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    From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 18 20:31:39 2025
    On Fri Jul 18 09:49:45 2025 James wrote:
    On 7/17/25 01:53, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:58:28 +1000, James <james.e.steward@gmail.com> wrote:

    The subject says it all.

    I've complained twice to @strava @stravaeng and @stravasupport on x.com. >> No reply. If it continues I will no longer participate with Strava.
    I only use it as a ride diary.

    I can't offer a solution. It seems like the result of Strava cracking
    down on eBikes:
    "Strava Is Cracking Down On E-bikes" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGAJZB4j9Eg>

    There are also some similar complaints: <https://www.google.com/search?q=strava%20rides%20get%20flagged%20as%20an%20ebike>

    I know this is obvious, but have you checked your Strava settings for
    the activity to see what type of bicycle you're riding? <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216919397-Change-Activity-Type>
    Looking as the list, I find a limited number of bicycle ride types:
    Mountain Bike Ride
    Gravel Ride
    E-Bike Ride
    E-Mountain Ride
    That doesn't seem like a sufficient number of ride types. Adding
    "road racing", "speed training" (or something similar) might solve the problem.



    I extract my ride data file from my Lezyne GPS confuser using the Lezyne mobile app, and it uploads to Strava. There's no settings I can see to affect the activity type from that end.

    Strava have about 15 years of my data. Their AI should easily be able
    to determine if a ride is out of the ordinary for a person with that
    much history. It's not as though I'm riding up hills at exactly 25km/h.




    That is only 15 mph and until this year I was doing that on 8% grades. Now it's everything I can do to go up an 8% grade at 5 mph. This might be because I've put on 15 lbs extra, or because at 80 I can't expect any better. In January I was doing 2 km of
    11% average at 5 mph. That was driving my heart rate into the red zone and I had a stroke.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 18 20:34:20 2025
    On Wed Jul 16 21:38:31 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 7/16/2025 12:58 AM, James wrote:
    The subject says it all.

    I've complained twice to @strava @stravaeng and @stravasupport on x.com.
    No reply. If it continues I will no longer participate with Strava. I
    only use it as a ride diary.


    Strava doesn't flag rides, that's done by the community. Someone is
    following you, flagging your rides, and claiming you had an ebike. I'd
    clean out my followers list and only pump up your security settings.




    I suppose that would be a good idea if I used Strava. But lately I've been getting Strava Adds from someplaqce other than Strava so I no longer trust them.

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