Those suckers can haul ass downhill.

The other Freds should just be glad I don't do strava or I'd nab all their downhill KOM's...

did I say it was super duper awesome? You're a troll with a join date of 2010 and 9.4k posts. You are trying to tell me that Strava users are more dangerous than racers who are doing 20min FTP tests and 2x20's.

Cool story bro.

I'm gonna set up an 8 mile segment on Strava and use it from my FTP test. I'll be the world's most dangerous man.

Damn, I'm so legit.

since it's flat where I live almost all KOMs are achieved in a group, or at least with a significant tail wind.

I'll flag you for doing it in a car

Strava is social media for cyclist. I wish people would stop pms'ing and just ride their bikes

Stop telling people what to pms about, ovoleg. I can pms about anything I want, when I want.


SF is only a part-time troll.

lets pms in a circle

I'm not even a member of Strava but I still challenge myself to get PRs on the segments and see how I stack up compared to the top area riders. I wouldn't have any KOMs but would be 3rd on a couple of the lesser-ridden ones. I do know that most of the really impressive times on the local segments aren't done solo (evident because the ride dates for several of the leaders are on the same day and one or more of them say who they rode with in the description). Plenty of the top times also have hefty tailwinds (that I know because I've seen changes on some KOMs on days that I know had favorable winds). So it's not real racing and kind of difficult to draw exact comparisons of where you stand in the pecking order. But it's still fun just for the personal challenge. The fact that I'm not a member and could appear on most of the leaderboards if I was makes me wonder how many more people like that are out there who could shake up the standings if they wanted to. It's only area riders (maybe a few from up to 60 miles out of town) I've seen on our segments, so if a top pro came into the picture, it'd be all over for the locals. Just on a whim, I checked to see if Strava had a segment for Mont Ventoux, and lo and behold, Laurens Ten Dam was the KOM with something right around an hour from this year's TdF, putting to shame the mere mortals, some of whom had incredibly good climbs by anything other than pro standards.

I have 2. The only reason I have them is because I gunned for them when there were VERY strong winds in directly that direction. I also took it easy until I got to that part of the ride, knowing that this was the main goal of my ride. I know that is silly, but they, when you are riding by yourself, sometimes it is good to have some childish fun with it.

I do not feel too guilty since I know that everyone else in the top 5 probably also did it under ideal circumstances. Maybe there is one guy who did it without even knowing about that particular sections. That is the real deal. The rest of us are just clowning.

There have been other threads about Strava 'cheating', and yeah, tailwinds are awesome. You are likely correct about the top 5 on any given segment. Headwinds do not bother me on climbs because I am suffering anyway. Relatively, a headwind is a headwind, so they always bother me more on flats because I could be going so much faster. Never had a tailwind push me up a hill. That would be cool though.

I have like 8 KOM's...But I live in an area where there are only 20-100 riders per climb/segment. All I have to do is put out maximum wattage on a segment and I can get top 3 unless its a long climb. When I went back to Cali I got 6th up a climb I used to ride all the time with over 400 riders. I felt pretty damn good. I saw the KOM time and just lol'd because there is no way I could get that.

PR's is what Strava is great for.

let's see those 8 KOMs you speak of.

Just looked at my Strava and it's actually 17 KOM's. Don't really care to post my account.

Here's the general summary. As you can see there aren't that many riders on each segment.

1/5
1/12
1/10
1/4
1/12
1/83
1/90
1/70
1/17
1/7
1/12
1/127
1/44
1/36

I did on some small hills, where it's fast enough to gain something from a friend. But most time, there's too much grade to get any benefit from a friend, and I just drop them anyway.

We have one in our area that has been ridden by 234 riders. It's a fun little ride that requires the alert negotiating of a 4way stop in a 25mph zone. Tricky at the bottom but a real fun ride with the exciting potential of receiving a speeding ticket.