Silly STRAVA Racing

[HLaB]

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.

I think the iphone only records data every 5secs

 

[VamP]

But did he get the KOM

I'm not sure. Worse than that, neither is he.

 

[ohnovino]

BTW, the main problem with GPS on phones is software not hardware: if you use a decent GPS logging app (like Locus) you can turn the settings up to 11 and get Garmin-like accuracy.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Would be brilliant Strava segments

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23672538

 

[HLaB]

Would be brilliant Strava segments

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23672538

They already are

 

[Leodis]

I use my phone for fell walking as well with Memory Map, it suits me to have one device to map walks and daily rides to work

 

[400bhp]

BTW, the main problem with GPS on phones is software not hardware: if you use a decent GPS logging app (like Locus) you can turn the settings up to 11 and get Garmin-like accuracy.

Which is still inaccurate for proper time/distance calculations over relatively short distances.

 

[Matthew_T]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Nnj4RZzu4

That bike is illegal in the UK.

 

[Leodis]

That bike is illegal in the UK.

Loved his T shirt though

 

[HLaB]

Going backwards on one of the few segments that matter to me; I was 27:38 last week. Looking at a breakdown I gave too much respect to the south westardly at the start and I was far too slow off (Cant Upload the screen shot just now but if you want to compare, click on the last link, 'Show All Efforts', select (tick) the top two rides and 'Compare Efforts'.

 

[Frood42]

Going backwards on one of the few segments that matter to me; I was 27:38 kast week. Looking at a breakdown I gave too much respect to the south westardly at the start and I was far too slow off (Cant Upoload the screen shot just now but if you want to compare, click on the last link, 'Show All Efforts', select (tick) the top two rides and 'Compare Efforts'.

I like that compare option, we need it in Strava otherwise I will be uploading to Endomondo, Strava, Mio and soon Ride with GPS.

 

[Frood42]

Going backwards on one of the few segments that matter to me; I was 27:38 kast week. Looking at a breakdown I gave too much respect to the south westardly at the start and I was far too slow off (Cant Upoload the screen shot just now but if you want to compare, click on the last link, 'Show All Efforts', select (tick) the top two rides and 'Compare Efforts'.

Just found the Race Efforts option, very cool!

 

[Rob3rt]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Nnj4RZzu4

LMFAO, aero helmet and speedsuit, on a sit up and beg bike!

 

[Stonechat]

I really only compete against myself . Was amazed the other day to be in the top half of a leaderboard

 

[Matthew_T]

Someone has been deleting my segments lately. Thats 2 KOM's I've lost now.