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Best App for Cycling

  • 06-06-2015 9:43am
    #1
    danger mouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭


    Just looking for opinions on the best cycling App for the iPhone 6. I just want it to track times and distance and calories used. Anyone have a favorite App the can tell me about please?


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  • #2
    martyc5674
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,522 ✭✭✭martyc5674


    Strava would be hard to beat I'd imagine.
    Plenty of others too..Marty.
    Marty


  • #3
    Domane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Domane


    There's also the "mapmyride" app that I use on my iPhone 5. Try it and Strava and see which you prefer.


  • #4
    Jim Stynes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Jim Stynes


    Strava is the best by a mile.


  • #5
    cython
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭cython


    danger mouse wrote: »
    Just looking for opinions on the best cycling App for the iPhone 6. I just want it to track times and distance and calories used. Anyone have a favorite App the can tell me about please?

    Just to point out, don't pay too much heed to any app readings for the calories used, especially if you haven't a HRM or anything paired, as generally they are grossly wrong, and usually on the side of overestimation.


  • #6
    Domane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Domane


    Agree with that as map my ride says I burn 1100 calories per hour. If that was true, I'd be a shadow of my current self!


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  • #7
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,866 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    that's one of the reasons i'd trust strava more than any other calculation i've seen - because it's consistently the lowest!
    most recent spin was 1h50m, mainly flat, and strava reckons i burned 1,001 calories.
    just for the laugh, i put those figures into the calculator on bicycling.com, and it told me i would have burned 1,700 calories.


  • #8
    dastardly00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,506 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Strava would be my favourite app for cycling.

    With regards to calories burned, Strava is normally about 50% lower to what my Polar HRM measures.


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