Originally Posted by Beneficial Ear

For anyone who might actually use the site originally posted I suggest cheating in a game of solitaire instead.

Strava is fun... I like riding my bike, I like riding my bike fast... I know when/how to push it and do so at my leisure. Makes hard intervals that much more interesting and is an incredibly useful tool to track progress. Comparison to others in this context may or may not be useful - but personally I have great fun chasing for a KOM, its a great motivator to push just that bit harder... as such I've gotten crazy stronger and going all out for a strava segments is a major part, its merely an interval. I mean, what puts someone on a high horse for refusing GPS data they can review/analyze/compare? What makes your interval better than mine??? And if you wanna put up fake data that says you went .1mph faster than me in a segment, how can you possibly scoff at ME???? How lame can you be? If me going for/beating my best time or someone elses best time pisses you off... well, in this time I got stronger and you got pissed off at someone who doesn't care.

If I do something stupid and crash, thats my own dam fault. Frankly the close calls and crashes I've been involved with had absolutely nothing to do with strava, they were merely a product of riding on a road/not knowing the limits of my bike/stupid people doing stupid things/me being stupid and not paying attention. I'm not stopping at every stop sign and putting a foot down, I'm not waiting for every green light, I'm not going to go 30mph through a crowded trail either...

Folks can hate it all they want, I'm gonna keep using Strava to motivate my training/find new places to ride/find people to ride with and I am very happy with the results (read: winning an actual race in a solo breakaway and keeping up with/finding the fastest group rides around here).