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Happy Friday,

How is everyone doing? Time for your weekly FulGaz update. To be honest, this one’s more of a touch base as there isn’t a huge amount of new info I can share with you this week. But I believe consistency is the key to many aspects of life and so this Friday’s no different.

Let’s start with content. The next ride collection drops Tuesday, June 3rd and we’ve got more than 500 kilometers of new roads across 19 rides. Safe to say the content grind behind the scenes is very real!

Same goes for product development. Right now, we’re prioritising some critical fixes under the hood. For the more technical folks here, we’re working on the FulGaz Members portal and upgrading some of the core runtime engines and libraries. We’re also investing time into better logging and observability overall. This is what helps us track bugs more efficiently and it’s something we do as standard at ROUVY.

Speaking of bugs, we’ve pushed a small fix for the Group Rides issue where buttons weren’t displaying on iOS and macOS. If you’re still having trouble, let us know!

Back when I shared the Q1, 2025 results, many of you were surprised more people aren’t using FulGaz. Agreed 100%. And in the February announcement I stated that this will remain a boutique, community-led platform. So if you want to help spread the word, we’d love to hear your experience. See an example video from Klem below on the type of content we’re looking for. We’ll be posting these on social media to highlight real stories from real riders.

It doesn’t need to be anything fancy. You can pick any option that fits you. Record a quick video message with your smartphone, send in a photo and a quote or just write a short testimonial. Email it to support@fulgaz.com or simply leave a comment on the post below.

That’s it for this week. Thanks again for your support, have a great weekend and as always, stay fit and keep riding.

~Erik

P.S. Oh and last week’s cover, @Andy Newman got it right! Winnats Pass (OC-33) was the venue of the 2021 National Hill Climb Championships and it was filmed by Jon Clifton for FulGaz. Beautiful hour long ride with a great climb. Can you guess this week’s cover? It’s from a Swiss collection from last year.

Hello everyone,

How’s it going? I’m writing this week’s FulGaz Friday from a coffee shop in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic during a quick trip where I happened to bump into Mathieu van der Poel, Puck Pieterse and Samuel Gaze who are here for the World Cup this weekend. That was a pretty cool moment so I had to share this! But back to this week’s update.

We continued work on the June ride drop along with preparing the next mini tour. As Klem mentioned in this week’s Fulgazette, the Coastal Explorer Tour is entering its final stretch with rides closing on May 31, 2025. Still some time left to finish if you haven’t yet!

We’re also deep in preparation for the upcoming indoor cycling season in the northern hemisphere. That includes marketing strategies and expanding our team. As I mentioned last week, we’re strengthening the FulGaz development team in the coming weeks and months to support long term improvements, stability and reliability of the FulGaz app.

On that note, we are aware of few bugs and issues. Some are more complex to fix and I can’t promise immediate resolution, but we’re aiming to have them addressed over summer. If you’re facing a serious issue that prevents you from using the app, I recommend troubleshooting with the FulGaz community in the Facebook Group or reaching out to support@fulgaz.com. And of course, please keep logging everything at feedback.fulgaz.com as this is our go to place for collecting your feedback and building the product backlog.

I want to reinstate and make it crystal clear that we’re committed to FulGaz for the long term so no need to worry about its future. Yes, IRONMAN content will leave on Sep 30, 2025, but beyond that FulGaz will continue as a standalone app focused on reliability and realistic indoor ride experience. That’s what we’re building toward, that’s what we’ll do.

In parallel, we want FulGaz to grow which goes back to marketing strategy. Part of that plan is community-driven with real stories from real riders. Here’s how you can help:

1. Testimonials: Share what you love about FulGaz with the world. Here’s a great example video that Klem put together, have a look. We’re aiming to collect 100 such short testimonials over the next few months for social posts and marketing. If you’d like to contribute, please send it to support@fulgaz.com.

2. Strava Reviews: Just do your ride, take a screenshot during it and include a mini review in your Strava activity. It helps others discover FulGaz through your network. You’ll find great examples in the FulGaz Facebook Group from riders like David Chadderton, Alastair Gilchrist, David Cropp and others (thanks for doing it, I always love to read those!) If you need guidance on how to include a ride screenshot in your Strava activity check out this article in our Help Center.

That’s it for this week. Thanks again for your support, have a great weekend and as always, stay fit and keep riding.

~Erik

P.S. Great job @AJG, you nailed it. Last week’s ride was Psinthos to Afantou Beach in Rhodes, Greece, mostly a downhill cruise filmed by Jeff Stuart. Can you guess this week’s cover? It’s a beautiful scenic segment from the LEJOG ‘24 event that wrapped up a couple of months ago.

Hello everyone,

How’s it going? Time for your FulGaz Friday update for the week.

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to get the iOS related issues resolved and I’m glad to confirm we’re now in a stable place. Version 5.3.14 is now rolled out to 100% of users.

Long story short (for the more technical folk here), the issue came from moving to .NET 9. Turns out it wasn’t quite ready for prime time on all devices and the fix was to roll back to .NET 8. These kinds of things are part of the reality when working with older tech foundations that need upgrading. I know it’s not ideal, but rest assured, we don’t take it lightly. Since starting development on FulGaz in March this year we’ve gained better understanding of what we’re working with. That being said, we’ll be hiring and assigning more development power to FulGaz to keep improving.

If you’re still experiencing any issues, please continue logging them at feedback.fulgaz.com or reach out to support@fulgaz.com. We’re handling these as they come in and they’re a key part of complementing our current system monitoring. It won’t all be fixed overnight but we’re committed to incremental improvements.

On that note, we’ve also migrated our help center to feedback.fulgaz.com/help. Consider it a beta for now while the support.fulgaz.com will continue running in parallel over the next few weeks. As you know, the long term goal is to make this platform the central hub for community voting, support resources and product management so it’s part of this initiative.

Now to end on something more fun, we’re on track to match May’s ride drop volume so keep an eye out for new content landing the first Tuesday of June in the next Fulgazette!

That’s it for this week. Thanks again for your ongoing support, have a great weekend and, as always, stay fit and keep riding!

~Erik

P.S. Last week’s cover ride image was from the May’s Rides Drop and it was from Stamford, Lincolnshire. A beautiful english town featured in movies like Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch and The Da Vinci Code. Can you guess this week’s? Hint, it should be familiar to anyone riding the Coastal Explorer Tour :)