ONE APP TO RIDE THEM ALL
The 100 Climbs app is the ultimate tool to help you track down Britain and Europe's greatest climbs and it's now updated so all climbs from my books are in the one app.
The NEW 100 Climbs app is here and instead of having a separate platform for each country all the climbs from all my books are now housed together in 'ONE APP, TO RIDE THEM ALL'.
Along with this new format come some new features and most importantly all broken, deleted, altered segments have been fixed and all your rides will now count towards your totals. After the trauma of the giant segment cull there has been an air of chaos around the lists of registered segments and although it took an age to unravel the mess it seems finally we now have stability. Fingers crossed.
So what’s NEW?
First thing you will notice when you install the new version is of course that you can now load the 11 UK titles and the four European ones onto the same map and track your progress across all 15 lists in one handy place. Yes, one app to ‘ride them all’. You can scroll from the Canary Islands all the way to the Highlands of Scotland to see which climbs you’ve ticked off and which ones you want to target next, and when more arrive next year, they will also slot right in.
On the home screen we have added a new feature called EFFORTS and this lists all the climbs you’ve ridden in chronological order along with your times for each one so you can track back through the progress you’ve been making. We’ve simplified the colour coding of the pins on the map, and increased the visibility of the lines that show where the roads. They are now all coloured in relation to their list then when you have ridden a climb a white tick appears. ( X-List pins which used to be black are now coloured by the region they are in ).
The fact-files have been refreshed, and there are slight changes to the architecture and navigation tools of the App which you should soon get your head around. These have all been made to bring it up to date on a more future proof platform.
Finally and it’s something I mentioned a while back when I announced there would be a change is that the Apps are now subscription based. This new funding model is essential to keep them constantly updated and upgraded especially if we have to deal with more segments loses or town planners building by-passes and roundabouts to cause us headaches.
Each book/list is just 99p a year, which is the lowest we could charge so it’s still excellent value!
The old Apps will still work but they are essentially mothballed so won’t be updated anymore.
Download here for iOS from iTunes or here for Android from Google Play
For those new to the Apps they come complete with all the content from the books and when synced with Strava they come alive. Once your ride history has been processed your home screen will proudly display your ‘100 Climbs score’ for each book/country/region, the bigger the number, the bigger your bragging rights!
Via the interactive map you can be instantly directed to the base of each climb and in the factfile you will see the climb’s vital statistics together with comprehensive directions, a profile, a link to your previous efforts and the ability to view the climb on Strava and Veloviewer.
You can scroll the list of climbs which can be sorted by difficulty, geographically, by ridden, or best of all, by which is nearest to your current location so wherever you are you can find a climb to ride. Also, exclusive to the App is the X-list. A collection of 100 'off the radar' climbs the length and breadth of Britain, some of which have to be seen to be believed.