Hello. My name is Nick Carthew, I'm 59 years young (2019) and I live in a 350 year old cottage on the coast of North Devon between Exmoor and Dartmoor National Parks. Our last house was built in the 15c so by our standards, this one is relatively modern!
This is a beautiful part of the UK and my wife Hannah and I are lucky to have many places on our doorstep to ride our motorcycles.
We love touring on our motorcycles and use MyRoute-app Navigation and a TomTom Rider 500 for Navigating.
The routes that I make are not full of fast twisty bends, although if there are some, it's a bonus
I like to design routes through beautiful scenery on smaller less used roads, this way you get to see the real country that you may be travelling in. We also love history and will always include an historic site or two on our tours, this could be anything from the very thought provoking D Day landings to a stone age megalithic site and everything in between.

I am a mentor within the MyRoute-app RouteXpert framework and can help out with most of your queries regarding route planning. I am also quite knowledgeable with Tomtom Rider gps and as my signature says: "Always willing to help if I can".

For those that do not see Facebook.

Wij zijn druk bezig met onze nieuwe projecten, waaronder het mogelijk maken van segmenten in de route! Momenteel is alleen het grafische gedeelte geïmplementeerd. Binnenkort kun je je route opsplitsen in segmenten, om zo voorkeuren voor bepaalde delen van de rit aan te geven. Wil jij van routepunt 5 t/m 10 de snelweg vermijden? Geen probleem! Dat kan dan aangegeven worden met segmenten. Binnenkort meer..!

We are busy with our new projects, including enabling segments in the route! Currently only the graphics part is implemented. You will soon be able to split your route into segments to indicate preferences for certain parts of the ride. Do you want to avoid the highway from route point 5 to 10? No problem! This can then be indicated with segments. More coming soon..!

BREAKING NEWS

MyRoute-app news: Lock waypoints for routes

Over the past couple of years, we have received great feedback and suggestions from our MyRoute-app community. One of the most suggested features has been the ability to lock waypoints. We can now present our newest feature that enables just that.

By locking in your waypoints for a route, you will no longer have any accidental: placements/edits/deletion of your waypoints. We’ve ensured that the locking of waypoints can be enabled and disabled at any time, meaning that you can lock and unlock waypoints on the fly!

There are 2 ways that you can lock/unlock your waypoints. The first being possible inside of your route list (on your MRA-profile). There will now be a new lock icon, located on the right of each route inside of your route list. By clicking on this lock-icon, you will disable editing of waypoints for that specific route. As stated previously, you can easily disable the waypoints lock by clicking on the unlock-icon.

It is also possible to lock waypoints while using the route editor. You will now be able to see a new lock icon on the left of your screen, while editing your route. By clicking on this lock icon, all waypoint editing will be disabled. You can also easily unlock the waypoints of your route, by clicking on the unlock icon.

Well done MRA

We are particularly interested in routes in the red zones if you have any to share and would like to see in the MRA RX Library.

@Dragbert said in Dragbert:

"After I got cancer in 2014 we rode the Route66 in the US as my Bucket list item - I got cured! - which was an unforgettible trip!"
Congratulations on beating the cancer, it's always good to hear a positive story.

Hi @mattatron. Your friends that have accepted your invite will appear on the left side of the route editor. And as well as what Hans said above about receiving track notifications from friends, you can choose to set route privacy to friends allowing only you and your friends to see certain routes. You sent me a friend request which I have just accepted, I noticed that you don't have any About Me information on your profile. It's always nice to read a little about other members, why not add a few lines about what sort of riding you enjoy. Add where you live too, not your address, but just the basic region, this can lead to meeting up with others in your area or who share your interests. By the way, I've just left a comment on your South East Coast route to Whitstable track

2006 Honda XL1000 Varadero SD02 - She's called Kay (K for kilo = 1000)

High up on Exmoor Dec 2018

I started my affair with Kay in November 2013. It truly was love at first sight.
I wanted something big that had presence on the road and the Varadero certainly fits that description. I started looking and discovered that Honda only made the tri-colour in 2006 and the moment I saw a picture of one I knew it was the next bike for me.
I saw one for sale on a motorcycle dealerships website just 60 miles away and the following day, Kay and I were a couple .
Kay had just 14,000 miles on the clock and had had 4 previous owners despite her being only 8 years old It was clear by some of the knocks and scrapes on her that she hadn't seen much love
It also amazes me that 4 other people had bought a big touring machine and none of them seemed to have ridden her for very many miles! Perhaps it’s her weight or sheer size that put them off. She left the factory at a little under 250kg and like most of us, she has gained a little weight over the years with the compulsory added on bling! I would guess she’s over 300kg now!

As well as the 3 piece Honda Luggage, the extras I have added are:
MRA Vario Touring screen
Palmer Products screen bracket
Honda heated grips
Givi Engine bars
Marselus engine bar bags
LED daytime running lights
LED headlight and tail light bulbs
Honda centre stand
60mm handlebar risers
Hand guards
Rokk Charge+. Twin waterproof usb socket
Scottoiler with touring reservoir
Power Commander and new ECU re-map
Bagster tank cover and tank bag
Pyramid hugger and fender extender
GiPro gear indicator
Denali Sound Bomb horns
Marselus big foot side stand extender
On top of these extras I have upgraded the rear shock and fork springs (progressive) to Hagon.

I change her oil and filter every 4000 miles and I get my local garage to service her at every 8000 miles, on time every time. It's a job I could do myself but I prefer to have some professional eyes look over her, + I get a stamp in my service book. We have traveled 50,000 miles together, far and wide and she has never let me down so I guess I'm doing the correct thing.

This May we traveled 4,500 miles on a tour through Europe which we called #ElGrande (link to our routes), we had snow in the Picos de Europa and Pyrenees at 2001 meters above sea level and 39°c heat in Andalucia and Kay took it all in her stride, never missing a beat.

Leading the pack - it's what Kay does best.Gorges du Tarn May 2019

Some people like to come home, put their slippers on and sit in the comfy chair, there is nowhere that I feel more comfortable than when I'm sitting on Kay and heading on a tour somewhere.

Combe Laval, Col de la Machine May 2019 with Hannah's (my other love) Honda CB500X

@francisco-castro Welcome to the group.
My advice would be to make individual daily routes for your trip. Enjoy your trip.

@Timo-Martosatiman-MRA Altimeter

@Garry-Davis Be sure to use the ‘compare with TomTom tool’ if you share to TomTom users.
With the compare tool on, if there are any discrepancies, you’ll see a red line, this is TomTom’s interpretation of the route. Add additional route points to force the TT to follow the same route.

@anders-5 From MRAs Facebook page:

For your information:

The new MRA Mobile app is available for free download . We do get comments that you can create and edit routes less easily than with the old app . We didn't expect that, because you can just browse through your smartphone to www.MyRouteApp.com and then you can do the same as through the 'old' app...

The new app is much better at what it was intended for, tracking and adding photos . And now also navigate without turn-by-turn instructions . We will collect all feedback and will come up with new updates soon!

PS: this app is not a replacement for our navigation app (MRA Navigation) . This app is intended as a free addition to the website .

@andy-1l The new MRA Mobile app is primarily a tool for tracking and adding photos. It also has a simple follow the line navigation feature. If you want to edit a route or add POIs got to your online MRA account via a browser.

@richard-cable The navigation feature with the new MRA Mobile app is a simple, follow the line method of navigation. Click the menu (top left) Click routes, this adds the route to your screen. If you aren’t close to the route, you won’t see it, there is no ride to the start function. To start navigating. Click the navigation arrow twice (bottom right) the position cursor turns to a blue arrow, the map moves as you do, it also adjust the zoom level according to your speed.

@erik-steen From MRA Facebook page:

For your information:

The new MRA Mobile app is available for free download . We do get comments that you can create and edit routes less easily than with the old app . We didn't expect that, because you can just browse through your smartphone to www.MyRouteApp.com and then you can do the same as through the 'old' app...

The new app is much better at what it was intended for, tracking and adding photos . And now also navigate without turn-by-turn instructions . We will collect all feedback and will come up with new updates soon!

PS: this app is not a replacement for our navigation app (MRA Navigation) . This app is intended as a free addition to the website .

From MRAs Facebook page:

For your information:

The new MRA Mobile app is available for free download . We do get comments that you can create and edit routes less easily than with the old app . We didn't expect that, because you can just browse through your smartphone to www.MyRouteApp.com and then you can do the same as through the 'old' app...

The new app is much better at what it was intended for, tracking and adding photos . And now also navigate without turn-by-turn instructions . We will collect all feedback and will come up with new updates soon!

PS: this app is not a replacement for our navigation app (MRA Navigation) . This app is intended as a free addition to the website .

@rob-verhoeff I’m not a programmer or app developer. My answer was to show that if there is a bug, it doesn’t affect all phones.

It works well for me on my iPhone 11.

@mark-appleton No problem with iPhone 11. But the landing page does not rotate.

@inge-bakermans said in New MRA Mobile app:

Wish we really would get clear names on what is what - now I cannot make heads or tails out of it anymore.

Why not just use the word "app" to only Android & Apple related?

The preferred reference to MyRoute-app is now MRA
MRA RoutePlanner
MRA Mobile app
MRA Navigation app

It's not that difficult!

@tony-13 You have to export the POIs to your TomTom as a separate.OV2 file.