Strava = motivate you?
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I looked into Strava. I have Garmin, I use ridewithgps to map rides. I use a poor man's Cateye to record distance.
Believe it or not, years ago in the 1980's I could get on my bike and enjoy the experience all by itself without resorting to any aids.
My most memorable rides had nothing to do with tech. Just get on the bike and ride. I know hard to imagine that is possible. I am not anti-tech or anti-social platforms.
For some of us, riding is more than enough. It is about the sights and sounds, and the spiritual aspects about cycling that motivate me.
Believe it or not, years ago in the 1980's I could get on my bike and enjoy the experience all by itself without resorting to any aids.
My most memorable rides had nothing to do with tech. Just get on the bike and ride. I know hard to imagine that is possible. I am not anti-tech or anti-social platforms.
For some of us, riding is more than enough. It is about the sights and sounds, and the spiritual aspects about cycling that motivate me.
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I wonder what motivated people to ride before electronic software was invented...or maybe there was no cyclists before strava was invented.
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Yes that's how I look at cycling too, just get on my bike and enjoy the ride.... When I first got into cycling I had a cheap bike computer to track speed and mileage but as time went along I lost interest in chasing numbers and took my bike computer off and never put it back on.
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At the risk of not being "cool" without either a one word or condescending reply...
Yes, Strava does motivate me. Examples: If I check it near the end of a ride and I'm averaging 15.9 mph, better believe I'll step it up to get that 16 before stopping. If I have say 47.2 miles in when I get back, I'll ride another 2.8 to get to 50. Or if I have 160 miles in for the week and I go on a 30 mile group ride the last day, I'll ride 10 more by myself to hit 200 for the week. And invariably, there there will be certain segments during a familiar ride I will always go for a PR or less likely KOM.
So yes ...having Strava motivates me.
Yes, Strava does motivate me. Examples: If I check it near the end of a ride and I'm averaging 15.9 mph, better believe I'll step it up to get that 16 before stopping. If I have say 47.2 miles in when I get back, I'll ride another 2.8 to get to 50. Or if I have 160 miles in for the week and I go on a 30 mile group ride the last day, I'll ride 10 more by myself to hit 200 for the week. And invariably, there there will be certain segments during a familiar ride I will always go for a PR or less likely KOM.
So yes ...having Strava motivates me.
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There's nothing about a personal data tracking app that I need to pay for, full of unknown people, that motivates me..don't use it.
Cut to the chase..the old school incentive that motivates me is my hot girlfriend.
Cut to the chase..the old school incentive that motivates me is my hot girlfriend.
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For sure. How many KOMs are stomped out into a direct 15+mph headwind? Precious few, I'm guessing.
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I looked into Strava. I have Garmin, I use ridewithgps to map rides. I use a poor man's Cateye to record distance.
Believe it or not, years ago in the 1980's I could get on my bike and enjoy the experience all by itself without resorting to any aids.
My most memorable rides had nothing to do with tech. Just get on the bike and ride. I know hard to imagine that is possible. I am not anti-tech or anti-social platforms.
For some of us, riding is more than enough. It is about the sights and sounds, and the spiritual aspects about cycling that motivate me.
Believe it or not, years ago in the 1980's I could get on my bike and enjoy the experience all by itself without resorting to any aids.
My most memorable rides had nothing to do with tech. Just get on the bike and ride. I know hard to imagine that is possible. I am not anti-tech or anti-social platforms.
For some of us, riding is more than enough. It is about the sights and sounds, and the spiritual aspects about cycling that motivate me.
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^^^^^Funny. My next bike will be a single speed or flip/flop Fixie because I want to simplify things and decrease repairs and maintenance costs.
I just bought an older model flip phone to simplify things because I do not need a $1,000 cell phone when a $30 will satisfy my needs.
I do not fear the cell phone, I just realize what my needs are. I responded to your comments on a tablet so I must have conquered my fear of the interwebs.
Like I said, I am not anti-tech as it has its place. Some of us just appreciate simpler things in life.
A bike ride can be simple and enjoyable. If you enjoy higher tech and cycling together? Great, that works for you.
I'm picking up that others are attached to their high tech gadgets and this is a touchy subject that compels them to pigeon hole the naysayers.
I just bought an older model flip phone to simplify things because I do not need a $1,000 cell phone when a $30 will satisfy my needs.
I do not fear the cell phone, I just realize what my needs are. I responded to your comments on a tablet so I must have conquered my fear of the interwebs.
Like I said, I am not anti-tech as it has its place. Some of us just appreciate simpler things in life.
A bike ride can be simple and enjoyable. If you enjoy higher tech and cycling together? Great, that works for you.
I'm picking up that others are attached to their high tech gadgets and this is a touchy subject that compels them to pigeon hole the naysayers.
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^^^^^Funny. My next bike will be a single speed or flip/flop Fixie because I want to simplify things and decrease repairs and maintenance costs.
I just bought an older model flip phone to simplify things because I do not need a $1,000 cell phone when a $30 will satisfy my needs.
I do not fear the cell phone, I just realize what my needs are. I responded to your comments on a tablet so I must have conquered my fear of the interwebs.
Like I said, I am not anti-tech as it has its place. Some of us just appreciate simpler things in life.
A bike ride can be simple and enjoyable. If you enjoy higher tech and cycling together? Great, that works for you.
I'm picking up that others are attached to their high tech gadgets and this is a touchy subject that compels them to pigeon hole the naysayers.
I just bought an older model flip phone to simplify things because I do not need a $1,000 cell phone when a $30 will satisfy my needs.
I do not fear the cell phone, I just realize what my needs are. I responded to your comments on a tablet so I must have conquered my fear of the interwebs.
Like I said, I am not anti-tech as it has its place. Some of us just appreciate simpler things in life.
A bike ride can be simple and enjoyable. If you enjoy higher tech and cycling together? Great, that works for you.
I'm picking up that others are attached to their high tech gadgets and this is a touchy subject that compels them to pigeon hole the naysayers.
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i do like strava. i resisted it for a long time. i think what i like most about it is consolidation. when i ride zwift it gets uploaded, when i ride CycleMeter it gets uploaded, when i ride my own program it gets uploaded. from time to time i use my program to pull everything down and segregate real vs virtual so i have a nice library of .fit files. i like that strava keeps track of my PRs. they are getting fewer and fewer as time goes on but still a nice thing to see when they come up. i had one KOM that i got in FL about 4 months ago and another local to me. lost the FL one but don't really care. i am amazed that i even have one. must be a slow segment.
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You're criticizing people because you don't need an "outside application [that] is supposed to motivate me," while many people are using Strava for the same reason that you use your old school Cateye. The difference is that they're using a method that's actually more convenient and many are even doing it with a non-specialized device that's already in their pocket.
Kettle, meet Pot.
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Strava = Motivate You?
What I do NOT see is: Do you use Strava? Why don’t you use Strava?
What am I missing here?
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it does motivate me, in the way that it has been proven time and time again that the observation of performance tends to result in an increase in performance.
it's also fun to bring a little biking into the other 158 hours of the week when there's no biking going on, looking at the rides, the heatmaps, segments, etc. i do try and avoid riding *for* the stats, but i'll admit to having created a couple of segments for myself that i keep hammering on as best i can.
i also find the heatmap motivating in a general sense, suggesting new geographic areas to explore...
it's also fun to bring a little biking into the other 158 hours of the week when there's no biking going on, looking at the rides, the heatmaps, segments, etc. i do try and avoid riding *for* the stats, but i'll admit to having created a couple of segments for myself that i keep hammering on as best i can.
i also find the heatmap motivating in a general sense, suggesting new geographic areas to explore...
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^ SF North Bay. Never seen it quite like that before.
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There's that part too - "I haven't ridden there, wonder what's there". The only misgiving I have is that Strava isn't very good at telling you about the road surface, and that's how you ended up doing 15km of gravel on a road bike once.
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I’m impressed how much bike traffic there is on the Richmond Bridge.
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I most certainly have:
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I'm not questioning the value of Strava to anyone using it on here. Nor am I questioning that it has any useful features as I'm sure it does. I do track my cycling metrics through modern technology, just not Srava.
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I'm not questioning the value of Strava to anyone using it on here. Nor am I questioning that it has any useful features as I'm sure it does. I do track my cycling metrics through modern technology, just not Srava.
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^ This is why i periodically pull all my rides down from strava. i assume that one day, someday, it won't be available. i'd hate to lose it all.
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I most certainly have:
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I'm not questioning the value of Strava to anyone using it on here. Nor am I questioning that it has any useful features as I'm sure it does. I do track my cycling metrics through modern technology, just not Srava.
"ContentYou own the information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, posts, tags, or other materials you make available in connection with the Services (“Content”), whether publicly posted, privately transmitted, or submitted through a third party API (e.g. a photograph submitted via Instagram). Public segments and routes created by using the Services are not considered Content. You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display any Content and any name, username or likeness that you post on or in connection with the Services in all media formats and channels now known or later developed without compensation to you. This license ends when you delete your Content or your account."
I'm not questioning the value of Strava to anyone using it on here. Nor am I questioning that it has any useful features as I'm sure it does. I do track my cycling metrics through modern technology, just not Srava.
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