Don't ride in groups or we will be stopped cycling completely.

[mjr]

Only family-looking groups on today's 75-min ride. We saw more bikes than cars, even on the A47!

 

[DaveReading]

"According to Strava data, one cyclist, who is based in Swinton, rode for seven hours and 40 minutes on a 121-mile round trip to Much Wenlock, Shropshire on Wednesday...."

It wasn't me. I did 3 miles round my local streets after tea yesterday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ce-backlash-stretch-bike-rides-200-miles.html

Hmmm.

Paragraph 2:

"Around 30,000 British fitness fanatics have joined a month-long challenge organised by social-fitness app Strava, which tracks cycling and running exercises."

I read the rest of the article, looking for the part that started

"Asked to comment, Strava responded ...".

But then I remembered it's the Daily Mail.

 

[Gunk]

I don’t understand this Strava thing, I’m probably too old 😮

Are cyclists recording and sharing their performance data from every ride? Doesn’t sound very relaxing, just over competitive. I suppose that’s the world we now live in.

 

[Slick]

I don’t understand this Strava thing, I’m probably too old 😮

Are cyclists recording and sharing their performance data from every ride? Doesn’t sound very relaxing, just over competitive. I suppose that’s the world we now live in.

Yes. Time, distance, elevation, route even time started and completed which I have mine set at private.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I log each ride but don't share them with anybody

 

[rogerzilla]

There's also a thing about doing "segments" as fast as possible. Some are only a couple of hundred yards long and are flat. It's moronic.

Then there are the people who actually put "KOM" in their username, only eclipsed in the knobber stakes by the guy who shouted from behind, "Elite coming through!" on last year's Dunwich Dynamo. We laughed so much, we nearly fell off

 

[newfhouse]

I don’t understand this Strava thing, I’m probably too old 😮

Are cyclists recording and sharing their performance data from every ride? Doesn’t sound very relaxing, just over competitive. I suppose that’s the world we now live in.

Competitive for some but not all. When I restarted cycling I found it a great motivator. Now it’s just a harmless habit.

 

[Jody]

I don’t understand this Strava thing, I’m probably too old 😮

A GPS based digital odometer where you can share your rides with others.

You can make as much or as little out of it as you like.

Some love it. Some loath it. Some use it to track their own rides. Some go all out and get overly competetive.

 

[Mattk50]

And this was the M25 yesterday looking towards Jct 8. I didn’t risk riding it, tempting as it was.
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Anyone up for a M25 circuit?

 

[Gunk]

A GPS based digital odometer where you can share your rides with others.

You can make as much or as little out of it as you like.

Some love it. Some loath it. Some use it to track their own rides. Some go all out and get overly competetive.

Not for me I’m afraid, I just like the ride, I have no interest in how fast I’ve completed the distance. I just use a basic app on my iPhone to plot the route and measure the distance.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Should we ban driving of private cars excluding NHS workers? A 400 mile round trip for fishing! Looking at time they were stopped they were clearly hoping to sneak by during the night.

Does the Daily Fail have this one?

Coronavirus: Family fined for London to Devon fishing trip

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-52261055

 

[snorri]

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I don’t understand this Strava thing, I’m probably too old 😮

Possibly....... Try to think of it as the modern equivalent of the pencilled list of numbers on your dad's shed wall that you added to from your Cyclometer reading after every cycle trip as a young lad.
You didn't have a Cyclometer?

 

[Gunk]

You didn't have a Cyclometer?

I was a child of the 1970’s of course I did!

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

STRAVA is Swedish for "Strive"

 

[Dogtrousers]

Anyone up for a M25 circuit?

That was my main aim for this year. I've got the route planned and everything. I doubt it will happen now. Next year maybe.