Bike Journal

[Big Good Wolf]

My rides are all on a mountain bike so far, but on a mix of road and off road, with wet leaf covered tarmac cycle routes that aren't really one or the other, so I'm not claiming to be a moral leader.
Although I commuted in the rain both ways yesterday. That should be worth extra.

[Gastroplodder]

I've just made a veganfitness.net club at bike journal ...

Great! I've joined, I see I'm last already

Poor Student 200 tomorrow!

200 already? I'm waiting until Feb to feel that tired, you must be aiming for PBP?

I seem to be on the 3rd month of a fixed gear Randonneur Round the Year so January had to be done, a great day out as it happens with loads of sunshine to compensate for the hills and a genuine tailwind home to make up for slogging 50 miles into a headwind the first leg PBP was certainly discussed by many

My rides are all on a mountain bike so far, but on a mix of road and off road, with wet leaf covered tarmac cycle routes that aren't really one or the other, so I'm not claiming to be a moral leader.
Although I commuted in the rain both ways yesterday. That should be worth extra.

Yep I recon commuting in the rain is worth morality points - particularly if its freezing cold rain.

[Big Good Wolf]

Hey, what happened there ?
I went to work a comfortable 2nd and came home a distant 3rd behind a fixie rider.

I've just joined the Vegan Straight Edge club to save them from the embarrassment of having no miles this year.
VeganFitness is doing a bit better, but we've only got three in our team. Come on vegan cyclists, join up and log your riding.

[bob_summers]

ok well i've joined the vf.net club, but my contributions are meager as i'm still recovering from, apparently, swine flu which i had all xmas/NY. anyway, i'll try and keep it updated - i'm historically terrible at these things.

any more for any more? DHD, al, etc...?

[GY Jon]

Get well soon.

I think 4 makes a club, I've been on audaxes and club TTs with less, we just need to keep this topic near the top of the list for a few more days to drag more of us in, I'm not sure we'll ever get too near the top of the club leaderboard mind

[vCLaW]

OK, I've now signed up to Bikejournal and joined the club.
Admittedly, I've not actually be out on my bike this year yet. I blame the snow/ice/cold etc. But I'll try and get out tomorrow, probably on the mountain bike.

[audi666]

Just signed up as well. I have a question though, I added a “route” which is my normal everyday commute and wondered if I could just input that ride into my calendar rather than having to type in a mileage every time? Or is there a way to upload from a gps device like on other sites?

[Big Good Wolf]

Assuming you're using Garmin Training Centre...
Right click on the ride and click on "Export..."
Make sure you select just the one ride, not a whole week.
Save it as a .tcx file somewhere.
Go to Journal > Add Ride on BikeJournal, then Choose File.

It doesn't seem to be possible to import directly from a Garmin device on BikeJournal like you can on Endomondo or Fetch.
If you're not using a Garmin, you'll need to work out how to save the track as a file on your computer before uploading it to BikeJournal

[Gastroplodder]

I uploaded my whole weeks commute/shopping miles as a total and ticked the bulk upload box, seems less hassle than doing it daily.

[Big Good Wolf]

Yeah, the bulk upload would be useful if you just want to keep track of the total.
I'm thinking of looking back in the future and keeping track of how often I commute by bike, so I like to log them individually.

[audi666]

thanks for the help.

I keep a quick excel file for my rides with tabs for each month. Then total the commuting miles and non-commuting miles and figure out roughly the money i saved from driving. This helps when trying to convince the misses that I DO need another bike

[Gastroplodder]

36th club out of 450+ is a good start - particularly when 33 of the clubs with more miles than us have more riders.

[Big Good Wolf]

I hadn't looked at the club stats before, that's pretty good.
Where's Philthy Builder and whatever happened to Man On Bike ?
I'm sure they'd bump us up the table a few places.

I'm 515/2331 on the individual stats.
All of it on a mountain bike, half of it off road, quarter of it in the dark and most of it on a single speed.

[GY Jon]

We need more of our Antipodean (any S American?) they're bound to get more (our) winter miles in than us, particularly apt today as I gaze out of the window at the wind and rain, a good day for bike maintenance

[benzilla]

I've signed up and added a ride and a route (my commute). I can't see a place to either choose my route when i log a ride, or a place to enter how many km's i've done.

I don't have a fancy bike computer, so i cannot upload the data, is that the only way?