Silly STRAVA Racing

[Andrew_Culture]

should have just bunny hopped it!!! lol.

im gonna set up a few MTB sectors round by me on the clay trails.

It was about six foot thick!

 

[HLaB]

Wish people would be a little more sensible when creating segments and have them finish a bit before a junction or traffic light so backed up traffic doesn't impact on the time so much. I suppose i could flag the segment as dangerous then replace it with one that finishes 10 metres earlier...but it feels like bad form doing that unless i am KOM!

For some bizarre reason sometimes segments that I have created to start or stop away from a junction, at the crest of a hill, etc generate a segment which goes that wee bit further

 

[Rob3rt]

It was quite steep, alright!

Stopped part way to watch the ToB?

 

[Hacienda71]

Stopped part way to watch the ToB?

I do recall a few other cyclists being there.

 

[ohnovino]

To the morons in the Mini who thought it would be hilarious to try and knock me off on a country lane: thank you! The adrenaline burst you gave me carried me to a new KOM

 

[mattobrien]

Bagged a new KoM today, I was previously 7th and managed to knock off 15 seconds to take it by a clear 5 seconds here

What is sweetest is that it puts @AndrewCulture down into third rather than the lofty second he was occupying

What is more interesting (for me anyway) is that 7/8 KoM's that I currently hold are 1 mile or longer. None of this extremely short burst stuff...

...not saying that 1 mile is a particularly long burst, but less likely to be interfered with by GPS issues etc.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Bagged a new KoM today, I was previously 7th and managed to knock off 15 seconds to take it by a clear 5 seconds here

What is sweetest is that it puts @AndrewCulture down into third rather than the lofty second he was occupying

Oh... I didn't know that segment was there... I got 2nd place while I was out testing the geared bike I have now...

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Hang on, due to the rules of CycleChat StravaClub I guess I'm forbidden from going for KOM on that segment, so I guess we'll never know if I could do it or not.

 

[4F]

You could always "accidently" bag it and then claim that you had not realised how fast you were going. I think the clear goading from @mattobrien makes that segment game on.

 

[mattobrien]

Hang on, due to the rules of CycleChat StravaClub I guess I'm forbidden from going for KOM on that segment, so I guess we'll never know if I could do it or not.

All is fair in love and Strava.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

You could always "accidently" bag it and then claim that you had not realised how fast you were going. I think the clear goading from @mattobrien makes that segment game on.

Shame it's out of lunchtime reach

 

[Typhon]

http://app.strava.com/rides/21127852

Just flagged this one. I can see why he got away with it for 6 weeks though - he was super sneaky. If only he hadn't reached that 79mph maximum speed and if only his average speed had been a little bit less than 45mph he might have got away with it. Mind you "cycling" on the M5 probably didn't help.

In all seriousness, in theory that guy could get done for speeding. Not the smartest move, really.

http://app.strava.com/rides/21127852

 

[400bhp]

Hang on, due to the rules of CycleChat StravaClub I guess I'm forbidden from going for KOM on that segment, so I guess we'll never know if I could do it or not.

Strava CycleChat Rule #10 (no KoM taking from another CycleChat member) has an "exception clause". "In circumstances where a fellow CycleChatter goads another Cyclechatter in a public forum about a segment, then Rule#10 becomes null and void on that segment".

Or sommat

 

[addictfreak]

I held this KOM a while ago, before losing it. Perfect conditions this morning and I just had to have a crack at it.

Thought I had nailed it but gutted to have missed out by 1 second!

http://app.strava.com/rides/25302644#452001245

 

[Hacienda71]

Strava CycleChat Rule #10 (no KoM taking from another CycleChat member) has an "exception clause". "In circumstances where a fellow CycleChatter goads another Cyclechatter in a public forum about a segment, then Rule#10 becomes null and void on that segment".

Or sommat

Go on then you can do it