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Cyclists that are out to get your Strava KOMs - should I challenge or?
There is way too much emphasis on Strava KOMs, especially seeing there is minimal data integrity control.
There are people in every region that I've tracked that make it their mission to be on top. ...
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How can I gauge what angle I can safely ride at on a downhill curve?
Focusing on the strava bit - its a screwed up strava track. The track shows they flew, and strava's point-grabbing routines have gone wonky. Short answer they did not do it in 11 seconds.
They are ...
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How to turn off Live Segments on Garmin Edge 520 for good
You can disable popular segments in Strava under Dashboard -> My Segments:
Then as long as you don't star any segments none will be synced to your device.
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Edit a recorded strava activity?
Yes this is possible. First up I'll be completely blunt
If you're editing your ride to make it look faster, then you're only cheating yourself.
EDIT - THIS WENT AWAY in 2017ish. However I know ...
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Does Garmin Oregon 700 have Strava integration?
Is it possible to upload tracks to Strava?
Yes, you can upload your tracks to Strava. If your device is connected with Garmin Connect, there is an option to automatically upload your tracks after ...
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How to interpret Strava power curves?
You were probably doing intervals, or at least your effort was at a high effort for several minutes, followed by a recovery for several minutes, and another high effort rather than an extended "steady"...
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Cyclists that are out to get your Strava KOMs - should I challenge or?
Challenge if you feel up to it, or move on. Those are unfortunately your only two options. I personally think moving on is probably best. As pointed out in other answers, Strava has no standardization ...
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Video format for strava
It's not supposed to be really picky, it basically just doesn't work yet. Take a look through the comments section on DC Rainmakers article and you'll find many users having problems. One user even ...
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Estimating FTP from Strava analysis
You own a power meter - just fit it and go for a hard ride.
For others who don't own a power meter (and lets face it, they're not cheap)
Its a poor data point, but a chap at work has a power meter ...
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Do I need sensors to see real time data (speed and cadence) on Strava Live?
Strava (Premium) can determine your speed using GPS data, although GPS can be less accurate than a dedicated sensor because it jumps around a bit.
There's no magic way to determine cadence without a ...
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What is energy output in Strava application?
I think your question is based on two possible confusing relationships. First a "calorie" is different from a "Calorie"; and, second, there is a missing variable that Strava uses but you can't see: ...
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Can you record multiple rides on a Garmin 500 and download more than one on Strava?
Can you record multiple rides on Garmin 500
Yes you can record as many rides as there is room on the internal memory. Once you have completed a ride hit stop, then hold the lap/reset button for 3 ...
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My bike computer doesn't generate meaningful numbers
Without a power meter, power data is generally pretty meaningless (with the exception of perhaps average power over the entire ride). There are a lot of factors which determine how much power you need ...
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Cyclists that are out to get your Strava KOMs - should I challenge or?
Its really petty - but I think I've been The Other Guy to someone else.
There's a short segment near my home, and I had the KOM on it for ages, of 31 seconds. A fellow strava user comes along and ...
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Distance discrepancies between Strava and bike computer
It might have to do with how frequently the computer writes your GPS location to file. To optimize storage some write out a location to file once every few seconds, but carry out its own calculations ...
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Does Strava display live watts while biking?
Not with the free version — it displays a delayed average. If you sign up for the premium program you get real-time, live monitoring.
What you can do to get live Watts is to use another program (for ...
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How can I gauge what angle I can safely ride at on a downhill curve?
Gummier tires (that won't last as long) have superior traction. As far as I am aware, that is the only advantage the KOM may have over you.
On dry pavement, slicks have more grip than tires with ...
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Are there any sub $100 gps devices that can export a gpx file
I'm surprised that nobody suggested to use an inexpensive hiking GPS, such as a Garmin eTrex 10 (US$ 89.99) or eTrex H (many available on popular online auction sites for US$ 50 or less). They have ...
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Bike computer which doesn't need a smartphone to work
Specific product recomendations are off topic but some general info:
Garmin and Wahoo bike computers at least do not need a phone with the respective apps present when tracking rides. Some features ...
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Bike computer which doesn't need a smartphone to work
The new Lezyne Macro Easy GPS is specifically described as a one-time, on the device setup that does not require a smartphone for setup or for use at all. It generates .fit files which can be ...
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Combining ride data from Wahoo & Fitbit, on Strava
Gotoes says it can do this.
Quoting from their help:
This tool will allow you to take GPX, TCX, or FIT files and combine them into one single file for upload to Strava. There are two ways that people ...
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Video format for strava
Even simple animated gifs don't work.
Strava clearly has released an initial concept without enough testing of edge cases.
Anticipate that the functionality to improve over time, but also realise that ...
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My bike computer doesn't generate meaningful numbers
To quote Strava:
When data from a power meter is not available, Strava can estimate
power using information about an athlete's weight, speed, and
elevation change.
As far as I’m aware there is no ...
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How I can see who watched my Strava profile?
No, you can't. You can only see who is following you, not who is just looking at your profile/rides.
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How to turn off Live Segments on Garmin Edge 520 for good
On your 520 device, enter MENU, then TRAINING, then STRAVA LIVE SEGMENTS. Open SEGMENT OPTIONS, click on Enable/Disable, then select Disable All.
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Windows Phone as a Bike Computer - What is the current State of the Art?
Having considered between unsing my android phone as a bike computer and buying dedicated computer, I noticed some points that could serve you.
Using cell phone:
You need a bike mount to be able to ...
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Does Garmin Oregon 700 have Strava integration?
Googled for the manual: https://static.garmin.com/pumac/Oregon_7xx_OM_EN.pdf
Look for the 'Connected Features' section. The device will upload to Garmin Connect on a smartphone, which will synch with ...
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Video format for strava
What you have there, from the ffprobe info, doesn't look like anything specal: H.264 Baseline Profile and AAC-LC (which are are the compatibility subsets of the most common codecs of the past 15 years)...
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Video format for strava
First I thought strava was picky about the major_brand field but turns out it's happy as long as the video stream is "baseline" profile. ffmpeg by default seems to produce "high" ...
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Seeking a pair of cyclometer + online portal for correct bike identification
My phone does this.
Specifically I use an Android app called IPbike. I have to select which bike I'm riding when I get on, but with bike-mounted sensors even that is automatic. Then when I upload to ...
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