Originally Posted by
furiousferret
Some PM companies (cough Stages) I just don't trust outright. Many have a bad pm every once in awhile. My teammate does close to 400 @ 5.6 w/kg in our Worlds Climb, and I drop him at 300 @ 4.6. Swears up and down his PM is dead accurate.
When I replaced my Stages with a power2max Type S, my FTP abruptly dropped by around 40W. Initially disheartening to be sure. I
think I'm over it now.
Also, no more random spikes to 2,000W. Sad.
Originally Posted by
colombo357
This is only a "problem" for the select few who can conceivably attain a KOM on a popular segment in the first place.
I'm not one of them, and thus I can use Strava without getting worked up about KOM cheating. The only metric I really care about for myself is power, and I can use that as a measuring stick to gauge my progress and compare my efforts to others on the same day/week.
That's the wonder of a KOM. It means nothing, it gets you nothing... but once you have one, you want more, and you don't want to let them go.