vz explorer

[Shon_T]

I've now been useing your great product for a few weeks and thanks for your previous in put, it helped no end.

I've by accident set up a long distance bike ride, sort of from Lorca in Spain to Luca in Italy, about 1200 miles. I'm traveling an interesting route, not the same route that Google Maps offers me so I've been having to cross reference places I go through or near via the VZFit to the Google Map. I realise you don't have a map facility yet but it would be nice to be able to download the map when you do. It would also be cool if you could bookmark points when cycling to see where they are at a later time. I do pass some interesting features. Yeah, I know, asking for the moon.... talking of which ... ;-)

One other comment. Would it be possibe at some point to be able adjust the position of the handlebar in the VR? it is about 150mm too far forward and possibily the same too high for my machine. I have adjusted in my head for it, and most of the time I ride not holding on, but the are times when I need to lean forward and to know the bars will be close to where I see them would be helpful.

Again thanks a lot, r

Hey Ron great ideas!  

We'll have an update to Explorer this week which will be able to upload exactly where you have ridden to Strava, where you can see on a map, challenge others, and download in GPX or TCX format.

We love the bookmark idea, will put in backlog and think of a design for it!

Customizing your virtual bike handlebars to match position and shape of your real handlebars is on the backlog.  There are higher priority items but we'll be psyched to get to that.

One thing I do to "book mark" interesting points of interest:

I go to the pause menu and note the GPS Coordinates. I then plug those coordinates into google maps on my phone and save with a "Star" or other flag. Later I can go back and explore the area further.

I use the same process for mapping my route as I am riding.