iPhone app - Runkeeper

[Scottyf]

Appears to work flawlessly on my iPhone.
Really like it. Although I'm starting to annoy friends with the updates already when it posts to face book.

I've even started adding people from here so I can review how other people are getting on!

 

[Alan B]

At the end of the day the success of the application is going to be dependent on the accuracy of the gps positioning, the application functionality is fine.

I wonder if some people for reasons I can't explain simply don't get a very good position provided from their iphone or android, and everything which follows is compromised.

My own experience is that it's accurate to within a few metres, and recognises dog legs in cycle tracks, and slight deviations from the road very accurately, so it's not just tracking the road.

 

[Scottyf]

Mine also shows where I deviate off the road. Usually once i've had a drink ;-)


Only joking.


My iphone GPS never works with Tomtom applications which is very annoying. Yet the GPS is all the same on my iphone. Some apps work some apps are really poor.

 

[Jimod]

I downloaded it and used it for 2 trips. They both uploaded to runkeeper.com and I could see them on their website. Later on they disappeared and now I can't send any from my phone to the website. I've deleted it from my phone and downloaded 'mytracks' This works great and tracks my trips and then shows them on my Garmin mapsource program.

 

[Scottyf]

Hello all,
So far i've now done 3 runs with the electric assist on the bike now while using the runkeeper app.
As all would expect they are quicker than when I'm using my own steam to power to work and back.

With assist on the three runs i've done I get an average speed of 17.64mph @ 36mins.
Using average 3.2amp each way. Which is roughly 17watts per mile when i check the watts up meter.
Unassisted I get 13.54mph @ 48mins.

Some of the best runs unassisted I've hit just under 15mph. But thats in perfect weather, no wind and legs in good shape with some occasional drafting of bus's.


To be honest I expected the assist to be higher than 4mph quicker. But I guess when you look at it in percentage gains thats a good +23% quicker.

The biggest win is up hills where I am doing double the speed of unassisted.
My usual climb speed is 10mph, the ebike I can power through at 20mph.

I would assume that my averages are lower than the speed I am travelling becasue of traffic and traffic lights. However on the flat i'm only 2mph quicker than I am on an unassisted bike.



So as you can see even though I'm running the bike at 50v hot of the charge which should do a max speed assist of 25mph its more suited to the speeds I usually travel an unassisted bike.
Which is the reason why I upgraded the bike when I have a front motor. Generally becasue I pedal the majority of the time over the speed assist.