The latest indieVelo update, v0.3.12, released September 23rd, 2024, gives organizers the ability to create custom race leader's jerseys.
This week’s release of indieVelo (see below for full details) focuses on adding completely customizable series and stage race leaders jerseys.
In particular, indieVelo now enables an event organizer to create their own set of custom jerseys in whatever style or design they want; for example, using whatever colors or patterns fit with their event’s branding and including their own sponsor’s logos wherever and however they want without the need to co-brand with anyone else. The organizer can then assign them to whichever riders they want, for any reason they want.
Organizers will primarily use this feature for leaders in the “standard” cycling jersey categories—GC, Points, KOM, Young Rider, etc. However, because of the flexibility built into the indieVelo engine, event creators can use this feature for any other category they can dream of.
For example, perhaps in your race, the most combative rider will get a special jersey, the leading female riders, the leading ability category riders, the team leaders, the leading team, and so on! The only limit to how you want to run your race is now your imagination.
The first big event to use jerseys will be the indieVelo Grand Tour starting this Wednesday (25th September) with 6 stages, including a prologue, running through to this Sunday (29th September). This event will feature an overall GC winner, women’s GC winner, age group GCs (under 23 and over 60), best sprinter, best climber, overall team competition, and Lanterne Rouge. The event is being organized and run by indieVelo community member Thomas Launois, and Matisseo, courtesy of another long-time regular rider, Stéphan Brachet, sponsoring the prizes.
A huge thank you from indieVelo’s developer and the community to Thomas and Stéphan. To learn more and join the 100+ riders already signed up to ride, see the Event Announcement with complete details linked to the image above.
Here’s how to get indieVelo on your AppleTV!
1) Anyone with access to indieVelo on iOS (iPhone/iPad) should now automatically be able to access the AppleTV version too. Simply download TestFlight from the AppStore on your AppleTV, and indieVelo should be there waiting for you to run.
2) Anyone who is a member of the indieVelo Founders Club but doesn’t have access to the Apple versions of indieVelo can email: help@indievelo.com with the email address they use in the AppStore and will receive instructions.
3) Anyone not yet an indieVelo Founders Club member should click here to join, then email me as above.
As usual, there is also a wide range of other additions, improvements, and fixes, mostly focusing on device handling and UI improvements to keep everything intuitive as indieVelo increases in size and scale.
Note for Mac Bluetooth users: If you find that the Bluetooth icon on the pairing screen has turned red, please follow the instructions linked from
https://wiki.indievelo.com/docs/apple-mac-ble-permissions/
to first completely remove, and then re-add, permission for indieVelo to use the Mac Bluetooth connection.
Do you want to steepen your indieVelo learning curve? Check out our How-to-Guides page for details!
If all has gone well, then you shouldn’t have to do anything to get the new version, as indieVelo will just self-update the next time you start it up. If you find any problems however, instructions on how to manually update are on the website: https://wiki.indievelo.com/docs/updates
The full patch notes are below!
“Thank you all again for the support and encouragement. With 100% of the indieVelo roadmap determined by your ideas and suggestions, every piece of feedback is incredibly valuable and really makes a difference to the continued improvement of indieVelo each and every week.”
George Gilbert
Patch Notes – v0.3.12 – Key changes from the last version:
- Added support for fully custom series/stage race leader jerseys.
- Added Catalunya as a new selectable country/region for rider profiles.
- Added lots more teams/custom event branding.
- Improved default series leader jerseys to be indieVelo branded rather than plain.
- Improved tolerance of imported CSV files to superfluous whitespace.
- Improved resilience to BLE devices that send invalid data.
- Improved scrollbars to remember last position when returning to a menu.
- Improved handling of repeat key presses when changing virtual gears.
- Improved handling of screenshots on low memory devices.
- Improved FPS/performance when in the pen.
- Improved server scalability.
- Improved logging throughout.
- Improved log spam.
- Fixed bug with elimination events that could cause a rider to have 2 results.
- Fixed bug with saving ERG state if exiting a workout early.
- Fixed bug with a race condition when connecting 3rd party accounts.
- Fixed bug with flickering distance value when waiting in the pen before events.
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