If You Didn’t Record Your Ride, It Didn’t Happen: FitBit Announces New Fitness Trackers
Mountain Bikes! We love them. But if you’re riding without recording the fact that you rode, forget it. You might as well have stayed home. Ask any doctor, and they’ll tell you: unless it’s on the internet, it didn’t happen. A GPS trace isn’t enough, either. You also need at least one selfie and at …
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GPS units are getting smarter and more powerful every year, and while some mountain bikers are starting to use smartphones to record tracks and navigate trail rides, brands like Magellan and Garmin still have a few tricks left up their sleeves! Garmin Edge The top-of-the-line Garmin Edge 1000 crams an incredible number of features into …
0 SHARES | 1 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Video: How to View MTB Topo Maps on Singletracks.com
We receive dozens of questions every week in our helpdesk asking for clarification on how to use all sorts of features on Singletracks. Singletracks is undoubtedly a feature-rich website, and sometimes learning how to use everything can be pretty confusing. Some features and buttons may even be tucked away in nooks and crannies that you don’t even …
0 SHARES | 4 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Video: How to Check In at Mountain Bike Trails Using the Singletracks App
We receive dozens of questions every week in our helpdesk asking for clarification on how to use all sorts of features on Singletracks. Singletracks is undoubtedly a feature-rich website, and sometimes learning how to use everything can be pretty confusing. Some features and buttons may even be tucked away in nooks and crannies that you don’t even …
0 SHARES | 0 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Video: How To Find Mountain Bike Trails Using the Singletracks App
We receive dozens of questions every week in our helpdesk asking for clarification on how to use all sorts of features on Singletracks. Singletracks is undoubtedly a feature-rich website, and sometimes learning how to use everything can be pretty confusing. Some features and buttons may even be tucked away in nooks and crannies that you …
0 SHARES | 2 COMMENTS | Continue reading »5 Ways to Make Strava More Useful for Mountain Bikers
By now most mountain bikers have tried Strava, and they often either love it or hate it. I personally really like using Strava to track my rides, but there are a few things Strava could do to improve the service for mountain bikers. 1. Give us the ability to mark rides as “mountain bike” rides. …
0 SHARES | 44 COMMENTS | Continue reading »News: ActivBeacon iPhone App Sends for Help When You Crash
A new iPhone app named ActivBeacon is designed to automatically send for help if you crash. Check out this video for a quick introduction to this interesting concept: (Watch the video here.) While this is an extremely interesting product, this still isn’t a substitute for accepting the risks, being self sufficient, and riding in control. After perusing …
0 SHARES | 5 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Introducing Tracker: Automatically Check-in and Share Your MTB Rides on Singletracks
Over the years, Singletracks had added a number of features to help mountain bikers track and share their rides, and now we’re tying many of these features together with Tracker. Tracker allows you to connect the GPS services you use to track your rides and automatically imports your ride data into Singletracks. We’re officially launching …
0 SHARES | 17 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Strava Creates New App for Google Glass
Strava recently demo’d an app for Google Glass that promises to turn every ride–and possibly even your daily walk from the car into the office–into a competition. The app is said to include alerts to let riders know when they’re approaching a segment during a ride and it makes key stats like speed and distance …
0 SHARES | 4 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Review: Endomondo Sports Tracker App
This is a common conversation when I head out riding with a friend of mine: Friend: “I’m going to set my tracker app. Maybe it’ll work this time.” Me: “Ok, I’ll set my Endomondo app, and we can compare when we get back!” (After the ride, which we know to be about 6 miles long.) …
0 SHARES | 18 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Mountain Bike PRO Cycling Computer App Powered by Runtastic
As an employee of Singletracks.com, there is no such thing as just “going for a mountain bike ride” anymore. I’m not complaining–working for Singletracks is pretty much the coolest job on the planet, and has taken me places that I never dreamed it would. But since “work” is always in the back of my mind …
0 SHARES | 57 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Smartphones on the Trail: All Your Mountain Biking Electronics in One Package
Some people denounce the smartphone as a technological leash forever tying those who own them to the world of digital screens and the internet. I, on the other hand, choose to think of my smartphone as the ultimate liberation from the burden of mountain biking electronics. (Note: In this article, I may say “iPhone” frequently, …
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