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I noticed that someone recently asked that the minimum length of mountain bike Segments be decreased and the post was quickly archived by an admin on the basis that reverting Strava changes could not be discussed.

I have some sympathy for the poster - I was also somewhat frustrated by the recent increase in minimum length of bike Segments from 300m to 500m.  In my area there has been some good competition over Segments about 400 to 450m in length but such Segments can no longer be created or edited (the change happened as I was working on a new Segment of about 450m - it now finishes closer to a T junction than I would like but editing is no longer possible).

I don't remember seeing any requests from Strava users for such a change in the previous Strava Support forums so I wonder if someone at Strava could give some background to their reasons for making the change and their methodologies for determining minimum Segment lengths for each Activity type ?  Clearly measurement accuracy is a factor on shorter Segments, but even on a 300m bike Segment the accuracy should be within a couple of % which seems OK.

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

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