Some of my activities get incorrectly flagged.
There is a group bike ride I regularly take part in, and typically, my activity will be flagged. It’s a fastish group ride, but not insanely, just amateur level. And I’m far from the fastest one. I never get any KOM, and actually never get in the top 10 of any segment either.
But every time, strava declares that the activity was actually done on an electric bike, and my PRs and segments are invalidated.
Other members of this ride also get their rides flagged. When I look at my friends, I’d say about a third of them get the ride flagged initially. Not necessarily the faster riders. Who gets flagged and who doesn’t seem pretty arbitrary. Most people are able to get it validated after all. I was also able to get it revalidated the first time, by confirming that the ride was ride. But now, I’m not able to get it revalidated.
It’s pretty frustrating: trying to beat my PR, and improving my position in the leaderboard is one thing that motivates me, and one of the reason why I pay for a strava subscription.
activties incorrectly flagged.
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+28There is a relatively new feature that Strava has implemented that seems to be questioning a lot of ride activities. I know pretty much every ride I do is held in a sort of limbo at first. As soon as I open the activity on the mobile app, I have the option to select “ride” or “e-bike ride” near the top of the screen. I click on “ride” and it sets it to a ride and no further issues come up. Is yours not giving you that option when you open the activity in the mobile app?
It is annoying, especially on rides that are well below my max effort. Heck, even warm up rides where I am riding at a level 1 or 2 effort are getting held until I specifically select “ride”.
+4I had that option the first time, and was able to fix it. For my most recent ride, I don’t have that option anymore.
+28That is interesting. I get it each time I open a new activity for the first time. I haven’t tried leaving it and closing the activity and then trying to reopen it to fix it though so not sure what would happen then. Have you tried changing the activity type using the “edit” option? Maybe change it to something totally different and then back to “ride”? That usually works to clear out a flag.
+28Also, consider checking out the question I posed about a month ago on this subject and add your experience to that thread. The more it is brought up, the more likely it will be seen and talked about and hopefully fixed.
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