Me and my mate went out for a bit of a ride the other weekend and I posted this picture on my strava
today I received this message on my account
Let's see what reply I get from this.
Let's see what reply I get from this.
My Strava for iPhone now defaults to ebike for all rides, are you running the latest version?Can't seem to set it as ebike , have to set it each time individually. Help.......
They do need to address that issue - why they don’t let people set their default activity to ebike is rather weird.Think it was just his name that wound me up ....I have set me strava to just followers now.
Can't seem to set it as ebike , have to set it each time individually. Help.......
I'm with you Mad Mark, even though I do change my rides to E Bike, which is a pain on Strava as it won't let you default to e bike.Think it was just his name that wound me up ....I have set me strava to just followers now.
Can't seem to set it as ebike , have to set it each time individually. Help.......
No I reeeeeeeeeealllly can't GaryIf you reeeeeally can't set your account to default to ebike ride set your STRAVA to private like I suggested earlier and you'll have all the time in the world to go back later and make it an ebike ride, swim or gymnastics workout without pissing off genuinely fast folk.
Mine's the same version, but I don't know how or why it defaulted to eBike, unless it just recognised that I changed all my rides to it. I've had a quick look and I can't see a setting to change.My i phone says version 83.0.0 last updated 30th of January
This is the best idea for strava I have seen.what im about to say is not saying who is in the right or wrong out of the two,
The real problem I feel is strava itself, in how it goes about treating ebikes as a totally different sport.
now if strava just added a flag to bike so you can set it as a ebike.
so where you set your default bike you have another option to set it as a ebike.
your bike would read Specialized Levo - Ebike. then treat is as extra condition on the bike so ALL segment results would show up in your gps trace but it would only put you in for a KOM or trophy in the ebike category.
normal riders could set a filter to include/exclude ebikes in their results (some might want to keep them to see if they can beat a ebike) and ebikes could choose whether to include normal bikes or not. but and here is where it works best it would show you your own results from everytime you've ridden that segment no matter which bike you rode it on. it would also mean there is no need to make a separate segment for ebikes as it can use any bike segment.
hope this makes sense.
Actually galls me a little bit. If I got KOM on a downhill on my ebike I'd be keeping it there. Next they'll be asking for it to be deleted if I was on my downhill bike rather than a hardtail, single speed... whatever. Not remotely interested in climbing trophies.
As someone who once held a fair few pages of KOMs I can confirm this not to be the case everywhere.pretty much every top 10 in strava is full of crap or gps glitches.
As someone who once held a fair few pages of KOMs I can confirm this not to be the case everywhere.
the most common glitches in Strava GPS data come from devices with poor gps refresh rate held in pockets or packs and the problem becomes way worse under tree cover. on very steep terrain and in poor (wet) conditions.
it's just a toy but most of the top 10s where I ride (mtb sand road) are held by very fast riders.
funny thing is. you can't tell all that much by Strava stats alone at all.You can always tell a good rider by looking at the stats
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