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400bhp

400bhp

Guru
smutchin said:
Just had a notification that I've lost a KOM. Oh well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. But wait a minute, something doesn't look quite right about this...

http://www.strava.com/rides/rough-common-kent-uk-kent-united-kingdom-10679506

Ha! I might not have twigged what was going on here if I hadn't read some of the earlier comments in this thread...

d.
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Get his ride flagged - it immediately removes his times on segments.
 
Herzog

Herzog

Swinglish Mountain Goat
Location
Bern, Switzerland
I've had enough of Strava...I'm deleting my account. I've totally changed the way I ride and not for the better. My training sessions often descend into KOM chasing - I can't help myself ^_^
 
gaz

gaz

Cycle Camera TV
Location
South Croydon
smutchin

smutchin

Cat 6 Racer
Location
The Red Enclave
gaz said:
Must be a GPS error... the rest of his ride looks ok (apart from when he went 65mph)
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My take on it is that he drove up to the local woods, rode round the trails for a bit, then drove home again, forgetting to turn off his gps.

Aside from the outrageous stealing of my KOM by unfair means, I'm somewhat dismayed by the fact that someone would drive several miles to the local woods just to ride their bike for a few miles. Pretty poor show (his "bike ride" involved more miles in the car than on the bike).

And then there's the fact that the speed limit on most of the road sections of his route is either 30 or 40, though there is a short section where it's 60. Even so, no excuse for doing 65mph at any point. Tut tut.

How do you look at the rest of his ride? I can only see the details for the segment, so can't see where he was doing 65.

Also, part of his ride in the woods was on a trail where bikes are explicitly banned.

d.
 
400bhp

400bhp

Guru
smutchin said:
My take on it is that he drove up to the local woods, rode round the trails for a bit, then drove home again, forgetting to turn off his gps.

Aside from the outrageous stealing of my KOM by unfair means, I'm somewhat dismayed by the fact that someone would drive several miles to the local woods just to ride their bike for a few miles. Pretty poor show (his "bike ride" involved more miles in the car than on the bike).

d.
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You wanna see a pish take - look at this:

http://app.strava.com/rides/10652765
 
gaz

gaz

Cycle Camera TV
Location
South Croydon
smutchin said:
My take on it is that he drove up to the local woods, rode round the trails for a bit, then drove home again, forgetting to turn off his gps.

Aside from the outrageous stealing of my KOM by unfair means, I'm somewhat dismayed by the fact that someone would drive several miles to the local woods just to ride their bike for a few miles. Pretty poor show (his "bike ride" involved more miles in the car than on the bike).

And then there's the fact that the speed limit on most of the road sections of his route is either 30 or 40, though there is a short section where it's 60. Even so, no excuse for doing 65mph at any point. Tut tut.

How do you look at the rest of his ride? I can only see the details for the segment, so can't see where he was doing 65.

Also, part of his ride in the woods was on a trail where bikes are explicitly banned.

d.
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On the link you put up above, click the performance tab under the map and you get a graph, add speed to the graph and you can see where he did various speeds.
 
LosingFocus

LosingFocus

Lost it, got it again.
Bloody hate this thing. Nothing depresses you like realising how poor you are at cycling! Went out and knew there was a segment on my route I wanted to hit hard. So I pace myself up to it, getting ready. Hit the segment and power all the way up the hill. Get to the top happy but really feeling sick. Get home, 18th bloody place - 30 seconds off the quickest time. Bah! :sad:
 
smutchin

smutchin

Cat 6 Racer
Location
The Red Enclave
Bizarrely, I can't see his ride at all - he only has two rides displayed on his profile. Does this mean he has made the ride private or something? How can I flag his ride when I can't even see it?

Also slightly odd is that the segment page says he did the KOM "ride" in April. Why has it suddenly appeared now - has he only just got round to uploading his old rides? Weird.

d.
 
smutchin

smutchin

Cat 6 Racer
Location
The Red Enclave
gaz said:
On the link you put up above, click the performance tab under the map and you get a graph, add speed to the graph and you can see where he did various speeds.
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Ah, thanks... thought I'd tried that already and it didn't work, but I tried it again just now and all the details came up as predicted, inlcuding the link to flag the ride. Sorted. Cheers!

To be fair, the bit where he hits 100km/h is the bit with a 60 limit, although there is also a 100+ spike in an area with a 30 limit, which I shall charitably assume is a GPS glitch.

d.
 
400bhp

400bhp

Guru
smutchin said:
Bizarrely, I can't see his ride at all - he only has two rides displayed on his profile. Does this mean he has made the ride private or something? How can I flag his ride when I can't even see it?

Also slightly odd is that the segment page says he did the KOM "ride" in April. Why has it suddenly appeared now - has he only just got round to uploading his old rides? Weird.

d.
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Click on the link you provided earlier-there should be a tab on the right to flag the ride.
 
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