Hey everybody, Billy from Billys Bike Adventures.
I am out and about today just on a beautiful Saturday April day. Blue skies, sunny day.
A bit chilly this morning. It is going to warm up though. Sixteen degrees later on.
I might possibly be taking my thermal out of my jacket
to keep me cool. But today just on loop from Cambridgeshire.
Now I found this loop on Calimoto. So that, that is my preferred navigation system that I am using
at the moment. I do like the BMW Motorrad one but unfortunately for me it does not display
enough information on the screen such as your next turns, your
distance to go, the time that you are going to arrive and things like that.
Whereas as you can see here, on the Calimoto one,
as many other navigation apps do, it shows you the relevant information.
So I am using Calimoto as my preferred navigation mobile app at the moment
and I found this little route online. It is about 145 miles. I say I found it online,
I found it on the Calimoto app or the online version.
Because once you have got the pro membership you are able to find routes around your local area
and beyond. So if you just use Calimoto without paying the premium membership, which is about
£36 for the year I think, you are restricted to a certain geography around where you live.
Once you pay that Pro membership, that goes and then it opens up the whole of the UK and other
locations as well and so I found this route. So if you don't have the free membership, sorry If
you do have the free membership and you are trying to find a route that crosses your free area into
the Premium area, you won't be able to use it. You will only be able to use the Calimoto free version
for routes that are inside your designated free area. Now you can find your free area,
just goto my YouTube channel, look for the Calimoto review that I have done
and I will explain in there how you find what your free area is, I will be able to show you that
but get rid of that by paying the £36 quid, it is nothing for the membership for the year. And
of course it opens up the twisty roads part of the app as well which is great.
So yes I found this so I thought I would just try this loop today.
The rider that recorded this, he did actually or she did actually put some text
and did a nice job in completing all the fields just to show the kind of ride that you would be
doing and I encourage all riders to do that because it, if riders can't be bothered to
add information I am probably not going to do the route because I want to know what it was like. So
I like to share the information from the ride that I have done and that helps me choose then
the route that i want to do. So about 145, 150 miles today so i will, I will check back in
later with you when I am about half way round and see what kind of riding it has been like.
But today I am using the , as you can see I am using my phone
with a cradle that I have got for the sat nav preparation. So this is a cradle
where your phone sits in, you can charge your phone at the same time via the cradle
and it looks really nice. I really like it. I am not going to fork out £600 for a BMW
sat nav. I think it is a rip off especially when there are so many problems with them,
why would you pay £600. If I am going to pay £600 for a GPS device I want it working properly
and without breaking down in the first two years so yeah I am not buying a GPS
for the sat nav preparation. My phone does just as good a job and as you can see the Calimoto
screen is doing a lovely job in directing me. So check back in and I will check back in later
and show you what kind of and tell you about the riding and show you some of the riding
that i have been doing as well. Catch you later.
This is a lovely little route. Seen some beautiful countryside
already.Cambridgeshire being relatively flat. you don't get to see many vistas
becasue of the height but when you do see them they are pretty nice actually, pretty good.
Lovely Cambridgeshire countryside, beautiful.
So if you are around Cambridgeshire and you want this route, let me know
and I will email you the GPX file. So get in touch with me billybikeadventures@gmail.com
Look, clear roads at the moment, absolutely lovely. Quarter to nine in the morning.
Ah so they have just resurfaced this road. So I am going to take it easy
along here because it will be, opps, it will be very slippery just like that then.
Well that was not very good was it.
Nice part of the world this.
Very nice houses as well, some very nice houses.
So, yes a very nice ride. If you want this,
the GPX file for this route, let me know and I will send it to you, happily do that.
Well it has been a lovely ride and enough twists and tuns on
country roads for me to really enjoy it.
Some bikers out and about as you would expect on a day like today.
What a f***in dickhead, what an absolute f***ing moron.