Minimum Segment length ?

Really sad to see no response from Strava on this. With the switch over to eMTB and trying to recreate our local downhill segments is just impossible. So we are forced to record the ride as a normal MTB ride or lose the timed segments. 

Please please revert this Strava! 

did you ever try this? Did it work?

Come on Strava for mountain biking there is no reason why we shouldn't be able to create segments for the main trails at our local spots. I get there needs to be some minimum, but 500m is not it get real. 

I sympathise with you as a mountain biker myself many of the trails I ride are shorter than 500mtrs and it's very frustrating that we can't create shorter segments. Quite a few of us like to have a breather or just a chat between named/graded trails (or segments as strava calls them). I can also see where they are coming from with the amount of duplicated segments which have been created on my local trail. Each one of them require processing for times, local legends etc. Ideally Strava would create official segments for these trail centres. Maybe even impose limits on how many segments a person can create per week or month instead of increasing the minimum segment lenght.

This is still an outstanding issue for MTB. As a multiyear subscriber, this is disappointing enough for me to consider not renewing - its been outstanding for literal years

I agree the minimum should be reduced. Or perhaps have a new category of segments that is JUST for navigation and have a way lower minimum. No timing or anything like that. Just have them so they are visible and people know where to find them and how to follow. I am often trying out new trails and get lost trying to find them or when riding them as they intersect other trails.

+1 for this.

Trying to create some new MTB segments and 500m is just way too long, give s back our 300m segments. Surely if 300m was appropriate in the past, with newer tech that should only be decreasing not increasing. 

Strava please fix. 

I don’t buy their accuracy BS especially for mountain bike trails.  I think they’re just trying to reduce the number of segments which really sucks for mountain bikers - one of their most important user groups.  I have a trail that’s .25 miles long and I can’t make a segment b/c it’s .06 miles too short.  https://www.strava.com/activities/16545842042

Had a thought though… I can make 6 slightly longer segments so there’d be a segment whether you came from or went to one of the 3 trails at the end of this trail.  Hope they like that.  Problem is - everyone normally stops at the 4 way intersection at the end of this trail so everyone’s time will count their stopped time.  Only I will know to ride through… till some others figure it out.