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rp · 23-02-2013 3:33pm

colm_gti wrote: »

I've recently noticed a lot of people have a 'Team: ' link under their profile picture....had a look around the settings etc. and can't find such an option. Anyone care to point me in the right direction?

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colm_gti · 23-02-2013 3:36pm

rp wrote: »

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Already connected with my club, just wondering how I get it under my profile pic like everyone else...

Darkglasses · 23-02-2013 3:59pm

colm_gti wrote: »

Already connected with my club, just wondering how I get it under my profile pic like everyone else...

It depends on whether your club has chosen to describe themselves as a "Cycling club" or a "Racing Team" in their description on Strava. If it's the latter, then all members get that groovy team name thing on their profile.

If we want it for the Boards.ie club, then whoever created the club needs to go onto "Edit Details" and choose Racing Team from the drop-down menu.

Zorba · 01-03-2013 6:40pm

I used to go out on me bike and enjoy my spins, might take it easy or might push myself a bit here and there only if i was in the mood though.

Now i'm using Strava for the past 3 odd weeks and it's turned me into a KOM chasing maniac ! Now i'm constantly riding along thinking oh there's a segment here i'll give it a bit of a push to try and get on a leader board.

Speaking of leaderboards i've done a ride today but i'm not showing up on the leader boards, i should have got a 4th and a 3rd place on 2 leaderboards but i'm not showing up :mad: Hoping i'll check back in a few hrs and i'll be there. Has this happened to anyone else ? And no the ride isn't private.

On a side note though, i haven't enjoyed the bike this much in years, Strava is still a bastard but a lovable one at that !

JazzyJ · 01-03-2013 6:57pm

Zorba wrote: »

Speaking of leaderboards i've done a ride today but i'm not showing up on the leader boards, i should have got a 4th and a 3rd place on 2 leaderboards but i'm not showing up :mad: Hoping i'll check back in a few hrs and i'll be there. Has this happened to anyone else ? And no the ride isn't private.!

Are the segments, close to home or work (somewhere you've a privacy zone set up)?

Seweryn · 01-03-2013 7:08pm

Zorba wrote: »

On a side note though, i haven't enjoyed the bike this much in years, Strava is still a bastard but a lovable one at that !

Haha! More fun from cycling is... more fun. Enjoy it

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Regarding your query - put it up on the Strava board, you should get a quick response.

Zorba · 01-03-2013 7:12pm

JazzyJ wrote: »

Are the segments, close to home or work (somewhere you've a privacy zone set up)?

One is close to a privacy zone but the other isn't.

Seweryn wrote: »

Regarding your query - put it up on the Strava board, you should get a quick response.

As in Strava customer support ?

Seweryn · 01-03-2013 7:16pm

Zorba wrote: »

As in Strava customer support ?

Yes.

Your GPS could have lost signal and be out of its course by a tiny bit and your track might not match the segment.

Zorba · 01-03-2013 7:19pm

Seweryn wrote: »

Yes.

Your GPS could have lost signal and be out of its course by a tiny bit and your track might not match the segment.

Got it sorted.

I originally had the ride marked as private then i made it public but still i wasn't on the leaderboards. So i made it private again, saved it, then made it public again and there i am on the leaderboards, guess Strava just got a bit confused, the bastard !

Tar.Aldarion · 01-03-2013 7:22pm

I just started cycling to work this year, I started using strava this week. I have no idea what your koms or privacy zones or anything is about but it's a great lilttle app isn't it. It's depressing looking a the speeds of the boardsies. I'm so slow.

My second trip was the best, "YES I got a trophy...second place!"... against myself...I had literally just gone slower than my only other ride and was celebrating haha. I was actually 69/71 on the segment :pac:

I use my phone, hope it's accurate enough, seems to do the job fine though.
Why does a segment 'too hazardous" to count keep popping up, why is it even being mentioned. It just says it's a category 4.
Where are segments, who decides on them? I just get marked on two into work and one on the way home.

Brad768 · 01-03-2013 8:56pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I just started cycling to work this year, I started using strava this week. I have no idea what your koms or privacy zones or anything is about

Privacy zones can be setup for your house, and work for example. If your activity starts or ends within a 500m-1km radius of the address, the start and/or end of the activity will be hidden from other users.

"kom" stands for "King Of the Mountains". To get a kom, you ride a segment in the quickest time.

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Why does a segment 'too hazardous" to count keep popping up, why is it even being mentioned. It just says it's a category 4.
Where are segments, who decides on them? I just get marked on two into work and one on the way home.

The segment has been marked as hazardous by another user. Does it run through a roundabout or a set of lights? If so, it is to stop people sprinting through them.
Category 4 is the difficulty of the climb. The difficulty ranges from U(flat) to HC(Scary territory)
A segment is a certain length of road where you are timed against others. This is what makes Strava so appealing to other cyclists, being able to see their best efforts compared to everyone else.Segments are created by the public using the strava website. Anyone can create one

Tar.Aldarion · 01-03-2013 9:15pm

Thanks Brad, that's awesome. Yeah the segments are really appealing, I thought it was fun just beating myself before but now I have the fun of beating the one or two people that I can, whoever it is that can go up a hill at 47km I salute you. It's also brought my average up 7km/h in a few days (from 13, to near 20, still very slow) with something to look at and compete against, instead of just crawling home at ease. That dangerous route is down a hill and up a hill. I wouldn't like to be trying to go fast there anyway with the state of the cycling path/traffic, I just freewheel down hills anyway. Probably best it's not a segment. That's cool about people making them, might make some on my route so.

GreyEagle · 03-03-2013 7:02pm

I'm having a problem with the current challenge. With 7:43 hours done I'm number 407 overall but my Ireland ranking is not showing. I sent a support request, no reply yet. Anybody else with his problem?

Dermot Illogical · 03-03-2013 8:31pm

GreyEagle wrote: »

I'm having a problem with the current challenge. With 7:43 hours done I'm number 407 overall but my Ireland ranking is not showing. I sent a support request, no reply yet. Anybody else with his problem?

It gets worse...you're down to 459th place!

At a guess I'd say something funky in your privacy settings? Unless you don't have a full surname on your account?

GreyEagle · 03-03-2013 10:35pm

Dermot Illogical wrote: »

It gets worse...you're down to 459th place!

At a guess I'd say something funky in your privacy settings? Unless you don't have a full surname on your account?

I expected a big drop as people logged on in the evening, also the US cyclists are still out there pedalling so more slippage to come. I had no such problems with the January event, except for the weather.

route66 · 04-03-2013 8:09am

My 60km trip up Sally Gap yesterday was recorded by my Steava phone app as 32,000 kms. This meant an average speed of over 10,000 km/h !

I used Strava to export the ride as a GPX file and then opened it up with a freeware utility called "GPX editor". The corruption was easy enough to spot (a number of return trips to the equator) and even easier to delete.

Strava's own support people can help with these issues, but it's nice to be able to fix them yourself too.

GreyEagle · 04-03-2013 12:13pm

Dermot Illogical wrote: »

It gets worse...you're down to 459th place!

At a guess I'd say something funky in your privacy settings? Unless you don't have a full surname on your account?

Good news, back up to 214 overall and 4 in Ireland if this gets sorted.

GreyEagle · 05-03-2013 10:27pm

On the Ireland list at last. In at number 5, as they used to say on TOTP.

hardCopy · 06-03-2013 10:46am

Is there any way to make the privacy zone smaller? I just set one up and it's huge, covers most of my shorter run routes.

Tar.Aldarion · 06-03-2013 11:15am

I think you can cut off the end of your rides?

buffalo · 06-03-2013 11:21am

hardCopy wrote: »

Is there any way to make the privacy zone smaller? I just set one up and it's huge, covers most of my shorter run routes.

Yep, you can crop your ride. Only found that out recently. So cut off the last part where you turn into your driveway/road/estate, etc.

Chips Lovell · 10-03-2013 4:01pm

Sunday Times today:

Plastik · 10-03-2013 4:16pm

What segment(s) do they refer to?

rp · 10-03-2013 4:32pm

What does the rest of headline say? "Cyclists break speed limit for mechanically-propelled vehicles"?

Wishbone Ash · 10-03-2013 4:43pm

hardCopy wrote: »

Is there any way to make the privacy zone smaller? I just set one up and it's huge, covers most of my shorter run routes.

It might not be an option for you but you could enter a different address for the privacy zone and still come under it .i.e. move it north, south, east or west to a more optimum position.

I live on the coast but a few segments come into my privacy zone so I moved it out over the sea but my house is just inside the edge of it.

(PS - 100 metre zone would be quite adequate in an urban area IMO)

J Madone · 10-03-2013 5:50pm

Plastik wrote: »

What segment(s) do they refer to?

The northside Quays, big bloke on a Boardman on slower days and planet x on his quicker ones is mentioned

Wishbone Ash · 10-03-2013 7:05pm

Plastik wrote: »

What segment(s) do they refer to?

Wolfe Tone Quay
Beckett Bridge
Pearse Street
Merion Square West
Dame Street
Nassau Street to Grand Canal

Very lazy laptop journalism IMO. Lots of speculation, ignorance of the road traffic regulations and typical journalistic phrases such as "declined to comment" (i.e. "I couldn't be bothered asking").

Many of the stats are not accurate or may have been done on a motor vehicle. I suspect the Wolfe Tone Quay one wasn't done by a bike. If you view the full ride (Phoenix Park to Booterstown) he hits 70kph and averages 36kph in the city centre!

I would also be dubious about anyone managing 54kph on Beckett Bridge.

Basically a rehash of a similar "story" done recently in London.

Mr. Grieves · 10-03-2013 7:09pm

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Sunday Times today:

FFS,are they just rehashing the article they did on London segments (debunked here: http://veloviewer.com/blog/41mph-the-evidence-against-the-sunday-times-article/ )

Wishbone Ash · 10-03-2013 7:13pm

rp wrote: »

What does the rest of headline say? "Cyclists break speed limit for mechanically-propelled vehicles"?

"Cyclists break the limit for app"

Chips Lovell · 11-03-2013 10:59am

Whatever about the accuracy of times recorded on short segments, the points remains that there are eejits setting up segments in the city centre.

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

...typical journalistic phrases such as "declined to comment" (i.e. "I couldn't be bothered asking").

Actually that means, they asked and the person concerned said no. "Unavailable to comment" would mean the person was not contactable.

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