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Wow, Elly Blue seems like a real idiot.
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BIKES!
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I'm gonna repost my comment I made on BP just because it's driving me up the wall that people just assume Strava users are so vastly different from "the rest of us"

For everyone making judgments based on their view of who the typical Strava user is, here is some additional information

Here is a glimpse of Strava data from 2013. http://blog.strava.com/earth-to-saturn-201…

What does it tell me? Well, not everything but... I notice that while activity does increase on the weekends, it's not massively skewed that way, there is a lot of activity on weekdays. Infer from that what you will.

Also the average bike trip on Strava is only 20 miles. So it would seem to be capturing more than just the hardcore 100milers. (Example: For every 100mile ride that's 5x 4mile rides that would result in a 20 mile average)

Strava is logging over a million activities a week.
http://blog.strava.com/1-million-weekly-ac…

Now, I also found this paper
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/studying/taught…

"King of the Mountain: A Rapid Ethnography of Strava Cycling "

Data from a survey of Strava users (in the UK) showed this:

"The majority of cyclists identified as recreational cyclists (81%) and/or
utility cyclists (70%). Only a few identified as competitive cyclists (14%). There was an even split between the participants who use mobile applications or dedicated devices to record cycle rides (48%) and those who do not (52%). For those who use an application or device for cycling, the majority claimed to use Strava Cycling (57%) (see Figure 7). About half of the Strava Cycling users also use another device or application. The other popular apps were MapMyRide and Endomondo while the most popular dedicated device was Garmin GPS."

I wonder if this changes anything?

-Mick
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@Reymont: You really are the pot calling the kettle black. Especially since you've said before that you don't see anything wrong with drivers killing cyclists. So yeah, you're not entitled to opinions anymore.
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Go fuck yourself, Graham.
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I'm sure this data isn't flawless, but it's better than nothing and certainly no more or less useful than the PBOT bike counts, which I'm sure Elly Blue has no problem with.
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He's right, Reymont. You have kind of a history of being a piece of shit.
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It's not necessarily a poll of who is a true Scot/cyclist and where they ride. To view it as such and overreact that that assumption is myopic. As bikeportland pointed out, it will be very valuable to determine qualitative cyclist usage patterns around trouble spots and intersections that ODOT would formerly only gain knowledge of through police reports, observation, and firsthand employee accounts. I think this is more valuable data than what was available to them before.
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It's real simple. Bicyclists mostly ride on the sidewalk because they are too chickenshit to ride in the street. Of course bicyclist think nothing of terrorizing pedestrians in the same way that cars disregard bikes. How much ought ODOT pay me to learn this?
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Fred - they'd probably pay you about 25 cents for that info, since you're just spouting bullshit.
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I've been hit by a speeding bicyclist. Ever since then, whenever a bike comes up too fast from behind and cuts too close, as the asshole idiot whizzes on by, I shout in his ear, Hah! Usually that works pretty good for making them lose their balance. I don't even have to resort to spaying a pepper mace cloud ahead of his trajectory, but when I sense them closing in, I get prepared to do just that. Just try me, ROM.
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I don't ride on sidewalks, just like most bicyclists. So I won't be trying you.

Also, Elly Blue doesn't seem to understand the userbase of this app.
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Then for you, ROM, I recommend a handlebar mounted EMP blaster for frying the electronics in offending automobiles (where permitted by law). However, since you ride on the street, you have no way to realize how crowded the sidewalks have actually become with chickenshit bicyclists.

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