Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

[meter-man]

If I pay for the monthly trailforks will the gps tracking get better? I swear at least half the time it goes wonky on my. Take my last ride. Unbeknownst to me, after one of the downhills, I hopped on boat and scooted across the lake then bee lined it back across the water to get on the next trail.

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CS, how is Goat Mt riding? Last time I was there (2018), there was a ton of blowdown, but I could see the potential.

[xyz]

If I pay for the monthly trailforks will the gps tracking get better? I swear at least half the time it goes wonky on my. Take my last ride. Unbeknownst to me, after one of the downhills, I hopped on boat and scooted across the lake then bee lined it back across the water to get on the next trail.

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I switched to Trailforks for recording rides a couple years back. Figured i just have to deal with one app on a ride. But found it super buggy, random stoppages etc and sucked battery life. Back to Strava now.

[plugboots]

My level of caring about this issue falls somewhere above "willing to bitch about it on the internet" but below "actually using strava's built in features to resolve the problem"

That’s how I feel. There’s a 1 mile uphill segment, almost always against the wind, that somebody has the KOM as part of their 14 MPH 50 mile loop, and they’re 45 MPH on that segment. They’ve had that KOM for a few years now.

[rideit]

My Wahoo recorded that I did a 164,560 ft. climbing day on my ride yesterday.
I climbed 2,599.
I’m a hero!

[Dantheman]

My level of caring about this issue falls somewhere above "willing to bitch about it on the internet" but below "actually using strava's built in features to resolve the problem"

Life is all about balance.

I switched to Trailforks for recording rides a couple years back. Figured i just have to deal with one app on a ride. But found it super buggy, random stoppages etc and sucked battery life. Back to Strava now.

I had a similar experience, also several years ago, sometime after Google discontinued MyTracks. I begrudgingly switched to Strava, but it turns out I really like seeing what my friends are riding. GPS weirdness does happen with Strava, though. My biggest beef with Strava is that it doesn't count vert descended.

[Canada1]

8 ebikes on a loop from my house around the crest and back. Not one guy over 40. It is crazy that it bugs me, but it does.. Are e bikes allowed on the trails over on the salt lake side?

[jamal]

GPS issues/weirdness are not caused by strava or trailforks or whatever app you're using. It's because you're recording gps with a phone. Get a real GPS and you generally won't have those problems.

[HankScorpio]

GPS issues/weirdness are not caused by strava or trailforks or whatever app you're using. It's because you're recording gps with a phone. Get a real GPS and you generally won't have those problems.

I started using a Garmin GPS watch for my rides and quickly found out how inaccurate the iPhone GPS is. Phone GPS definitely overshoots vertical feet and undershoots mileage.

[skaredshtles]

I started using a Garmin GPS watch for my rides and quickly found out how inaccurate the iPhone GPS is. Phone GPS definitely overshoots vertical feet and undershoots mileage.

Which makes "competition" using those phone GPS/apps all the more comical.

[evdog]

C'mon now, strava is serious stuff. Especially e-bikers who use it. Real athletes, they are.

I'm not a strava user. But if I was I'd run it on moto rides and take down roadie and dirt roadie kom's just to piss them off.

[t.odd]

a problem I've read with newer devices too is that apparently their battery saving software sometimes causes the GPS functionality to drop out...I have no idea personally, but just heard and read that anecdotally. I use a standalone GPS (fenix3) and rarely have issues, just normal drift occasionally in dense forest or steep constrained terrain.

[grskier]

Life is all about balance.



I had a similar experience, also several years ago, sometime after Google discontinued MyTracks. I begrudgingly switched to Strava, but it turns out I really like seeing what my friends are riding. GPS weirdness does happen with Strava, though. My biggest beef with Strava is that it doesn't count vert descended.

That's why I use trailforks to track rides. Vert is a little closer to reality for some of our rides as well.. or maybe it just displays bigger and makes me feel better about myself.

[grskier]

C'mon now, strava is serious stuff. Especially e-bikers who use it. Real athletes, they are.

I'm not a strava user. But if I was I'd run it on moto rides and take down roadie and dirt roadie kom's just to piss them off.

There are threads around the internet about people (person) that did a bunch of this. stravasshole

[xyz]

C'mon now, strava is serious stuff. Especially e-bikers who use it. Real athletes, they are.

I'm not a strava user. But if I was I'd run it on moto rides and take down roadie and dirt roadie kom's just to piss them off.

Next time I’m in SoCal Evan I’ll definitely be flagging your KOM’s that I can’t get. Moto or not.

[jackstraw]

I like TF for navigating and my Strava feed can often look like a tgr thread with the banter. Times, vert, distance, watts bro!...that's all horseshit from my perspective. I don't care, but I know others do, so I delete posts where the app has made me look faster than I really am. Granted, I do have Kom's on the trails I've built, but that's only because not enough "real" riders have ridden them. [emoji3]

[ridinshockgun]

I like finding heinous unrideable hike a bikes and making strava segments in hope that some poor soul using heat maps and segment search decides to go for a "low hanging" KOM.

[LeeLau]

I enjoy finding the KOMs that xyz has and tweaking my tracks so I beat them by 0.05% (or so). Then I get flagged

[gravitylover]

When all of your cars die and you can't get to the trails to ride. I have my fingers crossed that the band aid I put on the Durango today works so I can at least ride local trails. And no, nothing is within rideable distance without riding on the highway.

[Canada1]

During covid I hit some KOM top fives on roads just to torment those guys. Often times I was knocked back off before I finished and got home. Those roadies take that stuff seriously!

[steff]

Berms. Too many berms. Too many shitty berms. Berms that don't line up with the trail. Berms that start and stop in the wrong place. Berms that force hard braking. Berms that throw the rider over the top. Berms with speed bumps. Rocky, rooty, slow trails don't need berms.

Bikes have the best of everything these days... geo, handling, suspension, tires... they turn ok. How did bikes ever get around turns before the berms? good grief.

Hey berm building wizards... here's an idea... build the trail first, find out how things roll, where the bike wants to go... maybe add a berm or two where it's needed. Nobody wants to ride bunch of shitty artisanal curved dirt piles copied from photos in the imba weekenders guide to trail building.

[joetron]

^^^^ Bravo ^^^


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[mtnjam]

Bikes have the best of everything these days... geo, handling, suspension, tires... they turn ok. How did bikes ever get around turns before the berms? good grief.

We used to call them Meeker turns.

[Dantheman]

A lot of berms do get built completely wrong. Really big early in the corner in the fall line, then way too small or gone entirely late in the corner across the fall line when you actually need it, and often not steep enough.

[skaredshtles]

big early in the corner in the fall line, then way too small or gone entirely late in the corner across the fall line when you actually need it,

We have a local trail that was extended a couple years back, and the berms a *tiny* but built exactly like this. They area goddam menace to hit with any kind of speed.

[bagtagley]

Great berm rant. I think, in addition to not really knowing what they're doing, people look down at their feet when building trail, and once they finally step back and look at the line they've built, it's too late (they're too lazy) to fix it. It's kind of a mind fuck until you're used to the trail because there's an instinctive drive to hit berms.