By: Rocy

Rocy — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 08:47:01 +0000

The observational surveying is so gooood. Whenever I forget my ear buds, I do that. There is so much around us that it is impossible to get really bored.
Listen to podcasts or audiobooks while riding 🙂 but obviously carefully.
After years of biking to work or uni, I developed my senses and now I can listen to podcasts without being careless about the road. I usually pause whatever I am listening to if I need to cross a very crowded road with no traffic lights or when I need to turn right. Because I use wireless headphones it just requires one small touch on my ear to pause it.

Ps. I just found this website and love it <3

By: Criggie

Criggie — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 23:09:58 +0000

Veloviewer tiles. If you record rides on Strava, this shows 2km squares that you have passed through on any activity.

Example:

https://criggie.org.nz/pictures/bikes/veloviewer-tiles.png

You can see where I did a ride to Akaroa, or Oxford. It also gives your biggest “cluster” of connected tiles, and your biggest “square” which is the blue 9×9.

So I’m motivated to ride around Lincoln and up Springs Road to fill-in squares for example.

There are some tiles you can’t get, like the marsh around Lake Ellesmere where there are no roads, or some of the Port Hills where its just walking tracks.

If you’re recording to strava then its probably already got your map – check it out at https://statshunters.com/heatmap/tiles

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