Guidelines
Q/KOM Hunters is a small, invite-only group. These are the rules that keep it that way. They are numbered so that if an account is ever removed, it can be told exactly which one it was.
Before anything else: safety
This app exists to tell you when the wind will make you fast. Acting on that means riding hard, often on open roads, sometimes at a time of day you would not otherwise have chosen. That carries real risk, and the app cannot manage it for you.
Every prediction here is an estimate about air, not a judgement about whether it is safe to ride. The decision to go, and how hard, is always yours.
Ride within your ability, within the law, and within what the road actually looks like when you get there.
Guideline 1: Ride legally
Obey traffic law wherever you ride. No segment is worth a red light, a one-way street, or a footpath. If a segment can only be ridden quickly by breaking the law, it is not a segment this app wants you on.
Guideline 2: The forecast is about wind, not safety
A green verdict means the air is working for you. It says nothing about traffic, road surface, other riders, animals, gravel in a corner, or how you feel that morning. You are the only one who can see the road in front of you, and you decide whether to go.
Guideline 3: Don't chase a crown into a bad situation
Not in heavy traffic, not on a descent you don't know, not in the dark, not on a wet or icy road, and not on a shared path with people on it. The app hides slots it can tell are bad, but it cannot see most of them.
Guideline 4: Respect where the segment is
Some segments cross private land, closed roads, race courses, or ground that has since changed. Strava flags some as hazardous and this app passes that on, but the list is incomplete. If a segment shouldn't be ridden hard, don't ride it hard.
Guideline 5: Efforts must be genuinely yours
No motor pacing for a time you then claim, no vehicle assistance, no editing or fabricating activity data, no riding someone else's account. If you would not be comfortable explaining an effort to the rider whose crown you took, don't record it.
Guideline 6: One account, one person
Your account is tied to your Strava identity. Don't share it, don't run an account for somebody else, and don't register twice.
Guideline 7: Invite links are personal
An invite is a vouch, not a giveaway. Send it to a specific person you know. Don't post one publicly, in a group chat you don't control, or anywhere it can be picked up by a stranger.
Guideline 8: You are accountable for who you invite
If someone you invited is removed for breaking these guidelines, your own account is reviewed too. That is the deal that keeps a small invite-only group workable — see the Terms for exactly what happens.
Guideline 9: Be decent to the other riders here
The leaderboard is pseudonymous by design. Don't try to unmask anyone, don't harass anyone over a crown, and don't use anything you learn here to bother another athlete on Strava or in person.
Guideline 10: Strava's rules still apply
This app reads your Strava data under Strava's API terms. Whatever you agreed with Strava, you are still bound by here.
What happens if these are broken
Access here is a privilege, not a purchase — nobody pays for it and it can be withdrawn. Depending on what happened, an account may be warned, suspended, or removed outright, and removal deletes everything the app holds about that rider.
Because invites carry a vouch, removing someone also puts the person who invited them under review. It does not remove them automatically — a human looks at it first. The exact mechanics are in the Terms.