Hey @L_McLoskey ,

That's a great question. The activity data you see on your dashboard may be slightly different from activity to activity depending on the activity type and the activity itself.

For example, for a running activity, the elevation will appear in place of pace/speed if the elevation gain is greater than 100ft per mile. Otherwise, pace/speed will be visible on the dashboard.

The information you see may also be dependent on the length of the text. For example, if you are not seeing elevation or pace but an empty space this may be because the time and distance take up more room on the screen, and therefore the next set of data (elevation or pace) is not displayed since there is limited room.

With all due respect, I don't think you answered the question, @Bryant. The question was "HOW can I change that?". So, how can one see his/her maximum speed on the dashboard instead of calories? Is it configurable by the user?

Hey @Miroslav,

I apologize for the misunderstanding. Unfortunately, this is not configurable by the user.

Hm, OK. And yet some users I know personally show "Max Speed" as the default, while mine (and most others I know) shows "Calories." So if a user cannot modify/customize it, please explain WHY this difference exists? I can even provide screenshots. It's 100% the case, but nobody knows why.

This is a design flaw. I want to see average heart rate. I care less about calories or elevation. Can you put this to the dev guys and get an eta?

Same here, I've just spotted my mates Strava on his phone screenshot this morning & his shows Max speed, but mine calories. I know he's not altered his. There must be some way to do this.
And he did same ride as me this morning.

I have noticed if I track my ride as a “ride” get Max Speed on the dashboard but if I track it as “Mountain Bike Ride” I get Calories instead of Max Speed on the dashboard. I agree with you that this would be nice to be configurable.

Not sure if you have figured this out yet but the trick, for anyone who is having the same problem with max speed not displaying is to uncheck all the boxes for the “type of ride” you can change this on previous rides through edit activity and then it’ll display the max speed on the dashboard. 

What is the solution? Is anyone working on it?

Thanks for the suggestion, but that does not work. I have all the "type of ride" boxes unchecked, but Max Speed does NOT appear on the activities, but Calories, instead.

This is still unanswered (and unresolved). I'm told there is no way to do that, and yet Strava already shows Max Speed on the activities for some people! 
Here is a screenshot of two recent rides: One of mine (with the activity showing "Calories") and one of a friend (with the activity showing "Max Speed"). I asked this person how they did it, and they responded "I don't know. I didn't change any setting!"  So obviously Strava can do this, and yet we cannot?? We can't even get a simple answer about it??
BTW: It's super annoying and dumb that Strava does not allow you to upload pics to the community conversations. So I had to upload it to Dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/50zf1t7bzbxr19wbfuzhg/Strava_screenshots.jpg?rlkey=0arxs5a6b6fa43ghgw2aszezc&dl=0

See my latest reply, with screenshots. So Strava is already doing this for some users, and yet we can't get a straight answer about why or how I can also do it. 🙄

As Bryant had explained the app decides automatically what is shown and what not. That's of course suboptimal for us users but it was a straight answer anyway.

This does not change the fact that I see this option as interesting for users in the future. Someone should work on it. I'd rather see the average heart rate there, for example.

You cannot have it in run mode running mode only shows you pace. Open the run you wanna see and then change it to soccer and save it, then it should show your max speed. I was able to do this with old runs.  

I was running into this same thing and found a fix by removing my weight from my profile. After removing weight, calories no longer populated on my activity results page for rides, and has been replaced by max speed. 

For anyone interested: Another user suggested the following "solution" (I put solution in quotation marks because it's really just a workaround): In your profile under "settings", REMOVE your weight.
Now every ride will show your MAX SPEED, instead of the wildly-inaccurate calories stat.
Yay!!

THANKS @DP1 ! That works.

I can't even find out where to get to the weight setting.
If anyone can talk me through it from start to finish on phone or PC.
On phone, I see You, settings spanner star sign top right corner, Display, no weight in there. 

@MickRoberts You can edit/remove your weight via the website from My Profile. In the (iOS) app, tap You in the bottom-right, then tap your portrait in the upper-left, then Edit on the right side of the screen.

Thanks, I've found that Remove my weight through My Profile on the Link you sent, but couldn't find it anywhere through Strava Links.
I've now removed my weight & hope on next ride to see if Max Speed shows. Calories is still showing on past rides, not Max speed.