Comments on: Keep track of your riding http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/ Tips, Hints, Reviews and Safety for Bike Commuters Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:23:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: cb http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-69618 cb Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:32:28 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-69618 Try www.mapmyride.com. Excellent interface, easy to map and lots of routes! Try http://www.mapmyride.com. Excellent interface, easy to map and lots of routes!

]]> By: Chewieez http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-68668 Chewieez Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:52:18 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-68668 I too use http://www.mycyclinglog.com and I love it! I won't repeat what Apertome said. I like that you can set up groups. We have a group setup for our local mtb messageboard (Nashville Mountain Bike). This allows you to quickly view how much your friends are riding and be envious or scared at the starting line of the next race. :) I too use http://www.mycyclinglog.com and I love it! I won’t repeat what Apertome said. I like that you can set up groups. We have a group setup for our local mtb messageboard (Nashville Mountain Bike). This allows you to quickly view how much your friends are riding and be envious or scared at the starting line of the next race. :)

]]> By: Diego http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-68082 Diego Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:08:02 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-68082 I use my company's intranet to track bike commutes. Was not aware of activebody.org, as Joel suggests, and find it really useful for the weekend trial runs. I use my company’s intranet to track bike commutes. Was not aware of activebody.org, as Joel suggests, and find it really useful for the weekend trial runs.

]]> By: Apertome http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67802 Apertome Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:19:18 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67802 I use http://www.mycyclinglog.com and enjoy it a lot. You can log various statistics about each ride and tag your rides as mountain, road, commute, etc. You also create profiles for your bikes and log per bike. There's a co2 tag and a thing that shows you how many tons of CO2 emissions you've avoided by riding, for those who care about that. It'll also estimate how much money you've saved. But to me, the best parts are the reports. You can select a date range and see all manner of reports. I use http://www.mycyclinglog.com and enjoy it a lot. You can log various statistics about each ride and tag your rides as mountain, road, commute, etc. You also create profiles for your bikes and log per bike. There’s a co2 tag and a thing that shows you how many tons of CO2 emissions you’ve avoided by riding, for those who care about that. It’ll also estimate how much money you’ve saved.

But to me, the best parts are the reports. You can select a date range and see all manner of reports.

]]> By: Nathan http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67766 Nathan Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:41:09 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67766 I also use bikejournal.com. It's great because you can configure it to track whatever types of data are important to you. And you can access it anywhere where there's web. So far, it's everything I need, but I'll check out your spread sheet and see what else is possible. I love keeping track of stuff like this. Thanks for posting! I also use bikejournal.com. It’s great because you can configure it to track whatever types of data are important to you. And you can access it anywhere where there’s web. So far, it’s everything I need, but I’ll check out your spread sheet and see what else is possible. I love keeping track of stuff like this. Thanks for posting!

]]> By: JR http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67763 JR Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:03:45 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67763 Hey Noah - those are great spreadsheets... I'm a biker and a spreadsheet fanatic... I posted those to the sharingdocs.blogspot.com blog, where I highlight some cool uses of speadsheets using Google Docs. Note that I created a "template" link for people to easily get a Google Docs copy of your .xls file - and I added a link back to your site within the spreadsheet itself (that's something you should always do)... Also - you can easily embed a published view of your spreadsheet within your blog post (use the publish tab / more publishing options / format: "html to embed in a web page" ) - which looks cool when you have charts or nice formatting like you do... Happy riding! JR Hey Noah - those are great spreadsheets… I’m a biker and a spreadsheet fanatic… I posted those to the sharingdocs.blogspot.com blog, where I highlight some cool uses of speadsheets using Google Docs. Note that I created a “template” link for people to easily get a Google Docs copy of your .xls file - and I added a link back to your site within the spreadsheet itself (that’s something you should always do)…
Also - you can easily embed a published view of your spreadsheet within your blog post (use the publish tab / more publishing options / format: “html to embed in a web page” ) - which looks cool when you have charts or nice formatting like you do…
Happy riding!
JR

]]> By: Steve http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67759 Steve Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:45:18 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67759 Going against the flow... I use a perl script that logs data to a Mysql database and does all the necessary calculations for me to log it to my <a href="http://hfxbike.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">ride log</a>. This also lets me plug in a back-end so I can have pretty graphs with <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/" rel="nofollow">MRTG</a> and (hopefully) see miles logged increase more than costs do. Going against the flow… I use a perl script that logs data to a Mysql database and does all the necessary calculations for me to log it to my ride log. This also lets me plug in a back-end so I can have pretty graphs with MRTG and (hopefully) see miles logged increase more than costs do.

]]> By: joel http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67756 joel Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:25:42 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67756 activebody.org for me - tracks biking, running, swimming, weight training so if you are (or want to be) a triathlete it's perfect. you can have teams - sounds like the buddy lists on bikejournal and there are "challenges" each season where the teams try and out ride etc each other. it also lets you compare yourself to all other users in your age/sex/other category on distance, climbing and other things. activebody.org for me - tracks biking, running, swimming, weight training so if you are (or want to be) a triathlete it’s perfect. you can have teams - sounds like the buddy lists on bikejournal and there are “challenges” each season where the teams try and out ride etc each other. it also lets you compare yourself to all other users in your age/sex/other category on distance, climbing and other things.

]]> By: David Schloss http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67725 David Schloss Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:13:12 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67725 But it's already trivial to access bikejournal.com from anywhere, maintain team stats, etc. And you can export as csv But it’s already trivial to access bikejournal.com from anywhere, maintain team stats, etc.

And you can export as csv

]]> By: Noah http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67724 Noah Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:00:46 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/2008/01/03/keep-track-of-your-riding/#comment-67724 Thanks for the input, guys. I don't have a GPS-based cyclocomputer, or else I'd probably be all over Motionbased. Still, there are a lot of things I like to keep track of a certain way, and I really couldn't get any of the existing sites to give me the results and flexibility I was looking for. Spreadsheets are miniature applications in their own right these days. They can grab data from other pages, make graphs and charts on the fly, and are pretty much limitless in what they can do with the data you enter. For someone like me, it's clearly the right way to go about it. Also, not to wax gFanboy, but Google Spreadsheets lets you update from anywhere as well as collaborating with others, including revision control. It would be trivial to keep an online team spreadsheet for all of the bike commuters you know in town, or anything of the sort. I'm not a facebook user, but that facebook app looks pretty interesting as well. Thanks for the input, guys.

I don’t have a GPS-based cyclocomputer, or else I’d probably be all over Motionbased. Still, there are a lot of things I like to keep track of a certain way, and I really couldn’t get any of the existing sites to give me the results and flexibility I was looking for.

Spreadsheets are miniature applications in their own right these days. They can grab data from other pages, make graphs and charts on the fly, and are pretty much limitless in what they can do with the data you enter. For someone like me, it’s clearly the right way to go about it.

Also, not to wax gFanboy, but Google Spreadsheets lets you update from anywhere as well as collaborating with others, including revision control. It would be trivial to keep an online team spreadsheet for all of the bike commuters you know in town, or anything of the sort.

I’m not a facebook user, but that facebook app looks pretty interesting as well.

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