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3. How will you monitor strava, isn't it quite easy to cheat?In addition to the measures above and Strava's built in flagging features, we'll also verify the activities of the various category winners before finalising the results.

Bikehub will scrutinise all the winners rides and will come to a fair decision.

It's easy to sling mud and be a sore loser. So in the final days I'm going to keep riding as hard as I can regardless and let the judges do the adjudicating.

I've been amazed at the support from fellow cyclists friends and strangers alike, its been an honour to ride with you all.

Ham!

It's called Love The Bike, why go and ruin it by cheating! Can someone please remove this Fanie doosh from the competition.

 

Who does a 7h road ride and rides at a constant 24kph up and down and taking uphill KOM all along the way!

 

I call foul play!

It is all rather suspicious. Perhaps Fanie could explain a few things.

This is a normal ride done by Fanie - has a heart rate, took him 10 hours (7 hours riding time), and an average climbing pace of 13km/h.

This is the exercise that CranksofGlory referred to - no heart rate, 100% moving ration (not one stop in 7 hours for a traffic light, a snack, a wee etc), an average climbing pace of 21.9 km/h.

Digging a bit deeper into the data  - here is a breakdown of his speeds over different terrains. I can't keep my speed that consistent on a trainer, at constant difficulty, let alone out on the road with ups and downs, wind, rain, traffic etc.

Here are the actual times spent at each speed - between 20km/h and 24km/h. Seriously impressive talent!

Lastly - something weird happened at around 128kms. The speed line before is rather smooth, yet afterwards is rather "fuzzy" - unlike the entire 128kms before. The power also starts to jump around a lot.

Lastly - he's using a Garmin 1000. They're usually rock solid. I've never had a ride look like this.

Come on Fanie - open up your account so that we can see what's going on.

It is all rather suspicious. Perhaps Fanie could explain a few things.

 

This is a normal ride done by Fanie - has a heart rate, took him 10 hours (7 hours riding time), and an average climbing pace of 13km/h.

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This is the exercise that CranksofGlory referred to - no heart rate, 100% moving ration (not one stop in 7 hours for a traffic light, a snack, a wee etc), an average climbing pace of 21.9 km/h.

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Digging a bit deeper into the data  - here is a breakdown of his speeds over different terrains. I can't keep my speed that consistent on a trainer, at constant difficulty, let alone out on the road with ups and downs, wind, rain, traffic etc.

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Here are the actual times spent at each speed - between 20km/h and 24km/h. Seriously impressive talent!

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Lastly - something weird happened at around 128kms. The speed line before is rather smooth, yet afterwards is rather "fuzzy" - unlike the entire 128kms before. The power also starts to jump around a lot.

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Lastly - he's using a Garmin 1000. They're usually rock solid. I've never had a ride look like this.

 

Come on Fanie - open up your account so that we can see what's going on.

Haha, a bit more diplomatic and thorough than my post.

But unless Fanie is riding a fixie and has the pacing capacity of a hour record holder, for no less than 7 hours, this seems very strange!

 

So this Strava stalker did a bit of digging - Interesting & curious case this Fanie oke

 

Found more of his rides this past month - most of them actually looks legit so I am a bit hesitant to use the c word here... Also he does seem to put a lot of hours in - averaged 19 hours a week in 2015 (when I assume no w2w competition was involved) - that is beyond anyone I know but I guess not impossible?

 

One or 2 of his rides last week though, just borders on the superhuman side

 

Like this little night ride he did last Wednesday

 

https://www.strava.com/activities/711595733

 

150km at an average of 27km/h while never going faster than 33km/h

 

Similar to what Velouria pointed out earlier - seemingly gravity has no effect on this dude for this ride, climbs and downhills all at the same constant speed

 

A lot of alarm bells going off here, I would be surprised if his performance survives proper scrutiny, would not put money on this guy actually receiving the prize...

 

It also shows device as GPX.  So it's been imported.  

It is a bit odd

I am just hanging in for the lucky draw

I'm waiting for the 29 men in front of me to be found out 

I am just hanging in for the lucky draw

got mine last week, waiting for delivery !

wife gets it , and i get R1000 for bike parts   

got mine last week, waiting for delivery !

 

wife gets it , and i get R1000 for bike parts 

by lucky draw ... I mean a lucky free entry

by lucky draw ... I mean a lucky free entry

i can show you how to edit a gpx file

 

So this Strava stalker did a bit of digging - Interesting & curious case this Fanie oke

 

Found more of his rides this past month - most of them actually looks legit so I am a bit hesitant to use the c word here... Also he does seem to put a lot of hours in - averaged 19 hours a week in 2015 (when I assume no w2w competition was involved) - that is beyond anyone I know but I guess not impossible?

 

One or 2 of his rides last week though, just borders on the superhuman side

 

Like this little night ride he did last Wednesday

 

https://www.strava.com/activities/711595733

 

150km at an average of 27km/h while never going faster than 33km/h

 

Similar to what Velouria pointed out earlier - seemingly gravity has no effect on this dude for this ride, climbs and downhills all at the same constant speed

 

A lot of alarm bells going off here, I would be surprised if his performance survives proper scrutiny, would not put money on this guy actually receiving the prize...

 

Incredible how he can pedal through Pretoria suburbs at a constant 33kph and never stop!

Incredible how he can pedal through Pretoria suburbs at a constant 33kph and never stop!

Vinnige Fanie!!

Incredible how he can pedal through Pretoria suburbs at a constant 33kph and never stop!

Indeed. At no point on his ride did he do anything less than 16km/h (except those 2 seconds at 12 to 14km/h)

This is what a similar ride of mine looks like:

Indeed. At no point on his ride did he do anything less than 16km/h (except those 2 seconds at 12 to 14km/h)

 

 

This is what a similar ride of mine looks like:

 

I'm curious. Even if he didn't do it on a bike how would one manage to do that? Even in a car that would be very difficult if you have go through built-up areas with traffic etc?

Some sort of indoor virtual trainer?

I'm curious. Even if he didn't do it on a bike how would one manage to do that? Even in a car that would be very difficult if you have go through built-up areas with traffic etc?

 

Some sort of indoor virtual trainer?

A .gpx file is just a computer file format - a few lines of code will produce a .gpx file with any numbers in it you like. Perhaps Fanie needs to add a bit more entropy to his algorithm

p.s. until Strava partners with all the device manufacturers and shares some secret encryption key with them to prevent digital doping, it's all just a big w*nk. 

I'm curious. Even if he didn't do it on a bike how would one manage to do that? Even in a car that would be very difficult if you have go through built-up areas with traffic etc?

 

Some sort of indoor virtual trainer?

Cruise control? 

Hey ... e-bikes are fairly consistent are they not 

Maybe he is riding one of these

http://twicycle.com/

Last day today!

Wow - look at that leaderboard. Some seriously hardcore ladies out there!

I'm just excited to win my lucky draw prize tomorrow 

 

So this Strava stalker did a bit of digging - Interesting & curious case this Fanie oke

 

Found more of his rides this past month - most of them actually looks legit so I am a bit hesitant to use the c word here... Also he does seem to put a lot of hours in - averaged 19 hours a week in 2015 (when I assume no w2w competition was involved) - that is beyond anyone I know but I guess not impossible?

 

One or 2 of his rides last week though, just borders on the superhuman side

 

Like this little night ride he did last Wednesday

 

https://www.strava.com/activities/711595733

 

150km at an average of 27km/h while never going faster than 33km/h

 

Similar to what Velouria pointed out earlier - seemingly gravity has no effect on this dude for this ride, climbs and downhills all at the same constant speed

 

A lot of alarm bells going off here, I would be surprised if his performance survives proper scrutiny, would not put money on this guy actually receiving the prize...

 

I just imported a converted kml file to gpx file into garmin connect. The reason i did it we are planning a new route to ride this coming weekend. We plotted it on google earth and then i converted kml file to gpx and manually imported it on garmin as an activity so that i can convert it to a route so that we can follow it on the edge.

My point, the data synced to strava and when i opened the ride it looked very similar to this. Mine was just dated to 01 jan 2010 but also night ride etc.

Not saying it is what happened here just saying what happened to me.

Does HAM know he can't win it 2 years in a row? 

Does HAM know he can't win it 2 years in a row? 

This would actually be a three-peat but we'll have to wait and see how the judges rule on Vinnige Fanie.

Shout out to the girls who dominated this year. Also I'd be nothing without my wife's support and she even joined me for a few rides this year.   

Just a quick question, how they going to contact the winners if there no option to add your number or am I just being blonde?

Just a quick question, how they going to contact the winners of you there no option to add your number or am I just blonde

When you sign up via Strava your email address from your Strava account is loaded. 

(The T&Cs do, incorrectly state that telephonic contact will be made - this will happen via email)