Trailforks Tutorial: Planning a Ride with the Ride Planner

Oct 10, 2016 at 13:56
by Brent Hillier  
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The Ride Planner allows you to prepare ahead of time and create the perfect loop for your next adventure. Once saved, the Ride can be view on your phone using the Trailforks app. Create, Share and most importantly: RIDE!

Planning a Ride with the Ride Planner

by brenthillier
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If you missed the last Trailforks Tutorial, here it is: Find that 'Must Ride' Trail.If you want to learn more about creating Public Routes and Race Courses then visit our Help Page.

New to Trailforks? Learn more about the App here, and more about the website here. Have a question you would like answered about Trailforks? Leave it in the comments below and stay tuned for more Trailforks Tutorials.


Missed the last Trailforks Tutorials? Catch up below:

Find that "Must Ride" Trail
Adding a Trail Report
Syncing Strava Rides
Adding a Route to Your Trailforks App

MENTIONS: @trailforks / @canadaka / @brenthillier


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40 Comments
  • 7 0
 I find this app extremely very useful for when I go to Majorca or Geneva... best thing ever. It just tells you what near by slopes you can go to... Brilliant... !! Thanks PB!!! Dan XX
  • 2 0
 I used it in the Geneva area but didnt find much, what I found wasnt on there. Would appreciate some useful advise from you @danimarketing28. Thanks Smile
  • 1 0
 @Iwanttoride: I live in Geneva now... hit me up if you need tips on the local riding areas.
  • 1 0
 @Iwanttoride: I did follow a black line called "La Dh" which it is outside Geneva south, just on the french side. It also shows on the trailforks just under the Geneve city. Remember that you need to download the country trails though!! I go to that one as it is the closest to me
  • 2 1
 Really wish people would use trail forks more in the uk and and around me, i can just imagine all the trails I'm missing Frown
  • 4 2
 @TheFlyingYorkshiremen: Get out there a find them; its half the fun.

Never stop exploring.
  • 1 0
 @TheFlyingYorkshiremen: Im in the UK too, (partly)... but living in Horley, Surrey, just behind Gatwick Airport, but around where I live, there isn't much, unless I have a car and go by the Surrey Hills, etc...
  • 2 1
 @Chadimac22: I might also come to you later, as I go on and off to Geneva...
Thanks XX
  • 2 0
 @TheFlyingYorkshiremen: agree, trailforks seems under utilised in the UK, there is so much that's not recorded. To be fair, I've been too lazy to upload anything.
  • 1 1
 @deanw: they don't want to waste the battery on their Ebikes looking for trails......
  • 1 0
 @danimarketing28: sure thing!
  • 2 0
 @danimarketing28: @danimarketing28: sure thing! There are some good mtb trails around Geneva, most of which are located on Mt. Saleve and Petit Saleve. Admittedly, I'm sitting on a fair amount of ride data that I haven't uploaded to Trail Forks yet. I'll upload that soon... Promise. In the mean time, if you look me up on Strava, you can see some of my rides in that area. There's also theJura mtns which are close as well. Problem is that many of the trails are either unmarked or neglected, or both. But there are some gems... I just haven't found A good way to link them together. The MTB scene in Geneva is kinda weird... Sure, people ride, but they either stay to themselves or their small clicks or have poorly organized groups that don't take advantage of social media to gain new riders and attendance. I'll try to fix some of that by mapping my stuff on Trail Forks. Hit me up if you're in the area. @Iwanttoride
  • 1 0
 @Chadimac22: Hey THANKS a million for that... no rush though... don't feel under pressure, as I have started university again and I might be a bit away from riding until I catch up with studies. But gagging for it, as I am buying a second hand mtb and cant wait to try it and do some changes too.
Well hey... im sure I will hit you at some point.

Thanks once more Chadimac22!!!


Dan
XX
  • 2 0
 This app is awesome. I was up north last week-end in Collingwood and was basically lost in a maze of trails. Lots of fun until it started pouring rain. Being unfamiliar with the area I wasn't sure how to get back to the parking lot. Trail forks navigated me straight back to the car. This app basically turns you into your own tour guide. Of course the trails have to be in the app for it to work.
  • 2 0
 The ride planner can sometimes be a real pain in the ass to use. I think I've used a total of 30 min to try and create one route. I ended up creating one in Strava instead.

List of problems I've encountered while using Trailforks ride planner:
- Sometimes difficult to remove a marker by clicking on it (I often add new ones instead)
- Can't always mark a road which obviously is on the map.
- This message often pops up: Routing Problem: Can't find an edge.
- When I click on a trail it doesn't always select the whole trail, but only parts of it. This subsequently makes it more difficult to create trail.

I hope you can fix those issues!
  • 1 0
 The "Routing Problem: Can't find an edge" is definitely very frustrating, as it makes it impossible to rout along certain trails
  • 2 0
 As the trails are user submitted the data is not always clean or trails not connected. We trail and automated cleaning up some of this data, but it doesn't always work. So it takes time for users to go in and edit trails to clean them up and make them snap to each other and have clean intersections. The area in the video demo has been cleaned up nicely by users.

What is the region you were trying to create a ride plan?
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: I was trying to create a route in Frognerseteren (Oslo), Norway. Those trails are not so important to me, as I just wanted to create a route to test on my newly bought Garmin device.

The trails didn't seem connect, as you said. Although it seems like one trail, I just manage to select one part at a time. An example is the trail "Eastside" in the same region.
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: For me, the problem is related to this trail: www.trailforks.com/trails/carbunari . I can't connect it with any other trail in the ride planner. I would gladly edit it to work, but I don't really know what's wrong, the end seems to join the surrounding trails
  • 2 0
 @pufi: seems there is an issue on the south end: i.imgur.com/G9vGeaq.png each region has a "routing admin" page that shows all the connections in a more visual way to find errors: www.trailforks.com/region/matorat-15078/routingadmin

I'll fix this trail.
  • 5 0
 Planning? Isn't part of the fun getting lost?
  • 6 0
 Depends. If I have all day, sure, If I have 2 hours and need to get back to the kids? Hell no.
  • 3 0
 This is so awesome! Nice job, Brent. Trailforks keeps getting better and better. It's such a useful tool- thanks for all the great work you've put into it.
  • 4 0
 Excellent tutorial. Now please add a ride tracking feature and this will be my favorite trail app.
  • 3 0
 It's already my favorite app, but in-app ridelogs would be killer, can't wait to be able to delete Strava from my phone Big Grin
  • 1 0
 1+ ^ that!
  • 1 0
 awesome app, but power consumption is pretty high and i hate to be online to see maps under trails, why it cant buffer the maps, and remember them? When i am in the middle of nowhere, saving battery life as much i can, i just dont want to be online and drain my battery in few minutes! Do please some Update, thanks, anyways, its one of the best app out there for biking!
  • 1 0
 What device are you using?
  • 3 1
 Is it possible to upload this information to a Suunto watch? I do not want to pull my phone out every time I come to an intersection. If so, I am game.
  • 2 0
 You can download your created route as a GPX file and then upload it in Suunto Movescount. But I am not aware of any Suunto basemap capabilities. I do the same with other GPS computers that have route capabilities, but it is not always easy to know when you have taken a wrong turn until you have gone a ways down the wrong fork.
  • 1 0
 @todd: very true. I even do that when looking at the phone. If it prevents me from going half a mile down the wrong trail, then that is good. I may have to give this app a try.
  • 3 0
 I wish trail forks could record my rides so I could ditch strava all together. Leave strava for the road biking banksters
  • 2 0
 I madly agree with you Gasket. I think "Strava" is for road cyclist and road runners... not very much applicable for mountain bikers, or exactly for something we all are looking for, as mountain bikers. Better be Trailforks!!!!!
  • 1 0
 It's coming...... Wink
  • 1 0
 exploring, while on a bike, usually involves pedaling...lots. unless i'm poaching, i just stick to trails with long downhills. then its time for a beer and a bowl.
  • 1 0
 Very helpful video, had no idea. Will start using this for new places or to send to friends who are going to ride a spot that is new to them.
  • 1 0
 Hmm. Constantly get 404 error when trying to view trail reports via safari on iOS.
  • 1 0
 Delete the app, and reinstall it again Nick







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