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We just had a mountain bike race last night.  Apparently, a bunch of us had our rides auto-flagged because the system thought they were e-bike rides.  When I first looked at my ride in the mobile app, I saw a box at the top that asked me to clarify if it was an e-bike ride (ride had been flagged already).  At least it gave me an option to select “ride” at that point and it was all good for me.  For a number of others (see the links below), they did not get the notification as far as they were aware, but their rides were auto-flagged.  This was just a normal MTB race on our local trails.  We are not pro-level riders, so the efforts shouldn’t appear that extraordinary.  Heck, I don’t even think we were taking any KOMs/QOMs with the efforts, so it wasn’t even a comparison to existing times on segments.  It appears the new auto-flagging system is too sensitive if it is catching that many people in a single event that are all clearly legitimate, even with heart rate data to support it.

Here are at least 3 activities that have been auto-flagged:
https://www.strava.com/activities/14990439886

https://www.strava.com/activities/14990495805

https://www.strava.com/activities/14990827485

There were a couple others as well, but I think they were able to get theirs “unflagged” in some way, possibly by switching the activity type to something else and then back again.  

Nice examples and “too sensitive” describes this silly bug even a bit too generous.  28 km/h downhill and 18 km/h on a flat segment are excluded from leaderboards? That’s just ridiculous.


It happens to me too. On the ride I go to, I notice that about a third of all riders got their activity flagged. This is beyond ridiculous.

The other riders seem to be able to unflag their activities. On my side, I have not been able to unflag my latest activity, no matter what I tried.


I always hate when I look back later and realized I made a typo in the subject title.  Oops.  Just scrolled past it and something didn’t look right.  Oh well, it won’t let me edit the title so it will have to remain.  I’m not that “sesnitive” about these things 🤣


Hi ​@anchskier, appreciate the feedback on the flagging system. I’ve taken note of this thread and the feedback in it and have shared it with the appropriate product team. 

 

(I also went ahead and updated the title!) 


I'm noticing ebike tagged activities with the opposite issue, namely they are not being autoflagged, when it's obviously not been ridden on an ebike that complies with UK road law and is getting motor assistance above ~15.5mph or 25kph.

For example, a rider in my area boasted that his new ebike was chipped to get motor assistance to 20mph on its first activity a few years ago.

Yesterday, this rider went up a 1.25 mile climb (Beeches Hill, Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire UK) that averages 3.8%, but starts very gently at an average speed of 19.6mph for 3mins50secs, absolute nonsense!

Above 15.5mph, all the speed should be from the power generated by the rider and none by the ebike motor, he's on an ebike MTB that weighs at least ~23Kg+ and yet he would easily get top 10 for the normal road bike leaderboard with yesterday's effort against local "aliens" on bikes weighing ~8Kg!

He's just one ebike rider among 10+ riders I've spotted in Hampshire making a mockery of ebike leaderboards on public roads, getting motor assistance way above the UK legal limit of 15.5mph (usually around 20mph).

I'm trying to clean up the Hampshire ebike public road leaderboards, I've aware of the 10 flag limit per 24 hours, but unusually I've had a yellow banner appear that tells me I do not have permission to flag activity despite my last flag being more than 24 hours ago.


@NOTG There are many countries were ebikes are allowed to have motor support above 25 kph. The Strava rules only state that motorcycles must not use the ebike sport type.


Hi ​@Marya ! Had the same issue of normal ride being considered e-bike, and so did friends. As this seems to be happening all-over, any chance our rides can be “revalidated”? Performances were nothing crazy. Who cam we contact to correct this?


@NOTG There are many countries were ebikes are allowed to have motor support above 25 kph. The Strava rules obly state that motorcycles must not use the ebike sport type.

Can you point me to Stava rules that say an ebike ride should not be flagged, when displaying signs of motor assistance above the country’s road legal limit of 25kph, please?


@NOTG There are many countries were ebikes are allowed to have motor support above 25 kph. The Strava rules obly state that motorcycles must not use the ebike sport type.

Can you point me to Stava rules that say an ebike ride should not be flagged, when displaying signs of motor assistance above the country’s road legal limit of 25kph, please?

This thread is about auto flagging, not about what you may or may not flag manually. Strava uses the same rules for auto flagging everywhere on the world and independent on each country’s laws.