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Does this seem a little odd to anyone..compared to others attempts

https://www.strava.com/segments/1188934

In reply to cfer:

Looks like they "forgot" to turn off their GPS when in the car or there was a problem with the unit. It's quite a bit faster than the rest of the ride - https://www.strava.com/activities/354570759/ along with his response in one of the comments - "Ye didnt eat or drink anything n 40 miles in ran out of energy couldnt power an LED haha"

In reply to cfer:

Yep, almost certainly his probably his phone playing up rather than doing a Nibali. When I used my phone for tracking runs I once clocked up 19k on a 10k. All of which is why you shouldn't take Strava seriously

In reply to Bob:

Thats good, thought it was a wee bit fast haha

In reply to Chris the Tall:


I reached just over 1000mph once when using my phone. Only for a couple of seconds but still not bad for cycling. My acceleration and deceleration was stunning as well.

In reply to cfer:

I had a KOM for a while before I noticed. I did the steep bit at the top of Box Hill at 30 mph apparently, around 10mph faster than the next strongest. Ctrl Alt Delete

In reply to nniff:

Strava contacted me a year maybe more ago: "could you check out activity xyz please, it's a bit suspicious". I had a look, didn't see anything odd at first then noticed that for the last ten Km or so of my ride I'd done it at a perfect 30kmh all the way. Up hill, down hill, on the flat - 30kmh. There's no way I could have driven that accurately. Just deleted the ride.

In reply to Bob:

You can crop-off the start and end of a Strava ride.

Click on the Spanner symbol.

Can't be un-done.

Useful if you leave your device on and get in a car.

In reply to cfer:

Last week strava had me swimming across Swansea bay, on my road bike with the tide in? a while back I was clocked doing 76 mph.

My Garmin often does these things.

In reply to cfer:

Good rule of thumb is never trust someone with just one KOM. Having said that, I have just one KOM and it's completely kosher, bar the odd tailwind.

In reply to ericoides:
It's not very accurate on a phone, strava didn't like me drafting a truck at 40mph a while ago, I had to crop the ride!

In reply to cfer:

I've just lost a running CR to someone doing 2 min miles. I also got a CR by putting in 6 min/mile pace up one of the steepest hills in town. Apparently. I cropped that one.

In reply to cfer:

If you click the 'spanner' you can flag the ride and it will be immediately removed while Strava check it with the owner.

There are loads and loads of dodgy KOM's from runs being put through as a bike, or the device being left on in the car etc. Easy to see when people are running 2 minute miles or 50+ mph at the end of a ride. As said earlier means its best not to take too seriously though I think there should be an automated system that flags by Strava. Can't be that hard, that and the multiple duplicated segments lets them down.

In reply to cfer:

Im never going to get a KOM round here, unless I make my own and watch it get taken pretty soon after but its a nice way to gauge my efforts Wont take it too seriously

In reply to RedFive:

"multiple duplicated segments lets them down."

Near me a lot of the segments seem to start or stop in side streets, probably outside someone's front door or work place, so most people that are just traveling through don't register on the segments. Although this does mean if you look around and are at all fit you can find an easy KOM to steal.

In reply to cfer:

I agree, I like it to compare past efforts on certain segments to my own previous efforts though that's mostly for running.

I'm just not fast enough on the bike to even worry about them, but I still like the social side of it though and to keep tally of mileage it's better than Garmin Connect, which is where I dump all my initial data for it to sync across.

In reply to cfer:
I apparently did the cingles du ventoux in 5 hours (all three routes up ventoux) - I did not... .most embarrassing before they fixed it.....!

In reply to Chris the Tall:


Ha ha my other half clocked up a 100km run in the first 2km of a run a few weeks ago! He was using his Garmin, it was just having an off day and yes he deleted it. Your right in that you shouldn't take Strava too seriously.

In reply to Uluru:

I relied on a simple time and distance to measure my 6:33 mile this evening.

And that my friend is how you back door brag

In reply to gethin_allen:



I've done a couple of runs at dinner time at work which have taken me from Cumbria to North Africa and back, taking in a few hundred thousand feet of ascent. Happened a couple of times in a month. I have a suspicion my employer may have been having a play with jamming GPS signals, but could just have been my phone playing up.

In reply to Ridge:


Near any of these perhaps ?

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/gps-jamming-exercises/

In reply to ChrisJD:

Also useful if you find yourself in the odd situation where you have commuted home on the road to your local section of canal, but have to cross the road to get on the towpath. Underneath the road is an uphill cobbled segment running lock side. Apparently under pressure I am a demon crosser of roads. I tend to chop the last 8km of my ride off when that happens, out of respect for the actual QOM.

In reply to Dark-Cloud:



Can't see us there, but interesting it does go on.

In reply to Ridge:


I would be rather surprised if a company was allowed to play with jammers. Outside of the military and possibly specialist research it would be rather hard to justify considering what you can bugger up. GPS is used in lots of unexpected places nowadays eg as the source of timestamping in random bits of kit.

That said illegal use isnt unknown. local area jammers arent that expensive and can be brought of the internet. Handy for anyone wanting to knock out car security devices or simply drive their lorry without worrying about the boss being able to observe them.
On the downside devices to identify jammers are becoming available. Not sure if what use is made of them. I think if you regularly jammed signals someone would probably come for a chat.

In reply to KevinD:

We have quite an interest in security where I work, (a fairly visible place on the Cumbrian coast that's not overly popular with Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth)