FRSBikeTraxx

Bike tracking applications can monitor your cycling routes, figure out your average speed and, ultimately, help you evolve as a bicyclist. If you want to get familiarized with such a tool, it's not recommended to dive into complex programs that are likely to confuse you rather than to come to your aid.

For example, FRSBikeTraxx is easy to use and contains some practical options for logging your bike rides, generating reports, and maintaining a journal.

The utility can be quickly installed. It's packed in a plain and simple interface, where you can begin adding records about your cycling rounds right away. These records should include the day of the route, average and maximum speed, duration, distance, temperature, wind direction and speed, along with any notes. However, any of these fields can be omitted (for instance, if you don't know the wind speed and direction).

It's possible to create as many log entries as you want, edit and remove them from the list, use a common search function to swiftly locate text across all records, and write a journal dedicated to bike maintenance using FRSBikeTraxx (to remember the last time you took your bike to the shop or that you have to repair/buy a new part, for example).

If you continue to use FRSBikeTraxx for a long time and on a regular basis, you can instruct the tool to generate monthly or even yearly reports, compare the reports year to date, and view annual logs.

There's also a menu with some bookmarks on cycling news, which can be immediately opened in your default web browser on click. However, you can make this list of bookmarks to remove, edit or add new sources.

Additional settings can be used to re-arrange the columns of records to the finest detail (like changing the data type), specifying your location for acquiring weather data automatically, customizing the font and color scheme, configuring prints, locking the app with a password, and switching to fullscreen mode. As a precaution, data is autosaved so you don't worry about losing unsaved records in case of a power outage or other reason.

Taking everything into account, FRSBikeTraxx may not seem like much but it actually has some nifty features under its hood for cyclists interested in logging their activity. Unfortunately, it doesn't have options implemented to syncing data to the cloud.