bikehike down?

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

my browser won't connect anymore, anyone else?

 

[ianrauk]

yep it's down at the mo. Was ok yesterday

 

[youngoldbloke]

Still not there?

 

[Flying Dodo]

Still not there?

No - had to resort to bikeroutetoaster, which isn't useful.

 

[Holdsworth]

Down for me since yesterday as well. A shame as I really like the twin maps and elevation/gradient view. BTW how do people find the accuracy of the that feature?

 

[Flying Dodo]

Down for me since yesterday as well. A shame as I really like the twin maps and elevation/gradient view. BTW how do people find the accuracy of the that feature?

I've found a big discrepancy between bike hike and bikeroutetoaster elevations. Having then cycled the routes (100 mile + legs), and checked against the GPS, it tends to show bike hike is under-estimating the elevations by at least 20%. This is using the OS mapping.

 

[fixillated]

Looks like bikehike.co.uk's hosting provider stopped supporting the site. Their nameservers don't resolve the name and if I try its old IP address I get "hosting for this domain is not configured".

 

[Holdsworth]

Shame, I have switched to using RidewithGPS for the time being because of it's elevation and gradient info that plots the exact position of such features on the maps, much like BH. I wonder if/when it will be back online?

 

[fixillated]

Shame, I have switched to using RidewithGPS for the time being because of it's elevation and gradient info that plots the exact position of such features on the maps, much like BH. I wonder if/when it will be back online?

I'm just plotting a route with bikeroutetoaster and miss some of the familiar actions. I'll try RidewithGPS later. Bikehike doesn't look like a temporary outage but more like not renewing the hosting arrangement. Impossibly to guess whether he just forgot it, doesn't have the time to maintain the site or wants to save the hosting costs. I'm sure quite a few cyclists would be happy to contribute to the running costs, I certainly would.

 

[youngoldbloke]

So - is that the end of Bikehike? I will really miss it. Is there any other site that combines OS and Google maps? It was incredibly useful when it came to planning new routes.

 

[PpPete]

So - is that the end of Bikehike? I will really miss it. Is there any other site that combines OS and Google maps? It was incredibly useful when it came to planning new routes.

Me too - by far and away the most useful route planning site.
The only one I'd have been happy to pay a subscription for.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Since losing Bikehike I have been using mapometer to check out routes. No OS maps however. Being able to check the topography was such a useful feature of BH, the Google maps are too simplistic.

 

[colly]

I used to use Bikehike all the time but found this site :

http://ridewithgps.com/

It pretty much has everything you need and you can plan routes and save them with a link for others to use too.

 

[Bode]

BH is back!! Hallelujah!

 

[ianrauk]

So it is... nice one