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Cheaters on Strava..

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  • #242
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    Stop caring, its a bunch of people cheating so they can brag in work or on facebook, pathetic stuff!


  • #243
    monkeysnapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    I did a spin there on Tuesday at strava said my top speed was 60km at one point.

    Never in a million years unless I was in a car I'd ever do that :)


  • #244
    bbolger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭bbolger


    Beasty wrote: »
    Definitely cheating - need to flag all those guys in the Giro who took a load of mine away .....

    I think we should organise a spin to take them back, TT rig, full gas etc...

    "Uh oh, Thomas De Gendt, you just lost your KOM on..."


  • #245
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,477 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    bbolger wrote: »
    I think we should organise a spin to take them back, TT rig, full gas etc...

    "Uh oh, Thomas De Gendt, you just lost your KOM on..."
    Probably still need the 50 kph tailwind I had when setting them in the first place though....


  • #246
    ozt9vdujny3srf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,150 ✭✭✭ozt9vdujny3srf


    I got flagged recently for some segments after forgetting to switch Strava off when I got in the car to drive home. It was flagged within an hour or two! Thankfully theres a cropping tool where you can cut out the start or end of your recorded ride.


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  • #247
    Jim Stynes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Jim Stynes


    I love strava! It's great for looking back on the old routes you did, calculating your mileage, seeing what your mates are at and checking all the usual HR, cadence, average speed etc. When I started cycling I would love to check my segments and try claim a few KOMs. Now having cycled for a number of years and now in a club I hardly ever look at the segments. Racing the other night though I noticed I set PBs on nearly every segment but obviously that is in a group of lads all working together and drafting each other. I find it a bit silly now going out and trying to claim a KOM on some country road then bragging to mates in the club about it.


  • #248
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    Never used strava and doubt if I ever will. I can understand why many like it and the benefits etc, but its just not for me at all.
    I cycle in part to get away from the hyper connectivity of the modern world, and exacerbating it by coming home from a cycle and obsessing about it online just seems anathema to me.
    It just generally seems so small time, KOM against another bunch of average Joe's like myself etc etc, I dont see the point of that at all.


  • #249
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    terrydel wrote: »
    Never used strava and doubt if I ever will. I can understand why many like it and the benefits etc, but its just not for me at all.
    I cycle in part to get away from the hyper connectivity of the modern world, and exacerbating it by coming home from a cycle and obsessing about it online just seems anathema to me.
    It just generally seems so small time, KOM against another bunch of average Joe's like myself etc etc, I dont see the point of that at all.

    Sucess is relative. The level at which it was gained should not diminish the achievement. Unless, of course, it was achieved by cheating.

    I'm always happy when I get some KOMs against the other average joes like me out there. What's wrong with that?


  • #250
    NeedMoreGears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭NeedMoreGears


    I've managed to avoid the hyper connectivity of the modern world (great expression) on all my KOM's (all two that is) by cycling some forlorn stretch of road that strava decided to create a segment for. Last time I checked I was still the only one on the leaderboard.

    The only " real"one I ever got was a 50kph run behind a guy towing a boat. I deleted the ride and resumed by place in mid table.


  • #251
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,118 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    NeedMoreGears wrote: »
    ...some forlorn stretch of road that strava decided to create a segment for....
    Strava has decided that I have created a segment somewhere in France that I've never been to! :confused:


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  • #252
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Strava has decided that I have created a segment somewhere in France that I've never been to! :confused:

    That was probably one of your 'Home from work' spins that ended up being 300km long.. :pac:


  • #253
    glasshopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭glasshopper


    Is it fair to get KOM's using a TT bike? I know a guy going around blasting a lot of KOM's on a tt bike and is happy to comment that they had a tail wind (which is fair enough) and on a TT bike. I know another guy who would as a matter of principal, never upload to strava if they were on their TT.
    But then where do you draw the line? Are aero bars ok?


  • #254
    jamesd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭jamesd


    glasshopper wrote: »
    Is it fair to get KOM's using a TT bike? I know a guy going around blasting a lot of KOM's on a tt bike and is happy to comment that they had a tail wind (which is fair enough) and on a TT bike. I know another guy who would as a matter of principal, never upload to strava if they were on their TT.
    But then where do you draw the line? Are aero bars ok?

    Dont see an issue with this, they still have to power the bike.


  • #255
    Andy Magic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Andy Magic


    glasshopper wrote: »
    Is it fair to get KOM's using a TT bike? I know a guy going around blasting a lot of KOM's on a tt bike and is happy to comment that they had a tail wind (which is fair enough) and on a TT bike. I know another guy who would as a matter of principal, never upload to strava if they were on their TT.
    But then where do you draw the line? Are aero bars ok?

    Of course it's ok.


  • #256
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,277 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    You're not going to get much of an advantage from a TT bike on a climb.


  • #257
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,118 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    glasshopper wrote: »
    Is it fair to get KOM's using a TT bike? .......
    Of course it is! Otherwise where would you draw the line?

    Road bike, hybrid, MTB, Steel, aluminium, carbon fibre, fixie, single speed, lycra, Dura Ace, backpack, cleats, commute, closed roads, organised race, tailwind, headwind, traffic lights, middle of the night, cold, hot, wet etc.


  • #258
    dragratchet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭dragratchet


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Of course it is! Otherwise where would you draw the line?

    Road bike, hybrid, MTB, Steel, aluminium, carbon fibre, fixie, single speed, lycra, Dura Ace, backpack, cleats, commute, closed roads, organised race, tailwind, headwind, traffic lights, middle of the night, cold, hot, wet etc.


    no cycling in the drops if your on strava ;)


  • #259
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Are KOMs still a thing?


  • #260
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Oh no Beasty, you've been called out!


  • #261
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Oh no Beasty, you've been called out!
    I regularly call him something else


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  • #262
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Oh no Beasty, you've been called out!
    I regularly call him something else


  • #263
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,477 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    When I say you as the last poster lenny I thought I would check in to see if it was a confession

    Didn't realise you would be taking my name in vain...

    ...twice


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