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[Sittingduck]

ridelondon riders smash up surrey strava segments

Heh, interesting to filter the leaderboards to CC only... quite a few decent times recorded Yesterday and plenty of CCers on Strava

 

[PhunkyPhil]

I got a KOM the other day through town that I didn't know about which went through 5 roundabouts. I couldn't beleive somebody would create a section like that as you can't go out and plan to ride fast on the section as you have to get lucky with the traffic. It also was between 2 pointless locations whcih makes no real sense either.

 

[HLaB]

I got a KOM the other day through town that I didn't know about which went through 5 roundabouts. I couldn't beleive somebody would create a section like that as you can't go out and plan to ride fast on the section as you have to get lucky with the traffic. It also was between 2 pointless locations whcih makes no real sense either.

I got one the other day two (although irrc it was straight through 3 rbts). There's folk on the list 2-4mph slower than me over the 2miles segment who are much better riders than me; I think I just got lucky with the traffic. The most stupid one I saw started 3/4 of the way down a steep slope, u'turned on a rbt and went back up the slope

 

[VamP]

Wow. Box Hill now has 15 000 strava users who have recorded their ride up it. When I first started using Strava it was only about 3000.

Take a bow Mr @Sittingduck - you are the CC leader.

Might have to schedule a trip down to Surrey one day and see.

 

[zizou]

Not just 1500 riders there are about 1500 segments that cover box hill too- I thought the overlapping and duplicate segment problem was bad in glasgow, but by comparision the map is empty and uncluttered up here!

 

[HLaB]

Not just 1500 riders there are about 1500 segments that cover box hill too- I thought the overlapping and duplicate segment problem was bad in glasgow, but by comparision the map is empty and uncluttered up here!

You should have a look at the Alpe D'Huez

 

[Sittingduck]

Box is pretty mental in terms of segments, so I only ever look at one segment and ignore all the rest. I always look for the one with (zig zag road) in brackets. Roundabout to peak too but thats much further than the pure zig zag

Vamp - I reckon I wouldn't be top of the CC board for long except for the fact that my club run does it virtually every Saturday morning. Must have climbed that mountain something like 50 times in the past year

Edit: just checked and have had the pleasure of doing it 53 times, of which 29 were in 2013... looks like I need to find a different pimple to pluck!

 

[Teuchter]

While sitting at traffic lights on the way into Glasgow yesterday morning I got asked if I used Strava by a cyclist on a hybrid. Explained that I didn't (tried it once or twice with little success thanks to phone GPS seeming to drop out mid ride) but we rode along chatting for half a mile before our routes took us in different directions.

Was it anyone on here?

 

[PhunkyPhil]

I got one the other day two (although irrc it was straight through 3 rbts). There's folk on the list 2-4mph slower than me over the 2miles segment who are much better riders than me; I think I just got lucky with the traffic. The most stupid one I saw started 3/4 of the way down a steep slope, u'turned on a rbt and went back up the slope

I must have got lucky as well as i averaged 23+ on the flat through the roundabouts. The thing that annoyed me most is that it's only been ridden by 5 people whcih prooves its a pointless section.
I quite often target obscure sections which have been created by somebody so they can say they have a KOM to prove a point and hopefully discourage them creating more pointless sections. I don't then mind if somebody else faster then targets me in revenge as long as the original creator doesnt have it.

 

[gaz]

A Saturday heatmap - http://engineering.strava.com/saturday-heatmap/

 

[gaz]

Whilst looking at another thread about hill categories. Was looking on strava for cat 1 and HC climbs in the UK.
Found an easy one to get KOM on http://app.strava.com/segments/3288322

 

[Ian193]

I see someone has taken my other half's QOM today she has now declared war on them she now needs to find 2 mins 30 secs to reclaim it

http://app.strava.com/segments/2548567

 

[Kiwiavenger]

I'm tempted to go premium so I can see where I stack up with all the other fatties lol. (currently 15st 5) have a.couple,of top tens and 2 kom's so far with lots of prs lately since my bike fit!

 

[Spartak]

Altered my commute yesterday, now includes the 15% Constitution Hill in Bristol !

Updates to follow ......

 

[Kiwiavenger]

Altered my commute yesterday, now includes the 15% Constitution Hill in Bristol !

Updates to follow ......

Good luck! I wish Eden project was open early so I can tackle the 20% section I did yesterday again!!! Was good fun (and I'm 4th on the segment on my first try after having to slow down behind the park and ride bus)

I still need to do a few hills I'm bristol now I'm fitter (cleeve hill, BlackBerry hill and some of the ones round kingswood)