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Yes – it’s dead simple if you
Yes – it’s dead simple if you’re not bothered about the video. You don’t even need to download the route editor software. Just import a tcx file on the website and it will add it as an activity in your calendar. Then go to that activity and click ‘create route from activity’.
I’ve been using Rouvy for a
I’ve been using Rouvy for a while – tried a few and feature-wise it was my favourite. Plenty of real-life routes you can ride, and yes, you can create or record your own routes to ride, and attach video to them if you have it (otherwise you get a Google Earth type view tracking your route as you ride it).
A few things I’d note, though.
- Their software design, particularly in the route editor, isn’t the most intuitive. It takes a while to get used to where things live and how to do them.
- The video synching in the route editor seems to be chronically broken at the moment. The only way I’ve found to add new sync points is to repeatedly run the auto-sync (which you would think would remove all your existing points, but weirdly doesn’t), which results in a new zero-indexed point being added, and then manually edit the video time, save, re-open and edit the route distance. Which is a pretty tiresome workaround.
- The route synching service has had a couple of fairly major sulks recently – everything did appear to go through eventually, but took up to 2 days. (And I’ve just had another route update fail with an unspecified error and no clear way to fix it.)
- There’s a 12GB restriction on video file sizes, so you might be limited in the length / quality of what you can create.
As an alternative, Bkool also lets you create / record your own routes and add video, and their editor looks, from the demo videos, quite nice. I haven’t tried it personally, though, as I preferred Rouvy’s in-ride experience. I’ll be going back and investigating it soon, though.
I don’t think I’ve ever been
I don’t think I’ve ever been offered a choice of courier when placing an order. You get whatever the seller is using, and most of the time they don’t tell you who that is until after you’ve ordered. You might be able to influence who they use in future by complaints (or compliments) about the service, but there’s no real way to choose.
Of course, it would make more sense if most of those vans/cars were replaced by cargo bikes…
Not quite sure how you spell
Not quite sure how you spell it, but there’s the omniglottal ‘yeeeAAGHH’ that punctuates just about every rider interview.
Didn’t seem like a rant to me
Didn’t seem like a rant to me – I thought it was reasonable, coherent, and well-constructed. If I could give you more than one like, I would.
Never understood how covering
Never understood how covering yourself in ducks was meant to help. Seems impractical on a bike anyway.
And not forgetting that we should all have mandatory insurance against nuclear explosions.Pretty sure my insurance specifically excludes nuclear explosions…
Well then it’s just irresponsible of you to be cycling around putting all those innocent bombs at risk of blowing you up, isn’t it?
And not forgetting that we
And not forgetting that we should all have mandatory insurance against nuclear explosions.
That’s why I always wear reflective clothing, it keeps me safe.I think you’re confused – it’s helmets that protect you from nuclear bombs.
This bit of sarcasm’s quite
This bit of sarcasm’s quite good for a local news report:
No one was on the bus –which was displaying the Government advice Stay Alert on its electronic signage- at the time of the incident.
Even when a piece of
Even when a piece of infrastructure looks reasonable when you first encounter it, it usually turns out to have been poorly thought out, poorly maintained, or poorly cleaned. You’re asking people to ignore all the evidence of their experience and set themselves up for disappointment and inconvenience the vast majority of the time. That’s just not going to happen.
The best way to achieve that mindset shift would be to build more high quality infrastructure.
But how can you tell that
But how can you tell that from the point where you need to join it?
The problem is that when decent infrastructure is as rare as it is, unless you already know for sure that any given stretch isn’t poorly maintained, full of gubbins, awkward to negotiate, going somewhere you didn’t expect, etc., it makes sense to assume that it is and ignore it, because 98% of the time you’ll be right.
Depends what riding you’re
Depends what riding you’re doing. If you’re commuting, warmers are a good option for that significant chunk of the year when the temperature is very different at the end of the day to what it was at the start, because you can shove them in a bag or pocket when not needed.
the people who matter- people with jobsWhat a sad way to look at the world.
I would expect the other
I would expect the other person to proceed cautiously to avoid any collision, and would be doing the same. Of course, they ought to be doing that anyway, in case there was someone coming who hadn’t given a warning, but in reality there are often people who barrel through without thinking unless you’ve advertised your presence to them.
