Trailforks Tutorial: Adding a Route to Your Trailforks App

 @stevil-1 This is a great idea. Got to keep stopping to make sure I didn't pass up a trail.

 Have you used the ride planner?

 In the new update!!!

 colored route stages and the route POI are coming in an update in August.

 Add the trail Forks logo to your Strava

 if they are dumb enough to go into the woods unprepared they are to dumb to download an app....

 @cptstoney: to dumb or 2 dumb, but never too dumb, that would be dumb.

 @cptstoney: too*

 @superhans05: tew*

 @Tmackstab: twewe*

 @Thustlewhumber: tu

 Yea, who wants to talk to anybody.

 Good thing you didn't grow up back when you actually had to be social and enjoyed chatting with other bikers. Wow how tech has turned people into piss ants over the years

 ha! - I don't even own a smartphone - I still have the same flip phone I got 10+ years ago (no app for me). One of the things that first attracted me to the sport was the since of solitude being outside away from it all, and it still one of the things I enjoy greatly. Unless you need medical attention, having a serious mechanical or are truly lost it is rude to shout at someone asking directions. Especially when your just a mile in from the trail head. If your traveling and want to get a good idea where to go and what trails may suit you, best thing to do is go to a local shop, ask questions and buy a map and or join them on a group ride where talking is encouraged

 @Grmasterd: so in other words you are just a serial killer lol

 @powderturns: also

 @mhoshal: I've started to use the site to find riders in communities who seem to get out a lot. I send them a Pinkbike message and get out for a ride. It's been a great way to get a local lap and afterwards grab a beer and burger with a new friend. Any tool can be used in anyway. I use Trailforks to be social, I'm a social person. Piss ants are piss ants and will continue to be piss ants, Trailforks or not.

 We currently only have "checkins" on trails, not regions. A regions checkin total is the SUM of all its trails totals. Most checkins are auto generated by users ridelogs. They GPS their ride with a Strava or another device and add that data to Trailforks and we auto generate the checkins.

I don't really see many riders manually scanning in a QRcode to checkin... maybe i'm wrong.
A QRcode checkin would by anonymous, no data about the user.

You can create a QRcode that goes to this URL, it trys to load the region page closest to the user: www.trailforks.com/local
Or just take any Trailforks URL and generate a QRCOde for it, goqr.me

If you want to promote the app, we have a poster here: www.trailforks.com/about/graphics/#posters
I've been meaning to make some smaller sticker sizes options.

 friends dont let friends QR code. but seriously, it takes longer to download a qr reader, then use it then it is to search for an app and download it. half the time, even if you have the reader, it still takes as long.

 

 @canadaka: Are you working on it?

 So kinda like catching Pokemon you can "RIDE THEM ALL" on Trailforks, mark which trails you've ridden. Try to ride every trail in your local areas. In your Trailforks profile is a list of all the trails you've marked ridden. You can also goto the "advanced map" tab for any region and filter the map to show only the trails you have or have not ridden.

For my local areas the map is blank, i've ridden them all! i.imgur.com/SSUrNVU.png

 @canadaka: It's not blank...
You haven't ridden the Powerline Access Trail or the Connector to Bottletop or the Mary Kirk Access Trail or the Perimeter Trail or the Indian River Connector Path.

Sheesh, what a slacker!

 You sure can. www.trailforks.com/contribute/route

Pm me if you need any more help.

 trails on private land? or private trails as in secret?

 im pretty sure you can just e-mail them, same as strava

 What is the etiquette in adding new trails?

 Any user can submit a change to a trail, marking it as hidden. Just add a note as the reason why. Also any user can "flag" a trail to the moderators.

Trailforks has a lot of features to manage private/sensitive trails. www.trailforks.com/help/view/22

 @canadaka: Thanks. I asked it be changed to unsanctioned, which they did, but some sections are indeed private on private land (with permission from the land owners) (@jtayabji I guess a combo of both!). good to know and I'll break the trail into segments so we can hide the routes that go into private land.

 @robjames: None it seems like. A few people north of me have had issues with a bunch of riders suddenly showing up, found out someone mapped it on strava without asking the land/trail owner. It's a catch 22, since we get to discover new stuff, but also have our secrets exposed for literally anyone to see.

 @atrokz: you can break into sections. Or there is also the disclaimer field which like the unsanctioned field, will add RED text to the trail info.

 @canadaka: sweet, thanks!

 @atrokz: seems like people up north have shitty friends. if i invited someone to a private trail and they posted that shit on strava, they'd get a swift kick in the balls, and some slashed tires.

 @canadaka: What's the Disclaimer field for? Is it to generally add data about a trail? Or to add sanctioning or closed or similar status info about a trail

 @leelau: there is already fields for saying a trail is closed or unsanctioned. So the disclaimer is for other situations ot to further clarify. the text in the disclaimer field shows as red.

I see a bunch of trails in the UK have text like "Day pass or membership required to ride!" in the disclaimer field.
Or
"Bears are present in the area, especially along the creeks. Be sure to read the bear aware signs at trailheads and plan your ride accordingly. No need to be 'bear-a-noid', just make noise and travel in a group."

or

"Cross a corner of private Property at Mill Creek intersection"

 @canadaka: Thanks. Makes perfect sense

 the App syncs with the website, if you have the app open it should auto-sync every 24 hours. But you can goto the "Downloaded Regions" screen in the app and press the refresh button beside a region to force an update. That's the beauty of the app, you don't have to wait for us to release updates to get the latest trails.

 @canadaka: Thanks, it has not been auto syncing.

 don't follow the link, it's not worth it. It's about a "scientist" who did a lot of work to come up with basic momentum and gyroscopic effects.

 @Jimmy0: Who are you to tell people what links to follow? That shit is interesting whether @angelfuk meant it to be or not.

 @canadaka can we! ?

 I added a way to do this 2 weeks ago. Use the "copy to ride plan", then once loaded in the Ride plan tool, save it.
i.imgur.com/17gxGSO.png

 @canadaka: nice, will check out. I have another idea for you, now that summer is ending you might have time

 maybe try deleting app and trying again. If not we have an update this week that might fix your issue.

 UK is growing fast, it already has 2,638 trails added and is our top downloaded app country outside US & canada.

 @canadaka: most seem to be bike parks to be honest which I may as well just Google , certainly down south. Its a shame because there is a mass of natural stuff out there but it's still very much a case of having to grab an OS map and work something out.

 The app? What phone are you using it on? Send me an email: brent@pinkbike.com

 @brenthillier: Yeah the app, I cannot get it to load my race route to my iPhone

 @SingleTackKiller: Make sure you're logged in on the app.

 There are currently 645 trails added in Oregon. Anyone can help grow the database there www.trailforks.com/contribute Trailforks is growing at 2-3 thousand trails added each month.

 @canadaka: When I downloaded it and opened it up it didn't show half the trails in Hood River where is a good tutorial for it at on how to use it?

 Not exactly:

www.trailforks.com/help/view/55
www.trailforks.com/help/view/22