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Bike Chick
01-17-2010, 05:52 AM
Has anyone had any experience with creating cue sheets for group rides?

Ride With GPS does a decent job of creating the sheet from the route but you aren't able to print it to a piece of paper. Other programs will let you download it to a gps unit but not print it.

We want to create a route and print it in cue sheet form to handout at our bike club's official rides.

Any help you might give would be most appreciated.

Eden
01-17-2010, 07:56 AM
You have to sign up (not sure if you have to get a deluxe paying account or if a free one is good enough), but Map My Ride will definitely let you print out cue sheets - in fact it has multiple options for how to lay them out and coordinate them with maps.

Pedal Wench
01-17-2010, 07:58 AM
I've used Map My Ride and also www.bikeroutetoaster.com, and both have cue sheet options. To be honest, I'm not sure if you can print them out - I've just seen the option of saving a cue sheet.

OakLeaf
01-17-2010, 08:53 AM
Printing is part of what a paid MapMyFitness account gets you. There are three levels of paid memberships, and each one lets you print out more maps each month. (For a club ride situation, you'd want to print one and photocopy it.)

I know people and clubs who use it to print maps, and it seems to come out fine (for the most part). I only have a free account.

maillotpois
01-17-2010, 09:29 AM
I guess Ride with GPS is working on it.

I always do my own cue sheets on an Excel spreadsheet. I don't trust cue sheets just printed out by Topo or whatever to make sense, and that way I can plug in warnings about dodgy pavement, etc. and landmarks.

Crankin
01-17-2010, 10:30 AM
We plan our rides with GPS and also then make a cue sheet in Excel. It works out fine.

Bike Chick
01-17-2010, 11:58 AM
Thanks so much for your help. It seems that Excel seems to be the best option for now without paying for MapMyRide.

HillSlugger
01-17-2010, 04:29 PM
I use bikely.com