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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • When you load your route again on day 2 it asks “would you like to be routed back to the start”, if you select ‘no’ and continue to ride the route, it will figure out that you’re continuing on and provide directions accordingly.

    Just be sure you know whicg direction you’re heading when you rejoin your path, because the computer will send you back the way you came if you’re not paying attention


  • Hey mate, i have the same computer and used it for a recent trip.

    I was lazy (and wanted to go off track at points), so had my main route (1500km or so) as one long file. I would turn it off every night and every morning turn it on, load my route and start recording again. The computer would take a min to realize i wasn’t at the start of the route and would complain until it worked it out and navigation would continue as normal. Each day was saved as a different file in the history, but that was fine by me, i believe there are tools online that can stitch all the files into a single one once you get back home if that’s what you prefer.

    Hope this helps :)





  • Hey dude, this post was perfectly timed!

    Not to bore ya with my life story but in the past 3 months i quit my job, got rehired as a contractor for a month, packed up my life to move countries and ive just finished a 2 week bike tour (deets+photos+vids later) which i managed to sneak in, in all the chaos. I mention this as a bit of an apology for the radio silence.

    Love the idea of adding “bikepacking” to the comm. I literally made this comm cause of the old description of /bikepacking and the perceived snark in their comm at the time, like the aformentioned comments about panniers.i assume it was all banter, but i love the freedom of cycling, and wanted this community to be as open and welcoming add possible

    In terms of the dedicated comm for touring, i defs understand the hesitance, but i will be sticking around and trying to champion this comm moving forward. After the initial surge from reddit, i think a lot of people went back, but personally i would rather see a few posts here, then ever use that site again. i also think the nature of touring means that were going to have big content droughts over the northern hemisphere winter regardless.

    I like the idea of cross posting, perhaps we can reach out to the mods over there to ensure they’re happy for us to do so too.

    anyway it’s 1 am and I’m cooked, hopefully this comment makes sense :)


  • They aren’t crap at all, stop projecting your opinion as fact.

    At worst they’re niche, but provide tangible and easily understandable benefits that you might not care about that others love. That’s like me hating on the newest Samsungs camera, just because I personally don’t value mobile photography.

    Your complaints about durabilitu are pretty tied these days, the technology has improved a lot and you can realistically be as careless as you can with any other cell phone. There are valid concerns , such as Samsungs issue with hairline cracking along the hinge, but you can stop parroting points addressed over the past 5 years now.