Bike / Cycle Route Planner

My aim for this year is to get fit. To do that, the plan is to dust off the bikes in the shed and get cycling. I know I'd have to start off with journeys of about 2 miles to start. But eventually I'd like to get some good cycling done over a few miles.

So I was looking for a cycle route planner and came across the Cycle Route site. This is such a cool site as it lets you plan a route before you leave in much a better way than using Google maps from the main site.



You basically just double click on the roads or paths that you intend to cycle along and then you can see how far it is. You can then save the route to their database and are shown if they're any good. If you have a tool that records gpx data then you can also upload that file too.

The bit that I like is that you can also view other people's routes and then decide if you'd like to do the same. May be in a year or so's time I may try this one - the Fylde Coast Circular!? It's only 39.51 miles and took them just under 4 hours.


Route Planner Rating: 7/10 - I can see how its useful as a good way to store all of your favourite routes and find others, however, being the geek I am, I want more. Hopefully this will come as they get more funding.