Bug in list of shoes

Hello @dethier1958 

Thanks for posting about this.  When you enter shoes in the system, the capitalization and formatting will revert to the formatting in our database. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to adjust this at this point in time.

Sorry for the confusion!

This issue has persisted, and I noticed that previous feedback has been archived. Why? This is clearly a bug! For example, the shoes name "Vaporfly 3 Volt" changes to "VaporFly 3 Volt" after saving, and "Novablast 3" changes to "NovaBlast 3". These are the official standard names. Please do not arbitrarily change the letters to uppercase!

The workaround for this is to use a different space character in the name of your shoes. Try using this one instead (between the periods):

. .

If that doesn’t work, visit this page and copy the Punctuation Space character, which should be the width of a regular space. If your shoes don’t have a space in their name, but a dash, you can use an en-dash instead (⇧⌥- on a Mac keyboard; can’t remember on Windows).

Things do get more complicated for first-generation products that are made up of only letters, but Unicode is full of lookalike letters you might be able to sub-in.

Obviously, I too would prefer if Strava could fix the names in the database, but I guess that could result in a lot of overhead for them, especially if people become vocal in their disagreement of what the “official” name is.

I already did something similar, using two spaces instead of one. I can't imagine it would be a "lot of overhead" to fix their list of shoes. More like 5-10 minutes work for one of their web developers.

This bug has been bothering me since the first day I started using Strava. I know that those who don't care about correct spelling might think this is nitpicking, but I really hope that an app I use every day can get such an important feature right. It's clearly a bug.

• Strava always tries to be clever in formatting the names of gear, but many are incorrect.