The price appears to have gone down to £4 a month. That's not bad if you're interested in performance tracking. However things like Training Peaks do that much better.
I think i'm still on the old subscriotion model rather than when they split it into the three different types of membership.
I wonder what will happen to me.
Oh, and the Strava plan I use strong arms me for around £1.58 per motnth. Not sure it's their greatest move, but I'll live with it and couldn't care less about leaderboards.
Which plan costs £1.58? What do you get? Mine is $6.00 i have no idea why its billed in USD im in the UK
If you want or need the extras then it does seem good value, some of us got used to the free stuff for so long
. I do not pay much interest at all into any segment leaderboards or KOMs these days. To be frank its just got boring....
I have to say the various aspects of Strava and veloviewer are somthingI dip in and out of. Sometimes I spend a few weeks chasing a few segments, then Ill get bored and change the segments I go after, then ill be have a bash at collecting veloviewer tiles, or collecting monthly challenge badges, or chasing monthly/weekly mileage or average pace and so on. That's whyI enjoy it, you can make it what you want.
While i pay and will likely continue to pay. I can't see my mrs, the 4 inlaws, four teenage nephews or my cousin paying.
My other thought is that manyof the segments will have been created by these free users, who are going to now be cut out.
To those folks mentioning that some of the segments in their area are clearly set in motorvehicles such as 35mph up 20%hills, have a look at the KOM ride, you'll usually see that most of it was on a bike then there was a huge increase in pace after a stop at a parking spot/pub car park etc. It is then a simple matter of clicking flag ride to get it removed. Bad GPS data is another cause. One of the MTB runs near my house is occasionally invaded by bad GPS data from roadies on a nearby fast down hill road. Quickly flagged and removed.
That brings me to another strava annoyance..... There is so much of it only available on a desktop and not via an app. Lots of people rarely touch a desktop thesedays at home. Our work system blocks strava.
I wonder if we will see a Strava competitor pop up serving the segment market
