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Curious as to why a non premium member can only “create” a flag but nothing happens to the rider in question.  We have a couple of strava trolls in our region that record their rides as normal bikes but are obviously on e bikes.  The useless strava algorithm does nothing to them.  Tried to take the diplomatic approach but they continued to do what they do.  So I started flagging their rides.  This led them to blocking me and continuing to record as regular bikes on e bikes.  So I couldn’t flag their rides anymore.  Others have tried to flag their rides but they are not premium subscribers.  All that happens is a message pops up that says your flag has been created.  And the ride stands.  Pretty much all of our climbing segments are now irrelevant.  Thanks strava!

We had a guy down here in Tampa doing the exact same thing... taking local legends and coming tantalizingly close to getting KOM's on his e-bike.  You need to read this help article:   https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/206522304-How-to-Report-Cheating-on-Strava   I collected all the info like they said and opened a ticket, and worded it nicely.

They basically erased him from the leaderboards and set his profile page to private. This took less than two days from me opening the ticket(!)  I was very pleased. I hope it works out for you


Yes, I did the same thing.  Compiled links to his rides, including pictures from the rides with the e-bike.  It worked for a year or so but now he’s back.  Not sure if it was a 1 year ban or what but since he blocked me I cannot take any further action.  Beyond frustrating and ruins the integrity of the leaderboards and the strava experience in general...


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