I've been using Strava more recently as a ride diary and it struck me that it might be a way of route sharing and as a motiviation to see what others were up to on a regular basis (either download a ride's GPX direct or via a web tool such as http://cosmocatalano.com/strava/export/index.html).
I notice that you can set up a Strava 'club' for others to join - Bear Bones Bikepacking on Strava anyone?

He's only gone and done it!
http://app.strava.com/clubs/23204

Yeah, I'm up for a club.

I already follow Gairy, Ian and Mark.....

I'm in!

Joined...

joined - and must remember to use it for more than the school run with the boys

One more for luck :)

99percentchimp wrote:He's only gone and done it!
http://app.strava.com/clubs/23204

I'm glad you did this, Mark and not me. It'd only add to my reputation

...and I've joined, obviously

Nice one all..
Stu - I've pinched a logo and referred back to the BBB website too (working on the principal of asking for forgiveness rather than permission )

make sure yuo hide your home location peoples, dont want scummers following you home

That's it, I'm now in a club! First time for 30 years.

Joined, although I don't tend to use strava as it doesn't support my GPS.

Ooh cool... Joined

Just joined Strava...

Just joined the BB strava club.

Do people put Segments literally anywhere...this is silly

Shalarim wrote:Joined, although I don't tend to use strava as it doesn't support my GPS.

Strava doesn't support my Dakota through Garmin Connect but I can still upload any GPX to it and the Dakota appears as a remote drive when I plug it in so that works for me. Any similar work-around for yours?

I'v joined. Pretty much everything i do just now is short road rides+races just now.

Nice one, another list to check on the challenges, Septembers climbing one should be right up Ian's street

numplumz wrote:Nice one, another list to check on the challenges, Septembers climbing one should be right up Ian's street

Which one's that then?

I can only see The Extender for September...

Ian wrote: Which one's that then?
I can only see The Extender for September...

This one http://app.strava.com/challenges/vueltaskelta

OK, thanks. Joined. Two weeks to do 7135m of climbing isn't that hard around here
Can't figure out why I couldn't see it when I go to the Challenges page though :?

Ian wrote:OK, thanks. Joined. Two weeks to do 7135m of climbing isn't that hard around here
Can't figure out why I couldn't see it when I go to the Challenges page though :?

Around here I'm going to have to Strava going up and down my stairs!

Okay, so for some reason only known to my subconcious, I've just joined Strava and the Bear Bones Strava club.

Am I right to be thinking that the simplest / cheapest device that will let me play is a Garmin Edge 200 ? I'm not wantng any whistles and bells.

Ta

s8tannorm wrote:Okay, so for some reason only known to my subconcious, I've just joined Strava and the Bear Bones Strava club.

Am I right to be thinking that the simplest / cheapest device that will let me play is a Garmin Edge 200 ? I'm not wantng any whistles and bells.

Ta

Just use your Dakota, you can manually load up the tracklog "current.gpx" from your pc. Having said that, if I'm using my Dakota I still use my edge 200 as it's a bit less faff, but I wouldn't buy one specially unless you really want a bike computer.

s8tannorm wrote:Okay, so for some reason only known to my subconcious, I've just joined Strava and the Bear Bones Strava club.

Am I right to be thinking that the simplest / cheapest device that will let me play is a Garmin Edge 200 ? I'm not wantng any whistles and bells.

Ta

As long as you can upload gps files you're game. e.g. .fit files from edge 200 etc. but .gpx files should work. I only upload manually the mildly more interesting rides I do anyway.

My Strava entries are all from my Dakota. Just save the track at the end of your ride, connect to your PC and let Strava do a file upload.