Kurviger app

[Wayne Orwig]

I've had this app on my phone for a year. Never really used it, just played with it at home. Since it seeks out twisty roads, it isn't the thing for an RV. 

Yesterday, on the way home from the Georgia campout, I fired it up and glanced at it along the way. I have traveled this route dozens of times. Basically, Georgia 60 for 50 miles. The part of 60 near Suches is great. Avoiding it would require knobby tires on the EV. One of the best motorcycles roads anywhere. But south of Dahlonega it becomes a bit boring.

So I generally followed the route that Kurgiver showed this time. I seldom follow a GPS on the motorcycle, I just use them as a moving map. But in this case, I followed the app to see how it did.

Well, the app did an awesome job. It turned the one hour boring part into a 2 hour interesting ride. I showed the route to a friend that has lived here forever, and it was all new to them too. (Gene Nix Road, never heard of that.) It did route me down a gravel road, even though I had it set to avoid gravel. But I'm not bothered too much by gravel, and in fact, like gravel to some extent.

But the app did just what it claim it would, it found the curviest roads near the path I was taking.

For the luddite that is offended by smartphones, there is a web site also: https://kurviger.de/en

So the map data is a bit poor, as in, it did not know gravel from paved in one spot. But hey, when you are exploring, it is all good. I recommend that you try it out.

Never know what you might come across out here in banjo playing country.

[wavedog]

Thanks for the info. I am going to try it.

[nobleswood]

^^^^ I’ll give it a tryout.
Thanks 

[Lannis]

I'll try it out on the website.   Best test for me will be to ask it to plot some routes on the roads I've been riding for 49 years, and know like the back of my hand, and see if its idea of a practical curvy fun motorcycle road is the same as mine ....

So far, my plan has been laying out a generic route, then seeing how well the route matches the green-dotted "Scenic Drives" in the Rand-McNally Road Atlas, along with the featured routes on "motorcycleroads.com", with a dash of the RoadRunner Magazine "Shamrock Tours" in areas where they match, and that all works pretty well.

We'll try Kurviger, though.

Lannis

And after an hour or so of fooling around with it, it appears to work pretty good.   It's picking the routes through Virginia that I would pick if I wanted a nice bike ride, usually at a cost of 50% to 100% added to the time it takes on the straight roads.

The only thing I'd change is that being a German site (I suppose) that many small Virginia locations that I commonly use as waypoints aren't in their system yet, so you have to approximate.   I guess that this will get better with time, but meanwhile, it looks good.

Lannis