slow so not too worried about the KOM's with the exception of one sprint I enjoy, I think I have about 5 to my name and mostly of my creation hidden away where no one goes... but I found this one rider which was obviously done in a car.

Taking

I don't take Strava serious, just try and beat my PR or get in the top 10 but I feel for people who have trained and do and some nobber just robs their Strava glory. Now I do have a sprint one near work which I sweated for, some guy on a MTB starts at his work about 100 yards from the segment, around a blind bend reaches 27mph and takes my KOM and then his ride ends right at the end of the segment.

Is this common practice by people? Just wondering really.

 

[Big Nick]

I flagged one of my Strava segments when I fell off my bike and a mates Dad recovered my bike in his van as my gps was still running and the last segment showed a 45mph average!!

Perhaps sometimes people chuck their bike in the back of their car after a ride and forget to switch off their gps?

 

[Brightski]

I was just checking segments in my area, I am slow so not too worried about the KOM's with the exception of one sprint I enjoy, I think I have about 5 to my name and mostly of my creation hidden away where no one goes... but I found this one rider which was obviously done in a car.

Taking

I don't take Strava serious, just try and beat my PR or get in the top 10 but I feel for people who have trained and do and some nobber just robs their Strava glory. Now I do have a sprint one near work which I sweated for, some guy on a MTB starts at his work about 100 yards from the segment, around a blind bend reaches 27mph and takes my KOM and then his ride ends right at the end of the segment.

Is this common practice by people? Just wondering really.

I bet there are plenty like that out there..

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Strava Glory

You want pride and achievement then race. There is no achievement or glory in taking a KOM of my 75 year old father

 

[wiggydiggy]

Strava Glory

You want pride and achievement then race. There is no achievement or glory in taking a KOM of my 75 year old father

There is if it was my 80 year mother that did it

Sorry Mum! (She's 60 lol)

 

[Cuchilo]

70 , 80 or 5 years old they are all there to be taken down on strava
Racing is sooooo last year and fair !

 

[mcshroom]

I held a swathe of KoMs in the Pennines for a couple hours after driving home from an audax without turning the GPS off.

I did then crop them off.

For me Strava isn't about challenging anyone else anyway. There's too many variations in traffic/weather etc. for it to be too meaningful. Getting little PB flags after rides can be an unexpected pleasant surprise though.

 

[jdtate101]

Wait until you get someone steals your KOM at over 500mph!!!. He was either in a plane or it was a GPS lock jump which snapped him over my segment and strava matched it.

 

[TeeQue]

I'm not fast (like really not fast!) but I do like trying my best over Strava segments. Managed to get fifth on one, yes there was a tailwind and yes I was drafting a 7.5 ton truck, do I feel like I cheated? Definitely not! I need all the help I can get on my 12 year old dodgy mountain bike!

 

[MisterStan]

Wait until you get someone steals your KOM at over 500mph!!!. He was either in a plane or it was a GPS lock jump which snapped him over my segment and strava matched it.

Or he'd had 3 weetabix for breakfast....

 

[HLaB]

I flagged one of my Strava segments when I fell off my bike and a mates Dad recovered my bike in his van as my gps was still running and the last segment showed a 45mph average!!

Perhaps sometimes people chuck their bike in the back of their car after a ride and forget to switch off their gps?

That happens a lot or more worryingly, folk are knocked off and the bike is put in a car whilst they go to hospital! You can crop the end off a ride and keep the record of the actuall bike ride but that might be the last thing on your mind

 

[S1mon]

Leodis that's a might fine avatar you have there . I take it you are a fellow member

 

[Leodis]

Indeed