One can wonder if a bicycle application is more or less adapted to the practice of mountain bike, electric bike, and E-mountainbike or EMTB.

Legitimate question especially when the bike applications all look more or less alike.

But Cyclope has some strengths that may convince you.

1- Cyclope turns your bike into a connected bike.

Cyclope will not only record your performance during your bike ride, the application will provide you with many other very useful information.

Indeed, the app will interconnect all bikes using Cyclope.

On the 3D map, you will see your friends around you (symbolized by a blue pin above the 3D avatar) as well as other cyclists (symbolized by a yellow pin). As far as you are concerned, there is a red pin above your character.

Useful when several runners find themselves left behind. No need to turn around or retrace your steps to find out where they are.

As the 3D character is animated based on the cyclist's activity, you will know if he is rolling, climbing, descending, stationary, has a mechanical problem or has fallen.

By selecting a cyclist on the 3D map, you will access further information.

You will know its speed, the distance it has already traveled, the slope on which it is.

But there is even better. Cyclope will calculate the difference in time that there is between him and you. The deviation is updated every 10 seconds. This will let you know if you are catching up or losing time.

A bit like television itself.

2- Always stay in touch with your friends.

That's the situation.

You are ahead of, or behind, your friends.

You want to stop for a natural need. You have seen a dangerous passage. Or you want to communicate a gathering point to everyone.

You can shout very loudly and hope that everyone hears you.

Or communicate with Cyclope' built-in Walkie Talkie.

All you have to do is determine, before leaving, the channel on which you want to talk.

It's a bit like the headsets of professional runners, without the inconvenience of carrying a box connected by a wire more annoying than anything else.

All you have to do is speak and everyone will hear you. Simple.

Of course, if you don't want people to hear your conversations, but still want to hear others when they have something to say, you can mute the microphone by pressing the green button with a microphone symbol (the button will then turn white indicating that the microphone is inactive).

But Cyclope' Walkie Talkie does a whole lot more, like messaging.

Simply send a message to one, or several people, among the list of your friends.

They will see the message displayed either on the main Cyclope screen, below the speed and weather, or on the Walkie Talkie screen.

There is even at the top left, on the Walkie Talkie, a button with a wrench, allowing you to send to all the people who accompany you, a quick message that you have a problem. Practical no.

This will serve to warn your teammates more quickly so that they can come to help you as soon as possible.

3- Security.

It is always important, especially when going out with your mountain bike or EMTB, to take all the precautions to avoid putting yourself in danger.

For this, Cyclope can help you.

Cyclope incorporates a fall detector.

If you crash, Cyclope will send a message (or a notification if people aren't on Cyclope) letting all your friends know you've had an accident. They will then be able to hear from you.

But don't worry, if, for example, you're on a difficult stretch, imagine an extremely steep climb, and you lose your balance, Cyclope won't send a message every time you find your buttocks on the ground.

Cyclope will only send a message if you are driving fast. That is to say at 20 km/h or beyond.

Another precaution to reassure your loved ones, bike tracking.

In your list of friends on Cyclope, in front of the name of this one is a button named TRACKING.

By tapping on it, Cyclope will open a map of the person's location, and you can follow them on their journey.

Your loved ones will then be reassured to know where you are and will be so that everything is fine by seeing you move on the map.

Another provision that allows you to leave with complete peace of mind is the weather.

Cyclope informs you about the current weather conditions.

Temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction.

By tapping on the weather dial, Cyclope will give you the forecast.

By selecting it for the first time, you will have the forecasts for the 3 hour period following your departure.

And the 2nd time, forecasts within 6 hours.

Convenient to not find yourself in a storm when you left, the weather conditions were good.

4- Cyclope' free route planner.

Another advantage of using Cyclope with your MTB, EMTB, or ebike, is to have access to OpenStreetMap to calculate your bike route.

What is OpenStreetMap?

Cyclope contains data derived from OpenStreetMap which is a collaborative map of the world. A kind of Wikipedia of maps.

In other words, you will have all the roads with the most recent updates.

And if this is not the case, make the corrections yourself by going to the OpenStreetMap site.

Thus, Cyclope reessence all types of roads. Asphalt roads, dirt or paved roads, cycle paths...

When you make your route (see article on the use of the Cyclope route planner), to make your MTB, EMTB, ebike outing, select the Cycling option (second button on the option bar in the route editor ), and Cyclope will find all the possible paths where a bicycle can pass.

Conclusion.

I hope I have convinced you to try Cyclope.

The app is not, as you have seen, a simple tool to record sports performances.

Cyclope is also there to provide maximum information and connectivity with those around the cyclist.

I would also like to point out that no data is shared with third parties, as Cyclope' Google Play data safety sheet reminds us, contrary to what is practiced in most sports applications.

Hoping to find you on Cyclope, I wish you good cycling.