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?
My view expressed pages back is you flag what is not normal for that page. I'd say an e-Bike / big time difference is not normal. Look at who did it, look at their other segments and have good reason why it is off. It seems more appropriate to flag rides that are similar to the ones you care about. I know, there are no rules, but rank 300 place flagging the KOM is weird. Where those top 10 are likely all aware of what is going on with that KOM.
Also if you think 1-10 were done the same way, leave them. It is an e-bike KOM segment. The cool thing would be to name the segment "e-Bike" something.
There is an insignificant piece of road (not trying to offend those that built it) near where the team got together. One teammate got the KOM in the sport where they are supposed to be just tooling along, warming-up with the team. Another teammate, took it, on another day. Then...another holding on to the support car. And another holding onto the support car. I'm not a fan of the safety of that at all, and it is not legal in CA, but it is pretty obvious what is going on on that segment, and I think the only ones that care, are on it. Strava should take that segment down, but the riders on it shouldn't - other than the fastest non motor holding rider, who was already "in trouble" for attacking in the warm-up.