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Old 11-05-17 | 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by cthenn
I'm not going through 9 pages to see if this was touched on, but what is people's opinion on flagging obvious e-bike KOMs? As in, the KOM is 50+ mph...As in, half the time as known pros, done by some rando. As in 3000+ VAM. As in the guy's profile pic is his freaking motor.

I guess if it were my KOM, I might be upset, but people generally don't seem to care. And can we get all the "Strava isn't real racing, who cares, a Strava KOM means exactly nothing" comments out of the way, and if you don't want to post on the actual subject, feel free to refrain from adding a comment, kthx! I just flagged an activity which was clearly obvious, but I wouldn't flag anything I only suspect is done on e-bike, and of course if there's HR data to back up an effort, I'd never flag that either. But after I flagged this particular ride, I was exploring more segments, and it seems like this is becoming a thing on Strava. I found a few other segments with ridiculous speeds as the KOM, and no one has flagged them, so it seems like most people don't really care. Thoughts?
I guess I understand how it matters to some, but at my age, Strava challenges are limited to my own efforts. I have, on occasion, narrowed the view to my age group and weight, but not often.
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