Strava users able to earn bike store credit as they ride - but only in US for now

I made $24 in credit on it in the 10 or so days it was running. I got a sale pair of casual shorts coming in the mail. RRP: $68, Sale Price: $36, Out-of-pocket after Strava credits: $12.

There is almost no way that Comp Cyclist was going to make this work. Plus, considering that the credits carry over for an additional month, I'd most likely be doing 6 orders a year with $80 worth of Strava credit on each.

They already canned the program. I think it got too expensive!

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What an incredible few weeks it’s been here at Competitive.

When we came up with the idea to pay you a dollar an hour to ride your bike through our partnership with Strava, it was pure, it was simple and it represented everything we stand for. Apparently you liked it too, because you signed up by the tens of thousands and told everyone you knew. We had expectations and you blew them out of the water.

Because of this we’ve had to pause new sign-ups, and we must stop issuing new credits beginning tomorrow, April 21st. We’re already hard at work on a revised program that can support many, many more people. We will update you with the details of this revised program on May 19th.

If you have earned money, it’s yours to keep and we encourage you to put it towards something great. Those credits will expire on May 31st at 11:59 pm MST.

Because you’ve already connected, when the program resumes, you’ll be ready to roll. We won’t do anything with your data and we’ll maintain the privacy policy we’ve always held.

Enjoy the ride and we’ll speak soon.

I personally thik this is great. It should be just a matter or time for this to get to wiggle or crc.
In the mean time, there are other apps that will give you money for working out and that work in the UK. Take a look at bouts http://goo.gl/FGbefF, for example.

I'm guessing that with the $40 credit you won't be able to buy a $40 item for free - instead it'll be $40 off anything that costs more than (random guess) $100?

To be honest anyone in the UK, or even the EU would make this worthwhile.

$59.99 flat rate shipping from the US is a real deal breaker for the current supplier - even if you logged 40+40 hours in the two months you could barely get away with a pair of socks + shipping.

Wiggle would be great of course but for free money and therefore free or reduced price kit I'd be happy with any of the retailers.

Sträva won't do this themselves because it would cost them money - at the moment the retailer themselves is using it as a loss leader to get new customers, or to get sales they wouldn't normally.

I works though as a technology I have $10 sitting on my account after a couple of days ready to spend picking up my rides nicely. I may have to use what I earn to send a present to a US based friend !

Shame they can't introduce this themselves purely as money off in their store (this doesn't need a partner after all). I'd quite like to get some of the challenge jerseys, but not at the ridiculous prices they charge (especially the shipping charges) maybe if they do get a UK partner they could also stock the strava kit for them as well and offer money off said kit using strava-miles.

Brilliant, I hope it's wiggle

I bet it will be Wiggle.

Who makes money out of this?

Is it advertising for the shop involved?

This could be Tangfastic

I looked at competitive cyclist, but the shipping charges are ridiculous. Now if they partner with Wiggle... Lots of free haribo.