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I know that Strava doesn't want to support motorsports, but people want to track their dirt bike rides, and so they are using E-bike activities to do that. Where I live there are a lot of mixed use trails, so people on their dirt bikes are messing up the segments for actual E-bike activities. Just add an activity for motorcycles, easy solution. I don't currently ride a dirt bike, but if I did, I would want to track it too.  ... View more

I am currently using my phone (iPhone) with the Strava app when I record my activities. Sometimes, I get these wildly amazing performances like running running 400m in 33 seconds - a feat I know I can't do, and I have been outdone by many non world record holders.  What I'd like to suggest is to have "route smoothing" that is automatic (maybe you have to opt in or opt out of the option) and takes out all the irregularities of the inaccurate GPS. I use Adobe products and this is a option in Adobe for vectors, I'm sure this is something that can be coded, perhaps using the native GPS route and refining it or even the cumulation of multiple distances over a regular Route or Segment - i.e. the same street can't be 1.2km for one athlete and 1.4km for another. (this could also apply to groups running together, one athlete running the same route as another is somehow faster or runs longer, often not the case) Perhaps a use case for AI? I've attached an example from my ride today. That blip would have been a very brief 1 or 2 seconds, at speeds very different from the rest of my ride.  ... View more

Please add turn by turn audio directions so we don’t have to always be looking at our phone while on an activity. I’d personally use this for cycling but I imagine it’s useful for many other activities as well.  Pros If you need to save battery you could turn your phone screen off and navigate purely by the audio directions. (For activities where you may be watching the app mid-activity, like cycling) Saves you from the disruption of pulling out your phone for directions mid-activity. Stay in your flow! Not having to look at your phone in a busy area is safer, especially on a bike. Completes Strava as a navigation app, meaning less need for other devices, and people are more likely to subscribe for Strava Premium.  ... View more

Why aren't the segments of MTB and eMTB not the same? it's easy, just create 2 different rankings for each existing segment, one for MTB and one for eMTB. me and my friends who switched to eMTB, we realized that there are very few segments marked for eMTB, less than 10% compared to those for MTB.  ... View more

Others have pointed out that Strava route finder sometimes uses very unsafe roads.  Frequently the excuse for this is that Strava uses OpenStreetMap as the underlying map.  But that doesn't cover the issue of what is safe or otherwise feels safe.  OpenStreeMap doesn't record how cyclist feel about particular legal routes and doesn't record actual cases of incidents. The issue of unsafe roads has been a huge problem since cycling route finders began.  Strava's heatmap based is a really powerful tool for finding fun rides. However mapping the roads that cyclists frequently use only get's half the picture. Feature request: Let cyclists mark sections of roads a "no-go" or "do not use". If this was immediately part of the Routes UI it could either record for just that one route or all future routes for the user. While it would be really useful for just that user, it would also provide information to Strava so that Strava could build up an inverse heatmap of undesirable roads to overlay with the heatmap of popular roads. Eg: if I have a ride which contained a really hair raising section of busy and dangerous road, the first thing I do when I get home is to "fix" the route to avoid it.  Currently, I must pull the route off the undesirable road.  But what would be much better is to simply mark that section of road as "no go" and let the route finder figure out the alternative. Why heatmap isn't enough Here in the UK there's a fairly obvious collection of unsafe / undesirable roads.  Literally any road number starting with "A" and a speed limit above 30mph with no off road cycle path (eg: A34).  These are legal for cyclists! But it most other respects they are a motorway / freeway. And yet A roads too often get used in strava route finder and show up on the heatmap.  One explanation for this is that local knowledge can sometimes trump the danger.  For example A roads can be subject to a lot of slow moving traffic at peak times and commuter cyclists will take advantage of the traffic jams. "Sure I'll cycle along that road at 8:30 am on my way to work, but at any other time I'd get killed" It is complex, because sometimes an A road is fine for 100m if there's a disjointed cross roads.  Sometimes you just have to cross the A road, and that's legal and (mostly) fine.  But that's a totally different story to a route taking me down 5-6 miles of A road. A heatmap marking a road is undesirable would be a good way to counter the inevitble truth that undesirable roads also show up in the heatmap sometimes.   Mods please note: This is not remotely related to this other feature request ... View more

It would be really useful to be able to filter My Activities by the geographical location. Potentially allowing users to browse their heat map and when they click on an area of their heat map it lists all activities that occurred on that point.  ... View more

I think adding Boxing as a sport to track will be a very useful addition to Strava because then I could track boxing workout classes in its own category. This is important to me because it would clearly specify what type of workout I just completed. An example of when I need this is when I take boxing or martial arts classes. ... View more

It would be nice to have the ability to create goals based on saved routes instead of just segments. It would be nice to have a route that you want to run and be like, “I want to complete that in XX minutes/hours” and not have to run it first, convert it into a segment, set a goal for it, and then run it again. ... View more

Hi Strava and the Strava Community.  This may have happened to you, you have put your best effort in to gain a KOM or QOM only to find that you are second, but second to someone who was assisted in some way. We all know how E-Bikes now have their own category as the purists who use completely human power to get their achievements didn't want to share a results table with those with assistance.  I know how you feel, well imagine that you have no lost your KOM/QOM to a runner or cyclist who has DOG POWER pulling them along. These dogs can get runners around 5km in times that only Mo Farah can dream about, we have broken the 13 minute barrier for 5km at Parkrun. On the bikes they can be even quicker and also cross country and uphills see substantially quicker times due to the dog assistance.  We only ask for 3 new sub categories to be created under the Run category a sub group of CaniCross, under bike 2 new categories, CaniBike and CaniScoot. Each will have the same features as the normal, but it allows our times and KOMs to be recorded separately and not skewing the pure results, ParkRun enabled this facility to list run as assisted, can STRAVA do the same.  I have asked this of Strava many times, its top of a suggestions list on the Strava support page with 50% more votes than the second suggestion. Thanks for reading and I hope that you can support this feature request and allow the good times to roll again without these **bleep** dogs skewing your results. Tight lines and Hike On. Simon ... View more

Strava lets you set up multiple bikes so that you can easily track the mileage accumulated on components, but there isn’t a solution for the scenario where you have one bike, and multiple wheelsets. For example, when you have a gravel bike with 700c, and 650b wheelsets. I would love to be able to: Set up multiple wheelsets in the Gear section in Strava and give each one a short name Assign a default wheelset to a specific bike Be able to manually select which wheelset was in use for a ride activity (see example UI) This would help me accurately track the wear and tear on my different wheels and their components: tyres, disc brake rotors, cassettes; hubs, spokes, rims. This is particularly important for gravel and mountain bike wheel sets where parts wear much more quickly. That said, the request is also applicable for folks who ride road bikes, because more and more, they have multiple wheelsets as well. I currently have a gravel bike with a 700c wheelset with 40mm tyres, and a 650b wheelset with 2.4" tyres, and I'm constantly switching between the two, depending on what ride I'm doing. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and we have a lot of terrain options for gravel biking. Being able to track which wheelset I'm using for which rides, would be so helpful! ... View more

Hi, What do you guys think about introducing a second point system to stay motivated for Zone 2/endurance training? It would be great to have a second scale for endurance points alongside the fitness points. During periods of endurance training, the fitness points start to drop. However, if I could see an increase in my endurance on the second system, that would be reassuring for me cheers   ... View more

Just got my ultra human ring and wish I could connect it from the Strava app as a device. And not just sync my work outs from the ultra human app. I like the Strava app and its features to log my work outs.  ... View more

Disc golf is one of the faster growing sports/activities in the world (especially N. America, Europe, & Australia).  It combines hiking and the aerobic activity of throwing, working core, legs, and arms.  I currently log my disc golf as hiking, but I occasionally hike as well and would very much like to differentiate a pure hike from my disc golf. ... View more

Segments are a big feature of Strava and I think everything should be done to keep them as legit as possible. However I often see people riding ebikes but don't know/care about setting the correct type of their activity once uploaded. Since it defaults to classic bike (non assisted), it leads to pollution of the leaderboards with performances achieved only thanks to the assistance.  To address this issue I suggest the following :   Make segment leaderboards accessible only to rides with a selected "gear" (bike) Make ebike an option of the gear setup : it is either an ebike or it is not. No one seriously rides an ebike with the motor turned off 100% of the time, setting it per-ride makes no sense. Use the ebike (on or off) flag of the selected gear (bike) to set the correct activity type upon upload (bike or ebike).  If the gear is changed on an existing activity, flag it accordingly (ebike or regular). If the user want's to change an existing gear from "ebike" to "classic bike", at least ask for a solid confirmation as this is most likely someone trying to be outsmart the system... The idea behind this is to not rely on the user's good will to set the correct activity type for each upload. It would make things automatic, given the initial action of creating the gear. If none is selected/created, then we can assume that the user does not care that much about performance, and has no interest in leaderboards anyways. In the end both ebikes and regular bikes segment leaderboards would make more sense to people who actually care about them, without making things any harder for users. P.S I have nothing against ebikes, they're fantastic but deserve their own separate leaderboards as in any bike race allowing both types of bikes ! ... View more

Allow challenge creator / participants to invite other athletes by sharing a link to the challenge instead of adding athletes one by one. ... View more

update from Strava: Hello and thank you all for your votes and comments on this suggestion.  This has been implemented and you can now hide the start time as well as other details from your activities when they appear in other athletes’ feeds or when others view your activity. The full list is below: Heart rate Pace or speed Power Calories Start Time For more information and to learn how to activate this feature, please visit this link. Again, sincere thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. A long awaited feature, listed already several times in the previous community forum. I even had an interview with Strava staff in 2019 about this: hide start time. Why ? I do not like the idea to log my position on the internet, but I like segments and sharing with friends. Then the compromise to have the day and NOT the time of activities would be acceptable. ... View more

I suggest making available the selection of activities for which you want to see the heatmap during planning, or at least the global heatmaps. Currently the visible heatmaps are only those corresponding to the activity you are planning, and, especially with regards to personal heatmaps, it is rather frustrating: if I have been in a place during a walk or a running activity, little changes in my opinion! ... View more

When I look at the "Relative Effort" section of my rides, I see a graph called "Weekly Effort." This graph usually makes no sense.  If I look at the ride on Monday morning, it will compare my effort for that one day to the entire week prior and always tells me my efforts are below average. It would be much more helpful if the graph and analysis were done on a rolling 7-day basis.  It would be helpful to know how I'm doing for the last week vs the prior week, no matter what day I look at it. ... View more

As someone with somewhat limited vision, I'd very much appreciate if font sizes in the iOS phone app were bigger, or,  much better - adjustable. Either in the app settings, or via Apple's dynamic type.  See https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility "Dynamic Type lets people pick the font size that works for them." ... View more