Phenomenal!!
Honestly such a great app! Works in US and Europe so far, prolly everywhere. No idea how they get the “windiness” data but “No highway” seems to be my fave for fast swoopy roads. Winding is a bit much tbh… takes you through a lot of slow towns.
Would be AMAZING to be able to adjust the windiness mid trip. Only complaint. Otherwise, money extremely well spent.
Would be AMAZING to be able to adjust the windiness mid trip. Only complaint. Otherwise, money extremely well spent.
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Almost perfect enough
We’ve just done a 4 day tour of the Lake District using Calimoto and it’s been mostly brilliant.
I’d recommend checking your route and ‘via points’ carefully however, to avoid pointless trips up farm tracks and around town centres. This wasn’t the app’s fault, but my fat fingers.
A couple of bits of constructive criticism/feedback.
We needed to get home pretty urgently, so plotted the fastest route back.
However, after a fuel stop the route decided to change itself and before I’d realised, the route had changed from a 130 mile journey, to 179 and we were yet again on a farmer’s track to nowhere.
I then had to reset the route back to the fastest, but it still cost us an extra 20 minutes.
Another thing was when we were navigating through the network of Manchester’s motorways.
Exit or lane information would be a brilliant feature, so missing exits wouldn’t happen like it did with us.
Being instructed to turn left in 100 metres doesn’t help when you’ve passed the slip road that you needed.
Switching over to the likes of *Goggle Maps didn’t help either, as it doesn’t cater for bikes and tries to avoid built up traffic, which we all know doesn’t necessarily apply to bikes.
If Calimoto could improve the motorway exit notifications, then it’d be pretty unbeatable for bike navigation.
I’d recommend checking your route and ‘via points’ carefully however, to avoid pointless trips up farm tracks and around town centres. This wasn’t the app’s fault, but my fat fingers.
A couple of bits of constructive criticism/feedback.
We needed to get home pretty urgently, so plotted the fastest route back.
However, after a fuel stop the route decided to change itself and before I’d realised, the route had changed from a 130 mile journey, to 179 and we were yet again on a farmer’s track to nowhere.
I then had to reset the route back to the fastest, but it still cost us an extra 20 minutes.
Another thing was when we were navigating through the network of Manchester’s motorways.
Exit or lane information would be a brilliant feature, so missing exits wouldn’t happen like it did with us.
Being instructed to turn left in 100 metres doesn’t help when you’ve passed the slip road that you needed.
Switching over to the likes of *Goggle Maps didn’t help either, as it doesn’t cater for bikes and tries to avoid built up traffic, which we all know doesn’t necessarily apply to bikes.
If Calimoto could improve the motorway exit notifications, then it’d be pretty unbeatable for bike navigation.
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Not the adventure I want
I’ve used Calimoto four times now, and every single ride has included at least one very long (we are talking miles) single-track lane. Today it really outdid itself by trying to send my cruiser down what looked more like an overgrown farm track than a road. I was half expecting to meet a herd of cows coming the other way!
The route planning idea is great, but if there was an option to avoid narrow single-track roads, it certainly didn’t seem to work for me. Until that improves, I can’t give it more than two stars.
Update: I did try the fast “Fast” routing setting and that was the day it tried to send me down a single road that was basically a farm track. I went out numerous times trying different setting but every time I took me down some single track lane where you have to pray there’s a passing point if you meet other traffic as being on a motorbike means reversing is extremely difficult.
The route planning idea is great, but if there was an option to avoid narrow single-track roads, it certainly didn’t seem to work for me. Until that improves, I can’t give it more than two stars.
Update: I did try the fast “Fast” routing setting and that was the day it tried to send me down a single road that was basically a farm track. I went out numerous times trying different setting but every time I took me down some single track lane where you have to pray there’s a passing point if you meet other traffic as being on a motorbike means reversing is extremely difficult.
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Not good
Crashed my phone, very difficult to cancel subscription, overpriced. Avoid this app
No Night time driving mode pity.
Been using the app since last summer it’s brilliant loving the routes it’s created they are fantastic biker routes round Yorkshire Lincolnshire Hull all been brilliant. My only issue is no option for night mode so it’s like having a torch shining in my face with my apple play screen on way home in the dark so have to switch to google maps for night mode but that always puts you on the main A roads. Definitely be a 5 star in it gets a night mode option 🤞
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