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How to find an e-bike segment by name


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How do I view the details of an e-bike segment when I just have it's name?

I used the 'Don't see the segment you're looking for' feature to show me other segments in the area of my E-Bike ride - this gives me the name of a segment that I want to look at. But there seems to be no way of actually seeing the segment details.

The segment I'm interested in doesn't ever appear on the segments map - maybe because it's not well used? Even if I had the segment ID number I could look it up that way - but I can't get any info about it apart from the name. 

Any ideas?

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Jan_Mantau
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  • January 10, 2024

I fear there isn't a reliable way, the ride segment search is mostly unuseful, the ebike segment search not existing and Strava doesn't allow search machines to index segment sites. Maybe you know some other ebike riders in your neighborhood to scan their activities or ebike segment top tens for this segment name.


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  • January 15, 2024

You're probably right - it took them way too long to get e-bike segments to show on a 'search map', so it'll probably be another long wait until they manage to get 'search by name' sorted as well.

But in the meantime they'll keep spamming my e-mail with 'kudos' and other motivational rubbish - that's obviously what's keeping their developers busy!


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I’d love for strava to about turn and just let us have all the cycling segments but prefix it with e- so segmentx becomes e-segmentx. Strava seems focussed on guarding the kom/qom from the e-bike menace whilst missing that actually by definition 99.9999% of us aren’t kom and are just interested in segments for self competition. Some of the segments I ride have 6000 attempts, I come 4500th and I still look at them, why make it hard for me to look at them when I ride my ebike


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Oh wait - 

 

 

we do love them. Just in a gaslighting kind of way


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And of course like all good gaslighters they closed the comments! That’s hilarious. My rides this winter are all E. E-bike outside cause I just got one and I want to zone 2 in the cold for variety, e-trainer inside cause I want to keep my training up. Only one of these is regarded as real cycling by strava yet 26% of rides are e-bike - seriously???


Jan_Mantau
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  • February 15, 2025

@Stukonthebike Why don’t you recreate your most often used segments for your ebike rides?


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Easy to say, hard to do in practise. I tried this morning,  doesnt  seem possible on the phone so presumably I need to use a computer every time I want to do this


Jan_Mantau
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A computer would be much better for this but if it’s really important to you you could try it in the web browser on your smartphone.


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