https://cycle.travel does and just checked, it has Canada in its routing.
Yep I’m the same, private by default on Strava. I make public the ones I want to share. My followers can see about 15% of the riding I do. Not every activity recorded needs to be shared.
I think this is the second time someone has mentioned Jonathan O’Keefe. Who is he? Why would Strava care about a specific person’s heatmap?
He had a web site which had alot of the things that are now subscriber benefits in Strava for free. Things like a heatmap.
One bit of his site is still there but it doesn’t seem to be working on my phone.
Strava management is such a joke. They have still not figured out how to make their product viable and are getting rightfully hammered by the guy they should have on speed dial. I subscribed for fun when doing some challenges with friends, but this surprise price increase made me re-evaluate, and I’ll go be going to back to the free version and not renewing. I’ll probably kick those bucks over to intervals.icu, that guy is doing God’s work.
I don’t understand why people pay for Strava. It does nothing. I’m on it as a social connection but if it shut down tomorrow I would barely notice.
I’m with you on the social side, but it is often essential for automatic syncing of activities between services. Not sure if it has changed, but Strava used to be required to automatically sync from Wahoo head units to TR. If Strava moved all activity syncing behind the paywall I think a lot of people would be surprised they depend on it.
Your subscription should continue intact until it expires, and cancellation should only deactivate the automatic payment and renewal. With every sub I’ve cancelled on Google Play, that’s the default behavior. I’m pretty sure Strava will do the same.
Indeed, I’ve been pruning app connections across all my stuff and there were quite a few in Strava. Realistically there’s only one that I actually depend on Strava for though which is ingesting from Strava to it (JOIN). If that went behind a paywall, that’d be… annoying.
Regardless, I’ve cancelled. Was already evaluating and this just caused me to make up my mind now.
Looks like they want me to pay $80 a year now. Basically the only thing they have I can’t get a better version of elsewhere is a populated historical record of segments and leaderboards. That’s wasn’t worth $60 a year to access but I did it anyway because I’m a sucker. If they want me back I think my cap is $40 now. For the segments/leaderboards. They can keep their training features lol.
In general, I almost never call/text someone (outside of a scheduled call). I’m gonna put it in an e-mail and wait for it to come back to me. Not because I want it “in paper” (as it’s exceptionally rare that I use quotes), but really just because I feel awkward calling/texting people - just don’t want to impose.
I’d say there’s something once or twice a year where I’ll need to initiate an “I really need an answer right now” text with someone in the industry. Of course, some companies text on a more frequent basis as their preferred way to communicate quick things/check-ups to me. And I’m good with that, if that’s what they want.
In this case, we were actively e-mailing, so…I knew they were there. It’s simply that they were effectively stonewalling. Thus, it became a case of ‘it is what it is’.
Finally, I also try to not go above the PR people’s heads. Sure, I have the phones of anyone I need, but I usually keep it to the PR people unless they prove incompetent. The relationship varies by company. For some companies, I talk straight to engineers. Others, to the executive team who bring in engineers. Others, all interactions via a PR team. The most common though is that I can talk to whomever I want directly, but just to CC the PR handler along the way. In that case, they keep themselves atop things, but out of my way/technical discussions. Works pretty well.
Absolutey full kudos to the way @Nate_Pearson handled the TR price increase with transparency and honesty, and respecting his customers by providing an option for those who are really watching their pennies atm.
Also cancelled my.
I just cancelled my subscription too. The Apple Store showed the $79.99 rate with a July renewal.
My use case for Strava has always been a little different. I enjoy checking out peoples rides but mostly I use it to check trail conditions. I look at segments that should only take a minute or two and if twenty people have ridden that segment in the last few days, it’s likely good. If one person rode it and it took 15 minutes, it’s likely still covered in snow.
I’ll just have to go back to exploring on my own or reaching out to people directly like the old days.
This is the main reason I have a Strava sub. I’ve tried Ride with GPS, Komoot, Garmin Connect and none can touch Strava when it comes to building routes on unmarked trails, off-road, etc. Garmin in theory should be able to match those capabilities, but for whatever reason they clearly aren’t pumping all the data points from their devices to the route creator in Connect.
The Verge seemed to get a little bit more out of them than @dcrainmaker, but this is still utterly baffling:
“There are a lot of learnings here, but we chose to do it this way for very specific reasons,” Strava spokesperson Brian Bell tells The Verge. “We thought it was best for our business.” Bell says the company decided to alert members on a rolling basis because they chose to subscribe at different points throughout the years. Some of the confusion, he says, is because customers are seeing different rates of increase based on when they joined. The most impacted group, Bell says, will be the 30,000 users who started subscriptions before 2016. However, everyone affected will end up paying the same new price based on their region.
The biggest question I had after watching your video (which was superb by the way) was why were you wearing two watches? 
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You uh…know how he makes his living right?
I use Komoot and it works perfectly.