National Bike Challenge 2014

[Rod Smith]

I don’t know. How well does the wheel magnet work when you catch air?

[cyclingfool]

@Rod Smith 88609 wrote:

I don’t know. How well does the wheel magnet work when you catch air?

Yeah! Measure this, wheel magnet!

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[hozn]

It’s not like your wheels stop spinning when you leave the ground … unless you hit the brakes.

The wheel magnet is better instantaneous speed, but I don’t think Strava (or Garmin Connect?) actually uses sensor data for anything.

[vvill]

@hozn 88651 wrote:

It’s not like your wheels stop spinning when you leave the ground … unless you hit the brakes.

The wheel magnet is better instantaneous speed, but I don’t think Strava (or Garmin Connect?) actually uses sensor data for anything.

I think Strava does actually, if there’s no GPS signal. At the start of my commute home rides with a speed/cadence sensor I have speed data in my Strava track even though there’s no positional data because I’m riding out of a parking garage and the Edge 500 can’t locate satellites there. I’ve had the opposite (inverse?) happen before too – one time my speed/cadence sensor cut out for a few minutes mid-ride, and my mileage during that part was excluded from my ride even though my GPS signal was fine. I would assume Strava should go back to GPS data if that happens – maybe they do know, this was more than a year ago. I don’t know exactly how Strava processes the two inputs.

No idea about Garmin Connect.

[hozn]

Ah, you are right. It does use it when there is no GPS (e.g. trainer). And I have actually noticed some weird behavior when my sensor started going bad (I just removes the magnets from the wheel since the cadence part was working fine).

[vvill]

I didn’t read it all, but may be helpful for those wondering how their recorded distance differs:

http://strava.zendesk.com/entries/21278088-How-Distance-is-Calculated

[cyclingfool]

I was just looking at the NBC page for Alexandria and noticed it has the population grossly overestated. Of course the reason is they’re not using Alexandria as a political jurisdiction, but “Alexandria” zip codes (confirmed by checking against census data), which include relatively car-centric Hybla Valley, Kingstowne, and the area around Fort Belvoir, which I sometimes refer to as faux Alexandria. I get that it made for a more convenient website setup, where it assigns a community based on zip code, but I’m still a little bitter about it, b/c I’d hazard a guess that it’s pulling down our NBC community ranking.

[Emm]

I have officially fixed my syncing issues with map my ride. It never did sync…ever. And then it started to either not load on my phone, or take 5+ minutes to load.

So I fixed it…by switching to Strava. I actually like Strava more anyways, I was just lazy about switching. Hopefully this helps with my bike challenge miles–it’s getting to be a pain to log in daily and manually enter them.

[cyclingfool]

@Emm 89384 wrote:

I have officially fixed my syncing issues with map my ride. It never did sync…ever. And then it started to either not load on my phone, or take 5+ minutes to load.

So I fixed it…by switching to Strava. I actually like Strava more anyways, I was just lazy about switching. Hopefully this helps with my bike challenge miles–it’s getting to be a pain to log in daily and manually enter them.

You can sync Strava rides to Map My Ride using this site:

http://www.fitnesssyncer.com/

Once you connect your accounts, I think it syncs once daily automatically, or you can go to a dashboard site and force a sync. That’s what I’ve been doing for NBC… and for Earndit, too, which I found out about and realized I could use after I started syncing.

[Emm]

@cyclingfool 89391 wrote:

You can sync Strava rides to Map My Ride using this site:

http://www.fitnesssyncer.com/

Once you connect your accounts, I think it syncs once daily automatically, or you can go to a dashboard site and force a sync. That’s what I’ve been doing for NBC… and for Earndit, too, which I found out about and realized I could use after I started syncing.

Unfortunately, when I tried this, MMR wouldn’t sync to Strava, which might be because the MMR data calls all my activities “general”, even though MMR calls them bike rides on it’s site. Ayee. I manually entered the last few months into Strava, although I combined my commute into one ride for my sanity’s purpose.

[cyclingfool]

@Emm 89393 wrote:

Unfortunately, when I tried this, MMR wouldn’t sync to Strava, which might be because the MMR data calls all my activities “general”, even though MMR calls them bike rides on it’s site. Ayee. I manually entered the last few months into Strava, although I combined my commute into one ride for my sanity’s purpose.

If I’m reading this correctly, you were having problems syncing from MMR to Strava? I have never tried to do it that way, b/c I primarily use Strava. I have mine set up to sync FROM Strava to MMR, and it’s worked seamlessly from the get go. Syncing Strava –> MMR is useful for NBC, since NBC doesn’t sync up with Strava this year. Maybe if you try deleting your current cloud sources for FitnessSyncer and set it up fresh with Strava s your “Activity Source” and MapMyFitness as your “Destination”…?

If you don’t care enough to try, no worries. Just thinking it could save you the trouble of manual entry of miles for NBC is you’re logging rides on Strava already anyway…

[Emm]

@cyclingfool 89395 wrote:

If I’m reading this correctly, you were having problems syncing from MMR to Strava? I have never tried to do it that way, b/c I primarily use Strava. I have mine set up to sync FROM Strava to MMR, and it’s worked seamlessly from the get go. Syncing Strava –> MMR is useful for NBC, since NBC doesn’t sync up with Strava this year. Maybe if you try deleting your current cloud sources for FitnessSyncer and set it up fresh with Strava s your “Activity Source” and MapMyFitness as your “Destination”…?

If you don’t care enough to try, no worries. Just thinking it could save you the trouble of manual entry of miles for NBC is you’re logging rides on Strava already anyway…

So it wouldn’t sync either way when I tried an hour ago (I kept getting error messages). I logged in a min ago to check and…MMR synched to Strava within the last hour while I wasn’t logged in. Strava still hasn’t synced to MMR though, but I’ll keep trying. I also have to manually change all my MMR activities to bike rides in Strava since they got imported as “workouts”, but otherwise it’s working.

Thank you for the website–this will make things easier, once I get the kinks sorted out

[KLizotte]

I use Endomondo which syncs automatically with NBC. No problems as of late.

[PotomacCyclist]

My mileage is fairly modest, but I think I’ve managed to ride at least 3 miles every single day of the Challenge so far. Plus that’s on CaBi bikes most of the time. It actually takes some time to cover 3 miles on CaBi. The weather has cooperated most of the time, but I had to do a couple rides in downpours. I’m not sure about tomorrow. There could be severe thunderstorms, especially in the evening. The morning might be OK, but I haven’t done too many morning rides over the past week.

[cvcalhoun]

I think you’re going to have an issue if MMR is syncing to Strava and Strava is syncing to MMR. The problem is that the program does not check for duplicates. So the rides synced from MMR to Strava will then get synced back to MMR, causing duplicates of each ride.

I am doing fine with the program just having it sync from Strava to MMR, so that all rides will count for the NBC. But if you have it syncing both ways, you may need to check and delete any duplicates that are created.

@Emm 89400 wrote:

So it wouldn’t sync either way when I tried an hour ago (I kept getting error messages). I logged in a min ago to check and…MMR synched to Strava within the last hour while I wasn’t logged in. Strava still hasn’t synced to MMR though, but I’ll keep trying. I also have to manually change all my MMR activities to bike rides in Strava since they got imported as “workouts”, but otherwise it’s working.

Thank you for the website–this will make things easier, once I get the kinks sorted out

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