Strava

Addition of elevation to 'Manual Upload' is quite recent. They probably just haven't got around to plumbing it in (so to speak).
Manual Uploads will contribute to your 'club' mileage total, but won't count towards any 'Challenges'.

Also... how to change the team/club that appears as the default.

So obviously I own LFGSS CC, but am only a member of the Strava club, and I think it may choose the club that shows as default alphabetically as it does appear to show Brixton CC as my main club even though I'm only a member there too.

Is there a way to choose which club is shown on the web profile? i.e. to force LFGSS above others?

If you join the LFGSS club before joining any other club it will be shown as 1st. I just tried this, I am in 2 clubs, left the LFGSS which was shown as 1st, then rejoined and now it's shown as 2nd.

Who are these animals who use fucking Imperial measures?

Me.

Kilometers are for people who want things to sound bigger than they are*

• the opposite applies for climbing, so um...
  

Metric for everything, except for distances larger than half a mile. That's how I roll.

Metric.
One inch = three barley corns laid end to end.
One metre = the distance light can travel in a vacuum, in 1/c (i.e. value for the speed of light in m/s) seconds.
Imperial is based on arbitrary measurements, and devoid of rationality.

Imperial is based on arbitrary measurements, and devoid of rationality.

And yet... so human.

What's brought on this discussion, Is Strava finally getting mixed units correct?

It's not possible to get mixed units correct.

The best they could do is for each mode of sport, offer the ability to use metric or imperial below a certain threshold, and metric or imperial above a threshold.

i.e. when I'm riding and it's less than 100km use metric, otherwise use imperial.

Which sounds crazy, but is actually how most people want it.

When I'm driving I visualise metres better than miles for upcoming turns, etc (i.e. less than 2 miles), but then prefer miles above that because it matches road signage.

Distance is distance and that doesn't change, but how it's displayed and communicated is preference and the US employees who makes these apps are detached from European mixed unit madness that crosses generational divides.

Let alone the internationalisation of routing software (my Navdy loves telling me to stay on the "right of a circle" to turn left, and I mentally have to convert this into, "it's a roundabout, just turn left").

The whole thing is an internationalisation thing, as US staff over-simplify things into "this country is wholly metric or imperial"... whereas actually, people pick and choose what works for them for a given purpose.

If you join the LFGSS club before joining any other club it will be shown as 1st. I just tried this, I am in 2 clubs, left the LFGSS which was shown as 1st, then rejoined and now it's shown as 2nd.

Oh well, that's me stuck. Too many of my clubs need approval to join, so unjoining them just to re-order is a PITA.

All I want is:
kgs for weight
miles for distance
metres for height
Celsius for tempreture

Is that too much to ask?

I stand shoulder to shoulder with you on that.

All I want is:
kgs for weight
miles for distance
feet and inches for height
celsius for temperature

Fixed that for you :)

Nice, but in addition to that I want inches for cross sections but metres for length (eg., 2.4M 2x4 joist).

Inches for mtb tyre width but metric for CX tyre width.

Oh God yes.

Also... I'd like my bikes to be size CTC in CM, except for the older mountain bikes.

And for belt drive chainstay lengths... I'd like handspans.

And I want a metric bottom bracket with an imperial headset.

A metric BCD on my chainring with an imperial chain.

All rides & runs to be measured in Furlongs please.

I'm having trouble with GPS with strava. I'm trying to use it for work to get an idea of how far I ride per shift, I'm on and off the bike and in and out of buildings all the time, should I just accept that strava won't work properly? It just shows a straight line between everywhere I go and doesn't update the mileage.

What device are you using?

Just my phone, a Google Nexus 6p.

I have a Nexus 6P and use osmand to record, seems to work ok. I will try strava directly and see what happens between the two.

Strava app is absolutely shit for couriering and losing signal in buildings/jumping around and adding distance when on standby, get a cheap garmin.
Particularly important when you do your tax return so you can deduct 2op per mile :)

Use the app ipbike for strava recordings.