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RE: Saturday in the Mountains
MG, good luck with the camera on the lanyard. It's a good trick and has provided me with hours and hours of harmless fun. I'm pleased the Ferret shared the knowledge. But ...
There are days when I find I get too focussed on taking pictures to the detriment of just riding the bike. There have been roads I would have enjoyed riding a great deal more if I hadn't been worried about going slowly enough to get pictures of the twisties. This is a more generic problem for photographers, I guess: do you enjoy the actual moment or do you enjoy it at one remove through the viewfinder?
The second thing—and it may be an issue only for me—is that you end up with a lot of pictures of roads. And the ONLY people that have any interest at all in roads are members of motorcycle forums or road engineers. Your wife may love you very much but, trust me, she'll find a way to tell you quickly that there are only so many pictures of bitumen or gravel a girl can stand. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe you guys have little interest. If so, please spare my arthritic shutter release finger and tell me.
On the question of maps, I draw them after the event. I quite like the process, although you do have to contend with Google knowing better than you where you went. I do have an iPhone app called Hike&Bike (by Navionics who make a great marine chart app) which can keep track of where you went, how fast you were going, how much you climbed, etc. You can replay the ride afterwards. The only downside is that it uses Bing maps and I can't find any way to get the map data out of the app. The advantage of drawing a map on Google is that you can zoom into it pretty closely.
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