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Most popular Scottish Strava segments

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  • Started 3 years ago by Murun Buchstansangur
  • Latest reply from nobrakes

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  1. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    Strava have released some stats on the most frequently ridden segments in the last 90 days (ie lockdown). The top 3 are in Edinburgh, the most popular being the downhill section between the Queen's Drive roundabouts in Holyrood Park.

    1st number is the total number logged, the 2nd is the number of times the most frequent rider has done it.

    SCOTLAND

    1. roundabout to roundabout (Edinburgh) – 29,925 (LL 197)
    2. Lights to Prom (Edinburgh) – 15,263 (LL 55)
    3. RHS to Dip (Edinburgh) – 11,785 (LL 44)
    4. Ayr rd (Glasgow) – 11,476 (LL 66)
    5. Riverside Royale (Glasgow) – 11,288 (LL 51)

    Posted 3 years ago #

  2. Frenchy
    Member

    197 times round Arthur's Seat in 90 days is good going!

    Posted 3 years ago #

  3. Rob
    Member

    #2 is coming back to the Joppa end of Portobello prom. #3 is Barnton Avenue heading west.

    I'm somewhat surprised by #2 as I personally hate that stretch of road. Though it does make sense as the most direct route along the coast road.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  4. stiltskin
    Member

    RHS to Dip is a really stupid segment, including the extremely narrow bit of shared use path through the golf courses. Quite why people construct these sort of segments is beyond me.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  5. fimm
    Member

    All these show is which routes are most popular with cyclists who use Strava. That bit of road through Joppa to Portobello prom is often really busy with cyclist when I go that way.

    And yes, people do ride laps of Arthur's seat. I've done it myself, though not very often and not recently.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  6. gembo
    Member

    I do sometimes wonder how much more complete my life would be if I used Strava

    Posted 3 years ago #

  7. Rob
    Member

    You don't have to be super competitive. I like it for tracking my miles, remembering/revisiting routes I've taken and discovering them from others. I found the NEPN through someone else riding it on strava.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  8. gembo
    Member

    I am on strava as the Fietsclub use it for routes. I wouldn’t pay for it.

    I know how slow I cycle and I try to commute 100 miles a week and add a 50 mile weekend route.

    Perhaps strava would make me less boring?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  9. amir
    Member

    Looking at Veloviewer, I can order the segments I have been on by number of cyclists.
    Of these, the top is dominated by Dutch segments, with the most popular having nearly 43,000 cyclists and being the bridge going north from Zuiderzeeweg, in the east of Amsterdam.
    The first UK segment I have in my list is in Derbyshire on the Monsai trail with 23.5 k.
    The top Scottish segment I have is the Crammond Leg Checker at 17.4k.
    These stats are a little different from the OP, being all-time and number of people on Strava passing through.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  10. fimm
    Member

    I think it helps to have a sense of humour about Strava segments...
    Me: Look! I'm 5th! [woman] ... oh... out of five...
    Alternatively: I'm 1467th out of 2536, that's nice...

    Veloviewer, on the other hand, is a bit addictive, in a good way. ;-)

    We cycle for different reasons and with different motivations. Sometimes the same cyclist can have different reasons and different motivations at different times. Please don't be snooty about people who are different from you...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  11. amir
    Member

    I have found Strava segments really motivating during lockdown.
    Before lockdown, my focus was on commuting and audaxes. But both were pretty much cancelled during lockdown (audaxes restart 1 August). So instead I concentrated on appreciating the local roads, which are pretty nice in Midlothian and great to see the changing nature. I also concentrated on increasing my bike speed - and segments are a great way to measure progress. I have long since stopped expecting to get top 10s - Strava history is too long and deep. But it is inspiring to get PBs, and I now think I have recovered the level of speed I had from 10 or more years ago, which is pleasing given my age!

    Posted 3 years ago #

  12. gembo
    Member

    @fimm, ooooooft. That was me trying not to be snooty.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  13. neddie
    Member

    You don't have to be super competitive. I like it for tracking my miles, remembering/revisiting routes I've taken and discovering them from others.

    ^This.

    Alternatively: I'm 1467th out of 2536, that's nice...

    LOL. That reminds me of the time I did the Glentress red route in a foot of snow. Something like 2746 out of 2748!

    Posted 3 years ago #

  14. fimm
    Member

    @gembo my apologies that wasn't aimed at you in particular. It's just threads where Strava is mentioned seem to end up with assertions that anyone who uses Strava must be an aggressive lycra-lout, and I was just getting my retaliation in first...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  15. fimm
    Member

    Actually and more seriously, do you have a link to those stats, Murun? It is interesting to see where people are cycling.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  16. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    I got it off road.cc, I haven't found a more complete list. I suspect it was from a Strava press release, it reads that way

    https://road.cc/content/news/strava-launches-local-legends-heres-how-become-one-275471

    Posted 3 years ago #

  17. gembo
    Member

    @fimm, always good to get your retaliation in first. Interesting to see Amir’s Nederland figures,

    Posted 3 years ago #

  18. amir
    Member

    I seem to have 9 local legend badges. It just reflects boring route selection. The best/worst of these segments was done 49 times in the last 90 days

    Posted 3 years ago #

  19. Frenchy
    Member

    Looking at Veloviewer, I can order the segments I have been on by number of cyclists.
    Of these, the top is dominated by Dutch segments, with the most popular having nearly 43,000 cyclists and being the bridge going north from Zuiderzeeweg, in the east of Amsterdam.

    Was not surprised to find that Alpe d'Huez segments are at the top of the list when I did this. Top is one with 113k cyclists.

    Next are, also unsurprisingly, segments in central London. One at Blackfriars Bridge has 88k.

    First surprise was that Toronto is the next location to appear on the list, with the most popular segment having 25k.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  20. LaidBack
    Member

    Strava is useful as lets you see route profiles and compare different bikes as can provide energy use data.
    Is addictive and at start of lockdown I had fun riding up deserted Brutsfield path at quite fast speeds that would be unsuitable at other times.
    Also did urban rides up as any closes as I could link up between Holyrood and castle avoiding the actual Royal Mile.
    Fishmarket Close has a segment. I was almost the slowest as recliners not so fast pointing upwards.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  21. nobrakes
    Member

    You mustn’t forget the few hundred yards of potholed gravelly back road on the way out of Stow heading towards Clovenfords. This is such a high profile, high prestige segment that someone complained to Strava that I was cheating when I took the KOM off them :) It’s a serious business for some people.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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