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 (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
Ride Signup App
Instead of using the paper signup sheet, there is an iOS app that can be used to sign up riders: Western Wheelers Ride Sign In, available on the app store. If you have some regulars that repeatedly come to your rides, you can add them to a template for easy signup.
weather…
…along route…-
- Randoplan 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
traffic law
- CA bike law on Wikipedia
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