FFBC Strava and RWGPS Accounts

From Barry Saeed

Whether road bike, mountain bike or e-bike, real-world or virtual, FFBC’s Strava and Ride with GPS (RWGPS) groups offer us ways to stay connected and celebrate our members’ accomplishments.

Strava:  Many members (and non-members) have joined Strava’s open, unmoderated FFBC club (https://www.strava.com/clubs/ffbc).  Strava’s FFBC club has weekly leaderboards showing distance, elevation gain, number of rides, etc.  (Unfortunately, Strava limits its Challenges to corporate sponsors so FFBC cannot have its own challenges.)

Ride with GPS:  RWGPS has a members-only FFBC Club, and it is our main repository of club routes.   RWGPS allows FFBC to create its own “Goals” for distance, elevation and moving time, similar to Strava’s Challenges.  They aren’t really goals in the sense of having numerical targets, but they do have leaderboards to see how club members  (and some lapsed members) are doing.

If you’re not quite sure how to set up and load rides into Strava and Ride with GPS, see the tips below.

Happy, safe riding!

Barry

Join Strava’s FFBC Club: https://www.strava.com/clubs/ffbc.  After joining the club, on your Strava dashboard, you will see “Your Clubs” on the right with an image.  Hover over that image and it says “FFBC.”  Click on the image to see the club leaderboard.

Join Ride with GPS FFBC Club:  You must be an FFBC member in good standing to join.  To do so, click this link.  After registering, you will find our club logo on top-right of your RWGPS home page.  Click on it to access the club site.

Load your rides into Strava:  https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/223297187-How-to-get-your-Activities-to-Strava.

Load your rides into RWGPS:  https://ridewithgps.com/help/connected-services.  (RWGPS does not easily import virtual rides so you’re better off loading them to Strava and following the exporting/importing instructions below.)

Automatically import rides from RWGPS into Strava:  https://ridewithgps.com/help/connect-with-strava.

Manually export a ride from Strava and import into RWGPS:  Strava does not enable automatic imports into RWGPS so you must do each ride manually.

1. In your Strava activity feed, click on your ride.
2. On the left side, click on “…” and select Export GPX or Original, whichever works best for your platform (GPX is usually the best).  Save to your hard drive.
3. In RWGPS, click on the RWGPS bike logo at the top-left, then click on Upload, click on Select Files, select the GPX file, click Choose and complete the dialog.  Your ride should now be in RWGPS.

WARNINGS:  Do NOT use Strava’s bulk download option as this will export ALL your Strava activity.  If you use RWGPS’s “Connect with Strava” feature, you’ll end up with duplicate ride on Strava that you’ll need to delete.