How do you navigate.

[derrick]

What do you use to navigate while on the bike?
Cannot edit the nosw one.
Local club rides i know all the routes so no problem, Have a few 100 milers in my head, but am planning new routes, so am using gps for them.

 

[biggs682]

Seat of my pants and follow my nose

With a quick look on google maps if using a new route

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've been pedalling the local lanes for over thirty years so know most routes to the cafe's I use regularly, if I'm going somewhere new or taking part in an event I'll spend some time on Google maps learning the route.

 

[vickster]

Mostly I'm going somewhere familiar, otherwise I follow road or cycle route signs, occasionally garmin

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Wahoo, but OS maps have a special place in my kit list.

 

[Drago]

I use a sextant.

 

[Racing roadkill]

A Garmin as back up, to a phone with Strava, which are backed up with an OS map, and a compass.

 

[Markymark]

IPhone.

 

[hoopdriver]

I rode from Sussex to Istanbul once pretty much by guess and by golly, often with no maps at all - sometimes with a locally bought map. I got there, not by the most direct route - as I could see later when I saw a map of Europe - but I had the pleasure of discovery and didn’t wander too far off a sensible line. On those occasions when .i did have maos it was always fun to ride off the edge of them and wonder where I was heading...

 

[BudgieBike]

Depends on legs/weather/mood what direction I take

 

[jayonabike]

New routes I use Garmin, I know most of the decent roads for cycling around here so follow my nose on most rides

 

[NorthernDave]

I've got a Garmin, but I know most of the roads and lanes I'll typically ride so well that I rarely use the navigation function - about the only times I've actually used that have been on organised rides or sportives with a published route that have been off my usual patch.
When I first got the Garmin I faffed about plotting routes on it, but soon discovered that I'd normally fancy going somewhere different when I was out so that didn't last long.
And I've got a phone with GPS and Google Maps.

Plus I've got a reasonably good sense of direction, which if I combine that with a look at where I'm planning on going on Google maps the night before I'll have a fairly good idea and only rarely have to refer to the tech to find my way. Usually...

 

[robjh]

Echolocation, when I can't see the stars.

 

[alicat]

Map

Memory

Innate sense of direction.

 

[jefmcg]

IPhone.

And I've got a phone with GPS and Google Maps.

Phone definitely needs to be added to the poll

OsmAnd on Android for me.