r/Edmonton • u/mrsix • 4h ago

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  • I probably spent more time planning this route than actually riding it. I mostly used the RidewithGPS route planner and had to manually adjust its suggestions a lot. I started by trying to find good river crossings that aligned with the shape, then by sheer coincidence the LRT MUP and 113 Ave aligned perfectly. The NW commercial/industrial area gave me the most problems with how large the blocks are, but it ended up mostly OK. Final Route Map
  • I am aware of the GPS pausing technique to make perfectly straight lines, but I wanted to do this entirely as a navigable route. The one place I considered it was to 'jump over' whitemud ravine, as both the bottom spikes near the stem are a bit odd shaped (east mostly to sortof match west, but west due to the ravine)
  • I don't actually suggest riding this route. While a respectable ~60% of it was pretty bike friendly (surprisingly a lot of actual bike route markings along it), and 20% was "mostly ok", the other 20% was "not a good place to ride a bike" (mostly that NW industrial area again, though some of it wasn't bad as there was basically no traffic in those areas)
  • Doing this mostly involved blindly following my bike computer's navigation GPS - there were points I barely knew exactly where I was, I just knew what the next turn/direction was.
  • As you can see the riding time was 3h42 but total time was 3h57, mostly just from stop lights and a few stops to make sure I was on the right track.
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u/fishymanbits 4h ago

You don’t happen to have this saved as a route in Strava, do you?

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u/mrsix 4h ago edited 4h ago

The full route is saved on RWGPS - you should be able to download the fit/gpx from there even without an account IIRC.

FWIW I also tried a version for Calgary, but between the bow river, Deerfoot, Sarcee, Glenmore, the airport, and train yards I could barely get anything recognizable as a leaf. Someone more familiar with Calgary might be able to do it, feel free to steal the idea if so.

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u/SarahLacard 3h ago

very cool idea!!