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  • I commute in London. Every single segment my Strava ever registered is filled with people doing it at 60km/h or more, doesn't matter how long it is, whether it's uphill or downhill, whether it goes through some intersections or not.

    A lot of my commute (SW15 to SE1) is filled with 60kph people but that's because it follows most of the route of the London Surrey Classic and has had professionals riding it at that speed:-

    https://www.strava.com/activities/1742059749/overview

    A lot of the other ~57kph segments seem to be people who probably just got lucky with traffic lights and were drafting vehicles. Some of my PBs (still a way off the associated KOMs) on similar segments were gained exactly this way, and they're utterly untouchable by me now.

    I don't think much of it is down to GPS glitches, I suspect there's more Digital EPO going on that random GPS problems.

    I've also done most of my commuting route at ~4am on a faster bike with minimal luggage, with a tailwind, at the start of a 200km Audax. Again my times here are a lot better than riding my heavy commuter with 15kg of crap in the panniers on the way to work at 8.30am in heavy traffic.

  • I suspect there's more Digital EPO going on that random GPS problems

    Who would alter their files to win KOMs yet make them obviously bullshit? It looks more like glitches to me unless people are actually uploading ridiculous files on purpose. But for what reason?

    Actually, that might be a good way to get Strava to fix their shit. I might just doctor all my files and upload everything so I'm doing 100kph.

  • Who would alter their files to win KOMs yet make them obviously bullshit?

    Twats, and the reason is that it's easy to do and easy to get away with. Some sites list the number of KOMs someone has. It'd be obvious what they were doing if it listed the details of those KOMs but it doesn't, and so people game the system to look like billy big balls.

    I'm guessing Strava will have a crack down at some point in the future, either by smoothing the data (which would deal with GPS glitches [whether real glitches or faked]) and then some deeper inspection on the people with silly average speeds over longer segments.

    I'm not bothered as the data is so unclean, and I don't care where I am on segments, I only care about my own comparisons and those are slightly dubious given the disparity in my own rides.

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