CC Jodrell Bank Run Spring 2012 - SUNDAY 22nd April

[Judderz]

I've shown you what to do in cases like this Potsy, simply put on a spurt about 1/2 mile from the cafe and get in there first! Problem sorted.

And you've just given your tactics away

 

[mickeydrippin60]

my dads gonna come along aswell

 

[DiddlyDodds]

One and a half hours to get served ! what do you all eat on these rides , a horse each

 

[potsy]

One and a half hours to get served ! what do you all eat on these rides , a horse each

That's just Ilikeskol, though there'd be cake for afters too
Shouldn't take long for my order, being such a small eater

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Just looked on the menu and its looks a tad fancy dandy for a cafe.
http://www.jodrellbank.net/media/cultural/jodrellbank/documents/cafe-menu.pdf

 

[potsy]

Just looked on the menu and its looks a tad fancy dandy for a cafe.
http://www.jodrellbank.net/media/cultural/jodrellbank/documents/cafe-menu.pdf

That's Cheshire for you
Last time we I mean Skolly and Skud got full brekkies, though I don't remember what time we got there, seems to be an 11.30am cut off for the normal brekky stuff
Might take a packed lunch

 

[Judderz]

seems to be an 11.30am cut off for the normal brekky stuff

Or we set off a little earlier to make in time for breakfast. Might be an idea to pre-warn them how many of us are going?

 

[totallyfixed]

Hope they have lettuce

 

[ColinJ]

I had to re-register with MapMyRide to be able to download the route and have now done that so I can see it on my OS mapping.

Apart from unavoidable bits through Stockport and a couple of other built-up areas it looks like a very nice route and one which should be fine for me on my Cannondale.

That 3D aerial fly-by feature on MMR is rather splendid! I watched about the first 35 kms of it and then looked at the map and I could recognise some of the things I'd seen from the air (the short section on the A6, for instance).

Cheers for posting the other link. You may need to edit the track points if it exports too many in GPX. Do this in your GPS software.

I got caught out by excessive track points on my last forum ride GPX file. This GPX download has over 10,000 points which is way more than needed so I have used Memory Map to cut it down to a manageable number.

Looks like it has loaded fine on my Garmin

You have a more sophisticated Garmin model than mine, potsy, but I'd check to see what it has done with all those surplus track points. Mine threw away every other point without telling me last time and that route only had about 850 points. In this case, it would have thrown away 19 out of every 20! Your GPS may have truncated the route or arbitrarily cut bits out to make it fit the available track memory.

 

[Cyclist33]

At the moment I'll have to pass as I got my lad that weekend, but if I manage a late reschedule I may end up coming on the day. If so, Potsy, would you be up for meeting at Timperley like last year?

Stu

 

[potsy]

Colin, how would I go about checking?
Words of no more than 2 syllables please for this novice

Stu, that's fine on the meet up, will arrange a time when you can confirm you're coming along.

 

[400bhp]

Try and get it to load on your garmin. If it starts to load it should be OK.

 

[Pennine-Paul]

After viewing that menu and thinking how long it's going
to serve us all, I'm taking my own nosh

 

[potsy]

Try and get it to load on your garmin. If it starts to load it should be OK.

It has loaded on OK, but I haven't gone through it turn by turn to see if it's missed anything out.

I can see me and TF having a race for that lettuce sandwich

 

[ColinJ]

Try and get it to load on your garmin. If it starts to load it should be OK.

As I mentioned above, my cheapo Garmin Etrex swallowed my last GPX file without complaint but when I uploaded it back to my PC and compared it with the original, I found that it had discarded every second trackpoint to get it to fit the available memory.

It had become increasingly obvious on the ride that something was wrong e.g. when the breadcrumb trail on the GPS screen showed what should have been a right turn as a diagonal line across a field rather than straight lines at right angles indicating the roads round the edges of the field.

The more expensive Garmins may allow a lot more trackpoints per track, I don't know. It's bad enough to lose alternate trackpoints, but the real killer would be if the GPS simply truncated the route when it ran out of memory.

Potsy - a good way of checking your download would be to upload it back to MapMyRide and zoom in to make sure that it follows the entire route properly. If it does, you are okay. When I did this for the flat century ride file, it was very obvious that alternate points had been discarded. If it doesn't look right, tell me what GPS you have and I'll look up what its limits are and work out a solution for you.