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

• • 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 (added route heatmaps in 2020 for paying members)
• Strava Global Heat Map, useful for seeing popular cycling routes (only for paying members as of late 2020)
• 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 on Google Maps
• OSM maps of water sources
• Altimeter comparison spreadsheet (right-/control-click to download)—data collected from Calfornia Triple Crown riders since the 1990's—last updated 12/20/2009

weather…

• • CycleRouteForecast by our own Brian Feinberg
  • Morecast.com (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

• reporting a non-injury incident…
  1. Stay calm, get the vehicle license if possible & relevant
  2. If 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