2024 Ford RideLondon-Essex 4+

Felt the App was running rather long - we ended up cycling 102.5 miles according to Strava to get to 100 miles on the app, which we could have done without! We got notifications when we reached 25, 50 and 75 miles, but no alert to notify that we’d actually finished. Bearing in mind we weren’t cycling along holding our phones in our hands, this would have been particularly useful.

Given that as a spectator most information contained in the App could be found elsewhere the one key feature was to be able to locate your mates and give them a shout! At 8.15 tracking my first buddy worked quite well, although it did eventually show him as having passed me when he came through. But my other two buddies just remained static on the app from about 9.00am onwards - no matter how many times I re-started the App their ‘position’ did not alter for well over an hour. Meaning that I missed them both :( Getting a notification that they had finished was nice but overall a massive disappointment.

I thought this was a great app. We were able to track the riders we were supporting and could see when they stopped, due to major accidents ahead of them. Giving key milestones and rates we were able to accurately assess when they would appear at the points we were waiting. Some little hiccups, such as placing them slightly ahead of where they were but those glitches were insignificant.