A couple of my riding mates and I were chatting about how we have distanced ourselves from Strava over the last year or so, has anyone else? Don’t get me wrong, I think Strava did a hell of a lot to motivate,create social scenes and generally motivate us in the past few years and I’m not slating th…

A few years ago when I was poaching KOMs on my untrained single speed it was fun…just to see what I could do…how I stacked up… Now that I’m doing TR and racing again, Strava just seems kinda pointless (not to mention all the jokers pulling lame cheats to bag KOMs…really?).

That’s an interesting question. Strava went from being my number one favorite app, to one that I tolerate out of necessity. All of my friends and all of my rides are stored there. If a quality alternative comes around I will definitely switch. I agree that an app needs to evolve or die. Strava…

[image] RLucky82: FlyBys is a pretty neat featur Love that feature for post race analysis.

My biggest problem with Strava right now is they seem to have stopped development completely. Have they added any features of functionality over the last couple years at all? And there are some desperately needed upgrades IMO, such as the ability to fix power spikes. My PD curve looked stupid after …

Strava is fine for logging miles, race recon with flybys, and the social aspect. I and I feel most people use TrainingPeaks to for your data

A lot of people worry about privacy this or that and I guess that stuff just doesn’t bother me.

I have moved a number of times so I like to see what my old riding buds are doing. I also like to use it for scoping out places to ride when I move or am travelling. It does turn in to a sea of TR and Zwift rides through the winter in Canada but I don’t look at it too often when those apps auto-up…

Since I ride a number of MTB loops repeatedly I like using Strava to see how my fitness and skills are doing.

Main benefits for me: Route planning: their interface works well in conjunction with the segments/heatmap & plays well with my Elemnt Bolt. Segments: informs planning but I can also track my progression (not particularly fussed with KOMs). I’m not majorly into the social aspect, have a few …

Anyone else switching off from Strava..?

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a59a2e9a2645dbb December 29, 2018, 10:07pm 18

Flybys is neat, but is also a privacy nightmare if left open to the public.

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Anyone else switching off from Strava..?

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