Mapmyride Route Genius

[Ys123]

I currently pay £3.54 per month for Route Genius (as part Mapmyride "premium" although I don't use any of the other extras). Is there a free alternative?

For clarification purposes, route genius works that you put in the total cycling distance you want to cycle and it makes a circular from and to where you are with whatever distance you asked for.

 

[Lee_M]

I never got on with it, always found it taking me down inappropriate roads, so now I just search for routes that others have already done, available for free and at least you have the advantage someone else has already done it.

Found some great routes in parts of the country I don't know that well

 

[Fab Foodie]

There is one, I've used it.....but I can't remember what it's called!!!!!!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Found it!

Cycle.travel

:-)

 

[Ys123]

Found it!

Cycle.travel

:-)

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

 

[13 rider]

@graham bowers was praising this site very recently he used in on lejog trip

 

[wonderloaf]

Plotaroute also does this:
https://www.plotaroute.com

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QnVS67wAU

Very useful.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Plotaroute also does this:
https://www.plotaroute.com

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QnVS67wAU

Very useful.

Another one for plotaroute..

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Found it!

Cycle.travel

:-)

Any way to stop it routing me on the downslink and south downs way and other unhelpful off road routes?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Any way to stop it routing me on the downslink and south downs way and other unhelpful off road routes?

Errrr no!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Errrr no!

Chews my nugget. At least one in three of every circular ride it suggests from my home town includes a great big chunk of the downlink which is mtb/gravel bike territory. (Though I have ridden it slowly, and with ever loosening filings, on 28s on a road bike)

 

[graham bowers]

Here's the problem with all automatic routing. What is "appropriate" varies not just from person to person but from time to time for one person.

In the middle of a long ride, I'm not keen on unpaved sections, as they break up the rhythm. Unless, of course, they are really nice. When I'm knackered at the end of a long ride I'm not so keen on big roundabouts if I don't feel I have much in the way of acceleration. Things change with the weather too. An off-road section that's perfectly benign can become a bog.

Totally agree with your first paragraph.

Having had some surprises, I now do my homework on the unpaved sections. I peek in from adjacent paved roads on streetview, and have in the past asked on here, with good results. Not sure about the other routing sites mentioned in this thread, but cycle.travel does make it easy to see the unpaved sections - I should say though, it uses OSM maps, so is only as good as the map data. That method did not however save me from a recent surprise. 73 miles in of an 83 mile day I found myself sharing a field with a bull - survived though. I knew it was unpaved and could have easily circumvented it.