routes library
Here is a library of Western Wheeler route sheets and GPS map files
If you’re interested in being the club’s ”Routes Curator” to collect, organize and maintain a set of routes for use by the club’s ride leaders, please contact the Ride Chair.
route planning
Google Maps…-
- Street View movies, stitches together Street View images along a route
- Perfilderuta elevation profiles with live elevation & gradient readouts
- RideWithGPS, can switch on the fly between Google and Open Street Maps, must login with free account to create routes
- Strava Global Heat Map, useful for seeing popular cycling routes
- BikeRouteToaster, can switch on the fly between Google and Open Street Maps, login not required to create routes
- MapMyRide, displays ads to unregistered visitors
- Public water fountains in the Bay Area
- Altimeter comparison spreadsheet (right-/control-click to download)—data collected from Calfornia Triple Crown riders since the 1990's
weather…
…along route…-
- Forecast.io (mobile-app-like web page, supercedes Dark Sky)
- The Weather Channel
- Weather Underground
- KPIX hi-def doppler radar
- Wind forecast
- Fog forecast animated mode
- Wind Chill Calculator—How cold does the air feel at biking speed?
- Air Quality, PurpleAir—crowdsourced
- Air Quality, EPA
- Air Quality, AirVisual
emergencies & traffic law
non-911 emergency numbers for Santa Clara County and San Mateo County towns and unincorporated areas, for your cell phone address book: closer and therefore faster-responding than calling 911 from a cell phone- reporting a non-injury incident…
- Stay calm, get the vehicle license if possible & relevant
- f you have the vehicle’s license number and description, call 1-800-TELL-CHP to report it to the CHP.
- reporting injury accidents/property damage…
- League of American Bicyclists form
- Instructions for the form (although it’s mostly self-explanatory)
- CA bike law on Wikipedia