IBiker App for Android

[Kwackerz]

https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... rch_result

The one for Iphone is out in a few days

Travel planning and other stuff, well worth a look. See the link for info, I've been waiting for this app for ages but cant remember all of the whistles and bells it will have.

[Kwackerz]

or i could just copy n paste...

Description



An exciting app experience featuring World Superbike Champion James Toseland.
An exciting smartphone app (featuring former double World Superbike Champion James Toseland) that will create a rewarding experience to motorcyclists. Funded by the UK Department for Transport, you’ll be able to:
• Plan, plot, and save your rides/routes.
• Highlight biker-friendly points of interest, including pubs, cafes, cash points, petrol stations and meeting points.
• Rate routes and add your comments.
• Connect with the biking community by sharing information about your rides/routes via Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.
• Watch “myth-busting”, equipment and maintenance videos, starring James Toseland.
• Watch video run-throughs of many routes and known collision hotspots.
• Overlay your map with EuroRAP’s “most risky biker roads and routes in the UK”.
• Find details of BikeSafe and Enhanced Rider post-test training.

[ibikerapp]

Still waiting for the iPhone version to be released . It is with Apple. Happy to gift you a copy of the iPhone version if you can review it on here?

[Kwackerz]

That would be good.

Aladinsaneuk, one of our admins is our resident Iphone gimp.. sorry.. geek.

if you discuss with him then I am sure he would relish the task

https://www.ridersite.com/profile.php? ... ofile&u=65

BTW Having had mine for a few days now on Android (Dell Streak), Im more than impressed!

Definately recommended

[Aladinsaneuk]

I will happily review it - as Tim says I am a fervent mac user.... iMac iPhone an iPad....

It looks very interesting I must say

[Kwackerz]

'Remember, NEVER use a mobile when riding or driving'

That's the first screen that appears on the android version of IBiker when you fire it up. A timely reminder..

Once you've then entered (or skipped) registration, you're presented with the first of the application's menu screens, for Routes.
The menu screen layout is very user friendly with left or right arrows available to switch between menu choices. All very straight forward stuff, which is good. Too many modern designs are overcomplicated.

To the left you will find 'Profile' where you can configure your preferences, passing back thru Routes, to the right you will find Videos, then Links, followed by Favourites

I'll start with favourites. once selected all you will find are quick links to your favourited or your own created Routes, Places of Interest, Videos. Nice and straightforward, easy to use and understand.

Coming back out of that screen and going left one is the Links option. selecting it brings up training links; Bikesafe and ERS (enhanced rider scheme) you can't add to these yourself but Im sure if you were to contact IBiker then further training links could be added. Im sure there would be problems in that if one is in all must be let in, so for now there's just the two links. Worth a view though. Back out of that and to the left brings you to Videos.

Videos is brill. there are 4 options. Bike Maintenance, Mythbusting, POI videos and Route videos.

Bike Maintenance brings up young JT running through before flight checks. Basic stuff, but stuff that can be forgotten in the haste of catching the sun while it's out.
Mythbusting is a great section and talks about Cornering, Braking (surprised me actually) Laying the Bike down, Helmets and leathers and finally how Biker first aid could help. First Bike on Scene.
POI videos isnt showing chicks sunbathing on Yarmouth seafront however does highlight problematic places on routes. for instance, Hotspot 1 on the Cat and Fiddle. A video review of the hotspot is so much better than 'yeah watch out when you go thru 'XXX' ' You can see what you'll be faced with.
Taking the option for Route videos allows you to choose a route on the mapping part and sit down and view it before riding it. link that to the POI videos and youre forearmed with loads of info on your chosen route (assuming it has been videod)

Back out to the main menu and to the left will bring you to 'Routes'

This is a huge part of the App and arguably the mainstay.

It's a map. Google map with the ability to overlay routes onto it. These can be preloaded ones from the menu or ones you create yourself. I guess with GPS activated you can use it to act as a basic map based Sat Nav however I would say it's better used as an electronic map when you stop for a brew. Remember the opening screen?

Remember, NEVER use a mobile when riding or driving

There's various options along the bottom of the screen, home, routes, POI's, create route and one for options of which overlays you wish to use (such as overlaying the EuroRAP routes.. the dangerous routes highlighting facility thing (dead technical, me..) You can even send your own routes public and share them with everyone else. if you have your own special route you want to keep secret, dont send it public!

It's really a case of getting the App and playing with it to be honest. The website itself shows many other uses.. There's something for everyone and all will find a different use for the App tailored around their own needs. Alad will be getting the Iphone version sent to him shortly, whereupon you'll be able to get another person's view of it and see how someone else interprets it's uses.

For me, it's a gem of an App and well worth the 2.50 or so that it costs to download from the Android store. It's backed by the DfT so it's not some crap app, it's a well thought out bit of biker gear and for the avid tourer as well as the recreational sportsbike rider, could prove highly useful.

www.ibikerapp.com for more info and screenshots

[Aladinsaneuk]

good review tim

the apple version is native to the iphone, but will work on an ipad

As PapaSmurf stated the apple version is not out yet - I have been promised a review copy on release.

this/these releases are tailored to the UK - I have been told that there will be a version for the states - possibly in a few weeks

I guess that if it is successful then it will probably be rolled out to other countries as well

[D-Rider]

Slight concern with the posting of the favourite routes .... I guess they are where those familiar might accidentally stray over whatever silly speed limit has been imposed ...... and any suitably phone-equipped bobby may decide that this app is more like an angler's fish-finding app .... pointing to the places most likely to catch their quarry ....

Just a thought .......

[Aladinsaneuk]

Assorted magazines and comics already publish the best routes so team filth already know where to wait....

[Kwackerz]

There is that point of view, yes, however there's always the option NOT to post one's very special routes as public...

[Samray]

Could equally be a note of which routes are published, and possibly to be avoided, for whatever reason.

[D-Rider]

There is that point of view, yes, however there's always the option NOT to post one's very special routes as public...

Though that doesn't stop somebody else posting up the same route that you were trying to keep special.

Could equally be a note of which routes are published, and possibly to be avoided, for whatever reason.

.... though to do that you've got to:

• a) invest in a phone capable of supporting the app
  b) get yourself a copy of the app
  c) keep up to speed with all the routes on there

Seems a lot of extra hassle - most won't bother and therefore have no info on which routes to avoid.

[Aladinsaneuk]

or we could all just obey the speed limits....

[BikerGran]

I'm aso glad I just have a phone - for phone calls!

[Aladinsaneuk]

iPhone version is now out