First Published: May 14, 2014
Do you Strava? Are you struggling to beat your mates on your favourite segments? Fed up with constantly being toppled from the coveted KOM/QOM position at the top of the leaderboard?
Then here are some top tips from the guys at GCN on how to improve your times and take back that KOM/QOM.
Alternatively, here's Vecchiojo's top Strava tip…
1. Don't do Strava, do a real race with real people so you can feel your inadequacy in real time and they can see the terror in your eyes.
(He's old skool).
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David worked on the road.cc tech team from 2012-2020. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He’s a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He’s mildly competitive, though he’ll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds, and you can now find him over on his own YouTube channel David Arthur – Just Ride Bikes.
He's talking about our "tiny island" so I think its fair comment ;-)
Reply t o Rendel I'm serious, it might be a combination of my head shape and the helmet I use but I definitely have more wind rush around my ears with a helmet and notice it when bunch racing compared to social riding.
All over the country it's the same , thousands of cars vrs hundreds of bikes. All this sustainable transport infrastructure for bikes is just a waste of many ,, thousands upon thousands of drivers all report very seldom underused bike lanes. Motorised vehicles are the majority & preference on the roads should be made for them & not for the minority of cyclists. Get rid of all the annoying cycle lanes everywhere.
(reply to Backladder as ability to reply to more than the fourth reply seems to have been removed) I really hope that's tongue in cheek, because if it isn't it's just ludicrous. I have never noticed the slightest discrepancy between wind noise when riding with a helmet and when riding without so it must be minimal at best. I've read quite a lot of debate about helmets, here and elsewhere, and you're the first person I've ever seen suggesting that people wearing helmets might crash because of wind noise.
You’re making a big assumption there that “anonymous person posting on the internet” is in the UK.
Its nice that they have these little things called kilometres for all the show offs to ride large numbers of, but in the UK road signs use miles and speed limits are in miles per hour so come back when you are using big boy units!
I don't know of any research into that question but from my own experience a helmet interferes with my awareness of traffic around me, the noise from the wind in the helmet is louder than the sound of modern quiet cars and other cyclists so perhaps your urban commuters are crashing because they can't hear other traffic around them?
My father undertook post mortems and attended coronors inquests until his retirement and early death. He saw the riders who died in accidents. He built up decades of observed experience. He made us wear a helmet.
I'm glad I had my trousers on. If I hadn't I might have been arrested.
Who was responsible for organising the prizes on Bullseye? Tonight's star prize was a luxury fitted kitchen. How are you supposed to split that between two contestants? Absolutely ridiculous.
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that’s very good
that’s very good :))
Or you could become a Strava
Or you could become a Strava Terrorist….
https://www.facebook.com/StravaTerrorism
Chuckle chuckle
Chuckle chuckle =D>
Brilliant. Tried all them
Brilliant. Tried all them still can’t get a KOM!!
Last KOM I bagged was
Last KOM I bagged was drafting a double decker!
Last KOM I bagged was
Last KOM I bagged was drafting a double decker!
Last KOM I bagged was
Last KOM I bagged was drafting a double decker!
Last KOM I bagged was
Last KOM I bagged was drafting a double decker!
lol – as a 40s, 100kg bloke
lol – as a 40s, 100kg bloke on a 1980’s touring bike fitted with dynohub and Marathon Plus tyres I took great pleasure in sniping a local 1.6k seg on a day of 30mph winds… 👿
I love Vecchio Jo. Hello Jo.
I love Vecchio Jo. Hello Jo.
“Alternatively, here’s
“Alternatively, here’s Vecchiojo’s top Strava tip…
1. Don’t do Strava, do a real race with real people so you can feel your inadequacy in real time and they can see the terror in your eyes.
(He’s old skool).”
Oh no! that might show I’m not as good as I like to boast I am.