Strava

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It looks like you have to pay for that to get anything meaningful out of it? I can't work out what its really telling me?

It says I have 2 KOMS, but I've just looked on Strava and there are over 100, so not sure whether its just pulling really recent data (still wrong) ?

Edited by okgo on Tuesday 13th October 11:31

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Silver940 said:

Only does last 10 rides or something now unless you pay.

Ok, I've just paid, so will report back soon.

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Blimey, its a bit much isn't it, I don't really know where to start! I've got 37,000 mile worth of data so everything is taking a while..!

What are the best uses for it do you think?

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Yeh I'm finding the best average day/week/month/year good, in terms of power and speed etc, quite interesting. Also I have a KOM that's been ridden 50,000 times, which is news to me!

The score thing seems a bit odd, I'm 99.8 of 99.9 possible yet I see there are people above that?

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Usget said:

They are, presumably, the 0.1...

Nah i meant above the alleged max score? But either way its quite interesting, worth £10 for a year I guess, but wouldn't be much good without a lot of data to populate it.

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That makes sense, though it does give me a 100 pos score on a few of the KOMs I have, it looks like if over 20,000 people have done it and you have the KOM you do get 100 as your score, because I have another at 17,000 which is 99.9 - makes sense though I suppose. Won't be many segments with that number of rides against it I suppse

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The badger for me!!

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Strava really should knock that on the head, its pathetic.

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You're right, looks not to have been put in place this year.

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Sticking an iphone to your bike is worse than a saddle bag.

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MadDad said:

There is a guy local to me who consistently rides circa 17-18 mph ave on 20-30 mile rides, yet gets 4 or 5 KoM's every time he goes out, he's bagged well over 100. Oddly enough his H/R and speed seem to increase exponentially from the exact start of a segment to the exact end of a segment, strange what a digital sticker will do for some people!!

Whatever gets you through the night I guess!

Riding around steady then giving it some stick on certain sections? Seems perfectly normal to me!

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WinstonWolf said:

Gruffy used some of my KOM's for training during long rides, the bd...

I've lost a few recently, for the first time in ages, some of them were actually legit - usually its people who've left the garmin on when driving their bike away!

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WinstonWolf said:

You could be forgiven for thinking Gruffy was in a car, the man's a bloomin machine

Depends on your baseline doesn't it - you should have made the KOM's harder to attain!

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I actually do, I approached them about my company using their data recently and they were not entertaining it. I cannot see that they're making any money from the memberships really, and I doubt the sponsored challenges pay much, I think they're waiting. Though I also think Garmin or similar should have done it two years ago.

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To be honest I have had premium for a few years and don't know what I do or don't get for my money, but for 5 quid I've just left it.

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They won't sell the data for marketing purposes, I've asked.

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loudlashadjuster said:

Ahh, was that 'to send valuable offers from carefully selected partners' or anonymised aggregated data on the same basis as they provide under Metro?

Latter.

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Yes there are various ways around the private thing. Pretty poor from them.

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You can look at anyone's ride private or not if you find their name in a segment and then go to the ride it was done in.

Made even easier when on someone's page it lists recent achievements at the top even if they have their account locked down. So just copy and paste that segment into the explorer, filter by day and find the persons ride. Easy.

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The most dull thing on Strava is the endless st challenges.