Strava Problems/Crimewave

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ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
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Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
[We've covered this subject fairly recently! Hang on, let me search for it ... yes - in this thread]

Wouldn't it be simpler just to switch your GPS on and off a few streets away from where you actually live? I plot all my Hebden Bridge rides from a long-stay car park near the town centre.
 
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Kookas

Kookas

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Location
Exeter
ColinJ said:
[We've covered this subject fairly recently! Hang on, let me search for it ... yes - in this thread]

Wouldn't it be simpler just to switch your GPS on and off a few streets away from where you actually live? I plot all my Hebden Bridge rides from a long-stay car park near the town centre.
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It wouldn't be simpler, because you'd have to find the time and space to stop and activate Strava/your GPS instead of just starting it when you start your ride. It might be more effective, though.
 
gaz

gaz

Cycle Camera TV
Location
South Croydon
Kookas said:
It wouldn't be simpler, because you'd have to find the time and space to stop and activate Strava/your GPS instead of just starting it when you start your ride. It might be more effective, though.
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Depends on how you use stava, a garmin device on your stem means you just press stop/ start at a different point ;)
 
gaz

gaz

Cycle Camera TV
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South Croydon
fossyant said:
Gaz, which third party ones allow this. This would be interesting as a few of us could test this from here.
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I was being deliberately vague in an attempt to not give too much information out about how to do it. Whilst there may be a third party app that allows you to do this, you don't necessarily need it, just the service it uses,
 
Crankarm

Crankarm

Guru
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Nr Cambridge
I don't use strava, don't see the point, but even a Luddite like me can see the flaw of starting or stopping your GPS for your ride on your Cervelo/Colnago/Pinarello outside the front door of your house, shed or garage then uploading this information to a public forum. Starting it some distance like 10 miles from your home address would seem to be prudent.

Also riding the same route at the same time and day each week, if you have advertised you ride a really nice plastic road bike, might lay yourself open to being followed/ambushed and having it taken off you. Be sensible.

There were quite a few thefts of high performance sports cars eg Scuberoos/Mitsubishi Evos where owners were followed home and then approached as they got out their cars for the keys and attacked if they resisted.
 
Crankarm

Crankarm

Guru
Location
Nr Cambridge
More than 370 high-value bicycles have been stolen in Staffordshire in four months.
Detectives said riders were using GPS technology so precise, thieves were able to identify, and then target, their houses.
They today warned cyclists, across the south of the county in particular, to be vigilant.
Bicycles worth almost £175,000 were stolen from areas including Cannock, Rugeley, Burntwood, Wombourne, Lichfield, Stafford and Stone.
The average cost of each one stolen is about £468.
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Just where can you buy a Pinarello Dogma for £468! I want one.
 
fossyant

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
Crankarm said:
Just where can you buy a Pinarello Dogma for £468! I want one.
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Ebay :laugh: Mignt not necessarily be a real one though ! :whistle:
 
Manguish

Manguish

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I ride a bike called Fred.

Nice and inconspicuous.

And no-one can see my rides without being a friend.
 
Manguish

Manguish

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But who's interested in Fred ;)

I'm not arsed either way, I have way more important things to worry about than who may or may not take an interest in strava. If they're that bothered they can follow me home....
 
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