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vigomag	11 Jul 14:31
Joined: 28 Apr 2011 Posts: 33 Bike: My Profile	Im thinking of getting a mobile phone to map my routes etc via the Apps you can download and can get the following for Â£40 on payg (i dnt use a phone much otherwise) T-Mobile Pulse Mini Mobile Phone Has anyone had experiance of using this phone or any suggestions of an alternative android phone for about the same price cheers

gipa	12 Jul 17:13
Joined: 07 Jul 2011 Posts: 183 Bike: My Profile	i use my blackberry and the app i downloaded was sportypal google it and you will see ...i love it you start it off it tracks your course and when you get home you can upload it to the sportypal site and look at the proper map of your track . shows you how many cals you burn onn each ride .

dudley	18 Jul 05:39
Joined: 16 Jan 2009 Posts: 498 Bike: My Profile	i occasionally use runkeeper on the iphone. I mainly use an old Garmin gps cycle computer that i got on Ebay, though.
My Latest Route: Nov 2009 Forth Estuary Circular

sdwalker	19 Jul 04:34
Joined: 17 Mar 2011 Posts: 91 Bike: My Profile	I use HTC wildfire a bit more expensive than the one you detailed but will have a faster processor to run maps if you use it as a route finder and such forth and will be bheaper than an iphone. if you get it on contract should be able to pick it up free for not a huge amount a month with call and tinternet time included. also free apps from android market, I use sport pal which does me fine and if you subscribe can link a HR monitor to it too. website to use for getting good contract deals wqould be http://www.buymobilephones.net/ hope that helps
My Latest Route: Mar 2012 Bedgebury Forest Red Route

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I use HTC wildfire a bit more expensive than the one you detailed but will have a faster processor to run maps if you use it as a route finder and such forth and will be bheaper than an iphone. if you get it on contract should be able to pick it up free for not a huge amount a month with call and tinternet time included. also free apps from android market, I use sport pal which does me fine and if you subscribe can link a HR monitor to it too. website to use for getting good contract deals wqould be

http://www.buymobilephones.net/

hope that helps

My Latest Route: Mar 2012 Bedgebury Forest Red Route

warbeck	19 Jul 05:50
Joined: 19 Jul 2011 Posts: 2 Bike:	i use either gpslogger or mytracks for the 'droid. both free. gpslogger is very battery easy but the downside is it might sample too few times and make the route a little jerky.

winnersh cyclist	02 Sep 14:33
Joined: 02 Sep 2011 Posts: 49 Bike: My Profile	I use a BB 9800 and Micoach works great and you can get advice in ear and listen to your music plus battery life is much better than IPhones

rustyspoke	03 Sep 05:43
Joined: 28 Aug 2011 Posts: 244 Bike: My Profile	Why bother with all this techno crap just use set routes for different training rides Hilly ones ,flat ones ,long or short ones, Never need a sat nav or anything when i started riding you just use your memorary to get round.

winnersh cyclist	03 Sep 08:16
Joined: 02 Sep 2011 Posts: 49 Bike: My Profile	you should read and understand the statement he said "Map my ride" not find a route mapping for technophobes is where you ride and then have a record of your statistics on the route like splits, gradients, average speed, cadence, calories burnt, etc,so that you can do better next time or improve on certain parts instead of hiding your head in the sand try to learn about this technology and how you might learn something new instead

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you should read and understand the statement he said "Map my ride" not find a route mapping for technophobes is where you ride and then have a record of your statistics on the route like splits, gradients, average speed, cadence, calories burnt, etc,so that you can do better next time or improve on certain parts instead of hiding your head in the sand try to learn about this technology and how you might learn something new instead

happy	03 Sep 10:03
Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 302 Bike: Orange P7 with Rock Shox, Michelin Wildgripper Lites, XTR Chainset My Profile	@winnersh You mentioned music above? do you listen to music whilst cycling. I'd be too scared I wouldn't hear a car or something...?
My Latest Route: Oct 2010 Livingston to Ayr Avoiding A71

rustyspoke	04 Sep 03:09
Joined: 28 Aug 2011 Posts: 244 Bike: My Profile	In answere to one statement here i aint a techno phobe far from it I just dont need a bloody app on my phone to tell me how i am doing if it is a bad ride then its bad if its good its good.As well all the other stuff People get to intense with this and thats what ruins the enjoyment of a good day out on the road get the miles in and yes check the times yes I run computers on my bikes but as for the phone well thats only so you can ring home and say bring the spare wheels out please.

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In answere to one statement here i aint a techno phobe far from it I just dont need a bloody app on my phone to tell me how i am doing if it is a bad ride then its bad if its good its good.As well all the other stuff
People get to intense with this and thats what ruins the enjoyment of a good day out on the road get the miles in and yes check the times yes
I run computers on my bikes but as for the phone well thats only so you can ring home and say bring the spare wheels out please.

STID	04 Sep 04:42
Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 116 Bike: My Profile	Rustyspoke, how refreshing to read the more sensible approach to cycling you possess than some of the posts on this board. Others invite opinion and comment but when given, and it does not agree with their opinion, others don't like it. Liked your idea about set rides, great suggestion. It also makes me laugh when so many people ask for the best/easiest/shortest/fastest/most picturesque/flatist/quietest route to somewhere, when a building which has lots of books and maps you can use for FREE to plan and map your own ride. Or use any on-line map to do the same thing but would rather ask someone else. An element of laziness me thinks, would rather have someone else do all the hard work. The joy of any ride is to plan it yourself a voyage of discovery, routes to take and places to stay are all at ones fingertips. Maps today are still so relevant as they were when first invented and show routes, elevation, places to stay, scenery and all the sort of roads you need. Rustyspoke, please keep up your straight talking no nonsense approach, I love it.
My Latest Route: Aug 2009 Abingdon to Long Crendon and Long Hanborough Loop.

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Rustyspoke, how refreshing to read the more sensible approach to cycling you possess than some of the posts on this board. Others invite opinion and comment but when given, and it does not agree with their opinion, others don't like it.

Liked your idea about set rides, great suggestion.

It also makes me laugh when so many people ask for the best/easiest/shortest/fastest/most picturesque/flatist/quietest route to somewhere, when a building which has lots of books and maps you can use for FREE to plan and map your own ride. Or use any on-line map to do the same thing but would rather ask someone else.

An element of laziness me thinks, would rather have someone else do all the hard work. The joy of any ride is to plan it yourself a voyage of discovery, routes to take and places to stay are all at ones fingertips. Maps today are still so relevant as they were when first invented and show routes, elevation, places to stay, scenery and all the sort of roads you need.

Rustyspoke, please keep up your straight talking no nonsense approach, I love it.

My Latest Route: Aug 2009 Abingdon to Long Crendon and Long Hanborough Loop.

happy	04 Sep 06:16
Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 302 Bike: Orange P7 with Rock Shox, Michelin Wildgripper Lites, XTR Chainset My Profile	getting hot in here now :) Sitting on the fence I would say whatever gets people cycling the better. If they like to use technology to enhance the enjoyment by all means. I do a lot of cycling by myself (not sure why...) and I quite enjoy having something to motivate me to get out, and some times all it is, is a little app on my phone. Other times when I am with a group, screw the technology, the socialising is much better. STID, I can understand your comments about people being lazy, but I think your under estimating human opinion/experience. By all means research it a little before asking the question, but if you know someone who has actually done a route your after it can mean so much more. I planned a tour of Scotland when I was younger by maps and an atlas. I took the route into my local bike shop, Wheelcraft in Clachan of Campsie, where the owner Al, scored the entire route out and said it was lunacy. He had been on lots of the roads, and said they were just too busy, instead he plotted me one of the best cycles of my life! In my opinion he was better than any book are online resource could ever be.
My Latest Route: Oct 2010 Livingston to Ayr Avoiding A71

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getting hot in here now :)

Sitting on the fence I would say whatever gets people cycling the better. If they like to use technology to enhance the enjoyment by all means.

I do a lot of cycling by myself (not sure why...) and I quite enjoy having something to motivate me to get out, and some times all it is, is a little app on my phone.

Other times when I am with a group, screw the technology, the socialising is much better.

STID, I can understand your comments about people being lazy, but I think your under estimating human opinion/experience. By all means research it a little before asking the question, but if you know someone who has actually done a route your after it can mean so much more.

I planned a tour of Scotland when I was younger by maps and an atlas. I took the route into my local bike shop, Wheelcraft in Clachan of Campsie, where the owner Al, scored the entire route out and said it was lunacy. He had been on lots of the roads, and said they were just too busy, instead he plotted me one of the best cycles of my life! In my opinion he was better than any book are online resource could ever be.

My Latest Route: Oct 2010 Livingston to Ayr Avoiding A71

STID	04 Sep 06:55
Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 116 Bike: My Profile	Hi Happy, great input and good point made. But you did plan out the route in full first then asked others for their opinion on it. Total Kudos to you for doing so and I have no problem with anyone planning a route then asking others their opinion. And had you started you journey carrying a map with you and happened upon a road you did not like, a quick glance at the Ordnance survey would put you straight again, simple. So as I stated earlier, maps are still hugely relevant today as first invented centuries ago. The bit I find funny is others asking for others to plan a route for them, WHY ? Lazy, idol or unable to read a map ? The fact you have to ask someone else to plan you route means you cannot do so yourself. Best to retire the bike in that case. I am betting the majority of people on here have never even looked at a map, because if they had they would see how informative it is in planning any route from 1 mile to 1,000 miles. It will list motorways, trunk roads, main roads, secondary roads, narrow road with passing places, roads more than 4m wide, roads less that 4m wide, other road, drive or track, path, gradient, footpath, bridleway, road used as public path, byway, gates, road tunnel, ferry, information centre, picnic site, viewpoint, camp site youth hostal, PC and it is all conviently colour coded explained in English and nicely laid out. What more do you need ? The fact you have an app on your phone is great and works for you, the fact that Rustyspoke does not have a phone with the app on is also great and works for him.
My Latest Route: Aug 2009 Abingdon to Long Crendon and Long Hanborough Loop.

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Hi Happy, great input and good point made.

But you did plan out the route in full first then asked others for their opinion on it. Total Kudos to you for doing so and I have no problem with anyone planning a route then asking others their opinion. And had you started you journey carrying a map with you and happened upon a road you did not like, a quick glance at the Ordnance survey would put you straight again, simple.

So as I stated earlier, maps are still hugely relevant today as first invented centuries ago.

The bit I find funny is others asking for others to plan a route for them, WHY ?

Lazy, idol or unable to read a map ?

The fact you have to ask someone else to plan you route means you cannot do so yourself. Best to retire the bike in that case.

I am betting the majority of people on here have never even looked at a map, because if they had they would see how informative it is in planning any route from 1 mile to 1,000 miles.

It will list motorways, trunk roads, main roads, secondary roads, narrow road with passing places, roads more than 4m wide, roads less that 4m wide, other road, drive or track, path, gradient, footpath, bridleway, road used as public path, byway, gates, road tunnel, ferry, information centre, picnic site, viewpoint, camp site youth hostal, PC and it is all conviently colour coded explained in English and nicely laid out.

What more do you need ?

The fact you have an app on your phone is great and works for you, the fact that Rustyspoke does not have a phone with the app on is also great and works for him.

My Latest Route: Aug 2009 Abingdon to Long Crendon and Long Hanborough Loop.

rustyspoke	05 Sep 14:53
Joined: 28 Aug 2011 Posts: 244 Bike: My Profile	Note to STID Many thanks for you comment on my post. As for me what you see is what you get so always will be straight talking.

mr.mole	07 Sep 18:22
Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 47 Bike: My Profile	i use my old nokia 5800 with an app called sportstrack. I used it mainly to help me improve my running, but i do use it sometimes on the bike just to log rides I have done and remember where i have been. im not into all the calorie counting. Its mainly just a log of what ive done. i do usually ride on my own, i set the app off and then put it in my pocket, and not touch it till i get off the bike at the other end. as others have said, i carry a mobile incase of emergencies really. but whatever loats your boat and gets u motivated :-)

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i use my old nokia 5800 with an app called sportstrack. I used it mainly to help me improve my running, but i do use it sometimes on the bike just to log rides I have done and remember where i have been. im not into all the calorie counting. Its mainly just a log of what ive done.

i do usually ride on my own, i set the app off and then put it in my pocket, and not touch it till i get off the bike at the other end. as others have said, i carry a mobile incase of emergencies really.

but whatever loats your boat and gets u motivated :-)

winnersh cyclist	22 Sep 09:07
Joined: 02 Sep 2011 Posts: 49 Bike: My Profile	@happy yes I always have my phone connected however not to loud and only in the left ear that way you can hear everything

winnersh cyclist	22 Sep 09:10
Joined: 02 Sep 2011 Posts: 49 Bike: My Profile	Happy you just made me very happy just noticed your comments on the Campsie bike shop know it well used to live in Torrance love the cemetery too

winnersh cyclist	22 Sep 09:19
Joined: 02 Sep 2011 Posts: 49 Bike: My Profile	I must admit that a good map would be better however its easier with all the apps to measure near accurately the mileage before you set off especially if you are tring to plan stop points etc. you may be interested in my hi tech alternative to mapping I use a Tom Tom with a Battery pack that lasts a daly or two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNhPGcnOfkk

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