Wow this channel has been in overdrive lately! Appreciate all the content!

I've lost count of how many videos this month for Lama but it must be a record. Kudos 👍🏻 and Merry Christmas 🎄

I can spend hours in global heatmaps. Open water swims are fascinating. Merry Christmas!

Thank you!! I’ve wanted a way to give kudos to a whole group and had no idea this already existed. That really needs to be a more visible feature.

Thanks Lama for the useful hints 👍

Thanks, very useful stuff. The main feature I am still missing is the „auto create a route with that many km“ on the web version and also being able to enter the number of km my self.

Excellent stuff Shane, thanks for sharing..

Thanks s much for activity fix! This changed everything for me! When Zwifting, I always need to change my bike used to the one i use for indoor cycling, no more! And I often make shorter walks to close out my Apple Fitness rings and I don't want to broadcast them. Normally I just don't import them in Strava but now I can use the Mute feature! Thanks a lot!

Thanks Shane, added a Christmas jersey and did my first ride wearing it, today. Merry Christmas and keep up the great Zwift work. It’s great help.

Wow a few things that are good to know. Thanks for all the great videos this year. Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏻

Hi Shane, great content as always and appreciated. Flyover is up and running.

Great work Shane, super nice-to-have infos👌

Thank you for reminding me about the time option on the analysis charts. I was wanting a method to find places where I've stopped.

Shane, this was VERY useful, thank you!

Definitely going to use activity fix

Hahaha. This ghosting option is really a 'naughty boys charter' for your secret stop offs en route !!

Ghosting yourself is something I have used before. But it also happens in other scenarios, for example if you take a ferry. On Wahoo and Apple Watching simply pausing the activity is enough. Strava will just draw a straight line between the last point before and the first point after the pause. So if you really want to clear out a friends home, you ride back to where you paused and resume from there, making it look like you actually paused there. I believe the only thing to see in the data could be your heart rate potentially having gone down (but that’s really hard to see and could for a many other reasons). The only other thing to see can be your total time spent on a segment that indicates you have paused, in case there is one on the path you deviate from and then rejoin while the activity is paused. But again, you could have actually paused legitimately for many other reasons (as it usually happens at different places during the ride), so nobody can tell that was because of being close to your friend’s house.

Super useful tips & tricks Shane - thank you! Ah, I'm setting up ActivityFix right now so I don't have to manually edit every ride to pick the bike I rode. Automation FTW!

I’ve been using this ghosting trick for years, another way I use a lot is to just turn up late and your friends have already left their houses to come out and meet you. 😂

Thanks!

I don’t know how it could be done, but some direction indication in heatmaps would be super useful. For example in the same way you mentioned no heat on a busy road, sometimes people only use a road in one direction (like taking a busy road downhill but never uphill). I ran across this recently putting together the heatmap but asking a local friend to confirm. Thanks for the great tips!

Activity fix is fantastic! What a cool service.

This is a million times better and more useful than the GCN one...

In regards to Ghosting Yourself, my friend used to live near the front of an estate at the foot of a descent, so it was always hard to pause the Garmin. But he moved so no longer an issue.

Merry Christmas, Shane. :)

Shane you legend! Excellent video. How does Strava not promote this stuff themselves is beyond me. Keep em coming

Great work for 23 mate, have a fantastic Christmas and new year. Never forget that 498 Rapha, I hope you can laugh about that now 😅

When I had a Microsoft band, you couldn’t ghost yourself, Strava counted all the movement until you hit save. That came in handy a few times though if I forgot to hit restart.

I’ve had Flyover on iOS for about 2 weeks now. Guess I am lucky to be in some sort of test group, that has the feature flag active. One thing that is annoying about not having a share feature; taking a screen video doesn’t allow to perfectly capture the start of the animation without the onscreen controls, because clicking them away is only possible while the animation already runs and the starting fly-in-animation is very quick.

The other option for ghosting is to re-join exactly where you stopped. In that case, it looks like a pause on the ride and raises even less suspicions!

It was impressive today. Hahahaha. Thank you.

Ghosting look different on Wahoo: when you pause your activity, the map will still show the route you've taken, but the part during the paused state won't be saved into the fit file.

Strava needs to do some automatic filtering for the “flyover” feature on virtual activities. While some may be “gps duplicates“ of their real-world sources (Zwift Richmond; Rouvy), the ones that aren’t are a mess. 😂

Where is the stop button you refer to on the Garmin 1030+? Maybe I am being slow but there are 3 buttons, start/stop, lap, and on/off/sleep. If I press I press the start stop/ button on mine mid ride its goes straight to the discard/save page and not the live map page shown on the video and equally if I continue riding with the page shown on mine it still continues to show it on Strava?

Steve, I've tried to link my garmin edge 830 to strava. Unfortunately, it will not let me, any ideas, much appreciated

Is there a way to sign up for the festive 500 in zwift as well, or only strava?

Thoroughly disappointed that you've given this Von lady more kudos than you've given me but anyhow... 🤣🤣🤣

What screen/application is in 14:00 on Garmin? Thank you

Does having a cadence sensor make a difference on Zwift? Is it worth buying one?

I add privacy zones around all my friends houses and they reciprocate. Stopping and restarting is too easy to forget.

I was really hoping you had a method for hiding a mid-ride segment after the fact (not just stopping recording 😭)

ya i sign up for it, 500km on zwift 4:37 :) :) :) :)

Not sure that ghosting ones self would work very well in the 'old world' where our roads take a turn more often than every 50 miles

Manual Pause is tricky because one false tap and you lose your ride. Eg you go to buy presents and take the paused head unit in your pocket inside a store. Whops, butt dial, all lost. Thanks Wahoo 😡

6:14 I assume that black hole in the middle is a big lake 🙂.

what about sauce for strava?

There is so much Potential. Hope greedy strava gets bankruped and open source will take over soon!

What's Strava? 😂

The kudos thing is just one big cirlce jerk. Why on earth would I need likes from others or give it? You did your ride, now move on. Do you really need other peoples likes to feel good? I deleted my Strava, but you do you. I know there is more to Strava than likes, but not enough for me to keep using it. BTW, I don't use any social media except Twitter to get news first. I do not like post there either.

Who really cares about kudos? My life isn’t defined by who cares about my activities.

how can you stand strava? i put on a half an hour ride and get 16 kudos. any meaningful interaction gets lost through the garbage features. needs a filter, it's useless as it is