[Closed] Strava ebike

There is an ebike category. Report it if it bothers you

Just flag his ride. There is an explanation box where you can point out the discrepancy between up and downhill times - easy!
Although to be fair if he has taken out 30 KOM"s on an e-bike his ride has probably been flagged by now 😀

I'd imagine the guys who previously held the KOM will report it. I have nothing against ebikes and it could just be he doesn't realise he needs to put it under ebikes. Averaging 20mph up a 14% climb would be nice though 😈

but feel bad for the guys who obviously bust a gut on a hill only to be beaten by a huge margin by an ebike

Except they haven't bee beaten really, cos the other blokes on a motor bike. So don't worry.

But I could move up one place from 3541 to 3540, bragging rights.

Round our way some of the guys take Strava quite seriously and there's quite a bit of friendly local rivalry for the KOMs. It takes a lot of effort for them to "police" it to keep the ebike ****ers from wrecking the leaderboards. Some folk don't realise I think and just use Strava to log rides. There are other folk who actively enjoy messing it up. The sort of ****ers that post pictures of them on their ebike, log the ride with ebike in the title but still dispute their rides being flagged.

just buy a road bike....oh wait

buy an e road bike

Isn’t having KOMs on strava, a bit like being rich at Monopoly, pointless!!!

I'd imagine the guys who previously held the KOM will report it.

Before Strava had an e-bike category, I used to get fairly regular "uh-oh..." emails saying that a particular rider had taken a couple of my KOMs.

He's a member of a local cycle club, had a heart problem (and later operation) and used to upload the rides then make them private a few minutes later.

I never bothered reporting him as I knew who he was and knew he'd disappear off the leaderboard a few minutes but quite a few people reported him.

I've got an bike,and have been dabbling with strava to track my route more than anything else

I've set all mine to not appear on leaderboards

to be honest, I trawled through and couldn't see an obvious "E bike" setting

I think it should be easy to find, I still can't seem to log my rides as on an E bike, so that why I've altered settings

anyone tell me how to do it ?

Isn’t having KOMs on strava, a bit like being rich at Monopoly, pointless!!!

Sacrilege, burn the heretic!

They're only pointless when you have none. When you do they're cherished as children and wept over when taken from you by dirty thieves in the night 😉

Or not.

You could flag it and it may get deleted by Strava, but the guy could just re-upload the ride so you'd have to flag it again.....and repeat. Unfortunately it boils down to who gets bored first.
Good luck getting Strava Support to do anything.

If you go into edit the ride, if you click the drop-down menu beside ride then scroll down to the bottom you'll see the ebike option.

I've got an bike,and have been dabbling with strava to track my route more than anything else

I've set all mine to not appear on leaderboards

to be honest, I trawled through and couldn't see an obvious "E bike" setting

I think it should be easy to find, I still can't seem to log my rides as on an E bike, so that why I've altered settings

anyone tell me how to do it ?

On iPhone before you upload you can change the "Sport" by tapping it and choosing "E-Bike Ride".
On the PC dashboard can edit it and select "E-Bike Ride" from the drop down menu on the "Sport" tab.

I haven't worked out how to set it as eBike as default.

I generally find people who say KOM's are pointless don't actually have any 😀

thanks for that

yeah, i do it on iPhone, its well hidden isn't it ?

if they want people not to miss use it they should make it a lot more obvious, jesus I had to scroll down past canoeing to find it !

Dammit now I've got to get me a canoe KoM

Someone will just take it away from you with their eCanoe

If you enjoy riding a roadbike up a hill & are not a professional athlete you need to take a look at yourself.
I expect he was just out for a ride and uses strava to track his miles rather than trying to be top of some irrelevant internet league table.

You’ve not got any KOMs then oldtalent?

I got a walking KOM yesterday.

There is a certain masochistic pleasure to riding a road bike up a hill with your legs burning. Looks like the KOM in question has been reported and removed anyway.

Someone called "E bikes rule" took a load of mine around Cannock the other day. Before it got flagged (which took about 30 seconds because of the amount of people's crowns he took) I managed to have a look at the ride stats, and the bloke must have been on something pretty close to a motocross bike, at one point he hit 60mph, and was buzzing through villages at 40. Can the police use strava as evidence?

oldtalent - Member
If you enjoy riding a roadbike up a hill & are not a professional athlete you need to take a look at yourself.
I expect he was just out for a ride and uses strava to track his miles rather than trying to be top of some irrelevant internet league table.

Very much this

I got a walking KOM yesterday.

If you enjoy riding a roadbike up a hill & are not a professional athlete you need to take a look at yourself.
I expect he was just out for a ride and uses strava to track his miles rather than trying to be top of some irrelevant internet league table.

Very much this

**Different people in getting different things out of sport shock. Full story at 11**

If it gets flagged and he disputes it or re-uploads it then he's clearly a bit of a cockwomble. Some people will sneer at others enjoying the competitive element of Strava, but it's basically the only USP of Strava versus any other activity tracker, so despite the "pfft, I don't care" attitudes, there are millions of people all over the world who do enjoy that. I imagine the people saying 'WGAS' are the same ones who cry about other cyclists not waving at them.

If you use a Garmin there's no way to upload rides as private AFAIK, it requires manual intervention after the fact (like Crazy_Legs's chap), so possibly that, possibly he genuinely isn't bothered, in which case making the ride private (or removing all his times from leaderboards) won't matter to him.

If you use a Garmin there's no way to upload rides as private AFAIK,

You'd be wrong. It's the easiest thing in the world to do.

Fair enough. Happy with my rides being public, so never bothered checking, I know you have to go in to change which bike you were riding etc. I guess there's a setting to upload as private by default?

Considering that's possibly not what Mr E-Bike wants to do it's a bit moot.

If you use a Garmin there's no way to upload rides as private AFAIK,

I have to choose to un-private mine when they upload to strava

Someone called "E bikes rule" took a load of mine around Cannock the other day. Before it got flagged (which took about 30 seconds because of the amount of people's crowns he took) I managed to have a look at the ride stats, and the bloke must have been on something pretty close to a motocross bike, at one point he hit 60mph, and was buzzing through villages at 40. Can the police use strava as evidence?

I have to choose to un-private mine when they upload to strava

I assumed that was the case, you can’t choose individually on a ride before upload was what I meant - if you only wanted to make one in ten rides private you’d be better going in after upload and changing it. During that time it would obviously be online emailing everyone that their KOM had gone.

^^^^^^^^ And it's ...it's a SINGLE PIVOT.

blooddonor - Member

Isn’t having KOMs on strava, a bit like being rich at Monopoly, pointless!!!

Someones bitter that they don't have any KOMs.

Why play monopoly if you're not going to at least try and win, considering its a game and the sole purpose is for someone to win with all the money.

What about rides where someone else is on a e-bike and you draft them?

I got a PR on the fatty the other week drafting my dad on a road I've ridden quite a lot!

Looks like you get whiney ****s even if you tag it as an eBike ride; some ****waffle reported my last foray to the FoD...

What about rides where someone else is on a e-bike and you draft them?

No motorized pacing an Strava 😉

It’s not just people shooting up the leader board on ebikes although that’s annoying enough, I’m forever flagging them, most of them repeatedly. It’s the fact you can go out & buy one of these things fly down a single track at 20mph generally without the trail skills to avoid anyone or anything you come across & they are mostly ridden by people old enough to know better. I ride Swinley regularly & it wouldn’t surprise me if someone’s killed ether by the ebikes hitting a tree or them hitting someone.
Just my thoughts

It's not e- bikes that are the problem, it's Strava!

I ride Swinley regularly & it wouldn’t surprise me if someone’s killed ether by the ebikes hitting a tree or them hitting someone.
Just my thoughts

I ride there regularly and the only near death involving an E bike I’ve witnessed was me chasing an older guy up Jobber hill, not knowing it’s an E-Bike and nearly expiring.

They’re limited to 15mph and I sure there will be a few unlimited ones, if they spanner themselves on a tree then so be it.

[quote=fooman ]Dammit now I've got to get me a canoe KoM

I've got a few XC ski KOMs! It appears if Strava automatically creates segments if there are none. Also some kayak KOMs but then I actually created those segments in order to track my own performance (they're public because I see no reason why not and interested to see if anybody else is using Strava for kayaking).

[quote=doomanic ]Looks like you get whiney * even if you tag it as an eBike ride; some * reported my last foray to the FoD...

Are you sure you've done it correctly? Or maybe you took a while to change the category and it got flagged whilst still a normal bike ride and disrupting the leaderboards. Because people looking at the bike leaderboards shouldn't even see an e-bike ride.

[quote=thisisnotaspoon ]What about rides where someone else is on a e-bike and you draft them?
I got a PR on the fatty the other week drafting my dad on a road I've ridden quite a lot!

A road legal e-bike? That's kind of surprising because there isn't a huge amount of advantage to drafting at 15mph and I'd have thought on any segment where the KOM is that speed or less performance would be dominated by climbing speed.

Though as mentioned, motor pacing isn't allowed.

edit: ah just realised you wrote "PR" rather than "KOM" - that's less surprising.

I ride there regularly and the only near death involving an E bike I’ve witnessed was me chasing

I did the same yesterday. Took me a mile or so to catch them (bit of uphill fire road, bits of flat muddy singletrack and then a tarmac section where I caught them. Little bit frustrating when you catch them all puffing and blowing and they are putting in very little effort!

Why play monopoly if you're not going to at least try and win, considering its a game and the sole purpose is for someone to win with all the money

Cause it's supposed to be fun? It's a game, you [i]play [/i]it. Not really comparable with Strava which is a serious cycling tool, used by serious cycling tools 😆

Cause it's supposed to be fun? It's a game, you play it.

Fun? Not in my recollection when your son bankrupts you for the fifth time in a row. 🙂

It must only really be an issue on Strava if people are using illegal/derestricted ebikes?

UK legal ones are limited to 250 watts and assist up to a maximum speed of 15.5mph, I can't think of any road KOM's around my way that you'd get with those stats.

Remember they're pedal assists (i.e your output + the bike( - so on an uphill below 15mph I could easily put 600w out in theory. That would get a few KOMs round here!

Good point! I think it still limits it to only a certain type of road segment, where I am most of the road KOM's are well above 15.5mph.

Off road I could see it being more of an issue.

Are you sure you've done it correctly? Or maybe you took a while to change the category and it got flagged whilst still a normal bike ride