![]() ![]() Many of you guys and girls will have your Garmins (as do I) and maybe you only cycle with your club mates at weekends and it just so happens that you are all in the same club on STRAVA. I still have a desktop folder full of ‘special’ GPX and FIT route files but I also use my cloud-based route catalogue on Hammerhead’s platform ( it’s free, try it) and that can also secretly instantly grab many kinds of routes from URLs eg if I create a route on Google Maps, Hammerhead pretty much instantly converts the URL into a route. ![]() STRAVA’s route popularity might be technically better but I also significantly prefer the route creation tool in Garmin Connect to that from STRAVA, especially the finger-drawn one for the app. For that, I head over to Garmin Connect for Garmin’s popularity routing. Sometimes I might want to explore on my own somewhere and want to stick to sensible routes that I create. Even that doesn’t cover every eventuality.Little do they know that I now use Fit File Repair Tool and it fixes the GPX, adds in TBT and elevation too. Sometimes I can hear my friend’s chuckling in the next street as they email me tomorrow’s only slightly-corrupted GPX ride file.Hammerhead and RwGPS’s online platforms are much more forgiving and so I mainly rely on those. Sure Wahoo works with both STRAVA and RwGPS but I often find that STRAVA rejects routes that friends send to me ie I can’t get them into STRAVA.With my Hammerhead Karoo or Wahoo Bolt, it’s mostly a simple case of a new route just appearing over WiFi – if not it’s only a button press away.18 months ago, or so, I finally arrived at my somewhat complex solution to all of this and I have slept soundly ever since. You probably have your own flavour of ‘ what works for you‘, as do I. But route sharing is just another way to secretly send angst to your cycling buddies the night before a special adventure. Your friend sends you a route and your preferred platform explodes when it tries to import it. One vendor supports a particular feature, like TBT, and another platform doesn’t. More precisely, route sharing and route creation are a mess…sometimes. Love them or loathe them, routes are a mess. FTC: Affiliate Disclosure Links may pay commission Garmin’s new Strava Route Sync – Komoot too I like random French mountains ![]()
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