But its fundamental appeal is a robust algorithm that helps you confidently navigate new roads and off-road routes. If you wish to breadcrumb those waypoints, Komoot allows that too. Riders select specific prerequisites for their ride – viewpoints, traffic volumes, fitness level, and surface type – and Komoot will create the route. Developers at Komoot leverage OpenStreetMap data to help you map a route. If your requirements for a cycling app are geared towards navigational support and guidance, then Komoot is excellent. Komoot’s software architecture is built to shape your best route options and provide guidance, instead of pulsing performance data for every bit of your ride. With the Trail Routes feature, you can see when riders prefer riding a specific trail at any time of year – thereby avoiding going at the incorrect time and avoiding overheating or freezing. Some trails have very peculiar temperature gradients, thanks to prevailing microclimate weather conditions. This allows you to evaluate when the trails are busier or quieter. With nearly 100 million users, the Strava community is massive and developers have leveraged that by giving Strava premium users access to historical data associated with a trail. Strava recognised that much of the challenge in starting at that new mountain bike trail, or two-day adventure ride, is finding the drop-in point. Trail Routes also has recommended start points, helping you avoid looking like a total newbie when arriving at an unfamiliar trail for that first ride. This gives you a great idea of what the topography on your route might ‘feel’ like riding. What makes Trail Routes so handy is 3D mapping and route visualisation. Strava’s latest Trail Routes update, released in June, is a notable product enhancement for off-road riders. The app’s new Local Legend ear does a similar thing to the KOM/QOM rankings but rather measures the rider’s frequency over certain segments rather than the fastest times. Strava’s King of the Mountain/Queen of the Mountain (KOM/QOM) feature, where riders can rank on a nearly inexhaustible array of riding segments, plays straight into the psychology of comparative obsession inherent to riding.
User interface developers know that humans are predisposed to being virtually competitive: you’ll keep checking your placing on any digital ranking with a fanatical frequency.
What makes Strava so addictive is the prestige of performance: those KOMs and leaderboard rankings. Strava will track your elementary ride statistics – distance, elevation – but where it becomes valuable is adding those personal performance parameters: heart rate and power output.
Strava update 2020 leaderboard, by Rachael Wight
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