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My setup is very heavy, and I'm not the fittest person in the world.
This means that inclines above 10% are difficult to manage, and I'd much rather take a 10 or 20 km detour or even go on a busier road in order to avoid them.
This might be the case for other travellers, so what about being able to specify that routes should avoid inclines above a certain threshold?
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Felipe, these types of requests pop up a lot.
https://cycle.travel/advice/map/faq will help explain why too many 'personalisations' are difficult.
In any case, an arbitrary cut off is perhaps a bit blunt. A 10 or 20 km at an average of 5% might seem like overkill to avoid a 100m stretch at 10%.
There are other planners out there that do allow a high degree of specification. However, they're nowhere as easy to use as CT in my opinion.
In any case, CT rarely chooses a route with such an incline unless we tell it to by using viapoints.
You may be interested in Osmand, another app. I quite like their climbing information given as Xkm @ 0-4%, Ykm @4-8% etc. However, it's not exactly easy to use and I find it's bike route planning to be 'adventurous' to put it kindly :-) Plot the route in CT, check it in Osmand if you want the extra detail.
Yep – unfortunately the corollary of cycle.travel’s fast results is that customisation like that isn’t really possible. Essentially all the best routes are precalculated, which means the routeplanner can return results super quickly, but limits it to the four or five modes (standard, gravel, routes etc.).
Ah I see, makes sense. I guess the way to go is to inspect the generated route in advance and play with changing via points if an ugly climb turns up.
Actually, I like climbing and view flat routes to be not worth the bother being neither exercising enough nor challenging enough, and I am not interested in avoiding a route merely because it is not flat enough. But I can see that there is probably a constituent sector that wants to ride for the pleasure and not the pain. Now, if there was a 'alert' that could warn of head winds...?