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We're very pleased to announce two new settings that we've added to our Premium route planner to help with planning cycling routes. The new Road Bike and Off-Road Bike options attempt to calculate routes that are specifically suited to these types of bikes.

Road Bike - avoids the busiest roads and any routes known to have unpaved surfaces

Off-Road Bike - favours quieter roads and off-road routes

Both options will also avoid all motorways, highways and trunk roads. They are currently BETA features though, so please use them with caution as they're experimental and may still contain bugs. They are also partly dependent on the coverage of road surface data on OpenStreetMap in your local area.

As part of these changes we've also amended our road route planning feature, to introduce an Avoid Main Roads setting. This option will avoid all motorways, highways and trunk roads, as well as giving lower priority to more major roads. It replaces the previous Avoid Highways option, which only avoided highways and motorways.

All of these new options are available to Premium members on both the desktop and mobile version of the website. For more information about Premium membership, please visit our Membership Options page.