1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
So this question isn't meant to spark a debate between STRAVA users and non-users. I just read an article this morning about Nick Brandt-Sorenson, aka "Thorfinn Sasquatch" (article here), the LA-based dipsh*t who just got popped for selling PEDs (and, apparently, fake PEDs) through a website that claimed to be an Anemia Education site. He was previously banned from cycling after winning the Master's National Road title in 2011 and subsequently yielding a positive drug test. He accepted his ban, retired from cycling, and then popped up again by taking all the KOMs around LA under the username "Thorfinn Sasquatch". The brings me to my question: apparently there are a number of people who feel that STRAVA should strip him of his KOMs. I get why they say that I guess - I avoided joining STRAVA for a long time because I worried about whether dangling a competition in front of me would make me ride less for fun and more for a "result", so seeing people treat those reuslts with the respect they would an official race result is understandable. But I realized that I actually really don't care about those things and joined this year and couldn't be happier with it - it's kind of like a social network for cyclists and I find now that I really enjoy seeing some of the rides the folks I follow are doing and giving them kudos for getting out. (Plus it has the added bonus of being a very handy app on my phone for when I'm an idiot and leave my Garmin at home - there are no more non-official rides!)
So do you look at your STRAVA results as important and worthy of protection when someone with a possible unfair advantage takes them away for you? And by extension, do you get pissed when you look at a segment and see the the KOM is a ridiculous and impossible time (e.g., I forget where it was specifically, but I saw one recently where I think the KOM was like twice as fast as anyone else on a pretty short segment, which was realistically impossible)? Do you think STRAVA should monitor these kind of things?
So do you look at your STRAVA results as important and worthy of protection when someone with a possible unfair advantage takes them away for you? And by extension, do you get pissed when you look at a segment and see the the KOM is a ridiculous and impossible time (e.g., I forget where it was specifically, but I saw one recently where I think the KOM was like twice as fast as anyone else on a pretty short segment, which was realistically impossible)? Do you think STRAVA should monitor these kind of things?
