Organising a ride with myWindsock

Wrangling club mates, meeting your friends or even just going out for a spin with your partner – all of it involves more logistics than you can shake a stick at. You need the route made, the weather checked, the ride duration agreed, the meeting point decided and all of this information needs to get to either the mobile phone or the head unit of all the participants.

It all starts in the planner. You can create groups here too. Simply hit “Add group” to create a group.
Once a group has been created, you can distribute the link to it. This will allow members to view the entire contents of the planner and each forecast.

Deciding what route to do

At the risk of sounding like an episode of “Art Attack” (an art “make along” children’s television program from the 90s) – Here’s one I made earlier…

Every group ride has its constraints and negotiations. myWindsock’s forecast dashboard will allow you to access all the information needed. In this case, if we delay the start time of the ride by 2 hours from 8am to 10am, we can catch the “warm” part of the day thanks to the panel on the left. Similarly, it can be used as a quick look for rain dodging.

On this one, we’ll imagine a member wants to ride the climbs at an exact power for some reason and that we are targeting 26kph (as many group rides aim for a particular average speed as the target). We can ask the myWindsock AI to adjust the power profile for us to check what power we need to do in order to make this achievable…

This can be used to ask questions like “how fast will the group ride be if we do the hills at” or “how can we adjust the route to hit a 3 hour target at this speed”.

After the adjustments and negotiations have been made in the Whatsapp group chat, the route can be distributed. If you share the route with a friend who also has a myWindsock account, it can be exported directly to your head unit.

The course can be exported directly to Garmin, Wahoo or downloaded as a GPX.

End the arguments in the Whatsapp chat and let myWindsock decide on the route and when to leave. You can invite your regular riding buddies to a shared planner and all check the route and adjust the forecast to see what will happen under different conditions. You can get answers along the lines of when the best time to leave is for optimal wind conditions, what happens if you do a bit of old fashioned “through and off” for 30km in the middle of the ride or how long we can stay at the cafe before we get rained on.

Use myWindsock’s group planners to organise your ride and end the arguments.

To check out the forecast we used to create this guide, click here.