Cycling UK Forum

It appears to be a Google mess-up - I have an email from them saying "Your update to cycle.travel, created on May 4, 2024 at 4:04 PM GMT, is live in the store" but, well, it isn't. I shall press some buttons and see if I can force it through.

That's good to know! Working out how to give the option of downloading maps to external storage is on the to-do list somewhere...

LittleGreyCat wrote: ↑12 Apr 2024, 6:48pm I tried plotting a route today and it asked me for a destination but not a start point.
It used my current GPS location.
Is this to be expected or am I missing something?

Just to say that the new version of the app (released today) has a button where you can bring up the same "From" and "To" fields that the website has - it's the button at the top left.

Yes, it does seem a curious choice for EuroVelo to follow, particularly when there are glorious roads in the hills to the south of Florence that would make for a much better touristic route.

c.t does have a few overrides for "signposted routes that don't deserve an uplift" and maybe this should be one of them. No criticism taken - I'm just always interested when c.t chooses a less optimal route to think how it could be improved!

Angstrom wrote: ↑26 Apr 2024, 7:28am We rode from Florence to Assisi/Perugia. We needed to exit Florence until Pontassieve. CT made us follow the EV7, and initially, it was lovely, following the Arno river on the river bank and small roads wandering in olive groves, past the Fiorentina training camp etc. Then things turned out really bad. We were stuck on a very busy road for almost 10K. We saw on the other bank that there was another road and my wife wasn't too happy because she mentioned our host in Florence had advised us to ride on that side of the river instead (I hadn't heard it or maybe I was too self confident about my preparation). Those 10K were by far the worst of the entire 10 day trip and they were on the official EV7.

That's really interesting - thank you. Generally c.t would prefer a Strada Provinciale with a EuroVelo route (the one you rode) vs a Strada Statale without any such designation (the north bank).

A quick StreetView suggests both are pretty busy but perhaps that, as you say, the north bank is a bit better. Unfortunately c.t doesn't yet have any motor traffic data for the south bank road (the one that EV7 follows).

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).

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.

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.