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Over COVID some motivated locals organized a Strava segment omnium race with one stage each of enduro, XC, road and gravel. Roughly 1 week to complete the stages then the best of each person's time on the given segments was taken for a total time. I think the segments were private to only the participants that replied to a FB group. No idea how much of a PITA it was to organize but it was a blast to participate in. This app would be perfect for this type of thing. It would be cool to have some type of hardware...

Very easy features I’d like to see. easy way to reset leaderboards One button to start a segment/stage and one button to finish one. Similar option for adding splits. Easy connectivity for stop watch timing. Guy at top hits start. Guy at finish line hits stop. Needs to allow for multiple racers on course. While not perfect it’s better than gps timing. Especially on the generally short tracks the east coast usually offer.

While I don't really care about racing against my buddies (or myself) much anymore, I do agree with some of your premises. Strava is run by a bunch of lycra dorks, and hate mountain bikers. I only keep using it for the Beacon thing so my wife can see how close I am to getting home. Also, their data whoring for anti-MTB land managers is pretty gross (I turn heatmap stuff off but enough people leave it on that it's like shouting at a tornado). From a "competing against myself" standpoint, its pretty annoying to check my time after a...

Thanks to everyone for the comments so far. Few things to note... GPS Accuracy: This is something I've battled for 2 months. I thought it was going to be a lot easier than it turns out to be. At this point, I'm within my edge 130 with respect to accuracy (maybe a touch below that). Is this good enough? I think so. Strava runs a few algorithms server side (once you upload) that are patented (ask me how I learned that haha) to smooth/clean up the data. Overall, accuracy will improve as I see adoption and can justify spending money...

So by remote I can live in US and do job? I can BS a resume 😂

Great episode. Appreciate the support of USDH, I think it's only going to continue to grow. The comment about Lars making sure he's paying attention to announcing for the lesser classes and giving them the support made me think of ye oldene dayes racing at Plattekill, where Laszlo, owner/operator/announcer of the race series there would be in the booth the whole weekend, giving everyone the same treatment, somewhere where Lars used to race, and I once came in THIRD PLACE of an expert class 30+ men's race, and Laszlo made me feel like a fuckin' champion coming through the finish...

I agree, incentive is limited. I'm actually a sucker for rad paint jobs, and nobody is doing anything remotely cool these days on that front. Where the hell are the fades, splatters, metallics, neon colors, etc. No originality at all. Please drop some acid and get back to me.

Hey, Chris Ball. You can take your Mr Nally mask off anytime now.

I blame WBD!!!

If you know of any streams or rivers along the way a pocket sized water filter can save you from humping all your water the whole way. Not racing situations but Chilcotins and LOTS rides are now 1/4 full bladder and/or just a water bottle with top ups along the way. https://cascadedesigns.com/en-ca/products/quickdraw-filter Edit- didnt answer your question at all, also on the 2012 dakine pack but I'll do anything not to wear anything on my back if I can help it

Reece just cannot catch a break.

You measure? What a nerd. I just go until the bolt head strips or the tool bends.

This is so funny to read if you haven’t been paying attention to headset routing the last couple years. Imagine reading “Ford updated the F150 to include power windows”

Very hard to believe they are generating some 200+ million video views outside of YouTube. Maybe they are counting insta stories? Jackson’s race run povs on GoPro bike (assume these are being counted) have approximately 300,000 views combined. Jackson’s redbull hardline run has 3.9 million. replays for hardlines on YouTube are around 700,000. Imagine maybe half that watch on redbull. Hard to believe your average wc has many more viewers especially on a pay to play service. Yeah something ain’t mathing quite right. Maybe they will be polite enough to provide some justification for their numbers. At least this year...

Lol. He did the same in the 40+ category of the whistler ews 10 yrs ago. So when my wife sees him finish a stage she commented to a random lady standing next to her that he was a total "sanbagging doosh" ( repeating my words ). The woman then replied that he was her husband.