{"id":17512,"date":"2025-10-15T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=17512"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:10:16","slug":"the-strava-ipo-and-my-desire-to-quit-the-app-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/the-strava-ipo-and-my-desire-to-quit-the-app-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strava IPO and My Desire To Quit the App"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

This morning I woke at 0530 and thought "I can’t be bothered to go for a ride so early." Within a few minutes I was up getting ready. I put on my Autumnal cyclist stuff and pumped the tyres to 80 bar. I then road to the meeting point. I arrived 15 minutes early and was surprised not to see anyone appear until 5 minutes before. I had considered going for a solo ride as a result.<\/p>\n

Svelte Experience<\/h2>\n

The group rode fast this morning. Everyone was at a good level so no one was left behind, struggling to keep up. During this ride I noticed that the continental GP 4 season tyres I now have on my bike felt great. They felt so smooth and comfortable.<\/p>\n

I first mounted these tyres a year ago, and then after just 200 kilometres I swapped them for GP 5000 tyres because Autumn had turned into Summer. In summer it makes sense to use summer tyres as they’re lighter and faster.<\/p>\n

A Gravel Experience<\/h2>\n

On sunday I rode them on stony gravel between Grilly and Sauvergny and then again along a forest road towards D\u00e9cathlon and Chavannes Centres and seemed to have no issues. In theory they’re road tyres, but since they’re meant to have good puncture protection I am being a little rougher than I should. <\/p>\n

The rough treatment was not intentional. I noticed a cycling route sign that I had not seen before so I turned around and followed it. At first the road was fine, and then it became a dirt track, and then it became a stony track.<\/p>\n

With the GP5000 I have been on such road segments and they survived, so I expected that the GP 4 Seasons would handle this terrain just as well, if not better. It’s a few days later and the tyres still hold pressure.<\/p>\n

Of Price and Curiousity<\/h2>\n

There are winter tyres for 15 CHF but the Continental GP 4 Season are around 40 CHF each, so it’? tempting to buy and try cheap tyres but, at the same time, since I expect GP 5000 to last four thousand kilometres, I expect the same from the GP 4 Season tyres.<\/p>\n

I am curious to test cheaper tyres, but for them to be cheaper they need to last at least two thousand kilometres. If I ride with a group then I need to have fast tyres.<\/p>\n

And Finally<\/h2>\n

The tyres felt great today. They felt really smooth. Having said this, I felt that I had to work harder to keep up with the group than with the other tyres. If I see someone get dropped I often slow down for them, as it gives me an opportunity to rest. I am cautious, however, because dropping back can encourage people to slow down, and then when you drop the group it will take a big effort to catch up again.<\/p>\n

If I was riding solo, or in a slow group I would have more freedom with tyre choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>This morning I woke at 0530 and thought "I can’t be bothered to go for a ride so early." Within a few minutes I was up getting ready. I put on my Autumnal cyclist stuff and pumped the tyres to 80 bar. I then road to the meeting point. I arrived 15 minutes early and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[736],"tags":[814,7042,733,7041,5184,7043],"class_list":["post-17512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","tag-autumn","tag-comfortable","tag-cycling","tag-smooth","tag-tyres","tag-velvet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17514,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17512\/revisions\/17514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}