Bad cue sheets

There is a new trend that is driving me nuts.

First let me say that I love the ridewithgps site. It is so useful for planning rides. Really I love it.

But. They have a feature to create a cue sheet after you plan and save a route, and it uses a terrible layout. There is too much wasted space, so fewer cues fit on the page which means you have to stop to turn the cue sheet over way too often -- sometimes after only 3 or 4 miles. It also wastes paper and ink. And instead of using letters like R and L to indicate turns they use small arrows that are impossible to read for those of us who need reading glasses.

For the rides I plan and lead, this doesn't matter because someone in my bike club has shared a utility to generate a cue sheet in a much more readable format that is easy to copy/paste into a spreadsheet program for additional editing if needed. But increasingly I'm finding that organized rides, the kind you pay a registration fee for, use the RWGPS cue sheet generator for their official cue sheets. As a result I have to make my own before the ride if I want to have one that is actually usable. The night before a ride I should be going to bed early but instead I'm at my computer futzing around with a cue sheet.

I'm really tired of having to do this much work for rides that I'm paying someone else to coordinate.

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You can print the cue sheet in a 2X2 mode, smaller configurations, even 4 boxes on one side of a page, to split up the route, if you are a premium member. If you don't want to pay to be a premium member, check to see if your club has a premium account. Both the AMC Bike Committee and another informal group I belong to extend their privileges to leaders/members.
Of course DH had just paid his premium fee, one day before I got this information! If your club doesn't have an account, maybe talk to them about this.

Sorry to read their cue sheets are still like that! A few years back I did have a paid account there but never did care for how their cue sheet generator worked.