Landslide wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:26 pm

And indeed, isn't strava just a bit monarchist with its KOMs and QOMs etc.?!?

(Grabs flaming torch and pitchfork)

It's also trans-exclusive when you think about it.

Is it time Strava got a good, hard cancelling?

RIP wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:33 am Oh, and while we're here, Grumpy Old Man Alert: the use of 'K' [not the Knob unit as mentioned earlier] to mean 'thousand metres' really gets on my wick.

For a start it's a unit of temperature not distance - Kelvin. If you said you'd done a 5K ride I'd imagine you had been riding on the surface of Uranus or some other far-flung chilly planet.

If you've ridden five kilometres, that's '5km' ok?

To be pedantic (obviously just to fit in) the coldest planet is an average of a balmy 60K, bring a picnic

Route plotting - the amount of data is has means its heatmap is scond to none. I've found loads of trails that I'd have had zero chance of finding otherwise.

Aye heat maps is not a bad thing I will give you that - it could do with a direction of travel though - ie what is the downhill what is the up hill way

I like Strava for:
- Route inspiration, seeing where other people have gone, heat maps showing where may or may not be accessible
- My own sense of numerical achievement (generally distance* and ascent**, rather than speed***)

At the same time, there are plenty of aspects to rides that I don't get via Strava, and they'll stay in my mind, or my notebook, or my pictures. It will never be the be-all and end-all.

*km
**m
***or lack thereof
(Sorry Reg)

That moment when you search a segment, have a rummage through the times to find a decent ride press save ride and off you go, not really knowing a single thing about the actual ride you have stole

Also I'm more of a full fat miles & ft man myself rather than K,Km or M

No. I can't be bothered uploading GPX data from my GPS to yet another website I'd have to register with and then suffer all the adds it doubtless bombards you with. Instead I record my rides on a simple spreadsheet. This allows me to make sure I'm hitting my hours per week targets (when I impose such things on myself) but crucially allows me to remember where I've been year on year. I now have 6 years of 'data' and its quite nice reading where I've gone over the years.

htrider wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:02 pm No. I can't be bothered uploading GPX data from my GPS to yet another website I'd have to register with and then suffer all the adds it doubtless bombards you with.

When I finish a ride/run, I press stop on whatever GPS I'm using. That sends it to Garmin Connect. Garmin Connect then automagically sends it to Strava. There's no other upload required.

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:05 pm

htrider wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:02 pm No. I can't be bothered uploading GPX data from my GPS to yet another website I'd have to register with and then suffer all the adds it doubtless bombards you with.

When I finish a ride/run, I press stop on whatever GPS I'm using. That sends it to Garmin Connect. Garmin Connect then automagically sends it to Strava. There's no other upload required.

Ah. I use a Dakota which doesn't have that feature

RIP wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:33 am
If you've ridden five kilometres, that's '5km' ok?

It’s klicks in my world. I often switch between miles and klicks for psychological effect when convincing others things are not as bad as they have convinced themselves. Eg-

How far to go? 30 miles. (sounds less than 48 klicks)
How far have we gone so far? 48 klicks. (Sounds better than 30 miles)

I use strava shared with a few immediate family. Two buttons to press on my phone at the start of a ride, and two more at the end of the ride. That has the ride and any photos taken during the ride auto transferred across all my kit - laptop, iPad etc. I don’t look at strava whilst riding, and I don’t use any gps or tech on the bike, I keep a paper OS map in my pocket for navigating and perusing when I stop. I rarely set out on a fixed route, I like to head in a general direction and keep options open.

The beacon function is useful - my other half can see when I’m on way home and get kettle on. In extreme, if I fell in a ditch and was broken she’d be able to find me.

I like the record of rides without having to do any more than press record and finish. No messing with uploads or gpx transfer etc.

I use heat maps for researching potential rides - helps avoid contentious situations.

htrider wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:02 pm ...and then suffer all the adds it doubtless bombards you with.

There's no advertising. That and the fact that most people use the free app is why they don't manage to make a profit (or didn't previously) so had to reduce the features in the free version to encourage more people to pay.

Modern Garmins will connect to your phone and upload automatically, I still have to plug my old Edge 500 in but for 50% of the rides I'm at work so I get paid to do It

I use it to record rides, like the data for checking progress fitness wise. Not fussed if I don’t record a ride and I like to see the mileages others do in a non stalker type fashion. Some of the challenges they put up I use as a source of encouragement. Share now and again on social media but penis normally restrained.

Share now and again on social media but penis normally restrained.

That's strange. I once shared a ride on Strava and my penis grew by 4". Maybe I'd selected the premium package without realising it?

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:45 am

Share now and again on social media but penis normally restrained.

That's strange. I once shared a ride on Strava and my penis grew by 4". Maybe I'd selected the premium package without realising it?

It was likely the vibration from the saddle

Sorry Dave, I read that as "I was liking the vibration from the saddle" and swiftly after, my mind remembered the 'Happy Ride' saddle. I can see that thong chafing after a few miles mind.

Steady on with the BSOs, that's almost just after breakfast.
I'm offended you're posting Bike shaped objects.

RIP wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:33 am Oh, and while we're here, Grumpy Old Man Alert: the use of 'K' [not the Knob unit as mentioned earlier] to mean 'thousand metres' really gets on my wick.

For a start it's a unit of temperature not distance - Kelvin. If you said you'd done a 5K ride I'd imagine you had been riding on the surface of Uranus or some other far-flung chilly planet.

If you've ridden five kilometres, that's '5km' ok?

Likewise if you've gone half a kilometre that's '500m'.

It's all bollocks anyway because of course you have actually ridden 3.106 and 0.310 miles respectively.

Reg 'Official President Of The Campaign For Real Minutes' (*) Perrin

(*) no, don't start me on that one (again) .

Just for you Reg I did quite a big ride the other week. 274k - no energy at all when I started but the further I went the more energy I seemed to have. Got to the last k and only then started to thaw out. I reckon another 100k and I would have been boiling.

slarge wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:04 am Just for you Reg I did quite a big ride the other week. 274k - no energy at all when I started but the further I went the more energy I seemed to have. Got to the last k and only then started to thaw out. I reckon another 100k and I would have been boiling.

Chapeau to you slarge, you win the internet for today I actually workied out how far 274k was in miles before I realised

I'm so unfit at the moment that I do feel like I'd be starting from absolute zero.

Strava is great. I like putting my rides on there, putting up some pics, seeing what my pals have been up to.
Not really interested in section times or anything. The website is quite nice and it doesn't cost anything.

Here's a nice one from earlier this year:

https://www.strava.com/activities/3891001114

yourguitarhero wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:30 pm Strava is great. I like putting my rides on there, putting up some pics, seeing what my pals have been up to.
Not really interested in section times or anything. The website is quite nice and it doesn't cost anything.

Here's a nice one from earlier this year:

https://www.strava.com/activities/3891001114

Nice ride! Right passed my childhood home in Dalgety Bay...