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Strava art: Cyclist draws giant dog on Catford in 150km South London ride

Marc O'Shea created the artwork yesterday - but will he take up challenge of also drawing the walker?...

A cyclist has used Strava to sketch out a giant dog during a 152km bike ride in South London.

Marc O’Shea’s ride, which he carried out yesterday, involved more than eight hours in the saddle.

It spanned an area from Brixton in the west to Bexley in the east, and New Cross Gate in the north to Keston in the south.

He didn’t stick to quiet roads, either, with the route including the South Circular, the A2 and the A20.

One of the commenters on Strava has suggested an even bigger challenge – sketching out the person walking the canine.

Here’s his creation.

Watt is it boy - source Marc O'Shea on Strava.PNG

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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kie7077 | 7 years ago
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If you don't log in to Strava then you don't get the full-screen detailed version.

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kafylou | 7 years ago
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Just click on the guys name and you'll see the actual ride, why all the criticism? its just a bit of fun! 

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ridein | 7 years ago
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To the doubters, while most road riders keep their computers recording for the whole ride and their whole ride will be shown exclusively on roads. If you carefully start/stop the Garmin, the net result on a map will show the lines corresponding to the on/off points. If a road is straight and the Garmin is started momentarily and then stopped within 2 seconds at its next turn/curve in the road, the result on a map will show a straight line along that road (and also record any difference in elevation). If the Garmin isn't started again until after the turn/curve, then the resulting lines on a map won't correspond to a street map.
So for example,
1) the Garmin is start/ stop at the start, then you go exactly one mile on a straight road,
2) then make a perpendicular 90 degree turn on another straight road and go for exactly one more mile,
3) So another Garmin start/stop off at the end of that second road, therefore 2 miles completed
The result on a map will be an offset 45 degree vector line ( 45 degrees with respect to starting point) that originates at starting point and goes directly to the 2nd on/off point at the end of the second road. So the vector line doesn't follow geography or streets on a map. 

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Initialised | 7 years ago
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My Strava feed is NSFW, it seems to have reached time to cock.

https://www.strava.com/activities/587456650

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OldRidgeback | 7 years ago
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It's pretty cool

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Ramz | 7 years ago
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Two of the off road stretches are not sus, to my knowledge. Clever moves anyway.

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StraelGuy | 7 years ago
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Does look a bit sus. If you zoom into the map on Strava you'll see that barely any of the route corresponds to any roads or paths at all. Maybe he was piloting a microlite?

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kwi replied to StraelGuy | 7 years ago
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guyrwood wrote:

Does look a bit sus. If you zoom into the map on Strava you'll see that barely any of the route corresponds to any roads or paths at all. Maybe he was piloting a microlite?

Strava often has me in the sea when I am the coast road here, so not to sus at all.

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flathunt | 7 years ago
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Now he just needs to turn the whole thing into a segment.

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ficklewhippet | 7 years ago
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Screen grab is the rough preview you sometimes get. Real thing is much better - just click the link.

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Judge dreadful | 7 years ago
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Fake gay photoshop. Unless his bike floats on water, and can ride through buildings.

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crazy-legs replied to Judge dreadful | 7 years ago
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Judge dreadful wrote:

Fake gay photoshop. Unless his bike floats on water, and can ride through buildings.

If you turn the Garmin off, ride to the next point and then turn it back on, it'll just draw a straight line between the point it was stopped and the point it was restarted.

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Gozzy replied to Judge dreadful | 7 years ago
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Judge dreadful wrote:

Fake gay photoshop. Unless his bike floats on water, and can ride through buildings.

 

I wasn't aware that computer programs had a sexuality. How can an image editing program be gay? Does it have to be attracted to other image editing programs? Do photoshop and gimp get it on together once there on a hard drive? If it's fake gay does that actually mean it's not really gay and it prefers word processing programs? 

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handlebarcam | 7 years ago
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Beckenham is the dog's bollocks. Oh sorry, my mistake, that's a leg.

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Danger Dicko | 7 years ago
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Keith Lard?

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mingmong | 7 years ago
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Very good!

 

Wonder how he planned this.

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tritecommentbot | 7 years ago
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Niiice!

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ragtag | 7 years ago
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Gypsy Hill not geeting the best end of things

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Wookie | 7 years ago
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Kudos  1

 

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darrenwinfield | 7 years ago
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Cool interesting he went through Catford! 

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