9 Strava Features I Wish I’d Known About

[@alfonsoadiego]

Still there is a feature missing, what about being able to report a KOM or segment being done with e bike?? Doesn’t feel fair tbh

[@Guernica-Green]

You can flag a ride and they look into it, I’ve done it when someone clearly had the bike on the roof of a car !!

[@ssaunders2k]

@@Guernica-Greendon’t think you can do that from the app though. So need to use a pc.

[@erlendsteren9466]

@@Guernica-Green I once had a segment with the bike on the car, took me several months before I figured how to delete it, but it was no KOM, 9 riders were faster, because it was 60 km/h -zone and 0,5% down and a road uesed by pro-riders.

[@nickgibson6563]

Don’t worry what others are doing tbh….live your own life

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

@@ssaunders2kjust use your phone’s browser. Literally takes 2 minutes and boom, segment/activity flagged & most of the time the activity is deleted. I’ve done that many times

[@richardtaylor1687]

Connor’s best efforts - 40km @ 112 km/hr. Amongst others! Nice riding!!

[@tanaybuch9181]

😂😂😂😂😂 The 100+ kmph average speeds was the first thing I noticed too

[@gcn]

[@AleksiJoensuu]

I managed to ride about 8-10k at over 800kph once 😂 My old phone's power settings just wouldn't agree with me. I took off riding and checked my phone a while later, and it showed me moving that 8-10k near instantly.

[@shamendra.sakthivel]

Checked the ride right now, the cadence was at 0 the whole time. Man I would love a 40k descent 😂

[@triggamusician]

But he really tried hard at his local climb and only came in top 95%. That's also Conor xD

[@leoania]

Strava is an integral part of my cycling so glad they keep improving and more than happy to pay to help sustain this fantastic tool. Works out at well under 5% of my annual cycling budget (tyres, bike servicing, consumables, fuel, annual training camp, British cycling membership etc..). Wish those who want something for nothing thought the same.

[@terrellpickett7904]

Strava Premium needs to add an “equipment” section to Gear so that you can track miles on consumables. With multiple bikes, it’d be great to know how many miles on tires, chains, or even drivetrains.

[@sb__ca]

It’s already a feature and even accessible to non-subscriber!

[@terrellpickett7904]

@@sb__caon mobile?

[@mtbert9307]

I’ll never forgive them for putting segments behind the pay wall

[@EzRay11]

I’m a road cyclist. Paid Strava subscription. I am considering quitting Strava all together or unfollowing several people. I want to see cycling. However, Strava has become like FaceBook. I have people posting walks, Tai Chi, swimming, shovelling the driveway (seriously), working out at the gym. I even had one guy playing the guitar and posted it on Strava because it was a finger work out! WTF I want to choose which activities go to my feed! Come on Strava, it’s time for this feature.

[@patrickhopkins5626]

Why quit something that helps you keep track and push when you can simply groom your feed and/or adjust filters?

[@BertieBrink1]

I recorded my Rammstein concert... burned 1800 calories in the mosh pit worth knowing how to fuel for the next day ride/run 🤣

[@barriobarranco]

I've had several days cutting, splitting and stacking wood that are more worthy of a "workout" than some toodle around on a road bike tbh... at the end I was KOM (Knackered Old Man)

[@SutherlandBoswell]

I started using ActivityFix to automate a lot of things Strava hasn't implemented yet, I highly recommend it. I also recommend that Strava look at it themselves to see how many features they're missing...

[@chrisb5824]

Guilty here! Recorded .38 mile in a pedalo (pink flamingo) on a lake near mount Fuji. Marginal gains towards my annual target 🎉😂😂

[@marcandrep]

All i need is flag ebike rideRS (NOT rides)

[@bterwijn]

Tag a commute manually? This is the 21st century, why can't we give home and work locations so commutes are auto detected? Maybe we are not sending Strava enough of our hard-earned money.

[@SonnyDarvishzadeh]

Valid point, but that's really into smart features / AI. Their website pages take over a second to load each time and that's known to be a trivial web performance topic that they have left since the beginning. Also, when recording with a smartwatch for example, you can use "Bike Commute" profile and strava will mark it as commute when the file is synced from the watch.

[@BS-xs7jb]

Don't mind this as much as them apparently being unwilling to actually do anything with rides tagged as commutes. Would love to get a monthly summary of CO2 saved bike commuting or total stats of how much commuting vs just riding for the sake of it I've done etc but nada

[@GlenFerguson]

I'd suggest checking out the website/service ActivityFix

[@galenkehler]

Activity Fix allows you to tag this automatically by location or route or all kinds of other parameters (for free too)

[@b27625]

Strautomator does this free

[@tonythomas8435]

Thanks Connor! Very good vid. Didn't know about hiding start time and flyover features. Those are now my favorites and will be used a lot!

[@albertkikstra]

Your best efforts are pretty impressive. 100 km in 1 hour 52 minutes! Chapeau.

[@Orangetrackstudio]

Sorry Connor but isn't top 95% another way of saying bottom 5%?

[@2009socalroadie]

Problem with dark mode is that as you click on notifications they don’t change color from lighter to darker like they do with out dark mode. When you have a lot of notifications is hard to remember where you left off.

[@justdan6869]

So upload activities then edit hide start time why not have this feature under privacy control on or off

[@barriobarranco]

Needs a feature to work out that a MTB on a roof rack cannot take a road section KOM... I've been sad enough to flag a few ridiculous KOM's, and it seems to disappear instantly without them even querying it with the offender...or, do they just remove it from MY page so I think it's been done, would someone else then looking at that segment still see the offender??

[@Patrik6606]

Tried to wave the fly away from the connors screen until I realized it was the mouse printer 😂

[@P4vlie]

I just use Strava to record the distances I ride and the overall time. Auto stop and start works when it wants and segment times are useless as the signal can take seconds to record your location and give false readings. Take care using it as trying to beat your own and other peoples segment times can lead to risk taking, endangering yourself and others. On a brighter note, there's going to be weather tomorrow.

[@annawatkinson-powell6821]

I wish you could separate heat maps to diffiferent sports when using in the app. Only seems to be enabled on desktop version. I find it hard on heatmaps to work out what is on/off road.

[@tweeling1977]

5:54 connor trilogy the saga continues, may the pedal force be with you😂

[@gcn]

[@daysbeforedawn5096]

Could you look into the Philippines? They seem to have mtbs with a rigid fork called a "crit build set up"

[@FiveeyesSkateboarding]

and yet I still can't see my elevation gain during a recording/ ride or my average speed, unless i stop and pause recording, surely these 2 would be simpler to do than half the things on this list

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

Buy a proper bike computer

[@lovemesomedetail]

hide start time is a feature that was only invented cause post covid people still work home office a lot and go enjoy the weather during working hours and I love it

[@Alexey_12]

that they didn’t say anything about the new family subscription?

[@samanthawalker6677]

Do you know if there is any way we can make folders to store our routes in. I have 150 routes all over the world that 'I might just need'.

[@Oxibase]

5 miles at a speed of 136.6kph?! That’s like 85 miles per hour.

[@gcn]

not bad for a 6ft 8" Parachute

[@zoltanpataki]

I use the hide start time for workhour rides..😅 I work even harder during that time.. just not on what I am supposed to work.

[@chaseweeks2708]

The one feature I want right now is native support for power meters.

[@paulgordon7526]

Hi Connor, I'm not a Strava subscriber but have the best efforts showing. (are you sure about that one?)

[@FThisFThat]

Connor just wanted to flex his Best Efforts 😅… I mean… I would to tbh! 👏🏻

[@gcn]

What’s your favourite feature on Strava? Did we miss any hidden gems that you think deserve a mention? 👇

[@adamweb]

I probably sound like a cranky old caveman but I have actually never used Strava... Garmin Connect has always had enough data for me!

[@peterleffler2062]

Garmin connect is arguably better technically but lacks the social media vibe.

[@zevrobins905]

strava (which sponsors gcn iirc) is a tool for training/fitness tracking. i have my fitness watch synced to it but i keep the competition to actual races.

[@Ruggine85]

All I need is to assign a specific default bike to a specific activity (ride va indoor), and evens better to specific routes (eg commuting). TL;DR: Specific bikes for specific activities

[@gregorysmedley8322]

15km dash for my Sunday morning coffee after my GCN catchup, saved 3.38 kg CO2 😄

[@Jaderoselima]

Is it safe for women? I know you said I can hide start time but if I post my run regularly will people know where I live? I’m trying to figure out if its more beneficial for me to be public or I need to stick to a private account

[@swites]

You can hide the start and end of your rides in the settings in strava.

[@cb6866]

Thanks Conor , and crew . I really need these .

[@gcn]

We're glad that it has been useful to you

[@cb6866]

@@gcn your channel is incredibly useful to me , an older , newer , rider

[@queenchanglix998]

Good video guys 🤗👍

[@GearsnCoffee]

3rd best 40k today! I didn't start paying attention to these until recently.

[@gcn]

[@ignore-fv7rc]

all of this should have been in Strava 10 years ago. now Strava just needs to buy the Sauce extension to get to where they should be

[@jgcoppens]

On a group ride, shake your phone to give all a thumbs up.

[@okantichrist]

What?

[@fbdtravel2594]

nice analysis... thanx... at the coffee overlay we have to subscribe so to use it and we can spot or point other things like free dogs on the road for example? regards

[@torandi]

The commute Co2 saved is silly, and the reason I stopped tagging my commutes as such. It's comparing it to if I would have driven, which isn't what I would have done Would have taken the subway if I didn't bike.

[@NinjaElephant]

It’s actually quite handy I figured some time later when calculating work bike km for tax purposes.

[@georgemannjr]

4k video option please...

[@stank2902]

Adding a missing POI ? Many times I found a toilet/water fountain that wasn’t on the map

[@glennicol1361]

The fastest times on my local climb are apparently 3 times faster than what the best world tour riders could on a 10% climb... 5000 VAM

[@ivostarmans1199]

New best effort 20 and 30 km. Downhill from the Mont Ventoux 😂

[@neilcam]

Extremely annoying that the flyover thing is only available on the phone app, which I don't use, and not the website.

[@davidutassy9081]

And you can plan Strava Art with GPSArtify 😊

[@OldDavo1950]

Fly bys which is there but is an opt in, alot dont know about it now. Hard to think that everyone opted out. When you could if wanted ride together.

[@alaneastham8812]

No one opted out. I believe it was a mass security setting change by Strava. You had to go in and re-enable.

[@OldDavo1950]

@@alaneastham8812 Which most people dont do, not important to them. Or just dont know.

[@markgunnison]

I wish I could tag a ride as a commute and receive normal stats. I don't care about my carbon savings. I commute for fitness - I want normal stats. Since they made that change I no longer code my rides as commutes.

[@realvaughnfelix]

TURN BY TURN directions is the only thing I wish they'd improve! :(

[@Yurkevich22]

Save that carbon people, do more commuting! We need all that carbon for frames and parts!! lol

[@6ft8incyclist]

Fully understand us 6 ft 8in cyclist never get KOM rides.. But a few weeks ago on Zwift i did get a Polka Dot Jersey. It must had been a computer glitch.

[@NZLKevin88]

0:41 - 13055m climb?

[@decky9995]

Did Strava sponsor this video?

[@nicolasontheroad3201]

How on earth did you do 137 kph average over 10K? 😲

[@bezlistosnypozeraczkebabow6513]

Best efforts are now available without subscription

[@Try2Tri]

Will people now start advertising on their profiles "top 1% (Strava)"? 🤔

[@entirelyordinaryadventures]

Great to be able to see how much carbon you save on commutes but is there any way to measure when you’ve offset the environmental cost of the bike’s manufacturing?

[@brittle1]

What's the secret to getting my whoop HR data into Strava?

[@claudsdeluca]

Click bait title sheesh!

[@Llados_Life]

where the ai powered training?

[@MindHacksOfficial]

New video put a smile on my face :)

[@gcn]

[@GoustiFruit]

Still looking for an alternative. Shouldn't be *that* hard to program.

[@Frostbiker]

There are many: OSMAnd, Komoot, RideWithGPS, etc. It is not a trivial amount of work at all.

[@GoustiFruit]

@@Frostbiker AFAIK, only RideWithGPS has the option to connect your sensors, and the ability to manage your segments. It's the best from the pack, but they still have annoying bugs and room for improvement (I sync my rides between Strava and RideWithGPS).

[@66mikkim]

Tbh all things you can see if you jsut look at the freakin page, nothing "secret" or hidden, like for instance the Shake your phone to give kudos to all in the groupride....

[@cjtaylor5917]

I have too many enemies. I can't be on strava

[@Some-Guy-]

And we still can't track our swimming PBs

[@jasonthelee]

your biggest climb is over 13,000m? Where on earth is that?!

[@contestjustice2012]

It combines the elevation gain throughout the ride. Not one single climb

[@jasonthelee]

@@contestjustice2012 Not sure I agree. While Strava does poorly at defining it on their support page, I only need to look back at my own Biggest Climb. When I click on the link it takes me to my ride of Mount Ashland, Oregon, highlighting only the meters gained to the summit and then ignoring the remaining elevation gain for the rest of the ride. Take a look at your own and see if it does the same.

[@WellValUa]

@@contestjustice2012 nope, it's only for a climb. what you mentioned is "elevation gain"

[@speckkatze]

Unless he started at the bottom of the mariana trench, its on a trainer. You can track digital rides

[@WellValUa]

@@speckkatze maybe he rode it on Mars

[@inz_uzi]

My favourite Strava function is log out 😂

[@songfta]

Conor: why show off a run?!? *shudder*

[@BikesKomsCRO]

Will never sub to strava unless they fix leaderboards and actually provide a good value.. Not happening.

[@jockdoc07]

Bring back Manon!

[@jeremynorth]

I don't care what you or anyone else thinks about strava

[@richardhaselwood9478]

Good for you. Lots of us however do like it.

[@alexanderbeltrao]

Day 1 of asking for a free bike

[@bobtheduffelbag7198]

First

[@bwiese]

Well done I was second

[@gcn]