globecanvas

Anybody switch from one to the other? I've been using mapmyride but my main complaints are: the very long delay between pressing "record a workout" and when you actually get the screen where you can press start, and the overall clutteredness of their web site.

I downloaded Strava and will give that a try on my next ride.

RT

Agreed on the crowded MMR screen, and Strava has a wonderfully simple interface. Simplicity does mean it lacks some things you may like on other products, but getting rid of the cluttered screen does wonders.

Seattle Forrest

I like SportTracks.

nhluhr

MapMyRide is incredibly annoying but they have a pretty good ride-planning capability with the mapping point-by-point feature. Trying to do the same thing in Google Maps is annoying.

Vicelord

I like my combination of Strava and Connect.

I used MMR before and found that it's slow, cluttery, and I fell in love with the competitive nature of Strava. It has less info, but Garmin Connect makes up for that and then some.

JonnyUtah75

No love for Endomondo?

Vicelord

after going endomondo and experimenting with that site, I can honestly say it is the clumsiest, most difficult to use site I've been on in quite a while.

rm -rf

For drawing routes, you want www.ridewithgps.com It's great for viewing uploaded GPS tracks, too.

fordmanvt

try this out, add to it!

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Spacemunky

Strava is the best site hands down simply for the timed objectives

RichardGlover

Google My Tracks.

Simple android interface. Uploads to your google maps. Very clean & lean.

vandalarchitect

I find between Garmin Connect, Strava and Ride with GPS I can forget about Map My Ride and their ad-cluttered pages.

The only thing that I like about MMR is that I can draw a route and then see the climbs categorized, and even that sucks. I've had climbs show up and then ten minutes later disappear. No thank you.

nhluhr

Totally agree. My use of sites like Ridewithgps, Connect, etc was almost totally out of curiosity for logging, history, bragging to friends who don't know better, etc. It never actually inspired me to do anything better or faster.

Enter Strava and all of a sudden, every ride I do they are showing me how I compare (whether I ask or not) to other riders, my previous history, etc. I feel it's the biggest motivator for me in a long time since I stopped racing 10 years ago.

JonnyUtah75

I tried Strava a while ago, but the deal breaker for me was there is no Auto-Pause function. That greatly skews my average speed times sitting at the many stoplights we have down here.

Have they added this functionality yet?

RT

They strip the stopped time from the ride when you upload it. It took some getting used to, but seems pretty accurate.

achoo

What? You want the time you spend resting not to count against you?

Also, I agree with nhlurh, Connect is a good "show off" high-level summary of a ride but is pretty useless as a training tool, as is RideWithGPS, although RideWithGPS gives a bit more detail and could probably be somewhat useful as a training tool. RWGPS is also great for mapping out rides.

MapMyRide? Meh. I tried it, gave up on it quickly. Waste of time IMO. I don't even remember what it looked like.

The thing I like about Strava is it's really easy to compare your performance on the same geographical segments. I haven't seen any other site or application that makes seeing how I did going from point A to point B anywhere near that easy.

tcwayne

I used MapMyRide for a bit but found it lame as others have said.
Tried Endomondo, not a fan
Mostly have used Outfront by MapMyTracks. Can't stand that you can't pause on any of them. Or is there one that you can pause for things like red lights and flat tires?
looking at Strava now.

hurley1718

I've been using MMR but had the ads and clutter. I'm going to give strava a test.

vandalarchitect

For the Strava users:

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...90-Strava-Club

nhluhr

yeah that is built into the app according to a recent help request. Also, it obviously is built into the garmin units.

somedood

This sums up Strava for me. I don't have an android phone either, my phone does log GPX files so I can just upload my data and analyze my ride. It is just so easy to check my rides and see what kind of progression I have made.

Seattle Forrest

I must be the only one, but as much as I like the maps and charts of my rides, I prefer for that info not to be online. So I prefer the desktop version of these kinds of apps.

B100

Strava.

Vicelord

Why? Are you afraid someone is going to come and get you? That they might target you over the other 44 billion people on the internet?

somedood

You can mark your rides as private so nobody can see them or just block out certain areas so people can't see where you live/work (it will automatically remove those sections when you send ride data). However, the people that run the application obviously have access to that data and I can definitely understand the privacy concerns. If Strava weren't so easy to use I would definitely be using a desktop version only.