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2012-12-18 1:36 PM
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I must just be lucky to live in a neck of the woods where I can't think of a single ride I'd want to do that has more than 10-15 turns. I also tend to stick with the same routes over time.. So there's that.


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JZig - 2012-12-18 12:01 PM

... is it really that complicated?

Not if you stick with the same routes over time.

 

 



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2012-12-18 2:16 PM
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JZig - 2012-12-18 1:36 PM I must just be lucky to live in a neck of the woods where I can't think of a single ride I'd want to do that has more than 10-15 turns. I also tend to stick with the same routes over time.. So there's that.

I'm also thinking of rides that are 80+ miles, as I'm more often riding long outside since it's on the weekend. I do know the area well enough that I don't actually have to map things much. Still there are hardly any 30 mile routes with only a few turns. It's just something to get used to. The territory is what makes or breaks the route more so than the number of roads involved. I try to do some event rides just up in Wisconsin. Those go between a few small towns, and are largely out in the countryside/farmland. There are a lot of turns on them, but if you lived out here you'd better believe you'd want to do them. The hills are fun!

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I write it on my arm with a sharpie.  I use shorthand abbreviations and symbols to keep it concise.  If I study the map before I leave then usually I only need a few letters or a symbol to trigger the memory.  Then it washes right off.  I do the same thing for my workouts. 
2012-12-18 4:18 PM
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I have a GPS on my phone that I have successfully used for getting home / back to the start when I got lost on a couple of rides.  The spoken turn by turn directions worked even with the phone tucked in my pocket.

If Map My Ride, or any other app, offered similar spoken feature it would make it a lot easier.  In the mean time I may get lost, but I know the GPS will get me back

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If you absolutely have to be on a specific road, then cue sheets are probably a must. I prefer a more unstructured approach to navigation, I pay attention to the mountains, bodies of water, and other geographical feature and generally aim in a direction based off that, roads tend to be run through certain areas in relation to these geographical features. If I feel like my chosen route might deadend or takes a turn in the wrong direction I'll check the map on my phone.

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mc_charles - 2012-12-17 9:20 PM I tried just memorizing my route once. I was on vacation in Utah last summer, but I'm not familiar with the roads at all. Being from Kansas and being relatively new to cycling, I wanted to ride a mountain pass. Tried to memorize the route to get myself into and up big cottonwood canyon in slc. Rode up, rode down. Had a blast. The next day, when I drove up with my family to hike in the canyon, I realized that I had actually ridden the wrong route (went up little cottonwood instead). So maybe stopping to check the phone map isn't such a bad idea.....

 

Well, little cottonwood is actually the steeper of the two, so sometimes riding off course is better for you 



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2012-12-19 2:07 PM
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i haven't tried it yet, but can you set a route on your phone's gps app and let the talking voice tell you when to turn.  it works in the car for point to point stuff--just don't know if YOU can set the route.

 

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falconsprint63 - 2012-12-19 2:07 PM

i haven't tried it yet, but can you set a route on your phone's gps app and let the talking voice tell you when to turn.  it works in the car for point to point stuff--just don't know if YOU can set the route.

I have an android phone and I tried setting a map on Google Maps and sending it to the phone.  The phone "Maps" app did not respect the route I had set on the computer. 

It set a route from A to B but not all the details.

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