mr_cellophane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Essex
How accurate/honest is it ? Can two people really have managed just under 46 mph down Greenwich Park hill ?
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Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
You get glitches with it and also it is possible to enhance your ride data.
Strava is best enjoyed by competing with yourself and friends.
I discount any times I think have been manipulated and as a rule of thumb anything faster than me I assume has been achieved by dishonest means.
Strava is best enjoyed by competing with yourself and friends.
I discount any times I think have been manipulated and as a rule of thumb anything faster than me I assume has been achieved by dishonest means.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
The shorter the segment the more inaccurate they are but even on longer segments I've still found the same 1-3secs discrepancies.
I dumbfounded as to why but I'm pretty sure ive seen the so called strava doping too
I dumbfounded as to why but I'm pretty sure ive seen the so called strava doping too
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
jdtate101
Ex-Fatman
- Location
- Boring Birmingham
Most of the inaccuracies of strava users come from the mobile phone apps, because the mobile GPS isn't as accurate nor samples as fast as a true GPS device (garmin. mimo, etc...) It's to do with many things such as number of satellite locks, Antenna size & sensitivity and interference. If you compare an identical ride of a phone vs a garmin, you will notice the phone track often wanders a bit from the road, whereas the garmin will stay on the road. As others have mentioned, due to the way strava matches segment start/finish points to fixed GPS coordinates, the GPS inaccuracy and sampling rate can introduce significant errors.
jdtate101
Ex-Fatman
- Location
- Boring Birmingham
I did a test ride with iPhone & Garmin recording the same ride and on my test segment, the iPhone recorded 6 secs faster over 2km....
T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
- Location
- Northern Ireland
It's as accurate and honest as the data off my garmin
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
The iPhone I believe only samples data every 5secs to save battery; and as you know you can be all over the place on a bike in 5secs ;-)
iamRayRay
Quads of Steel
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Completely agree. Last night I absolutely blasted into the City Centre, no cars at Midnight.
It was only 2-3 miles, but I was flat out all the way, yet all I got was 5th best and 3rd best. With the KOM being 8 seconds faster than I was...
...8 seconds... Top speed 30mph+ uphill... yeah right mate!
It was only 2-3 miles, but I was flat out all the way, yet all I got was 5th best and 3rd best. With the KOM being 8 seconds faster than I was...
...8 seconds... Top speed 30mph+ uphill... yeah right mate!
uclown2002
Guru
- Location
- Harrogate
What's not to believe? Only 8 seconds adrift on a 2-3 mile segment yet you question the kom!
Post the strava segment so we can see.
iamRayRay
Quads of Steel
- Location
- Hertfordshire
uclown2002
Guru
- Location
- Harrogate
Still though, over 2-3 miles!
Linky please.
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
I had a KOM flagged and the flag upheld because there was not a recorded Garmin track point close enough to the end of the segment to give a 100% accurate confirmed time, this in turn skewed the recorded top speed. The segment was long enough for my Garmin to register a speed trace in excess of the second place rider, but Strava upheld the flag but messaged me admitting I was the fastest rider but they had to uphold the flag
. So I went back and KOM'd the segment again. 
I wouldn't have bothered other than to prove a point to the flagger.
. So I went back and KOM'd the segment again. I wouldn't have bothered other than to prove a point to the flagger.
