Hains Pt strava segment hazardous?!

[KLizotte]

I got my first trophy on HP tonight and was looking forward to increasing my standing; however, someone has declared that segment “hazardous”. On HP!?! Seriously? I suspect this person will declare the entire loop hazardous.

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[GuyContinental]

@Mark Blacknell 50159 wrote:

Right, because then we’re going to have to talk about VC-directed “improvements” to businesses

Strava is already owned by VCs- Madrone Partners and Sigma Partners. Raised ~$15MM ($3A, $12B) in 2011, must have enough rev to keep afloat since.

[KLizotte]

@jrenaut 50161 wrote:

If you all get the VC, I’ll help with coding.

OK, I give up. What is VC?????

[GuyContinental]

@KLizotte 50165 wrote:

OK, I give up. What is VC?????

Annd for some of the least funny memes out there: http://vcmemes.tumblr.com/

VC = Venture Capitalist

[jrenaut]

@KLizotte 50165 wrote:

OK, I give up. What is VC?????

Translated, if you all pay me, I’ll write code for this.

I think it’s a cool idea – there are tons of things that Strava could be doing and isn’t.

[txgoonie]

@GuyContinental 50134 wrote:

10. Segment notes/descriptions (“Watch out for the dragons on under the bridge”)
11. Segment “owners”
12. Basic PM functionality

I’m quite surprised that these don’t exist already. Especially the PM function. I have people following me who I don’t actually know personally and don’t have any other direct means of communication with. Would be nice to say hey, especially if I end up following them in return.

And I don’t know about the hazard of the OPs segment — that one just seems a bit silly to begin with. But by establishing a segment, you’re essentially inviting (or luring) other people to try it. I do think it’s reasonable for Strava to put controls for making sure people aren’t led into dangerous situations. A friend drove me to a segment he discovered that wound around a totally blind corner on a ridiculously narrow street, which seemed like a perfect place to get smacked by a car head on. He never would have gone over there had it not been for Strava, but he will not be riding there again. I frankly don’t think anyone else should either.

[Justin Antos]

@GuyContinental 50134 wrote:

4. “You should ride with this person” matching (Hozn and I have comparable paces, at least when he’s exhausted, and ride 65% of the same commute at essentially the same time- we should meet (and did))
7. Route suggestions- Rider does A-B all the time but most people do A-D instead so suggest a popular route
8. Find a ride (string together popular segments into a ride of x miles)

These are really great ideas! And it could be of great use especially to people just starting out biking.

#7 especially would be amazing – “of all the people going generally from A to B, 70% of them take Route 1, 20% take Route 2, etc., and here are the speeds and hill-climbing/elevation for each” It could help a tool like http://www.bikeplanner.org “learn” how to tradeoff bike-friendliness vs. speed vs. hills.

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