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When you type a placename at the top left, the results appear like this:
If you tap the (>) symbol then it will go straight there. If you tap the placename itself it will ask if you want to start there, end there, or just see it on the map.

It defaults to routing from your current location to the chosen destination, but you can set a different start point by tapping the name (not the "(>)" icon) and choosing "Start at this point". Or just long-press on the map.

You can choose which routing mode to use in the settings menu (bottom right). Sorry, there isn't a mode to avoid ferries (usual explanation about why cycle.travel can't do route customisation options).

Hi KM2 - I sent you a PM about someone who is interested in this bike but not a registered user on the forum.

Is that Android or iPhone?

Reverse route – not yet!

Round-trip – on iPhone you can plan an A-B route, then tap the end point and choose “Add return leg”. Android doesn’t yet do that but it should do in the next update.

That looks like a Pocket Rocket for a very good price indeed, and if I didn't already have a (similar) New World Tourist I would absolutely snap it up....

richardfm wrote: ↑25 Mar 2024, 6:39pm I just asked cycle.travel (using Edge on an Android phone) for a route from Lancaster to Grange-Over-Sands but it told me that it can't plot a route over the sea

Just to check - are you sure that you're selecting "Lancaster, Lancashire" from the autocomplete, and not "Lancaster, Pennsylvania"? cycle.travel might not know what country your IP address is in, and if it doesn't, it might put the American one at the top of the list.

Took the plunge last night and signed up for Discovery+.

I'm not greatly impressed at paying £6.99 a month and still getting very long advert breaks - GCN+ was cheaper and didn't have ads. That said, you can fast forward through them (on Apple TV at least), which makes them a bit pointless.

I wish they'd make more of an effort with their highlights "programmes". The Tour of Catalonia extended highlights were just the last hour of racing and some immediate post-finish wibbling. It'd be more interesting to have a few excerpts spliced together - and some post-race studio discussion in the bigger tours, though I suspect they don't do the Breakaway stuff for the lesser events.

The on-screen graphics were a bit lacking: no bottom-left identification of riders, just the time check in the top left. Suspect that's probably ASO's fault rather than Discovery's.

But it was a dramatic finish to the stage, the scenery was outstanding, and it's always entertaining to hear dear old Carlton Kirby again, even if he did manage to completely call the stage winner wrong.

It doesn’t take bikes or foot passengers sadly, I think to keep costs down at Le Havre.

There is a bus from Caen (town, not Ouistreham port) to Le Havre which takes bikes: https://www.lavelomaritime.com/porte-ve ... e-honfleur

Here's the Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... el_android

As roubaixtuesday says, it doesn't do everything that the website does, but you can use it to either plan a simple route, or to follow a route that you've planned on the website (and it will honk at you when you go off-course). I've got a long list of features to add to both this and the iPhone app this year.

It's just that I haven't had time to add the marker functionality to the app yet! It'll be in the next release.

Local Access Forum is a very good shout. Also your local authority's rights of way officer (who will be on, and probably coordinate, the Local Access Forum).

Sometimes you can get funding for surface upgrades from nearby developments through Section 106/Community Infrastructure Levy funds - our local council (Oxfordshire) is pretty good at this.

The "Night" option is for routes that are likely to be safer at night, which is mostly public roads and cycleways directly alongside them. It tries not to choose routes across parks and towpaths, for example. It's mostly geared towards city cycling rather than rural.

Well spotted! Now live.

gbnz wrote: ↑6 Mar 2024, 3:58pm

Vorpal wrote: ↑6 Mar 2024, 10:41am
Romans & Victorians immediately recognised the contours of the local landscape and were able to engineer an appropriate route.

Oh I recognise that the Romans & Victorians were able to recognise the contours of the local landscape, as I had even as a 13yr old. Was merely bemused that the modern day "cycle route" planner, didn't appear to have the ability to follow an obvious route

Little or no engineering of any era on the routes & wasn't even as if the restrictions on modern day paths, tracks or roads being constructed, would have been a restraining factor. All the roads required for an obvious route existed, even the Roman road now being tarmac

It would help if you actually said where you were talking about!