Originally Posted by
Machka
I only started using Strava this past Christmas. I think I can manage to remember a time before that.
One thing that reminds me of days before the electronics revolution are the times I go out on my CX bike. Although I'll turn on Strava when I leave and turn it off when I get home, when I'm riding I have nothing on the bike to show time, distance, cadence or speed. I just go out and ride around, like back in the day. Of course, back in the day, I had no competitive aspirations, or concerns about achievement on the bike except where I happened to get to, e.g., all the way to such and such place.
Originally Posted by
Rowan
The only gripe (and I am not sure if there is a way to sort it) is that Strava won't allow you to manually enter a start distance for each of the bikes you already own and have ridden, sometimes for years.
That's because the main idea of Strava is to record what you do as you do it. Although manual entries are available to allow one to fill in gaps, I think that's more about indicating the continuity of ones activity than completing ones history.