Show us your KOMs on Strava

[Robbie Stewart]

I had one at Meerendal. It stood for almost 3 years, but it is taken now. At present I don't have the legs to take it back, but someday soon...

[jdwet1980]

Got my first KOM today doing 100km/h up a hill for a couple of kms and into the wind with my heart doing maybe 60bpm.

By tomorrow my KOM will be gone, but the hate mail I will hold close to my heart as a badge of honnor and cherish for as long as I live as this will be the only reminder of the atrocity towards human kind.

[Skubarra]

Got my first KOM today doing 100km/h up a hill for a couple of kms and into the wind with my heart doing maybe 60bpm.

By tomorrow my KOM will be gone, but the hate mail I will hold close to my heart as a badge of honnor and cherish for as long as I live as this will be the only reminder of the atrocity towards human kind.

 

I get that 99.9% of the time it's just an innocent case of "forgot to stop my Garmin when I got into the car". But why leave it on Strava just to annoy people and not just crop your ride - don't get why some people get a kick out of that?

[MTBeer]

11th spot on the downhill stuff. not bad for a 50yr old toppie. Ok, I was 48 at the time

 

https://www.strava.com/segments/11976628

[Ferro]

Got my first KOM today doing 100km/h up a hill for a couple of kms and into the wind with my heart doing maybe 60bpm.

By tomorrow my KOM will be gone, but the hate mail I will hold close to my heart as a badge of honnor and cherish for as long as I live as this will be the only reminder of the atrocity towards human kind.

 

Can you post some of the best messages? Should make for interesting reading.

[Patchelicious]

Got my first KOM today doing 100km/h up a hill for a couple of kms and into the wind with my heart doing maybe 60bpm.

By tomorrow my KOM will be gone, but the hate mail I will hold close to my heart as a badge of honnor and cherish for as long as I live as this will be the only reminder of the atrocity towards human kind.

So you get joy from intentionally being annoying to others. Well done. You win a troll KOM.

[Wannabe]

Isn't that the inevitable conclusion of most Strava segments on open roads? Eventually a strong rider will come along in stormy conditions and post a ridiculous time that can only be bettered if you go out riding in a worse storm.

 

I held the KOM on the section from D'Urbanvale entrance, down Adderley/Koeberg rd, to the T-junction with the Philadelphia road.

This stood for quite a while (almost two years) before  I got the message that my KOM was stolen, and by quite a few seconds also.

Checking the conditions for that day, quite a stiff SE was blowing, so he had help from the weather gods.

So before I can try and get "my" KOM back, I will have to get relatively fit again, and wait for a gale force SE to blow. 

 

edit: This was in 2014, and I got a lot slower since then, so I think this one is forever lost to me.

Edited July 17, 2019 by Wannabe

[Cat2forLife]

Maybe it's just because I'm too slow to have any, but I don't really understand why people make such a big fuss about KOMs ons Strava segments.

 

Is it perhaps a case of caring too much about what your friends say and not enough about having the opportunity to just go ride?

[Pure Savage]

Maybe it's just because I'm too slow to have any, but I don't really understand why people make such a big fuss about KOMs ons Strava segments.

 

Is it perhaps a case of caring too much about what your friends say and not enough about having the opportunity to just go ride?

I dont think there are people going out on every ride KOM hunting. But if the conditions are lekker and you feeling good its great! 

 

Some segments I have ridden over 400 times and was no where near the top till one day, tail wind green lights, was lekker. 

 

There are about 8 people in the South that have most of the KOM's its lekker. 

[Patchelicious]

Maybe it's just because I'm too slow to have any, but I don't really understand why people make such a big fuss about KOMs ons Strava segments.

 

Is it perhaps a case of caring too much about what your friends say and not enough about having the opportunity to just go ride?

When you have a KOM, the other people in the top 10, are not your friends.

[Pure Savage]

11th spot on the downhill stuff. not bad for a 50yr old toppie. Ok, I was 48 at the time

 

https://www.strava.com/segments/11976628

A few savages there

 

Well done thats quick!

[Pure Savage]

When you have a KOM, the other people in the top 10, are not your friends.

   

[Pure Savage]

 

My best is the KOM hunters in cars doing 112km/h average in a 80km/h zone. 

 

People do not like being called out on twitter for this.   

[Spinnekop]

Maybe it's just because I'm too slow to have any, but I don't really understand why people make such a big fuss about KOMs ons Strava segments.

 

Is it perhaps a case of caring too much about what your friends say and not enough about having the opportunity to just go ride?

Om te meet is om te weet.

[Skubarra]

Maybe it's just because I'm too slow to have any, but I don't really understand why people make such a big fuss about KOMs ons Strava segments.

 

Is it perhaps a case of caring too much about what your friends say and not enough about having the opportunity to just go ride?

 

I guess in the first place you must have a few KOM's to understand what the fuss is about?

 

Appeals to our competitive nature & egos, gives you goals when you are training, are fun to chase, feels like an achievement especially if you had to work for it a bit. 

 

Some days you can "just go ride" (usually when the KOM's are too difficult to get...) and other days you can chase something, nothing wrong with either option.

[Frosty]

Is it okay to slipstream a truck, at a 70km/h average, and not get onto the top 10 leaderboard?

 

Asking for a friend.