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 only bother to flag activities when I'm shooting for a running KOM. There are lots of bike rides tagged as runs, which are very obvious when you know what to look for. If it's a popular enough segment that I'm mired down in the teens I don't bother.
Strava is fun, but I can't take it seriously on the level as even low-level racing because of crap like this. Racing is at least theoretically controlled for doping and cheating; Strava isn't.
As for your specific question about HR, I've been thinking for a few years that running races should require GPS files for podium slots or the like. Too much course-cutting, so I'd be on board with your Strava idea.