Not sure today was the ideal day to go out on a research ride to freshen up cycle.travel’s Lon Las Cymru guide, but hey. Amazingly there are some puddles on the Old Coach Road section which are _still_ wet…
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Life’s too short to ride busy roads. The route planner that finds you a ride on quiet lanes and cycleways. https://cycle.travel
🎉 One million routes! The 1,000,000th route was saved on cycle.travel today – this lovely journey along the River Loire. Today also saw May 2026 tick over to be the busiest month on the site yet (4 days still to go!). Fittingly it was on this exact same stretch I snapped this road sign in 2019… 🚴♀️🚴🚴♂️
L'application iPhone cycle.travel est désormais disponible en français. (Bientôt disponible sur Android!) apps.apple.com/app/id161963...
🇫🇷 New route guide – Saint-Malo to Nice 🇫🇷 1000 miles/1600 km across France. Stunning gorges, medieval towns, brand new voies vertes, minimal traffic… from Brittany to Provence via the Loire, Lot, Tarn and Ardèche. Full mapping, stage-by-stage guide, GPX and more: cycle.travel/route/saint_...
Saint Malo to Nice
The best of France, in one ride. Stunning gorges, medieval towns, riverside trails, <em>châteaux</em>, cathedrals… and km upon km of quiet country lanes. From the Channel at Saint Malo…
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cycle.travel now has a fresh new look on iPhone and Android – clearer, easier to use, and with new features such as clickable route highlights. Take a look on your app store of choice! iPhone: apps.apple.com/app/id161963... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
In one of those wonderful coincidences, the code to display cycle.travel’s app map yn Gymraeg was finished today just as the Welsh Government announced a project to crowdsource Welsh placenames for OpenStreetMap https://media.service.gov.wales/news/new-priorities-to-help-protect-welsh-place-names
cycle.travel: fine-tuned C++ algorithms in the streets, handwritten route notes in the sheets (also 50cl pichet de vin rouge)
Looking for somewhere new to ride? Introducing Travel Tiles – a fun new way to challenge yourself to explore new places. As you ride, each hexagon lights up. See them in the cycle.travel route-planner so you can plan routes to places you haven’t been. Available right now in the Android and iOS app.
Got a Garmin? You can now send a route directly to Garmin Connect from the cycle.travel iPhone and Android apps, as well as the website. One tap and the route is on your GPS. 100% free!
If you go down to the woods today… you’ll see some woods. A host of improvements to our cycle-focused cartography includes woodlands, path names and (rolling out over the next week) more placenames at small scales, even in rural areas. cycle.travel/map
A little usability improvement for the end of the year: you can now delete and rename your saved journeys right from the cycle.travel map screen, or drag them into folders.
Brand new for cycle.travel supporters – multi-day tour generator. Choose a start point, an average daily distance and a number of days, and cycle.travel will plan you a tour overnighting at towns with accommodation. (Full public release coming in 2025!)
