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[JCZ]

What Ride Planner are you guys using and are you happy with it?

[pauly_2]

Hi JCZ,

I tried the Harley one, but it was a little too buggy to use in real life. It would loop around in country towns rather than ride through them, and at some roundabaouts it’d turn you (say) left, then tell you to do a u turn 100 meters down the road, and ride through the roundabaout (therefore turning right). That, along with taking us the wrong way on a reciprocal route, had me looking at other options. I’m now using apple carplay, and planning rides by “add destination”, so it ends up going to each destination you list up to the final one. This is good except it expects you to “remove” each destination as you ride through it, otherwise it just loops you back.

Didn’t think it’d be so difficult 😥

Thanks
Pauly

What Ride Planner are you guys using and are you happy with it?

[Hondo2doc]

Well I'm still using the Harley ride planner. Yes, it has some issues. But a couple of things. First I'm not real smart when it comes to computers, so I need things dumbed down for me. And the Harley ride planner does that for me. Law Abiding biker has some real good how to videos on using the ride planner.

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[FLSTFI Dave]

I use it quite for planning routes.  You have to use a whole lot of way points to make it go how you want if its not the most direct, fastest or such.  So say I want all back roads between Ten Mile TN and Salida CO.   I would drag the route to roads I wanted from close to the start.  Then I would add way points between start when where I dragged it too.  Then I would drag the route again to road I wanted, add more way points.  I kept repeating, I used tons of way points on the roads I wanted to take.  Worked good, took roads I wanted, and went though Dodge City like I wanted.  Takes a little time and effort to figure it out.  I practiced on making local routes on roads I wanted to take know it would try to change my route to bigger roads, faster roads and shorter more direct route.   I like I can save scenic loops for Say Sturgis area.  Then can use them multiple years.  Have done the same for North West AR, East TN, West NC.

[KGB]

What Ride Planner are you guys using and are you happy with it?

I tried the Harley ride planer, I like how it transferred from my phone to the NAV, but it seem to take a different route then what I laid out, I use My Route App,

Seems to work much nicer then the Harley App

[bigC]

I use MyRoute-app and have been using it since 2018. It' the only planner I use. I know of several other CVO members that also use it. There is a friend function where you can share your routes and see what other routes have been built. This comes in handy when we are at an event like Maggie Valley GTG.

[WTF Chuck]

I also use MyRoute-app have for years.
My opinion it is the best available. I have tried many
 and keep going back to it. You can make it as hard or
as easy as you want to use.
Gives you about 6 or so different Map options 
openstreet maps google maps garmin maps topo maps and so on
also has many save formats.

https://www.myrouteapp.com/

[JCZ]

Thank you everybody for all of your replies and comments.  I appreciate it.  Think I'm just going to play with a couple of them and see where it goes..... 

[lyn.husen]

If your on a Mac or iPhone, give inRoute a try.


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[TN]

I use basecamp on my Mac, this is for my Garmin gps, it has a steep learning curve but it works for me. For a specific route with any app I think you have to add lots of waypoints or else. I use Waze while on the big road just for the interactive features such as "police reported ahead.”

[Ironhorse]

I create the route on either Google Maps or HD Ride Planner, save it as a .gpt (or something like that) and then transfer it to my phone or gps on bike.

[ultrafxr]

I use basecamp on my Mac, this is for my Garmin gps, it has a steep learning curve but it works for me. For a specific route with any app I think you have to add lots of waypoints or else. I use Waze while on the big road just for the interactive features such as "police reported ahead.”

I’m with you TN. Used MapSource for years but switched to BaseCamp with Garmin XT last year. It is complex but I like the functionality. Plenty of good YouTube videos on how to set up and use. Easy Moto Tim seems to be the best at explaining it.