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Can the e-bikes get more love?


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Back to Strava after a long hiatus. As a 60+ y/o rider I still like to go fast...e-bikes.

I’ve noticed on many of the local segment leaderboards GPX’s with interesting data. Many with maximum speeds exceeding 75 mph. Quite a few that follow major freeways. Also uphill segments with averages speeds exceeding 50 mph.

I have flagged dozens of these activities multiple times. I have opened support tickets, Crickets.

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  • March 20, 2025

This used to be very common on the regular “ride” leaderboards, but has gone WAY down in recent times with the improvement of their auto-detection systems.  It still misses some very obvious ones, but it is improving and getting a lot more now than they ever did before.  I would think, and hope, that they would implement something along the same lines for the e-bike activity as well.  With most e-bike assist cutting off at speeds of 20-30mph, you could still easily implement auto detection for segments where speeds reached obvious car type speeds and not worry you are potentially picking up legit e-bike rides.  


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So over on the e-bike side of things it’s still the wild, wild west? That explains why some of my flags have been ignored. Oh well, I guess I won’t be subscribing again.


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