Do you mean delete account or just stop uploading?

I just want my details private - but its a pain to do each ride one-by-one - I want to keep it as my training diary.
The privacy isn't much good - because apps like veloviewer can still snoop.

probably sign up for a non social training app? Download all your rides then delete them. The T&C's will tell you what happens to your data once your gone.

Just use MyTracks instead. You can export the data to a spreadsheet and geek out to your heart's content.

There are other training diaries available - Garmin Fit, Endomondo etc. You don't have to share if you don't want to.

How come you're so bothered by people seeing it? I guess you could just set up an account with a fake name if it's just the privacy thing?

Yes. Probably time to switch over to something private.
Too many sports psycho stalkers on strava.

How come you're so bothered by people seeing it? How come you're so bothered by people seeing it?

I don't mind people seeing. Its when I ride a training route and get a good result on some segment - and then within 2-3 days a somebody rides the same segment (faster). This has been going on for a couple of months. And then to top it all I got a strava email to say he is now following me. This is all way too creepy.

Change your settings so they can't follow you without your permission.
That's what I've done so only people I actually know can follow me

with veloviewer they still can.

If VeloViewer is doing that (getting round Strava's privacy) then Strava would probably like to know

We Think Ahead
We showcase a lot of awesome data about where we go, who we work out with and how we push ourselves. If we don't want everyone to know what we're up to, we take the necessary privacy precautions before we upload, like setting privacy zones and choosing who can follow us and what they can see.

All Velo Viewer needs is your Strava id number. If you appear on a section then anyone can see your Strava id number and the rest of your route for that particular ride you were on - that includes anyone who is not on your following list. Any private zones you have set up in Strava are still valid in routes/rides uploaded to Velo Viewer - so in that respect Velo Viewer does not circumvent that particular privacy/security feature of Strava.

About what I thought, I don't appear in segments in my Privacy zones or on Private rides I think.

I just want my details private - but its a pain to do each ride one-by-one

Its when I ride a training route and get a good result on some segment - and then within 2-3 days a somebody rides the same segment (faster).

If you go to training, my new activities you can click and save the existing ones if you want to. Saves opening each one in turn.

I thought the whole point of strava was social networking for amature athletess. maybe the wrong site for you...

<wonders idly if it would freak File Not Found even more if some random Strava user uploaded a route where they started each segment just after him and overtook him on each one>

What is your Strava ID, HTTP, as I don't get what you mean and could do with seeing an example?

djglover - I think some patterns of social networking can be disturbing.

aracer - I am making my activity all private.

mikewsmith - Thanks. That tip has saved me huge amounts of time!

perhaps it's a shy but attractive lady who is also a good cyclist and wants to catch his attention....

... but the chances are it's an ugly bloke who is also a good cyclist - and I don't want his attention.....

aracer - I am making my activity all private.

Bah - shall have to find some other random punter to do that to...

[i]Its when I ride a training route and get a good result on some segment - and then within 2-3 days a somebody rides the same segment (faster)[/i]

forgive me, I don't do strava, but isn't this the whole point?

This thread inspired me to go hit a load CRs on local segments :-D.

Got 7 mostly from one bloke. Hell think I'm a right stalker now!

http://app.strava.com/activities/46168713

*cough*
bad loser

What is your Strava ID

http://app.strava.com/athletes/706315

Dunno what you mean by retired, but I publicly deleted everything and closed the a/c. And not missing it whatsoever.

Too many bugs and niggly features that I didn't like. Maps were unusable and too small, and if you'd not made the profile private and a trophy hunter followed you, there was no way to block him. Maybe these features have been fixed now, but the bug reporting system was cack too.

This thread inspired me to go hit a load CRs on local segments :-D.

Got 7 mostly from one bloke. Hell think I'm a right stalker now!

http://app.strava.com/activities/46168713

Thanks for that 😉 😆

So you post your rides (previously not marked as private)...someone else then beats your time (that you were doing a training ride on)...they follow you and you are getting worried as they are beating you and then following you?

Set everything to private and make sure any bike details are removed and your Privacy around your house is set to as big a limit as possible.

Then suck it up and accept you aren't as fast as you think and there are people who will keep beating you...once you accept that, get back to enjoying your ride!

Is there any alternative to Strava that will allow you to define segments and store details of which bike was used in the same way? I'm not really interested in what other people are doing, but I like the way Strava lets me chart my own changes in fitness and the ease with which I can compare times on different bikes over a number of segments.