If you’re anything like me, it can be really difficult to know where you can and can’t ride your trail bike..
I’d never really considered joining the TRF but when I heard about the Green Road Map it got me thinking it could be exactly what I needed!
So check out my little afternoon ride out after using the website to figure out a new route.
Enjoy! JW
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Another fun video James. Use more cable ties!😂
Hey, James. We have reached out to you to follow up on the project. Can you reply our email
How do you get the route onto your garmin or phone?. Noobie Rod
Is the green road map an actual map or do you need a smart phone or some other gizmo?
Just found the channel
excellent content
going to try joining the TRF sounds toppa.
That ride was worth the TRF subscription. Great value.
Great video mate. It would be great if you do a video of your workflow in getting gpx files
I read one other comment here with the same question, you suggest using apple and then exporting it. I have tried but struggling big time.
Stay safe and thanks for sharing your journey.
Gret video James, how many miles on the PR7 now? Have you done a valve check/adjustment yet? If so how did you get on because I want to get one of these. Thanks.
Is it hard to make a route? Can you do thay on the appm
My action camera jumped off into the grass, I looked for about two minutes then fired her up and rode on. My attempts at videoing rides told me I wasn't enjoying the rides because I was concentrating on what I was filming, I ride not film.
Join the TRF, chuck your camera, get some buddies and remember the good times until you snuff it.
Nice video. I'm a trf member and have the map . Been on a few rides. My difficulty is determining how technical each trail is. Especially if I'm going out alone. But the green road map is excellent !!
James, I'm SW Area Cartographer responsible for the GRM in all SW England, you've clearly got a real talent for this and a good eye for presenting it well, about the only thing I could fault was that you didn't spell out what TRF stands for on first mention (Trail Riders Fellowship for the benefit of other comment readers!) and provide a link to our sites! If you'd be interested I'd be happy to assist you with routes and other assistance you might need riding them in my area. I'm also an expert at putting together routes on OutdoorActive and had been toying with the idea for some time of doing something to show how it's done to enable people to make the jump to producing and leading their own rides, but I think you could do the production a lot better than me. Appreciate I'm a long way away from you but please get in touch if you'd like to show off a different area, maybe the entire process of finding a route there on the GRM, plotting it and then riding it. If you click on any lane in the Bristol area there is an email in the 'other info' section you can use to contact me, just put FAO Mike Wain.
Just seen your channel and thought you look familiar and then seen your top been going to GymFit for a while So didnt know you was a biker will give you a nod when i spot you next pal. great video and lucky seeing your 360 was missing quite fast as your heart sinks when you think you lost a camera their not cheap things nowadays…
GRM is great, and the TRF group in general has been a pleasure to get to know and ride with.
Worth noting that GRM is mostly a curated list of trails that are; A) appropriate for motorbikes, and B) "of interest". The team in each region go through a lot of effort to do this. What this means though is that many lanes are not shown, so what I do is also use GLASS' Trailwise 2.
Between GRM and TW2, you can piece together some great routes. Two other benefits of TW2 is user comments and pictures which are very useful for gauging if I could/should do some lanes, and TRO statuses sometimes aren't updated on one of the tools. Ran into this issue on the weekend where I found a pretty amazing lane on GRM that had no TRO but I didn't check TW2. If i had i would have known that half-way down the lane it's blocked by concrete blocks because of a TRO which was marked on TW2. So, both tools are useful 🙂