Witterings wrote:I've had a look at Strava and Cycle.Travel recently as apps for finding new routes, I googled how to for Strava and it says go into the drop down tab Explore and then click on Activity search whish isn't there in my browser .... is this a function that's only available for premium members????
If not then how else can I find routes for a given area.
Activity Search has been deleted due to idiot armed service members uploading their activities in Afghanistan and such places, allowing enemies to attack.
Strava has:
* Segments - these are routes but often very short ones. You can search by town name, so, e,g. 'woking' will come up with various routes, e.g., 'Ride-it Sportive, Woking'.
https://www.strava.com/segments/1135372This is 139.63 km, and what you CAN'T do, is directly convert a segment into a route.
What you CAN do, is click on the leaderboard for the segment, and click through to a ride.
In this case since the rider was on a sportive, their ride (aka activity) is the same as the segment:
https://www.strava.com/activities/5700971From here, click the spanner icon at left and create route, and this will create a route in the 'Route Builder' that you can modify.
(in other cases a segment may be only 1km or 2km or whatever, and it's likely that the 'activity' of the rider is much longer.
* Route Builder - You can enter via an activity (so if you are connected to people in Strava, you can view their activities, and 'create route' from those, or via the leaderboard in a segment), or you can just go to
https://www.strava.com/routes and create from scratch. If you just enter two waypoints, say, Woking & Brighton, it will calculate a route between them based on 'Popularity', if that's the toggle you have enabled.
The route it offers is Woking - Brookwood via the Basingstoke Canal, then Godalming, Dunsfold down to Shoreham via various B-roads.
Which is reasonable I think. The length is 87km/676m elevation, or if you turn off 'Popularity', it goes to 73km, 994m elevation and a more direct route via Horsham. Going for 'min elevation', it's 83km/253m without using 'popularity', or 96km/527m using popularity.
I suspect you might not want to go via the Basingstoke Canal, so if you for example drag the route to go via your preferred on-road route, then it will recalculate based on that.
Once you have edited a route (if you wish), you can export it your device or follow it directly from the Strava app.
* Local - this is curated routes for bike/jogging. The UK is limited to 10 routes in the general London/Home Counties region
https://www.strava.com/local/paths?pare ... pe=cycling