Originally Posted by
OBoile
Despite hearing similar types of things across a variety of sports, I'm still amazed that people like this can exist. How pathetic do you have to be to cheat in order to "accomplish" something that no one except you will ever care about? And you know you cheated to do it so it's tainted for you. I just don't get it.
Lots of people record their rides with Strava and don't care about their segment times. If they ride an ebike they'll naturally move up on the leaderboard. Assuming that they bought an ebike because of Strava or that they're deliberately trying to get a KOM is a bit of a stretch. I use an ebike occasionally and don't always remember to log it correctly so I might temporarily take a KOM on my commute route. I'm not sure anyone's riding e-bikes on meaningful (90+% aren't) segments.