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>we have a lot of checks in place so cheating by using a car or a motorbike

I used strava to track my rides a few years ago. After riding home I got in my car and did a errand. Forgot to turn the app off and it logged my driving like I was riding, though to be fair driving in my city isn’t much faster than biking….)

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I've had the opposite happen in Google Maps (the activity history). It marked biked segments as occurring in a car.

Not quite sure how it happened. I probably outpaced motor vehicle traffic (I do so more often than not, in an urban environment). But that circumstance itself should have suggested the need for additional logic

After the activity is saved, you can edit and crop the activity to trim off the driving portion.

yeah Strava doesn't have a check in place for this, in fact there are a lot of unreal stats in there, we check the effective average speed of your commuting, and the 1st race has a avg speed limit of < 18km/h so unless you want to go around in your car at that avg speed without causing accidents or be yelled every 30 seconds is pretty much not-usable with a car.

I'm usually commuting at around 23 to 25 km/h average, so you're telling me I'm not going by bike? ;-)

nope, we're just saying that to compete for the 1st race the avg. speed needs to be under 18 km/h, maybe the 2nd race will be just commutings > 25km/h ;)

Actually I can assure you Strava does have a check for this because I've been hit by it before when accidentally forgetting to stop the activity before loading up my bike and driving home. It flags the activity and forces you to edit your route to remove the offending section.

yes probably they've added something during the years, but on some segments at least here in Italy, there are some crazy times and speed, light years away from PRO numbers, so there's still some cheating going on

There's also some GPS glitches. I once got the KoM on a short section in a city where my speed was claimed 70km/h, when I probably was riding at 20.

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