Just had my last 20 odd rides kudos’d by a guy who is apparently from Belgium and is a pro rider for canyon. Is this a scam? I can’t work out how it would be, but nor can I see how my commute to work is of interest to a european professional, who must be pretty gifted as they do similar mileage to me 😕

Me too, Tom Hdz? Could be worse, a couple of weeks ago I was given kudos for my riding by a Los Angeles porn star!

That would surely be better? After all, they’d have plenty to Base their findings on.

That’s the one Whitestone. Strange

Same here!

Me too.

Ohh, and there’s me thinking I’ve found a special friend 🙁

Now I’m feeling left out – why hasn’t he kudosed my rides?

Not awesome enough obvs.

You have Whitestone, you have, the problem is he has a million dollars in a Nigerian bank which he can’t access due to persecution and so he needs your bank details to transfer the money too.. Etc

And me!

I got a request to follow from him too! I just assumed tales of my awesomeness had made it made it as far as Belgium 🙂

Noooooo! I’ve not had a request to follow. I feel so left out now. Ruined my weekend that has 😡 Receiving kudos just isn’t enough now, I need reciprocal lurve.

No request to follow either, just kudos!

Kudos spam, it was only a matter of time before someone automated it. I’m guessing the more followers they get then the easier it is to get sponsorship etc.

I’m another that gets Kudos from him every ride and from several other folks that I’ve no idea who they are.

Far worse IMO is all those people who give you kudos and you don’t know who they are but you know you ought to.

Sounds like he has found a way to automate giving kudos the same way people do on instagram to build up a fan base and get reciprical follows. He will then unfollow you and hope you don’t notice I expect, is really prevalent on instagram but not seen it done on strava but makes sense it will happen

are you all on the stw forumites gang btw?

He’s just given me kudos on 6 of my recent rides all in one hit.

Yes, I am a member of STW forumites strava group

are you all on the stw forumites gang btw?

I am. I thought the guy might be from one of the Specialized groups I’m on but sounds like he’s giving kudos to all the STW group folks.

If ever a group was moar deserving.

😆

I’m not in the STW group so I think it’s random who gets chosen.

He’s kudosed all my recent rides too

Me too

Yep and I too have Tom Hdz Kudos my rides.

I wonder if upload a ride to the shops and back if that would get a Kudos?

Far worse IMO is all those people who give you kudos and you don’t know who they are but you know you ought to.

I have a real problem remembering forum users real names, which gets awkward on Strava and Facebook. Sometimes if I interact a lot with a person it creates a relationship with them when I may also be interacting on STW without realising it’s the same person….

Same chap has just Kudos me, which is weird as my profile is marked as private I thought? So how as someone random seen my rides?

Same club?

Had a look at his profile, he’s got 3000 odd followers but only following 300, so I guess he’s trying to get more followers, whether for his ego or to steal bikes, who knows!

are you all on the stw forumites gang btw?

I’m not, and I’ve had kudos from Tom Hdz too. I just assumed it was some sort of marketing thing (and my ahwesum KOMz) (none of which were set when he kudosed me.).

So how does one automate kudos giving then? Or are Tom Hdz and his minions just rolling through the whole of Strava manually giving kudos to thousands of people?

Are you people in any clubs? I reckon that’s the key – doesn’t matter if you’re private then, your rides are visible to other club members.

Are you people in any clubs? I reckon that’s the key – doesn’t matter if you’re private then, your rides are visible to other club members.

I am, but the rides with kudos are not marked as private anyway.

I got kudos for the last five or six of my rides from this guy:
https://www.strava.com/athletes/1515403

Check out how many groups he’s in.

Yeah he kudos’d me too.. Irritating

I get it sometimes. Some supposed pro rider from Brazil or somewhere. Kudos on boring crap rides (most of my rides really).

I get similar on Instagram which are from a number of Surrey related accounts and they seem to randomly ‘fave’ and then comment how amazing my pics are on a regular basis, even old ones from years ago. Obviously most my stuff is Surrey related based on where I live. I chuckle at some of the ‘amazing’ comments on a utterly dull picture.

Anyway, mostly automated I bet.

For me the local trails becoming straight lines is much more of a STRAVA problem. 😡

Weirdly, i’m in the STW Forumites group and have not had any… despite the fact i’ve ridden more Strava miles this week than any before

Cristian Randieri Re Di Denari – BioSportLab Siracusa, Sicilia, Italia

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I’ve got some from this new guy too, but not from the original. Cant even see him in the STW group