Mar 10 2010
Hey Cyclemeter, you are my new favorite iPhone app.
In my last post I briefly touched upon a slight problem with Fitnio. Specifically, it wouldn’t upload my ride. Well, after that happened on three or four more rides, Fitnio decided it wouldn’t even open at all. It would just crash, every single time I tried to use it. I reinstalled it, restored my phone, and cursed it up and down, but nothing would fix it. Not even the most creative curses I could muster. So you know what, Fitnio? You’re out. You suck and I never liked you much anyway.
I hereby declare Cyclemeter to be The New Hotness. I used it for the first time today, and it… it just… you guys, it is a dream. I won’t devote space here to listing its features, suffice to say that it does everything they say, and it does it well. If you check my Twitter you’ll see that it can tweet when you start and finish your ride. HOW COOL IS THAT?! It even uses less battery power than Fitnio. You hear that, Fitnio? You suck so hard.
The one flaw I saw was that it clocked my first couple of miles at around 79 mph, which isn’t entirely accurate. 7.9 mph would be closer. I’ll give it a pass though, because when I started out it warned me that the GPS signal was weak. Fortunately it allows the user to change any stats it records, so I scrubbed my amazing but untrue top speed from the record.
Oh and by the way, riding’s going well… Missed a couple of weeks because of jury duty, equipment failure, and weather (I will NOT ride in the rain, I don’t care if that makes me a wuss). But today was great, the weather is steadily improving, and I won’t have jury duty again for at least a year. Expect to see some more frequent rides tweeted, thanks Cyclemeter!
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[...] Initial impressions were great. Cyclemeter is packed with nice features. In fact, I can’t think of much that’s missing (Strava support would be really cool, but I’ll get into why it’s not on my features wishlist in a minute). It seems to be geared toward the kind of user who wants as much info in as many ways as possible, which to me is always a good thing in this kind of app. Not only can I tweet my rides for everyone on Facebook to see, but they can follow along as I ride. Useful for coworkers who might start to wonder how much later I’ll be getting in to work – They can actually check the map to see where I am. Not that anyone does, as far as I know. I also have a ride report emailed to me when I finish, and have a folder in my Gmail just for recorded rides. Pretty cool. [...]