renton

Is there anything that can be done to remove this type of rides (top two)?
https://app.strava.com/segments/646634

Grumpy McTrumpy

flag them.

urbanknight

Did they leave their computer on when driving in their car or something?

orionz06

Ride faster than they do?

I have had a few spurts where it had a weak signal and then caught signal and told me I was doing 30 when I was stopped for a minute.

Creatre

Hard to beat 60mph on a road with only power coming from your legs!

globecanvas

I flagged a few bad rides yesterday, and they fixed them within an hour or so. Go to the ride, do Actions => Flag ride, and write an explanation of what you think is wrong.

I was bummed, this one guy wiped out a half dozen of my KOMs in 2 rides! His rides looked reasonable at first, until I looked at the performance graph, and saw he was doing 18-22 mph for the entire ride, including up and down category 2 climbs. So, it was obviously a data error. Nice VAM of 2200 though

ColinL

Globe, your errors are harder to see and it's good that Strava pulled them anyway.

But I would think there could be no doubt regarding a 60mph average. Might be an accident, might be someone being cute. But definitely not legit cycling.

garciawork

Strava segments = serious bidness. Go Cat 6!

renton

Thanks guys! I'll flag them.
edit: I checked 30 minutes later and it's fixed. I'm impressed!

carpediemracing 

The Strava folks are really enthusiastic about their app, passionate about cycling. Let them know of issues etc and they'll do whatever reasonable thing to fix it.

carpediemracing 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwtH4ovGlwI

Clip on Strava

danvuquoc

I tweeted to em about how exciting the new Facebook Social Graph integration w/ Timeline profiles would be for their product -- and never really got anything more than an automated twitter follow response back. Hopefully they're planning on implementing it -- hell I'd help them implement it if they wanted the help, their Facebook integration and social presence has been pretty poor other than a lazy user OAuth login creation and share button.

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globecanvas

Some bad Strava rides are obviously mistakes -- leaving the GPS on after you put the bike on the car, or whatever. But I've come across some that look like intentionally created, artificial data. The fake ones I've found are sloppy, but the fact that there are fakes at all, makes me think there must be some "real" rides on there that are realistic fakes.

Whatever ... if somebody gets KOM on a category 1 climb at 22mph I'll flag it, but if they get KOM at 14 mph with a fake ride, there's nothing to do but try to climb faster, which is the point of Strava anyway.

... I just noticed that the fake-data rides I flagged, Strava didn't delete, they just changed the ride from "cycling" to "workout", which means those rides don't show up in the cycling leaderboards.

Beaker

I've flagged rides before and always found Strava support to be very responsive. They've even gone into a ride and truncated the file to the point where the cycling stopped and the driving began so as not to remove legitimate ride data.

Good guys.