I held the innerleithen pushup path KOM for an incredibly long time- one day I just absolutely smashed up it on my xc bike without really thinking 🙂 The person who took it off me was properly strava-bagging too.
I had Jacob's Ladder climb for a long time as well. Famous segment in the Peak District with many many threads about which way is best to ride it and a number of famous attempts to clear the climb in one go (Nick Craig has done it a couple of times).
It's a brutal climb, you won't clear it unless it's absolutely free of walkers and you're very very fit and technically good (or on an ebike...)
Anyway, I went out there on the CX one day, shouldered the bike and properly went for it, running all the way up the hill. Got it by a few seconds.
Glasgow - up in park circus
‘Park circus velodrome’ 😂 I set the record in 2014 I think. Still stands today.
Not sure if I could even equal it now tbh
a number of famous attempts to clear the climb in one go (Nick Craig has done it a couple of times).
Yeah, remember reading about Nick doing it in MBUK (or whichever mag) at the time. The concept of someone actually being able to ride all the way up it is just beyond comprehension for me
Longest standing: The Allalinhorn from the valley. Just happened to be 4000m bagging and couldn't be bothered with the faff. Had that since like 2015.
Most proud: scalping WVA on the puig major in Mallorca.
It's been all downhill since there (and not fast enough for any KOMs).
Longest standing is one from July 2013, bit only ever 4 attempts!
Quite a few from 2015. Just noticed I am KOM and QOM is Nicola Rees off BBC yorkshire look north. So that's got to be worth something.
I've got a few locally where I'm 2/3/4 seconds infront of 1k plus riders.
The best ones though are where I am a second or 2 ahead of pidders, who is in at #2 behind me 🙂
He's completely smashed the arse out of other segments I'm on though, so I'm being a bit selective with my victories here
A 30sec windy path on a strip of field in Slack near Heptonstall.
Given that Hebden is a huge honeypot area for mountain biking, I was actually pretty chuffed to even close let alone a KOM. some one came along and took 3 secs off it after a few weeks
I've held this one for 10 years although someone equalled it a couple of years ago. Fastest out of nearly 13000 people 🙂
https://www.strava.com/segments/980280
Have had this one for 10 years too...
https://www.strava.com/segments/3824732
From 1st May 2015 commuting home off road "wind assisted kom attempt on valley alley", 0.45 miles, 34' descent + 25' ascent, 1:18 in the deepest darkest depths of Thanet.
I've got a few running ones from 2004, but there're in the middle of nowhere and only been run about 20 times. (But I wasn't a bad runner back then, when I was young.)
2009 - BS, before Strava, but I dumped my Garmin onto Strava when I joined. Slightly GPS glitchey I would say, but then so are all the other 'fast' times - it's got a level crossing on it at the start which isn't automated, so you have to open the gate. Suspect a lot of older KoMs are glitchey.
My oldest legit is 2016 - 1/17000! Massive tailwind obvs. It's a bikepath next to a railway, so inevitably it's 'beaten' every now and again by someone on the train.
Had one for 18 minutes does that count
I still have one from 2014, a descent. I got a few times around then within a second of it, haven't got anywhere near it since.
ETA it has eroded a bit now, not as easy. Also, not really a sensible descent to go flat out on in all the circs. It isn't steep or technical, but there might be traffic coming the other way.
The oldest is from May 2011, and only 3 people have ever ridden it, which considering where it is, is a surprise. The one I suspect will last longest follows the trackbed of a railway line, it was being relaid at the time and being used as a diversion.
I've got three KOMs but the segments were all created by me and are very obscure sections very few people actually ride but were regular rides for me.
In fact, for two of them, I'm the only person to record anytime. The third is more popular and 118 riders have ridden it so I'm pleased I'm still KOM 😃
My best "Strava moment" though was back in 2012 when I beat Catherine Pendrel (Canadian xc Olympian and all round fast girl) on Cheshire Cat in Squamish. (I think I was third fastest time back then)
Then I looked at her route when she set her fastest time and, whereas I'd shuttled the ride and was fresh, she was half way around a 75km haul around most of Squamish many trails systems...
I've since dropped back to 272 whereas Catherine is now QOM and two minutes faster than me...
I had one on energy section of whites level in Afan from 2010. Something like 15000 attempts, until late last year I think and someone grabbed it from me
QOM - 2013, a 2.75kilometre flat stretch of road in Salford. My ride, it seems, was simply labelled "commute". Only 87 other women have recorded it on strava.
Got a few across Port du Soleil: Chavannes (of 6500), Golf, Jurassic, Green in Les Gets, Super Morzine backdoor, Mossettes to Morgins all in 2013.
Then about 5 around Meribel/Courchevel 2015/16.
I'm probably a bit (lot) slower these day.
April 2015. Currently joint 1st of 24,629 !
(Ticks all the spurious boxes: only 33 sec on a road descent, slightly dodgy surface and then gravel & often water/mud on the blind corner at the bottom. I've done it loads, never really trying for the KOM as it's a bit too scary but one day I obviously went into it with a following wind which sped up the top half)
I assume it's been flagged as hazardous since it doesn't show on my KoM list
Excepting the spurious ones, mine's only from 2019 - a gnarly 1km downhill but there's only 72 people in total that have done it.
The QOM is a few seconds ahead of me - a local lass that just placed mid-range in the U23 Albstadt.
Pretty sure I could beat her if I had a full suspension bike 😛
We always seem to be within a few seconds of each other on downhill segments... but i once copied an 80km training ride and finished it an hour slower than her!
A couple of years ago a local reservoir was drained to raise the dam wall. I did a ride with the kids and another family and we rode across some of the reservoir floor. For a laugh i put a segment in there so an 8 year old girl has the CR!
Had one for 18 minutes does that count
Absolutely. Put it on your CV!
Don't have any, last one was lost to some old lady who was clearly on an ebike.
My oldest is the original Old Pale track in Delamere Forest, top half. Managed to nab it in 2017. The FC have since destroyed the top section so it’ll stand forever.
Picked one up on the local flow trail in Austria last year, got a feeling Danny Hart wasn’t quite going flat out!
Slowing down now in my old age so don’t think I’ll ever get near another.
Got one from 2015, out of 115 people. The other ones are my old commute.
QOM's of course and it's Jun 2015 surprisingly and it's swoop and slide in the Wyre Forest. Happily I've had and held the 3 bears trail in the Wyre Forest since July 2015 as well. I've actually got 20 pages worth of them as well apparently.
I have one left, held since 2015, a 3/4 mile descent which starts as a landrover track then turns into a sunken lane with lots of rubble.
Gap to next fastest is over 1/2 minute but it's only been ridden 10 times as it's in a remote part of the Auvergne and there's a parallel track which joins onto it at the best bit which is what most people ride - I'm not anywhere near the top 10 on that one ! 🙁
I used to have over half a dozen on the descents round there but lost all of them over lockdown, hopefully will get a chance to regain a few of them in June 🙂
May '17 just after I bought my first road bike following my Xmas '13 RTA, I only discovered Strava in Sept '16, after finding the Nexus 7 '13 tablet I'd had a few years could install and run various tracking apps... Bit weighty/bulky in the back jersey pocket!
Segmentninja.com was a brilliant concept back in the day for highlighting segments where the wind was very favourable to attempt a KOM, back in March I climbed Road To Hell and got a monster tailwind on the final flat section before the climb summit, topped the table doing 32.7mph for 70secs doing just 257W... The 610mm stack aero brick position probably helped! 😆
the only way I get KOMs is to create stupidly long segments that no one else is daft enough to do....or if they are they dont know its a segment and take it easy. Last one was up Pyms Chair all 3 ways...a 30mile loop taking in around 1700 climbing.
slightly annoyed when someone else accidentally took it 🙂
I have 3 KOMS : 2 from 2011 and the other 2012
1 - 8000 attempts by 2000 people
2- 17000 attempts by 4800 people
3 - 36400 attempts by 391 people
Pretty chuffed with that
I have some KOMs in a random rural french forest from 2013...not sure Strava is as big over there as it is here...
I'm down to ten or so shite ones by which I mean no more than 50 or so people have tried. The good ones don't last long. My best and only road one, at that time something over 1000 people, lasted an evening, i.e, till another member of the group that towed me got home from the pub and uploaded. I think I've dropped off the leader board now.
random rural french forest from 2013
I've a couple, perhaps only one now, from years ago on Pic du Nord in the montagnes Noire. I think I had a wee halfway through, stopping to do so I hasten to add, so it shouldn't be too hard if anyone wants to go nab it?
I've got one in my local woods from July 2013. That's beatable but other one's I have there will probably stand forever. They've put gravel paths in and turned part into a children's statue walk thing. You can still ride the path but not pick a line through the trees on rock hard baked adobe.
4 (Allegedly) 2020/16x2/14 Though TBH I think sketchy GPS is to blame, especially as ones a segment at Degla!
Weirdly I looked at this the other day. I’ve got [url= https://www.strava.com/segments/21491207 ]this[/url] one which I think actually predates Strava, but when I signed up it just uploaded all my old GPX files off my Garmin. So July 2010. It’s also my ‘best’ according to Veloviewer!
None, as most of my riding is Tweed Valley/Dunkeld and usually a KOM (or even a top 10) in most of these places usually means your a pro rider due to the popularity of these trails and the number of races that go on in these places.
I do have a few top 50s in Dunkeld and Thornilee though.
