Strava

[SixPotBelly]

Gruffy said:

Fair play, he got his KOM back. He pointed it out on Strava and then I made today's ride public and sent him another 'Uh oh'

[MadDad]

TKF said:

pablo said:

Oh look, its your first ride uploaded to strava and you have half a dozen KoMs?... its not like that never happens!.. I wonder what the percentage of a users first ride on strava has KOMs in it is? always seems to me that people download the app, jump in their car or on an e-bike and then go out target a load of segments, get the KOM, upload the ride and feel smug without realising there is a flag to report such activity...

Lolz https://www.strava.com/activities/323056389

Look at the times and speeds. He's driven there, done his ride (looks like a MTB trail) and driven home. Just needs to crop the ride.

I happened to look at one of my (very few) KOMs yesterday because the wind recently has been plum for it to be taken. One chap came close last week and I clicked on his ride. He also did the drive/ride/drive thing and picked up several KOMs on the route home. Every segment except mine which is very satisfying.

I did lose another though as someone went out in that hefty wind just to ride the segment (twice) http://www.strava.com/activities/316535614

The guy that took your KOM tagged onto our chaingang yesterday evening for the last lap, he is a f*****g strong rider.....!

[TKF]

MadDad said:

The guy that took your KOM tagged onto our chaingang yesterday evening for the last lap, he is a f*****g strong rider.....!

Makes me feel a bit better. Had it for 2yrs so can't really complain. Thankfully you're too light for anything downhill

[MadDad]

TKF said:

MadDad said:

The guy that took your KOM tagged onto our chaingang yesterday evening for the last lap, he is a f*****g strong rider.....!

Makes me feel a bit better. Had it for 2yrs so can't really complain. Thankfully you're too light for anything downhill

hmmmm, definitely built for going up not down!!

[CoolC]

Wow, I had to go back 5 pages to find the Strava thread.

Not sure if this has been covered before, but I have a silly mistake to rectify.

Yesterday I managed to record two seperate rides without resetting between them, so when uploading I have 1 ride 14 hours long with an hours activity at each end.

I uploaded it and cropped it down to one of the rides, but then when trying to upload it again the crop it to the other ride it just tells me it's a duplication of the one already cropped down.

Any ideas how I upload it again bypassing the notification so I can crop?

TIA

[Kermit power]

Is there any way to edit a Strava ride so it appears to have been ridden at a different time of day?

Working from home has its benefits, but it's not necessarily always a smart move to trumpet it too loudly!

[okgo]

Kermit power said:

Is there any way to edit a Strava ride so it appears to have been ridden at a different time of day?

Working from home has its benefits, but it's not necessarily always a smart move to trumpet it too loudly!

Just make it pvt.

[afrochicken]

CoolC said:

Wow, I had to go back 5 pages to find the Strava thread.

Not sure if this has been covered before, but I have a silly mistake to rectify.

Yesterday I managed to record two seperate rides without resetting between them, so when uploading I have 1 ride 14 hours long with an hours activity at each end.

I uploaded it and cropped it down to one of the rides, but then when trying to upload it again the crop it to the other ride it just tells me it's a duplication of the one already cropped down.

Any ideas how I upload it again bypassing the notification so I can crop?

TIA

The easiest way is to upload the full ride, send the Strava support team a message asking for help and they'll do it for you.

There are a few tools online for doing it too, but I haven't used them so can't recommend any

[Steve vRS]

okgo said:

Kermit power said:

Is there any way to edit a Strava ride so it appears to have been ridden at a different time of day?

Working from home has its benefits, but it's not necessarily always a smart move to trumpet it too loudly!

Just make it pvt.

That is what I may or may not have done before, but then it won't show up on any of the challenges or leaderboards! Ok if you are going out for a bimble around, but not if you hit a nice tailwind along your favourite bit of road!

Steve

[SixPotBelly]

Steve vRS said:

That is what I may or may not have done before, but then it won't show up on any of the challenges or leaderboards! Ok if you are going out for a bimble around, but not if you hit a nice tailwind along your favourite bit of road!

Steve

see below...

Edited by SixPotBelly on Friday 19th June 11:24

[Some Gump]

Now ThAT^^. Is useful info to have

[SixPotBelly]

Some Gump said:

Now ThAT^^. Is useful info to have

It would be if it worked. I just tried it without success.

Standby for a method that does...

[SixPotBelly]

1. Download the gpx from Strava,
2. Open it in a text editor
3. Near the top, after a few rows of xmlschema definitions, you'll see the start time. e.g.

<metadata>
<time>2015-06-10T15:14:24Z</time>
</metadata>

Change it to the time you'd rather your employers thought you were riding. Remembering it's in Zulu time (UTC/GMT), regardless of where in the world you are or time of year. e.g.

<metadata>
<time>2015-06-10T17:14:24Z</time>
</metadata>

4. Go a bit lower to the first of the track segment times. e.g.

<trkseg>
<trkpt lat="51.8024230" lon="-0.2047110">
<ele>92.6</ele>
<time>2015-06-10T15:15:20Z</time>

and change the time there too, e.g.

<trkseg>
<trkpt lat="51.8024230" lon="-0.2047110">
<ele>92.6</ele>
<time>2015-06-10T17:15:20Z</time>

5. Save the edited file (with a new name, if you want to keep the original just in case you messed up)
6. Delete the original activity from Strava
7. Manually uploaded the edited file.
8. Hope your employer isn't on PH and hasn't read this post.

Revision: In testing it needed the extra step of also editing the first track segment time.

[MadDad]

So, what about motor pacing.......?

This guy was spotted motor pacing a moped around some of the more popular local segments in the Chilterns yesterday, the fact that he put over 10 seconds into the best time of the National Hill Climb champ says it all....why, just why? Looks like he belongs to a well known local club so you would assume other club members would look on him as a weapons grade knob!

http://www.strava.com/activities/328215342/overvie...

[TwistingMyMelon]

MadDad said:

So, what about motor pacing.......?

This guy was spotted motor pacing a moped around some of the more popular local segments in the Chilterns yesterday, the fact that he put over 10 seconds into the best time of the National Hill Climb champ says it all....why, just why? Looks like he belongs to a well known local club so you would assume other club members would look on him as a weapons grade knob!

http://www.strava.com/activities/328215342/overvie...

Lol just a bit sad!, Although I did get a nice KOM when on Holiday in Cornwall when drafting a lorry up a short hill, the fumes were grim though!

[MadDad]

TwistingMyMelon said:

Lol just a bit sad!, Although I did get a nice KOM when on Holiday in Cornwall when drafting a lorry up a short hill, the fumes were grim though!

Sad - just a bit!!

I have a similar KOM courtesy of a Waitrose truck out of Maidenhead, was feeling a little shagged having fought with a headwind for the majority of the ride - tagged onto a truck at a set of traffic lights and stayed behind it for the duration of a dual carriageway - good job I was paying attention as it turned off onto the M4!!!

[Devil2575]

TwistingMyMelon said:

MadDad said:

So, what about motor pacing.......?

This guy was spotted motor pacing a moped around some of the more popular local segments in the Chilterns yesterday, the fact that he put over 10 seconds into the best time of the National Hill Climb champ says it all....why, just why? Looks like he belongs to a well known local club so you would assume other club members would look on him as a weapons grade knob!

http://www.strava.com/activities/328215342/overvie...

Lol just a bit sad!, Although I did get a nice KOM when on Holiday in Cornwall when drafting a lorry up a short hill, the fumes were grim though!

I was recently passed by a car as I was pushing hard on a segment. I was able to sit very comfortably behind the car at 32mph with very little effort required. The problem was I needed to be going faster than the car was to get the KOM

[yellowjack]

A Cycling Weekly Strava article about nefarious methods for 'improving' your Strava ride data...

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/si...

I particularly sniggered at No.4 as I have, on occasion done the exact opposite, and driven to a hilly area to avoid the flat 'waste of time' section of a ride spent getting to the 'juicy' climbing part. I was once guilty of No.6 too, but in my defence I was too busy being treated in A&E to turn off the Garmin when the Police kindly drove my bike home. As soon as I realised, I cropped the offending portion of that particular 'ride'.

It's never occurred to me to "cheat" at Strava, because I don't consider it to be a competition which can be 'won' or 'lost'. FFS, sad lads, it's just bloody data on a screen at the end of the day...

[TwistingMyMelon]

Chaps cheers for recommending making a ride private/non private to fix when cups/PRs aren't displayed.

I have a question!

Using the Iphone app, it often lists the max speed of a ride as say 47mph. I think "that's good, didn't think I was going quite that quick". I then scroll across to the Speed graph and the graph goes no go above 40 mph? Whats that about?

Ok, I think its the Iphone not being reliable at reading speed, but then for it to list 47mph max speed, I would still expect to see it in the speed graph, even if the data was "incorrect", if that makes sense?

[yellowjack]

TwistingMyMelon said:

...I have a question!

Using the Iphone app, it often lists the max speed of a ride as say 47mph. I think "that's good, didn't think I was going quite that quick". I then scroll across to the Speed graph and the graph goes no go above 40 mph? Whats that about?

Ok, I think its the Iphone not being reliable at reading speed, but then for it to list 47mph max speed, I would still expect to see it in the speed graph, even if the data was "incorrect", if that makes sense?

I get similar when uploading from my Garmin (Edge 500) to Strava. The 'Max Speed' figure on the Garmin will be around 42.6mph (for example) yet when it transfers to Strava it'll show a figure of low 50's mph. No idea why, and much like you describe, there'll be no corresponding 'spike' in the graph when you look closer... I've no idea why, but presume it's got something to do with how Strava processes the raw data.

I've even seen some segments (but not on any of my rides so far) where the Average Speed for the segment exceeds the peek highest speed for the segment, which as I understand it, is mathematically impossible?