Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
- Location
- Manchester
Silly STRAVA Racing
- Thread starter fossyant
- Start date
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MickeyBlueEyes
Eat, Sleep, Ride, Repeat.
- Location
- Derbyshire
As has been said, for your own safety, watch the road. No point in noticing that you're 2 seconds up on a seg if in 5 seconds time you end up under a vehicle/in a hedge/puncture after running over a hedgehog...... Of course, a glance is ok but by going on some of the worthless 0.1 segs that are uploaded, one glance and it'd be all over anyway.
Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
I dont mean I am focusing on my Garmin, just that I can have a quick glance and see what my speed is.
When glancing, is it speed or time that you look at?
When glancing, is it speed or time that you look at?
cd365
Guru
- Location
- Coventry, uk
Speed
on the road
Über Member
We have these displayed on our club time trials, it's an automatic disqualification for anyone caught riding with their heads down.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Fortunately I have never known a direct fatality but I have know a few folk to ride into the back of cars, perhaps we could do with more of these signs
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Chris Froome and friends aren't helping with the safety message. Particularly when TV commentators are banging on about how head down helps with aerodynamics.
PhunkyPhil
Regular
- Location
- Colchester
The problem with how Strava calculates speed will always throw up these weird high speeds. The problem is that if you have a poor GPS device like a phone which may only plot a position point every 3 seconds it opens up for errors and people will actually get a recorded distance which is less than the section length. You could see this when velo viewer had their alternative leader boards.
Strava should ban iPhones and the likes and insist on proper GPS devices which plot every second or quicker to make things more accurate.
PhunkyPhil
Regular
- Location
- Colchester
Depe
Depends on the length of a section. If its long I will use the virtual partner on my garmin and put in target speed and monitor this. If its a short section I just hit it hard and see what happens, at the end of the day if you know you need to go faster and can't there isn't much point in knowing.
Depends on the length of a section. If its long I will use the virtual partner on my garmin and put in target speed and monitor this. If its a short section I just hit it hard and see what happens, at the end of the day if you know you need to go faster and can't there isn't much point in knowing.
Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
- Location
- Manchester
Or they could carry on doing things as they are and their user base could spend some time reflecting on how they are not really racing!
PhunkyPhil
Regular
- Location
- Colchester
I honestly don't see why people think they aren't racing and use a site like Strava. It's so addictive to try and better either your own time of a KOM time.
There are better sites for analysis if you don't pay.
There are better sites for analysis if you don't pay.
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
Nah, froome is just looking at stems http://chrisfroomelookingatstems.tumblr.com
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
But did he get the KOMEveryone should be made to watch that Offredo crash at the Roubaix this year. That would drive the message home
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