[Closed] Strava KOMs

[url= http://app.strava.com/athletes/111848/segments/leader?page=1 ]74 at the last count[/url]

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Don't use strava personally,

But a good friend had a KOM whilst out on a ride. The next day the previous "King" drove to the climb rode up and down it, claimed his KOM back and drove to the next next climb.

22 at the moment, mainly road.

Used to have both ways on Blackfriars Bridge

Still first southbound out of 2053 riders http://app.strava.com/segments/788605 if not for the guy who has the rogue reading of 128mph grr

MM

hob knob, who are you on strava being a surrey boy as well...

Currently sat 12 places higher than you on Evian. 😛

Assuming your name is the same as your profile on here...

I've got a few. However, my strava leaderboards are mere targets for my wife to go out and better. Obviously I rule the downhill segments household battle cos i'm a bloke 😉 , but uphill...i'm getting had.

one KOM, low numbers of riders - few top 10s too, up and down

I nearly had an anti-KoM too. Only came 2nd last on the Laggan bermy run, despite having a ****ed rear wheel and having to nurse the bike down 🙂

But I deleted all my tracks, so someone else got promoted (or demoted if you prefer) back to 2nd slowest.

I do hope the slowest also had a spacked bike 😉

I was getting more and more bemused at my placings on some segments (including a couple of KOMs) until I changed from a Garmin Dakota 20 (to an Edge 800 since you asked) and realised I must've been getting some unfair assistance from the Dakota somehow.

I was only recently toppled off one segment's summit by a pro rider. I'm good, but not that good 😉

(If I knew how to delete the KOMs without deleting the ride I'd do it...)

Hob knob

gauntlet thrown down old fella 😆

your surname something something to do with bows and arrows?

Lost a few westerly-facing ones recently but still have 87 to play with 🙂
Use Strava as a training-logging tool and the KOMs come as part of that, not interested in chasing them nor do I shed a tear when I lose one.

A mate of mine has 300-odd.

If I knew how to delete the KOMs without deleting the ride I'd do it

Don't remember. I deleted everything I could ages ago.

Haha, yeah you got me!

27, road and MTB, up and down hill! Lost 5 in the last few weeks too 😕

Got a couple in the Surrey Hills with 500+ riders.

nice.

pretty stacked in the top 20 of evian, and only seconds in it... 😯

12 here.. all road

best one showing 291 riders

Well my two will stand for a while and I guess I'll never do some of those London ones as for Evian well...........

I just noticed too I have a couple at Swinley, 1st out of 879 on Seagull & out of 533 on some climb. Well I never, apparently I can go up hills!

Got a couple in the Surrey Hills with 500+ riders"

I was quite close to one on Leith Hill but although I think I could possibly claim an extra couple of seconds to match the best, it'd be plain dangerous and a bad off if it went wrong. I say dangerous as there's normally a lot of people about so can't really mess about there.

One thing that puzzles me on some segments is why I'm over 30 seconds down on the leaders (over a period of a minute), yet on others of a similar nature I'm not that far off the top.

Likewise a mate of mine has claimed the KOM on a section by over a minute on more than one occasion. He's not slow but his GPS gives strange results in certain places.

As long as I'm enjoying myself though none of it really matters.

pretty stacked in the top 20 of evian, and only seconds in it..

Yeah it's interesting how many often have a KOM with some daylight (and an erroneous GPX file?) on 2nd, then there's 30 riders within 3 seconds!

2 Local ones. 1 road, 1 MTB.
Don't know if this counts but I have got the highest score on candy crush for 31 out of the first 35 levels among my friends.....

6, 4 of which have only been don by me and 1 is a GPS f up.
The 2 I have properly I have by 20s on a 2min section so happy with that.

The missus has more QOM's than me though.

Need to get out and ride

[url= http://app.strava.com/segments/1827781 ]There's some seriously fast people in bristol[/url] 😀

2 here! Both in the last 7 days too!

pretty stacked in the top 20 of evian, and only seconds in it..
Yeah it's interesting how many often have a KOM with some daylight (and an erroneous GPX file?) on 2nd, then there's 30 riders within 3 seconds!

Just looking at it, it's the same on Eric. I'm third on that, but the guy in the lead has put 4 seconds into me! That's a huge amount on a short track, unless of course he is on a DH bike there...

One thing that puzzles me on some segments is why I'm over 30 seconds down on the leaders (over a period of a minute), yet on others of a similar nature I'm not that far off the top.

GPS isn't particularly accurate or reliable so on short segments you're going to get lots of dodgy results.

There was a blog post looking at it recently, after the Daily Mail used some Strava leaderboards to 'prove' cyclists were doing 40MPH+ in 30 limits in London. The KOM they used to prove this only actually had one or two waypoints within the 600m segment and was way faster than the second placed rider.

44 on the road

my garmin edge GPS told me that while cycling along the deeside way (a converted railway line) i swam across the river dee twice on my way to work yesterday - i dont remember doing so , but when i got to work i did have my swimming stuff in my saddle bag so now im not so sure i didnt ....

crock of crap.

Iphone was much more accurate just [data from the goonies]"the batterys aint so hot"[/data from the goonies]

thats special, I thought it was tough enough competing with Elite XC riders, WC XC riders and Pro Tour riders out here

Yes - but I did nothing to deserve it. 😀

A KOM was awarded to me recently. For some reason a particular part of a route that I ride regularly, erroneously picked up a segment that runs nearby - and I shaved 5 seconds off the best time! It's a bit of a sketchy mini down hill run with some large bomb holes and tight switch backs. I put a note in the comments field that I don't own the KOM - if only to prevent some teenager (a young group of lads shaped the trail and named the sections) breaking his neck trying to beat it!

Yep got a few mix of off-road and on
But a lot are from two years ago when I was a lot faster

Here's the blog post I mentioned: http://veloviewer.com/blog/41mph-the-evidence-against-the-sunday-times-article/

Gives a good overview of why Strava's inaccuracy can come from.

I was checking out the Maindy Cycle Track in Cardiff and noticed someone had set Strava times. Average speed was something around 60-70kph so I wasn't sure if this was some seriously quick roadies or someone cheating on a motorbike!

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clocked a time of 33.3mph

I have a 3rd and will say in all honesty that I could get the KOM by riding through the blind roundabout more dangerously. But I will not take the high moral tone because my 3rd already includes riding at miles over the speed limit anyway 😉

If you have a bi directional route. Is Strava clever enough to work out what's going on?

I'm second on one section and the KOM is half my time! No feasible way except either loonie fit or rode it the other way round

On a moped

With a tail wind

And no horse riders to worry about

Or chickens (don't ask)

AndyRT - click on the date on his and it should show you his route and performance figures

And it does know which direction you're going, otherwise there'd be no climbing KOMs!

My claim to fame is I took one off Matt Page a few months back 🙂

http://app.strava.com/segments/1891901

In fairness when he did it he was 40 or 50 miles into the Brecon Beast and when I took it off him I ridden about 3 miles from my house 😉

Lost a fair few KOM's to 'cheats or mistakes' most get returned in a few weeks when someone reports them.

One chap round my way seems to do no training whatsoever but occassionally head out to smash all the KOM's in southampton, but appears not to ride outside the city itself, which seems very odd but apparently he is legit and not on a moped....(he is normally significantly faster than anyone else which is usually a sign of a cheater!)

Some KOM's I see are just not humanly possible!

Agreed! I got notified yesterday that I'd lost two of mine to one bloke on a ride. Seemed to be a point to point ride of about 10 (road) miles, didn't look to be the usual "left GPS on with bike in the car", and yet he managed two reasonable climbs at 28mph, and hit 45mph on a shallow descent, it was like the whole ride speed was double the likely speed, bit weird.

They're still on my list though, so he or someone else must've flagged it.

I've got a KOM on the Tourmalet*

Just totted my KOMs up, there are 76 from what I can gather. Though where I live is a bit of a Strava desert, it's starting to gain popularity with some local pros. The Vuelta al País Vasco passed through last week and gobbled up a few of my KOMs.

*Going down it 😳

I've got quite a few (nearly a couple of pages), but 6 of them are the same hill that people have split up in different ways. Not a huge fan of the KOM idea to be honest...

The GPS errors are so big I wouldn't get hung up on whether you have a KOM or not, if you are near the top and haven't cheated, you are probably doing quite well.

Short does exist. Some people do just target them.

Got one the other day, well a joint one, so did a comparison with my fellow KOM and strange to note that I was 14seconds behind after only 19seconds (I assume the gate was open).

Still trying to beat my Mate's KOM in Lordswood. 2 seconds in it but it seems the carbon tallboy is pretty good on this run compared to my alloy Scalpel. I think you're joint second with me (DT78).

http://app.strava.com/segments/1409013