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How to Turn an Old Smart Phone into a Bicycle GPS Unit
By now many of you are on your second or third generation smart phone. If you still have the old one about, rather than tossing it, there's a very good use for it. If you have a paid RideWithGps account, or if you're a CRW member and want to do one of the rides on the RideWithGps club account, you can use the old phone for navigation. Here's how. Get the RideWithGps phone app Download the Ride With GPS app from the App Store (iPhone) or Play Store (Android). The app is free and you can look at routes on it but you need a paid account ($50/year) to use it for navigation. If you want to navigate a CRW ride on the CRW club account, and you are a CRW member, you will be able to do this without a paid account. You will need to create a RideWithGps account if you don't already have one to use the app. Set up the app Most of the default settings will work just fine, but you may want to tweak it a bit, for example, to extend battery life. Here are some setting I use: ...
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