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BikeRadar Training - going to rival Strava?

  • 25-04-2012 10:12am
    #1
    joker77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭


    http://training.bikeradar.com/

    The unique selling point of strava seems to be the segments / leaderboards, but I'm finding it a bit lacking in terms of an actual online training diary. Wonder will the BikeRadar one see many people using both / switching


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  • #2
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    They seem to have adopted the same "let's not exclude triathletes" approach as Strava.

    It's "bikeradar" not "swimbikerunradar".


  • #3
    GlennaMaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭GlennaMaddy


    Couldn't be arsed setting up another account, password etc for bikeradar. The facebook login on Strava got me into their shop, but once inside I became hooked on the the product itself.
    My favorite part of Strava is the whole social side, followers/following, daily updates (especially when I displace friends on a KoM or push them down the leaderboard), massive scope for more of this (e.g. cosmocatalano.com), Bikeradar seems to have leaderboards, their training plans seem like a good idea.


  • #4
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Another me too offering in a space with seemingly no barriers to entry and a questionable pricing model.

    How do all of these guys hope to earn a crust from what they are doing?


  • #5
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Another me too offering in a space with seemingly no barriers to entry and a questionable pricing model.

    How do all of these guys hope to earn a crust from what they are doing?

    Ask Facebook.

    Maybe you should write a letter to Monocle asking like the minded chaps whether there's some sort of exclusive and extortionately-priced website which is invitation-only and completely inaccessible to the public. Or better still, a correspondence club which requires the postal submission of wax-sealed-quill-on-pigskin training logs.

    Harrumph!


  • #6
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Lumen wrote: »
    Ask Facebook.

    Maybe you should write a letter to Monocle asking like the minded chaps whether there's some sort of exclusive and extortionately-priced website which is invitation-only and completely inaccessible to the public. Or better still, a correspondence club which requires the postal submission of wax-sealed-quill-on-pigskin training logs.

    Harrumph!
    Thats not the point. I like free stuff. But someone must be funding all of this stuff. I wonder who is nuts enough to do that. I cant imagine tthat you are willing to give away your services for free, are you?

    Anyway I digress, yet I more free stuff to trial.


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  • #7
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    ROK ON wrote: »
    But someone must be funding all of this stuff. I wonder who is nuts enough to do that

    http://www.crunchbase.com/company/strava


  • #8
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Another me too offering in a space with seemingly no barriers to entry and a questionable pricing model.

    How do all of these guys hope to earn a crust from what they are doing?

    By selling you an aspirational lifestyle......:)

    Strava = California - Arnie, sunshine, movie stars, espresso, cycling along the Pacific Coast or the Sierra Something mountains

    BikeRadar Training = Bath - rain, cycle lanes, nice architecture, rain, cup of tea, rain and rain.....


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