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There are even some zippy "secret" features. If you mouse over the profile, a dot travels along the route, and you are told the distance from the start, plus the slope percentage at each point. Then, if you drag and highlight a section of profile, it will expand the section to fill the whole screen width. The highlighted section is shown in blue on the map.
One of the uses of this that I like is to see the distance between chosen towns when following the exact track. This can help a lot when planning a trip using a track from a source like Bikeline.
Okay Steve I am not going to ask any questions. Looks so straightforward!!! I do like the end result with the elevation profile and the map zoom feature.
5 years agoNice! First flower to bloom most places. Found out recently they are native to Europe.
5 years agoI want to come too! After all, when I first met the Classens in the Sidney ferry terminal in 2014, Kathleen and I talked about our new bikes and cgoab and discovered we were both following and admiring the Grampies. I like to think I helped convince her to journal their first European trip later that year.
5 years agoYou plan to do two different trips is a wonderful idea. Looks like a great spring trip. We really loved bicycling along the Danube and we also really enjoyed bicycling in the Czech republic. I know this is the Torte trip but be sure to try the palachinkas. They are like crepes.
I look forward to reading about your trip.
This looks great! I’m so glad to see a plan like this - it looks more promising as a recovery tour than heading south. We’ll follow along with envy and enjoy reminiscing a bit, particularly in the Czech Republic. We biked through southern Bavaria and Moravia 25 years ago, and would love to see it again. You’ll be there at a beautiful time, with the rape fields a brilliant yellow.
5 years agoHey, we feel left out! Let’s all get together when we’re up there in mid-July!
5 years ago😳
5 years agoLooks impressive! We are looking forward to following along while we deal with being home - should make for wonderful dreaming of both rides and eats!
5 years agoJim says "they've got white grass out there now! " 😳
5 years agoLooks like a truly tort-urous journey! :-)
5 years agoWay to go you two!
5 years agoAnd here's me, the youngest of the group commenting here at only 60, who uses paper maps. I like the big picture they give and thus the ability to change my route en route.
I have a GPS too, with OSM cycle maps for the area loaded, but generally only use it for navigation within towns. When I let it direct me between towns, it might me through farm tracks or up unrideable hills, when there are better alternate routes. Not only that, when Al and I are standing side by side, each with the same device and the same base map, doing a search for the same destination, we can get different results!
Why don’t you send me your postal address and you can have a look at that route it wouldn’t be as steep to start You leave the Danube around Resenberg Go home tomorrow so could post it rapid post then
Tricia
That is a nice additional feature. I have the Ride with GPS app on my phone with the intention of possibly using it but gave up fairly quickly when I initially tried to use it. I may have a more serious look at it. I have stuck with Galileo (now Guru) which has served me very well in terms if knowing exactly where we are and the track we are making. I also run Strava (which provides the route taken and an elevation profile at the end of the day).
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