Me too, so this isn't really ideal – although at the moment I'm not exactly travelling very far to ride.
Sounds like they need to stop telling their bro-friends about their "secret" trails then!
I can see the emergency function working really well, especially around this area. Trail systems around here, unless run by a private business or are bike only, are hardly ever mapped AND they are a spaghetti of trails. Trying to help them navigate to your location must be a nightmare - for example in this place https://www.trailforks.com/region/copeland-forest/.
The Faq and comments on the Pinkbike article say that any Garmin or other units aren't affected, its just the actual TF app. You can even still use the trailforks.com website and its full functionality, for free.
I've defn. heard this before.
i'd read about that elsewhere, i may be getting a new watch in the future and it'd be very cool to have a map in my watch vs having to carry a phone
My 830 I got earlier this year has it, I guess I haven't been able to travel far enough afield for it to be useful so far. Plus generally I'll be following a course if it's somewhere new on a trip.
i actually read somewhere that some of the higher end watches can use it too.
If only I could somehow install the app directly into my E-bike.
I think it brings up legitimate questions, even though the answer might be fairly straightforward. Like, if they were able to do this and make money before, what changed? If it becomes more popular, one would assume more add revenue, for events, races, etc., not less, so it's a good question to ask why. It also says on their banner that they are expanding into new and different sports and that they need the mtbers "help" to mark trails for those sports. So are we subsidizing this expansion? Again, the answers may be obvious and for some services, like Strava, I didn't see the "subscription" service to be a big deal. It made sense that the recreational users didn't need the higher functions and if you really wanted to see where you placed, all you had to do was get fast enough to be in the top 10, but the implementation seemed decent enough.
also wondering why there's no annual subscription offering, just monthly.
I started the thread as a PSA. Go back to your bog and feast upon haggis.
Now, now, things have moved on, he's got deep fried Mars bar and Irn Bru on the table for dinner.
Irn Bru.
Companies are generally keen to get on a subscription gravy train. Monthly revenue is probably more certain than annual and the associated smaller increments are easier to for the user base to stomach I suppose.
