Will Strava remove all Vaporfly Cheated Segments once they have been banned?

No but strava should remove all the idiots that are king of running segments done on a bike!

Comparison should be with yourself wrote:

Anyone can spoof their data files right now. Where do you live? I can whip one up in a few minutes. What does it mean to you if someone can cheat and take you out of that top spot? Would you still want to keep running? Is it really only strava segments that get you out the door? Is that the right motivation for long-term running happiness?

All I can say is that it's been a great motivation for my long-term running happiness. It help me keep true to my fitness, keep my mileage up, keep my easy runs easy, etc just to know I could go out the door tomorrow morning or whenever I choose and take out a CR. I'm not enslaved to waiting weeks for some organised event, conditions on the day, feeling good on that particular day to get my sense of running achievement.

As to the cheating, yes I know people can do these things but it's generally pretty easy to spot flag them on the basis I mentioned before or sometimes you see a clear GPS discontinuity - a jump in one second between two points miles (not literally) away.

nshhsh wrote:

No but strava should remove all the idiots that are king of running segments done on a bike!

This.

Plenty of people are flooding strava with biking activity declared as "runs" by mistake or errors.

Worse are the "bike and runs" activities declared as "runs" as it is intentionnal.

Are strava segments UCI sanctioned now? My advise is wait of a decent tail wind before trying to steal them back.

I literally could spoof all the GPS points of a run right now. I could insert fake cadence values in my .tcx file, fake speeds and everything. It would be indistinguishable from the real thing.

Stravazzi wrote:

josh1988 wrote:

How much faster do you think vaporflys are compared to the next fastest shoe? I'm genuinely curious.

I believe it's ~ 15/20 seconds per mile.

This point was when you all should have realized this was a troll post.

skruB wrote:

Stravazzi wrote:

I believe it's ~ 15/20 seconds per mile.

This point was when you all should have realized this was a troll post.

On other sites, I look for troll posts to be funny or well-conceived, so I ruled this one out.

skruB wrote:

Stravazzi wrote:

I believe it's ~ 15/20 seconds per mile.

This point was when you all should have realized this was a troll post.

That's no troll. I'm pretty comfortable through my own research with that being a fact for most 16-17 range 5k guys. Higher end obviously less.

Sorry you can't afford the shoes.

nshhsh wrote:

No but strava should remove all the idiots that are king of running segments done on a bike!

Just flag it bro, it goes away automatically

Fantastic! It's happening folks...

Do you think previously set World Records will be invalidated? I certainly hope so.

And I hope that Strava would remove any Vaporfly listed footwear from Segments / peoples prs / etc. This would give us a reset clean playing field at all levels.

Stravazzi wrote:

Fantastic! It's happening folks...

Do you think previously set World Records will be invalidated? I certainly hope so.

And I hope that Strava would remove any Vaporfly listed footwear from Segments / peoples prs / etc. This would give us a reset clean playing field at all levels.

Did you read the article you linked to? It says right there in the text that no records will be stricken.

The 4% and Next% aren't going to be banned (nor will any of the prototypes that other companies have presented) and even if WA did ban them it would only be for elite competition. Us plebs could still use them and they could still count on Strava segments.

You're concerned about vapor flies for local segments on Strava? I can guarantee you most of them in our area are done by people who are "running" but actually on a bike.

Moran of the year. IAAF restrictions will only apply to pro/elite racing. Good luck complaining about the 30k pairs of VFs at boston

Why the f do you care about strava segment times

This is the most pathetic thread out of all the useless nonsense ever posted on this website. It combines all the worst aspects of the vaporfly obsession and the inexplicable fixation on Strava segments. I am extremely bored and depressed with all of this. The WA ruling can't come quickly enough, although it is probably too much to ask that the ruling would somehow bring the discussion to the end, most likely the opposite will happen.

Just wait till the Alpha fly's come out for general consumption. All the slow hobby joggers will be stealing your CR's with that 45-60 second boost.

skruB wrote:

Stravazzi wrote:

I believe it's ~ 15/20 seconds per mile.

This point was when you all should have realized this was a troll post.

I'd like to believe that but some people actually police Strava Segments like this. I had kids from the club XC team at the local college messaging me because I created a segement following the perimeter of a neighborhood because it had "too many turns".

Raggedman wrote:

Stravazzi wrote:

Fantastic! It's happening folks...

Do you think previously set World Records will be invalidated? I certainly hope so.

And I hope that Strava would remove any Vaporfly listed footwear from Segments / peoples prs / etc. This would give us a reset clean playing field at all levels.

Did you read the article you linked to? It says right there in the text that no records will be stricken.

For now dude, for now... At least the ban is coming. In time once we're back to running in running shoes rather than these devices and records cannot physically be broken, sense will prevail.

Record breaking sells the sport. If records cannot be broken these times will eventually be striken.