Spokli
Comfort routes

Fewer turns, fewer stops, smoother streets

A Comfort route is the one you would choose yourself if you knew the city perfectly: a little longer than the fastest way, with far fewer moments where you have to brake, think or bounce.

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What Comfort trades

  • Turns. Long straight corridors instead of a zigzag through side streets.
  • Traffic lights and crossings. Fewer signals, fewer unsignalised crossings of main roads, fewer indirect left turns.
  • Surface. Asphalt over cobblestones, smooth over uneven, known over unknown.
  • Climbing. A gentler profile when one exists, with steep ramps weighted more than gradual rises.
  • Traffic stress. A quiet street or a cycle track over a main road without infrastructure, where the detour allows.

Fastest

5.8 km · 24 min

  • 17 turns
  • 11 traffic lights
  • 800 m cobblestones

Comfort

6.5 km · 25 min

  • 5 turns
  • 4 traffic lights
  • No cobblestones known

Illustrative numbers for a six-kilometre city trip.

What it never trades

Comfort is a preference. Hard avoids are rules. If you have excluded cobblestones, stairs, pushing, unpaved ground, main roads without cycle infrastructure or paths through parks, no amount of comfort elsewhere buys them back. When a rule blocks every route, the app names the rule and lets you allow it for this one trip, or not.

The price is always shown

Every Comfort route states how much longer and slower it is than Fast, and what you get for it. By default it may be up to 20 percent longer and five minutes slower. A calmer route beyond that budget appears as a separate option, never preselected.

Your preferences, in bounded steps

Four switches tune Comfort without sliders. Each one doubles the weight of its group. The result is still a Comfort route within your budget.

Fewer turns

Hold long straight corridors even when a side street is a touch shorter.

Less climbing

Prefer the flatter of two otherwise similar routes.

Smoother surfaces

Weigh cobblestones and rough paving twice as heavily.

Avoid dark stretches

Give Comfort the Night route's preference for lit streets, at any hour.

Who it is for

Commuters

The same calm route every morning, with the arrival time still on the card.

Errand riders

Point to point across town, rolling rather than stopping.

Riders in an unfamiliar part of town

Where every junction is a question, Spokli answers them before you leave. Fast is always there too for the days you simply want to be quick.

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  1. Route planning

    Why fewer turns matter more than fewer kilometres

    A six-kilometre ride with seventeen decisions is harder than a seven-kilometre ride with five. What a turn really costs a cyclist, and how Spokli counts it.

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