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Up to 393 now, birthday in a week. Lost a bit of time with the knee injury, still on the crap front wheel, but should squeeze a few more in to meet the target (400). As long as it doesn't piss down all week I'll get there.

Want to fuck off the sprinting for a bit once I've reached my goal, it's got a bit boring.
 
I've just lost one of my few course records.:mad: Someone did a run at the weekend and hoovered up a load of records.

My only remaining ones are routes so strange that hardly anyone else has done them
 
rubbershoes said:
I've just lost one of my few course records.:mad: Someone did a run at the weekend and hoovered up a load of records.

My only remaining ones are routes so strange that hardly anyone else has done them
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Do you ever wonder if someone has dastardly done the routes in question in a motorbike or car to scoop the records? So long as one doesn't take the piss with the speed, I can't imagine Strava has a program smart enough to identify such schemes.
 
T & P said:
Do you ever wonder if someone has dastardly done the routes in question in a motorbike or car to scoop the records? So long as one doesn't take the piss with the speed, I can't imagine Strava has a program smart enough to identify such schemes.
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I looked at their other runs. They're just fast and genuine
 
T & P said:
Do you ever wonder if someone has dastardly done the routes in question in a motorbike or car to scoop the records? So long as one doesn't take the piss with the speed, I can't imagine Strava has a program smart enough to identify such schemes.
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Users can flag rides/runs if you think they're suspect, I do it all the time. A common one is when someone does a ride then leaves the device running for the car journey home - I'll get a notification every month or so that I've lost my KOM up the cycle path over the Avonmouth Bridge by 45 seconds or so, which is parallel to a motorway. Users can crop rides to take these bits off.

I did once do a segment in the car to wind up a mate who'd been trying to get it for ages, but deleted it as soon as he'd taken the bait. Only got it by a second so it looked pretty convincing.


This guy goes out every morning at the moment on something that isn't a bike and gets a load of KOMs, obvious from the top speed (sometimes 60+) and route taken (avoiding short cuts available to bikes). Nearly all their rides are flagged.

Miko Łaj | Runner on Strava
 
T & P said:
Do you ever wonder if someone has dastardly done the routes in question in a motorbike or car to scoop the records? So long as one doesn't take the piss with the speed, I can't imagine Strava has a program smart enough to identify such schemes.
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No need to wonder, its usually easy to spot...


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I lost one to a plane a couple of weeks back. The 'ride' went from Heathrow to somewhere in Southern Europe. Someone has actually made a segment along the runway at Heathrow :eek: which was the only other one picked up on their ride (the one I lost was a short and straight road in Islington). I figured something was up when I lost the 55 second KOM by 50 seconds :hmm:
 
Dogsauce said:
I lost one to a plane a couple of weeks back. The 'ride' went from Heathrow to somewhere in Southern Europe. Someone has actually made a segment along the runway at Heathrow :eek: which was the only other one picked up on their ride (the one I lost was a short and straight road in Islington). I figured something was up when I lost the 55 second KOM by 50 seconds :hmm:
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How the hell did they even get a signal? :hmm:
 
GPS on phone presumably, which is naughty. The sky plod could probably match the names on that Heathrow segment to flights and have a stern word.
 
Dogsauce said:
GPS on phone presumably, which is naughty. The sky plod could probably match the names on that Heathrow segment to flights and have a stern word.
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Why is it naughty? If the phone really posed any risk they would take them off all passengers.
 
T & P said:
Do you ever wonder if someone has dastardly done the routes in question in a motorbike or car to scoop the records? So long as one doesn't take the piss with the speed, I can't imagine Strava has a program smart enough to identify such schemes.
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All KoMs without HR/Power data (and therefore unlikely to have been done by a 'hitter') are considered sus round here.
 
I've been out 'dawn raiding' a lot this month, making use of the extra daylight and cooler temperature (often because it's been too warm to go out in the evening). 71 KOMs so far this month, taking me through the 500 barrier this morning, now up to 506. Getting a bit bored of it if I'm honest, but there's not much else to do with a bike in the middle of London.

Strava have recently stopped people creating segments of less than 0.4miles, as they say results for anything shorter than this can't be measured accurately. I tried to make one for a nice short sharp climb in Leeds last week but fell foul of this.
 
Dogsauce said:
I've been out 'dawn raiding' a lot this month, making use of the extra daylight and cooler temperature (often because it's been too warm to go out in the evening). 71 KOMs so far this month, taking me through the 500 barrier this morning, now up to 506. Getting a bit bored of it if I'm honest, but there's not much else to do with a bike in the middle of London.
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Are you this Phil Gaimon guy?

I had three KoM's, but only one decent one, across Blackfriars Bridge where I'm sat in the top two of nearly 21,000 people :) Pretty sure it was GPS error tbh, but I'll keep it
 
I got joint second place on local segment today. I could have probably have knocked off a few extra seconds too (which may or not have given me the KOM), but the segment ends at a junction and there was a car in the way.
 
Manged to obtain joint second place on another segment this morning. And I'm in a better position than the other one, because I'm only sharing it with one other person, where on the other one there are three of us. So that's 3 segments I have the potential so snatch the KOM on. :cool:
 
Now joint second (with one other person) on another local segment. Need to find 2 seconds to get the KOM. The thing is that I think I must have lost those 2 seconds on the run today because they recently traffic calmed the road and they put a chicane in, which means I have to move over to the wrong side of the road to negotiate it. But there was a vehicle coming the other way, which made me hesitate and back off a bit because it wasn't out of the way in time. :(

Maybe next time.
 
Some bleeder has swiped the solitary overseas KOM I had in Portugal. I got it on a shit mountain bike borrowed from the place we were staying at on holiday. I liked having that little lonely outpost on my achievement map. Next summer I'm taking my proper bike with me.
 
I was all set to try and take back a KOM that I was trading with someone, and finally had taken off me, back in the spring tomorrow because I thought I was going to have a huge advantage because it's going to be quite windy and I thought there would be a nice tail wind. Turns out, looking at the forecast, that it's not going to be a tailwind at all, but a cross wind. :facepalm:
 
Dogsauce said:
Some bleeder has swiped the solitary overseas KOM I had in Portugal. I got it on a shit mountain bike borrowed from the place we were staying at on holiday. I liked having that little lonely outpost on my achievement map. Next summer I'm taking my proper bike with me.
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A guy in my cycling club had a KoM in Belgium of which he was unreasonably proud. When he lost it he made a grandiose proclamation about how he was going to fly to Europe and take it back. Then he saw the name of the rider who'd taken it off him: Niki Terpstra. Probably not worth booking the flight then...
 
DownwardDog said:
A guy in my cycling club had a KoM in Belgium of which he was unreasonably proud. When he lost it he made a grandiose proclamation about how he was going to fly to Europe and take it back. Then he saw the name of the rider who'd taken it off him: Niki Terpstra. Probably not worth booking the flight then...
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The guy who took my solitary oversea segment had his ride flagged so it came back to me (had to say I was suspicious with some of the other segments they took being over 25mph on uphill off-road tracks). Then someone flagged my ride claiming GPS error despite nothing weird on the trace (second time it's been flagged). I've appealed that so it should come back to me. I'll be over there for about six months next year so I should pick up a few then, although there's a lot of serious riders with fast times to contend with.

The whole leaderboard thing is screwed at the moment anyway, possibly by the update they've done to the dashboard page - loads of glitches and missing KOMs, plus if you equal a KOM it now awards it to you rather than the first person to do it, something I've benefitted and lost out from.
 
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