First Timers Audax
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DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
A few familiar faces on there. Lots of 'on road' stuff though, but he picks up what's needed OK.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Majority use GPS but route sheets are also available for primary or secondary navigation
cougie uk
Guru
GPS is a lot easier than route cards of old. Makes complicated routes far easier to follow.
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
GPS devices on bikes falls into the catagory of helmets and viz vests. My view is that you make your own mind up and let everyone else get on with what they want to do.
I like maps. I am an ex army map reading instructor. But I also like GPS devices and use many of them on a regular basis. I think Ordnance Survey maps in the UK are some of the best maps ever made. But you can get so much more information from using a route making app such as Ridewithgps. A track on a map will just stop. Giving you the impression that you cannot go any further. A route app will allow you to go into satellite view and see if the track continues. It may have heatmap where it will show if anyone else has ridden there.
Plan a route on an app and you instantly see the elevation. You can add your own points of interest and customise your own notes and print them all out into a route booklet.
I use my phone, a Wahoo Bolt, a Karoo 2 and a Garmin 1030. They all have plus and minus points. But if you practice with them and try to make them go wrong. You soon end up riding tracks in your local area that you have never come across before and that probably do not come up on a map as something that you try to ride.
I enjoy sitting at home on the PC planning my next ride and finding new places. But I also like sitting on top of a hill with a map and picking out points of interest. But there is little doubt that following a route on a gps is far easier and quicker than using a map.
Both have their merits.
I like maps. I am an ex army map reading instructor. But I also like GPS devices and use many of them on a regular basis. I think Ordnance Survey maps in the UK are some of the best maps ever made. But you can get so much more information from using a route making app such as Ridewithgps. A track on a map will just stop. Giving you the impression that you cannot go any further. A route app will allow you to go into satellite view and see if the track continues. It may have heatmap where it will show if anyone else has ridden there.
Plan a route on an app and you instantly see the elevation. You can add your own points of interest and customise your own notes and print them all out into a route booklet.
I use my phone, a Wahoo Bolt, a Karoo 2 and a Garmin 1030. They all have plus and minus points. But if you practice with them and try to make them go wrong. You soon end up riding tracks in your local area that you have never come across before and that probably do not come up on a map as something that you try to ride.
I enjoy sitting at home on the PC planning my next ride and finding new places. But I also like sitting on top of a hill with a map and picking out points of interest. But there is little doubt that following a route on a gps is far easier and quicker than using a map.
Both have their merits.
cougie uk
Guru
I do love a good ordnance survey map but it's been decades since I last took one out on a ride with me.
Loved it when we got the maps out in geography. Always Ludlow.
Loved it when we got the maps out in geography. Always Ludlow.
Enjoy. They really are easy going affairs.
currystomper
Guru
- Location
- Fife
I guess I'm just out of newbie stage having done 5 Audax's now, I find them a great way of finding out some great roads in areas that I don't normally cycle and some great chat if you do them on your own.
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
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i'm also embarking on my first Audax next month; cheers for posting the link.
Funny how these vids often feature beautiful sunny weather, hopefully i'll have the same in Feb.
i'm also embarking on my first Audax next month; cheers for posting the link.
Funny how these vids often feature beautiful sunny weather, hopefully i'll have the same in Feb.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
They do don't they. Can I assure you that this is not the case in every audax. I've had lovely, warm sunny ones. Or at least I sort of remember some which were. But I've also had some with typically-British inclement weather; last November's Eureka 200 was one of those 'character-building' days. Particularly when my Garmin and lights got so water-logged they failed and I had to do the last 8km in the dark following someone's rear light at 30kph (they'd offered I could follow but were going quickly to avoid worse weather incoming).
