Commuting Route

attica

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/My-Commute-Yatton-to-Bristle

Since the last time I used Bikely they've added the "Auto-follow the road" function which makes planning a route much quicker.

I've shown you mine, you show me yours!

karl j

good grief thats hard work. I'll try again tomorrow maybe

karl j

got there in the end ! . not bad and probably quite useful if a little long-winded . I found the Auto-Follow-the-road a little vague in places with it taking a straight line instead of a bendy road.

But, all being well ( :shock: ) this is mine

Matteeboy

You both do those routes each way every day?! :shock:
I thought I was going well riding 16km each day (although 16 very hilly Km!)

Sea_Green_Incorruptible

And on a single speed too!

I tend to swap between two different routes for variety's sake (+ I've also got a few 'long way home' options too).

Here's my current one: http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Wi ... ucester-Rd

And here's my alternative:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Wi ... ay-Park-Rd

karl j

Matteeboy wrote:

You both do those routes each way every day?! :shock:
I thought I was going well riding 16km each day (although 16 very hilly Km!)

wotcha, no not every day. In the summer i sometimes do 4 days a week but more usually its 2 days a week with the rest made up with bike / train.

Btw, whereabouts nr Truro are you ? - i lived in Trispen for 10 years (before they built that big new road around it)

BentMikey

Nice! That's almost exactly the same distance as mine. Yesterday on fixed, because my 'bent needs a new disc brake.

Matteeboy

Karl - Malpas Village, just outside Truro by the river.

I ride through Truro, up the valley towards Threemilestone and back again.

secretsam

Sea_Green_Incorruptible wrote:

And on a single speed too!

I tend to swap between two different routes for variety's sake (+ I've also got a few 'long way home' options too).

Here's my current one: http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Wi ... ucester-Rd

And here's my alternative:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Wi ... ay-Park-Rd

you do that on a single speedy? You're nuts, mate

PS: I used to go to BGS, ritght next door to where you work!

Sea_Green_Incorruptible

Not me on an SS! I meant Attica - and he goes all the way to Yatton!

Mossrider

Try this

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Mossriders-commute

Not a route for bad weather and most certainly not recommended for fixed!

Sea_Green_Incorruptible

Mossrider wrote:

Try this

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Mossriders-commute

Not a route for bad weather and most certainly not recommended for fixed!

Dear mother. That's the best part of 800m climbing each way!

nwallace

Depends which hill I decide to climb

But my favourite seems to be this
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Commute-Option-1

I could avoid the steep climb up Riverside Drive by taking the improved shared use path beside riverside avenue, but it's a bit more riding and its short enough. I can also go up Invergowrie Drive instead of continuing along Perth road but that is even more steep climbing!

The A&E access road probably is the easiest of the hills in, almost perfect steepness for me just now

Especially with the road re-opening between A&E and the front Enterance.

Mossrider

Dear mother. That's the best part of 800m climbing each way!

Yes, I tend to do it once a week (I need to set off at a ridiculous hour, and at best get back for 7pm, Mossrider junior expects his old man to put him to bed...).

More than once a week can be a bit draining (though I will occasionally try twice in good weather). I need to save some energy for the club run.

andrewc3142

Commutes out in the country sound nice. Here's mine, although for a route to London it's quite pleasant:

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Woking-West-End-Commute

Not on a fixed, I'm afraid (and quite glad).

John Stevenson

Mine:

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Lo ... i-Junction

Follow-the-road is subject to the vagaries of Google's map data, but usually manages to do a decent job. Bikely was a couple of orders of magnitude harder to use till we implemented it.

If you do find a spot where it goes haywire, just turn it off, and back on again a few waypoints later.

homercles

Mine's not in any way interesting - urban jungle and all that...

Click

attica

Hi All

Apologies for not responding sooner, been on a bootcamp training thingamajig, got no sleep and haven't exercised at all since last week, I'm going stir crazy. Anyhoo, I digress.

Sea Green you seem to be making me out to be some sort of superman, I want to quantify, I get to ride four days a week on very rare occasions, I need one day a week in the car to transport all of the clean shirts I need etc. Then there are the days that I get sent to ther offices - so I have to drive to them as well (these happen sporadically) so on some weeks it's as little as two days a week.

In order to counteract this bout of modesty, I thought I'd show you the route I occasionally take on the way home, I visit Mrs Attica at the Airport where she works. this doesn't add much extra distance to the journey but adds a nice little spicy hill just for the hell of it:-
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Co ... ia-Airport

attica

John Stevenson wrote:

Follow-the-road is subject to the vagaries of Google's map data, but usually manages to do a decent job. Bikely was a couple of orders of magnitude harder to use till we implemented it.

John, you're one of the developers of Bikely?

Can I suggest a "undo last action" button.
When the follow-the-road function gets it wrong it usually takes quite a few clicks to correct as you have to go back through all of the waypoints that it's just created.

Great function though, it's really improved the site.

Thanks

whome

Yes, yes! It definitely needs an undo-to-last-manual-point feature as the auto routing (which introduces lots and lots of points) can take you by surprise, if you aren't specific enough or you simply forget that cars can't go that way. It then becomes a pain to delete all the auto created points back to where you last clicked.