Finding routes in your area?
Finding routes in your area?
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Disastrous

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10,211 posts

247 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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Does anyone know of a decent online resource for finding good road routes nearby?

Something like Strava's 'explore' but rather than showing segments, allowing you to say, for example, '20 miles, medium climbs' and it finds stuff nearby?

Running low on imagination and feel like exploring without compromising my workout...

Jonnny

29,897 posts

219 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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I don't know of any, but interested in this also..

OllieCorsa

43 posts

159 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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That's such a good idea! I'd love to know if such thing exists!

Jimbo.

4,222 posts

219 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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Garmin connect lets you see routes saved (and shared) by others. You can specify certain things, although what I can't recall :/

OllieCorsa

43 posts

159 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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Would be good if there was an app! I'd pay a fiver for something like that smile

Maracus

4,552 posts

198 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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There's an app called 'Bike Hub'.

Put in a time or distance you'd like to do and it calculates a cycle friendly route. It's free as well.

croftsj

378 posts

268 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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ridewithgps.com

Search - Bike Rides & put in a start location, download the route as a GPX or TCX file. Job jobbed. If it doesn't start outside your house, alter the route & save it as your own.

Vidmor

8 posts

180 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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There used to be a useful tool here:

http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/multi-ride-m...

which allowed you to see all the rides which passed through a particular Strava segment - really useful to see what routes others are doing. Unfortunately Strava changed the way they share their data recently and it doesn't work currently - may change in the future.

How about finding some of the local clubs on Strava and seeing what rides they are doing (could always join if it looks good!)

Rouleur

7,418 posts

219 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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Bring up a segment on Strava that you'd like to include in a ride and click on one of the dates on the leader board. That will bring up the person's full ride and all you need to do is zoom out the map to see where they rode.

Some may be too long/hilly/flat/not local enough but with a bit of poking around you should find something suitable.

Also you can go to http://connect.garmin.com/ then Explore and Activities (you have to sign up for this) and use the search to find rides with whatever start point/duration/distance you like. This is the better one of the two actually, but you could always just buy one of those 'map' things wink

Rob_T

1,916 posts

281 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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tuffer

9,009 posts

297 months

Tuesday 16th July 2013
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I just go onto bing maps and use the Ordnance Survey view, half of the fun is planning routes both on and off road.

Gizmoish

18,150 posts

239 months

Wednesday 17th July 2013
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Rob_T said:
That.

But also - leave home and for the first hour simply turn left and right randomly. Then complete the loop.

S10GTA

13,790 posts

197 months

Wednesday 17th July 2013
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mapmyride.com

upsidedownmark

2,120 posts

165 months

Wednesday 17th July 2013
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Here's another angle - should find ones that other folks are riding (and hopefully therefore are more pleasant)..

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/06/awesome-cycling...

944fan

4,962 posts

215 months

Wednesday 17th July 2013
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S10GTA said:
mapmyride.com
Yes this one. Lets you search for distance and route types in an area. Also has some new wizardry thing to find routes for you. I like using it for mapping race and sportive routes (if they don't provide you with one) so you can see the elevation graph and also use the 3D flyover to check the course out.

I tend not to bother now and just go and ride, when I feel half done I turn round and go back, or navigate a loop.

Disastrous

Original Poster:

10,211 posts

247 months

Wednesday 17th July 2013
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Map my ride looks great! Thanks.

Was trying to piece together Strava routes from segments but it's a bit of a faff...

Will check out the others as well. Room for a dedicated and clever app here, I feel...

itsnotarace

4,685 posts

239 months

Wednesday 17th July 2013
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In addition to the ones posted above I also use http://www.bikemap.net/en/ and http://www.cycle-route.com/ and recently I have been using http://raceshape.com/heatmap/ which shows hotspot roads used in Strava so can help you find some good ones

AMG01

421 posts

172 months

Wednesday 17th July 2013
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944fan said:
Yes this one. Lets you search for distance and route types in an area. Also has some new wizardry thing to find routes for you. I like using it for mapping race and sportive routes (if they don't provide you with one) so you can see the elevation graph and also use the 3D flyover to check the course out.

I tend not to bother now and just go and ride, when I feel half done I turn round and go back, or navigate a loop.
I use mapmyride, what is the new wizardy bit you speak of, haven't seen it?

944fan

4,962 posts

215 months

Wednesday 17th July 2013
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AMG01 said:
I use mapmyride, what is the new wizardy bit you speak of, haven't seen it?
http://www.mapmyride.com/maps/auto_route/

Its for MVP only. I am not and haven't used it. Just noticed an advert for it the other day.

MysteryLemon

4,968 posts

221 months

Wednesday 17th July 2013
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Hmm, for anyone considering, I just downloaded Bike Hub on my phone.

Seems it relies on preset routes rather than actually planning one out for you. I've told it my post code, said I want to go on a 25 mile ride (an A to A route) and all it can suggest is that I cycle 15 miles to then join a preset 40 mile A to A route, to then cycle back 15 miles to my house. So all in all, a 25 mile route is asked for and it can only suggest a 70 mile route.

Similar when asking for a 90 minute ride.. It suggested me a 4 hour route based on me cycling an hour to join another preset route.

Waste of time.

I tend to just use maps.google.co.uk to plan routes.. use the directions tool to plan out routes based on where I want to end up.

Edited by MysteryLemon on Wednesday 17th July 11:49