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For me, it's more a public understanding of science thing or human dignity thing than a mtb thing. With any measurement, there's some minimum difference that matters to the person doing it. With any measuring tool, there's some minimum difference the tool can resolve. Strava was never honest with its user base about how long segments should be in order to have some agreed upon confidence level that rider 1 rode the segment faster than rider 2. For a leaderboard type function to be engaging to users the difference that matters may be smaller than the tool's resolution, making the...

I personally use the free version of strava, I like to see how I improve on certain segments. Some people take it way to seriously, acting like the KOM on a segment will get them a jersey with rainbow stripes and in turn they are unpleasant to be around on the trails.

Strava is an unsanctioned and unmarked race in some places. Which leads to braiding trails, creating b c d and all the above lines. GPS discrepancies are common and device dependent. i agree with Veefour, the roadie side of strava is HILARIOUS.

I don't use it myself, but I dislike the increased incidence of straight lines appearing on what used to be fun, twisty trails since people started using it. However I like all the roadies losing their shit when a mate forgets to turn his off before loading his bike into the van and driving home.

Love: Using STRAVA to keep track of miles/hours on my equipment. It helps me stay on top of service intervals. Used to Love: the leaderboards, but I am old now and just getting slower so I don't pay much attention to them anymore. Like: giving my friends kudos on their big rides Dislike: I wish there was an option for shuttle and lift days that would not track elevation gain but instead would focus on the descending numbers

These are just rebranded generic Chinese brakes. They are all over AliExpress, sold with different brands, such as Zrace, Onirii, etc. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOU2Hma You can pay 300+ bucks a piece for something sold for ~110 a set just for the brand, but it's up to you.

I like to see the calories burned, so I can double that in consumption of beers that afternoon. It's a slippery slope. Bigger the ride, the more fried.

I hate that Strava does not include elevation loss in the data analysis. I consider this an interesting/important metric and would prefer to not leave my device going when riding lifts or using a shuttle. Garmin records and produces the data in Connect so it seems like its a pretty specific choice. Its a small thing but has bothered me since day 1. Everything else is perfectly adequate for my needs. Remember people stay off the Robots Kill List, make the lurkers and fun police earn it and TURN OFF YOUR AGGREGATED DATA USAGE.

This is a great opportunity to mention the Strava global heatmap and its effect on illegal trails. If you're using Strava, even if you set your ride to "Private" so only you can see your map, your ride will contribute to Strava's global heatmap unless you go to your privacy settings and turn off "Aggregated Data Usage." Here's a link that shows how to do this. And if you think this isn't an issue, click this link and use the global heatmap to navigate to an illegal trail you enjoy. I bet you 10 to 1 that the trail is...

I don’t use Strava or any ride tracking tool at all, but please listen to Charlie on this. 3 local to me illegal trails that were absolute bangers got completely demolished by the parks department this spring. They literally dug up pieces of the trail, destroyed all jumps and drops, and fell trees across it in multiple spots. All because the trails were frequented by heat maps users that kept the glowing bright red on Strava. Turn that shit off.

Jack Moir story shows some interesting taping change between practice and race.

i just don‘t understand why they (ESO/UCI) would discontinue normal EDR/EWS racing and only support e-bike racing… no one watches/reads that sh*t!!! and no one‘s gonna buy one of those bikes someone won a race on it no one ever heard about it. makes zero sense to me marketingwise.

Courtesy of the latest Making Up The Numbers podcast… Vali leaving Trek to go “back” to another team… YT perhaps? Jess Blewitt already signed to a new team (GT folding)… maybe Propain? Ronan Dunne leaving Nukeproof… Commencal? Mondraker (not MS Mondraker, that team is also folding)? Dak’s contract is up for renewal… staying with Intense? Get that coin brother. Gonzalo on Scott with Dean leaving? More good riders than rides in 2024?

This combined with what Jack Moir recommended in the recent downtime podcast: reseed before the final stage and broadcast that live. Even it if is just the top 10.

I would have to say it is a test bed for new products and suspension theories / designs. Look at specialized, pivot, and intense, all on proto bikes / suspension layouts that will most likely make there way onto enduro bikes as well.

On the Downtime podcast they were speculating that Gwin might be retiring and that Greg wants to keep the "most male DH WC wins" (22 wins) and so might be more likely to retire if Aaron does (20 wins).

That’s a really short seattube…

They better sell quick before everyone cancels their subs next month.

That would be amazing and hilarious in equal measure.