Category: Activities

Tiling Tales: Chasing Tiles in Arctic Conditions

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Pekka TahkolaThis tiling tale takes us far north to Finland, home to tile-hunting enthusiast Pekka. To maintain his impressive five-year cycling streak, Pekka regularly battles sub-arctic conditions on his bike. As a true tiling puritan, he only rides outdoors—and with February temperatures plummeting to -30°C, his journey is a masterclass in dedication and determination.

After following his adventures on Instagram and YouTube, we wanted to delve deeper into his backstory and how he conquers these extreme temperatures and challenging terrain. Who knows, his story may even inspire a few of you to head to Finland for Pekka’s favourite ultra event, Ruska – be warned though, his tales come with words of caution!

Also there’s a bonus feature to this blog, read on to find out the new VeloViewer metric now available thanks to Pekka’s request. Continue reading →

Zwift Mastery and VeloViewer as a Training Companion, with Cat Allen

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Introducing Cat Allen, an avid Zwifter and VeloViewer user, and at the time of writing the only woman to have completed all Zwift Insider routes. This amazing feat is no accident and takes a lot of determination and dedication. 

Cat’s commitment to indoor training is inspiring, and she first made headlines in 2024 when she hit the 300,000 km mark on Zwift, again the first woman to do so.

As an avid VeloViewer user we were keen to find out how Cat uses our platform to assist with her training and whether her activity focus has shifted over the last two years. Continue reading →

VV Tiling Tales: Spanish Cluster Corridor 

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Regular followers of our Tiling Tales series will recognise Jürgen Knupe as an avid tiler who is renowned for his Panamericana Bikepacking Trip.

Out of the gate in 2026 Jürgen already has a story to tell completing his ‘Spanish cluster corridor’, resulting in him taking top spot in the MaxClusterSpan Leaderboard.

Uncover the story behind Jürgen’s adventures and get inspired for the season ahead with our Q&A. Continue reading →

VV Tiling Tales: An Eight Year Cycling Streak

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Stephan riding his bikeWe are fascinated by the diverse goals of VeloViewer users, with every story revealing unique and inspiring dedication to personal achievement. Tiler Stephan van Hienen caught our eye when he casually dropped in a 2861 day cycling streak with his 2025 yearly infographic on Instagram.

This enviable streak of consecutive riding days deserves to be showcased, and at the time of writing Stephan was well on his way to the 3000 milestone, yes read it again, that’s eight years!!

We dug a little deeper with Stephan to find out more about this impressive feat, which we’re sure will motivate others along the way. Continue reading →

Hitting an Eddington Score of 100+ with Robert Williams

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Robert riding his road bikeVV Wrapped season has unearthed some phenomenal stories of rider achievements. One which we were keen to do a deep dive on was Robert Williams who chased 100 imperial centuries and hit 107 in 2025. This amazing achievement gives him an Eddington score of 100+ which is spectacular. Not only this, the icing on the cake for Robert is hitting 524,076 metres elevation for the year.

For VV fanatics who are familiar with the Eddington number you will know how impressive this is, for those who are not familiar with the term let’s give a quick recap before we share Robert’s story (for the full Eddington break down click here):

  • Your cycling Eddington number is calculated on the distance covered per day
  • Your Eddington Score is the largest distance where you have completed on that many days 
  • As an example, if you have completed 50 miles on 50 days your Eddington is 50
  • Named after British astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington, a cyclist himself in the early 1900’s, this is now used by cyclists to create tough cycling challenges and set personal goals 

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Max Cluster Span Goals with Elmar Hogenboom

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We have had our eye on the tiling adventures of Dutch rider Elmar Hogenboom as he sits in a very impressive 1st place in the Explorer Max Cluster Span leaderboard. It is thanks to Elmar this VeloViewer leaderboard was created after his request to Ben.

To achieve this amazing feat Elmar developed a Max Cluster spanning from Germany’s North Baltic coast down to Alicante (half way down Spain’s East Coast).

We checked in with Elmar to find out about his impressive position, how he hit his goals, and the challenges along the way.

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VeloViewer Wrapped – Yorick Dix’s Inspiring Tiling Adventures

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For our final VeloViewer Wrapped story we get the inside scoop on Dutch tiler Yorick Dix’s infographic. Renowned for his explorer corridor in 2024 to the Mediterranean from his home in the Netherlands, in 2025 he travelled equally impressive distances and grew his Cluster by almost 2,800 tiles. 

Take inspiration from Yorick’s year of riding with his Q&A which highlights his motivation to ride with no focus on speed but more the pure enjoyment of adventuring. Continue reading →

Spotting and resolving Flagged Strava Activities using VeloViewer

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I’ve had a bit of a run lately of old Ride activities being auto-flagged as potential E-Bike rides as Strava’s algorithms work through trying to spot and deal with potentially mis-typed activities and other data anomalies. There was a time when I was relatively fit on the bike and it looks to be some of the rides where I had a bit of an effort that have been flagged. Once flagged, these activities will no longer appear on Segment Leaderboards in Strava or count towards your Summary/Leaderboard totals in VeloViewer. Fortunately they are prominently listed for you in VeloViewer and then easy to resolve in Strava.

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VeloViewer Infographic Check-In

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With over half of 2025 completed, VeloViewer infographics are starting to look pretty as they tell a story of riders adventures for the year to-date. Our end of year VV Wrapped is renowned for being shared in the new year and is a visual way to depict the year of training. 

For some, the infographic data is a closely guarded secret which will not be revealed until the close of 2025, but we have spotted a few out in the wild and so have been checking in with riders on their progress.

Cycling enthusiast and YouTuber Scottish rider Stuart Dick shared his Infographic with us, and we wanted to see how his year was progressing, and what his motivations were to get out and ride. Continue reading →