Elevation info center

[SadieKate]

http://www.motionbased.com/

There is a flood of info going into Motion-Based. In MB you can see people's actual results from their Garmins plus the elevation profiles. Basic accounts are free.

I search on city or key words all the time. For instance, all of us on Party Pardee Saturday reported lower than usual elevation gains (probably due to barometric changes). Last night I found 6 downloads from Saturday and another 8 from previous (probably volunteer) rides that reported much higher gains. The numbers looked more in line with my past years' results so I reported the same 4,100' that I always have and don't feel like I cheated in anyway.

You can search www.bikely.com (which Jobob mentioned the same way) and find profiles and elevation gains. The elevation gains in Bikely appear to be somewhat in the ballpark of real life, maybe a bit high but not bad.

www.routeslip.com - similar to bikely.com, slower to use, can't edit routes and elevation profiles are skyhigh, but can be a source for route ideas.

[maillotpois]

For the Geysers/Pine Flat ride we did this weekend, one guy uploaded his Garmin data to Google Earth so we can re-"ride" the ride again - it created this great little map which moves you along, you can tilt it and ride up the climbs and everything.

Super geeky cool.

The link's at home or I'd attach it here.

[spazzdog]

I went to Bikely and input the ride Trek420 and I did Sunday... without my wrong turn It's simply titled : Oakland to Lafayette

That's really a cool site.

spazz

[jobob]

I went to Bikely and input the ride Trek420 and I did Sunday... without my wrong turn It's simply titled : Oakland to Lafayette

That's really a cool site.

spazz

Yeah, I like it a lot. Hey, your route shows that you guys did ~ 1800 feet of climbing, nearly all of it in the first 6 miles. Brava!

[jobob]

Another really cool program for mapping SF Bay area rides is called BikeMaster. It was developed by Don Axtell, a member of snap's & my club, ACTC.

With Bikemaster you can draw up routes in seconds by selecting the pre-loaded roads. The downside to this is that not every Bay area road is in the database, but it seems that most of the roads that cyclists generally use in the Bay area are in there. You can map out routes and get pretty accurate distances, elevation profiles, total climb, and it will even estimate the time the ride will take based on your average speed and how long you generally spend on rest stops. And you can print out very nice looking cue sheets.


You can download a trial version (w/o all the functions); the full version is $30.

http://home.att.net/~bikemaster/index.htm

jobob sez check it out.

[snapdragen]

Another really cool program for mapping SF Bay area rides is called BikeMaster. It was developed by Don Axtell, a member of snap's & my club, ACTC.
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snap seconds this! I have BikeMaster, and play around with mapping routes. It also comes with a gazillion pre-existing routes, many of them created by Donny.

[maillotpois]

I am pondering what exactly I should cocktail with.

I will have to compare bike mater and KLIMB - they sound somewhat similar. I wish KLIMB went north of Tomales. That's the one bummer for me. However, I have not yet downloaded the most recent version.

[Veronica]

http://www.motionbased.com/
For instance, all of us on Party Pardee Saturday reported lower than usual elevation gains (probably due to barometric changes). Last night I found 6 downloads from Saturday and another 8 from previous (probably volunteer) rides that reported much higher gains. The numbers looked more in line with my past years' results so I reported the same 4,100' ....

I wondered about that. I just always use what the Polar says, I figure that way the data is always skewed in the same way. I know sometimes it has to register too high.

V.

[Deanna]

If you're riding in the north bay, check out:

http://www.srcc.com/cgi/srcc/profiles.pl

One of our club members compiled this data with his Garmin. If you click on the profile, you get the details of start-stop points and directions.

Edited to add: Note the scale varies from profile to profile, you'll also get the scale when you click on the profile.

[SadieKate]

Maybe, but it and my Ciclo seem to measure fairly similarly and always less than the organizers claim for the ride. I did a little research this time because it was more than just a little low compared to other years and all of us had the same low results. Motion-Based had very high numbers with the low end being more in-line with my previous years'. I figured the law of averages was sufficient.

MP's Ciclo is always lower than my Ciclo. It's just weird.

Vastly changing weather patterns like we had on Saturday tend to skew the numbers.

Now, let's compare temperature readings.

[spazzdog]

Hey SK... maybe you're just "sitting higher" (tee-hee-hee ) than MP.

spazz

[SadieKate]

Hey SK... maybe you're just "sitting higher" (tee-hee-hee ) than MP.

spazz

Naw, I just think MP's lazy.

Inside joke: MP thinks I'm lazy because I won't ride over a 200k. Remember, rides should never interfere with the cocktail hour.

[spazzdog]

I are wit chu SK (hic-cup!)

spazz-o-quila

[SadieKate]

Even a 200k might be a problem if the cocktail hour starts at 2:40 pm.

[maillotpois]

Hey SK... maybe you're just "sitting higher" (tee-hee-hee ) than MP.

spazz

That's just plain funny - and blatantly untrue! I'm not Taller Sarah for nuthin'!!