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grudas said:
yeah, never knew there was one there! was a bit unexpected tbh.. my quads are hurting from leg day already so basically 10 meters up the hill and I was in pain! :rolleyes: it's just the part of london that I live, it's quite hilly compared to the rest of it(yeah yeah von go away)
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Quite handy for some hill repeats if you ever need to!

topgun06 said:
We have Gun Hill
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Ssssh! Don't tell him that, he'll be out there in the sun with his vest on! :p;)

Hilly place near my parents called 'Painscastle' which might be quite apt...!

Found a 'flaw' with the Strava Segment reporting system...

As a requirement, a user will have to match the segment on a prior activity in order for the Hazard Flag option to be visible. This requirement is in place to ensure the flagger has personally experienced or assessed the hazards that may be present.
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So Strava... Explain to me how I'm meant to ride segments that have had a fast A road built through the middle of them and NOBODY HAS EVER RIDDEN! :rolleyes:

There should be something which removes created segments if they're never ridden.
 
Roady said:
There should be something which removes created segments if they're never ridden.
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Segments can only be created from a ride that you've done. You cant just create a segment somewhere without riding it.

The ones that show up with no riders are probably created from a ride that has later been deleted.

You cant let whoever created the segment delete it because you'd get people creating segments to be KOM then deleting them when their time gets beaten. I think they should allow the KOM to delete the segment.
 
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topgun06 said:
I do get what you mean. Strava segments are a bit of a mess. There should be some form of moderation.

I mean this is ridiculous: https://www.strava.com/segments/exp.../53.145323,-2.033151/zoom/15/map_type/terrain

Yes, five.
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That's nothing, look at some of the Richmond park ones stacked up on some of Thomas' rides ;) :p

There's this one near me as well, several overlapping segments for the same stretch of road! :rolleyes:

But segments like this annoy me even more... I guess the only point is to ride it with friends? (18 attempts by 3 people).

Should just create some of my own on bits I ride... Oh! I already have! ;) 1, 2, 3, 4. But at least they're segments other people ride! :D (so no KOM's for me) :rolleyes:
 
Anyone here use plotaroute.com ? I was searching for a way of automatically generating a route of ## miles and this seems to do the trick. Will be handy when the clocks first go forward and I'll have very specific amounts of time to squeeze a ride in before dinner.
 
touch said:
Segments can only be created from a ride that you've done. You cant just create a segment somewhere without riding it.

The ones that show up with no riders are probably created from a ride that has later been deleted.

You cant let whoever created the segment delete it because you'd get people creating segments to be KOM then deleting them when their time gets beaten. I think they should allow the KOM to delete the segment.
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I think you need proper moderation to be honest - though the idea of the current KOM having the option of deleting the segment you could easily circumvent that check by modifying your .gpx file to give you KOM.
 
lordrobs said:
Anyone here use plotaroute.com ? I was searching for a way of automatically generating a route of ## miles and this seems to do the trick. Will be handy when the clocks first go forward and I'll have very specific amounts of time to squeeze a ride in before dinner.
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There's a couple of sites like that, including one German one that I've now lost the link to. Personally I'm not a huge fan of automated route generation as there's often parts of the route that I would naturally avoid - e.g. bridle path made out of rocks and mud and conversely a super busy dual-carriageway (sometimes with an inappropriate cycle path on it that causes it to appear to be "awesome" to some mapping software).

I tend to use a combination of *insert favourite mapping app* and Google Street View to check out my routes. It's long-winded but given that you're only really creating routes now and again I think it's worth it. Strava works quite well with this as you can get it to suggest a route based on popularity of the roads and then check it out with Street View/change it if you don't like it.
 
FrenchTart said:
There's a couple of sites like that, including one German one that I've now lost the link to. Personally I'm not a huge fan of automated route generation as there's often parts of the route that I would naturally avoid - e.g. bridle path made out of rocks and mud and conversely a super busy dual-carriageway (sometimes with an inappropriate cycle path on it that causes it to appear to be "awesome" to some mapping software).

I tend to use a combination of *insert favourite mapping app* and Google Street View to check out my routes. It's long-winded but given that you're only really creating routes now and again I think it's worth it. Strava works quite well with this as you can get it to suggest a route based on popularity of the roads and then check it out with Street View/change it if you don't like it.
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Yeah I get what you mean. I've tried quite a few others but found them to have flaws here or there. This one seems quite good with the routing favouring the country lanes and gives 10 alternatives so when you see a route that has a stretch of yellow A road you can just click to the next one. I've got a fair few routes that I created on Garmin Connect but they are all a bit of a stretch at my current fitness. What I really need is to mix up my 40 > 60 minute routes as I always end up doing the same stretches which gets a bit dull.
 
lordrobs said:
Anyone here use plotaroute.com ? I was searching for a way of automatically generating a route of ## miles and this seems to do the trick. Will be handy when the clocks first go forward and I'll have very specific amounts of time to squeeze a ride in before dinner.
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I've just had it create a few routes around me. They all seem pretty reasonable. Avoiding main roads etc
 
topgun06 said:
I've just had it create a few routes around me. They all seem pretty reasonable. Avoiding main roads etc
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It is quite strange, the automated circular routes where you define a distance seem, on the whole, pretty good but the point to pint which I tried later seems determined to put you on main roads :confused: Still, for what I need it will be a useful tool.
 
Yes, I was using circular routes too. Its a shame that it seems to only ever produce one 15mi route form the same point. i.e. If you search again it will produce the same route.
 
For ****** sake. New tyre that I put on my rear on Friday to replace the last new one that got destroyed in a crash just got written off by some glass. Less than 4 days out of it. Ordered yet another new one. Super unimpressed.
 
think Imma go for halo aerorage wheelset, rather than PX track set! 60 quid more but worth it!

any other single speed wheelsets worth looking at? £160 is max I'm willing to spend.
 
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