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My Bike Rides
My Bike Rides provides 5 unique advantages over most other GPS biking apps: (1) Simple to use, (2) reliable, (3) accurate, (4) battery saving, and (5) has personal safety features.
SIMPLE TO USE
Just double-tap “Start Ride” and the app does the rest. No account set-up required. Does not require a Wi-Fi or phone connection, just a GPS signal. Also, since it leverages iOS multitasking capability you can continue to use your iPhone for any other purpose including making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving messages and emails, or running any other apps.
RELIABLE
Because My Bike Rides does not require any connection except a GPS signal, it is more reliable than other biking apps. It locally maintains a history file with all of your biking activities and this history file is backed up automatically when you backup your app.
ACCURATE
My Bike Rides is designed specifically for biking so it knows when it receives out-of-range GPS data for biking and disregards the bad data. This results in greater accuracy than other general GPS applications. It also adjusts distance and calories for uphill climbs.
BATTERY SAVING
Ever forget to end your ride and have your battery run down because the GPS system remained on? My Bike Rides automatically detects that you ended your ride and turns off the GPS, saving your battery. Since My Bike Rides can receive GPS location data while running in the background, you can put your iPhone to sleep (by pressing the Sleep switch on the top of the iPhone) and save your battery. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. However, with My Bike Rides a single battery charge can provide over 6 hours of riding on an iPhone 3GS and over 10 hours of riding on an iPhone 4 or 4S.
PERSONAL SAFETY FEATURES
Ever get caught riding after it’s too dark to see or get back late, like after the park closed, because you did not know when to head-back? With My Bike Rides all you need to do is set the “Time you should be back” or select “Back by Dark” and it does the rest. It alerts you when to head-back, displays how fast you need to go, and how fast you are currently going. It also displays an Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) based on your current location and speed.
With My Bike Rides, you can choose a different route back and it can still get you back-on-time! And, you can set the “Time you should be back” before you start your ride or anytime during your ride.
Ever get lost or not sure of the best way back? With My Bike Rides you can get directions back. Upon your request, My Bike Rides will provide your starting and current location to Apple Maps to give you detailed directions back.
Also, should the need arise, you can send your current location via email or instant messaging to anyone, so you can easily be located.
SETTINGS
Settings are set in the Apple “Settings” application and allows you to choose between the Metric system and USA units of measurement. You must enter your weight in the settings to correctly calculate calories burnt.
Note: With iOS 5.0 or later you must go to Settings>Notifications>My Bike Rides and turn “Sounds” ON and set Alert Style to “Banners” or “Alerts” in order to get the alerts used to tell you when to head-back to get back-on-time.
REQUIREMENTS
My Bike Rides requires an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 or 4S running iOS 4.0 or above.
FEATURES
» Simple to use
» No account required
» Reliable operations
» Accurate results
» Time, distance, calories
» Avg. speed, Max. speed
» Adjustments for uphill climbs
» Battery saving features
» Back-on-Time
» Back-by-Dark
» Directions back
» History file for unlimited rides
» Automatic backup of history file
» Share your results via email
» Email CSV file for additional analysis
» Metric/US units for worldwide support
What's new
» Back-on-Time
» Back-by-Dark
» Directions back
» Email with your location
» Message with your location
» Enhanced End Ride detection
» CSV file for additional analysis
» New launch screen
» Rate this app
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- Last changed:
- Mar 22, 2012
- Category:
- Healthcare & Fitness
- Developer:
- Robert Wohnoutka
- Version:
- 2.0
- Average Rating:
- 4.00 (4)
- Size:
- 21.3 MB
