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Surface Types

Want to know if there’s going to be a gnarly gravel section in the middle of your road ride? Or perhaps not be taken off guard by all the tarmac on what you thought was a backcountry bikepacking adventure? Good…

Manage Subscription

Upgrade or Manage your Subscription Free accounts will see UPGRADE where they can choose the new subscription level and enter payment information. Basic and Premium accounts will see a MANAGE SUBSCRIPTION tab in their profile Settings where they can update…

Cue Review Tool

The Cue Review Tool is the fastest and easiest way to make sure your cuesheet is just how you want it. It will walk you through each of your cues so you can ensure they’re accurate and make any changes…

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Exclude from Metrics

Do you have routes that include ferries, trains, or other modes of transportation? Now Premium and Basic subscribers can exclude these sections of rides and routes from their metrics, making it easier to plan and get accurate stats from multi-modal…

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Why upgrade to Basic?

Upgrade to Basic today to start getting the following features: Turn-by-turn Navigation Get turn-by-turn voice navigation for all routes using our mobile app for iPhone and Android. Offline Maps Get voice navigation and maps for all routes without the need…

Why Go Premium?

Upgrade to Premium today to start getting the following features: Advanced Route Editing Tools Advanced Route Planning Use our most advanced tools to create, edit, combine, split, and trace routes. Trace a ride to route Turn any recorded ride or…

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Auto-Pause

When you want your recorded time to only reflect the time you have spent riding, turn on the Auto-pause feature. The reason you would want to turn on Auto-pause is to prevent a “spaghetti blob”. Whenever you stop riding, the…

Join Rides

If you’ve taken a two-day ride or recorded a ride in two parts that you now want to join together, read on to learn how to use the Join Rides tool to make two ride tracks into one. The JOIN…

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Estimated Time

The Estimated Time feature is a metric for Premium and Basic subscribers that will give you an estimated moving time for all of your routes. The metric is a personal number based off your recent ride history of rides exceeding…

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Archive Gear

The Archive Gear option allows you to retire that bike that you sold or no longer ride. An archived piece of gear will be retained on your profile but now it is hidden out of sight and retains the full…

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Privacy Zones

Using Privacy Zones is another tool you can use to control your privacy. You can use these to obscure sensitive locations like your home, school, or workplace. Starter accounts will be able to create up to 3 Privacy Zones and…

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Set up Health Info

Entering your basic health info allows the site to calculate calories expended on a ride. Your ride must have heart rate data and this health info entered to start calculating calories for your rides. Otherwise, your calories will not be…

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Editing Ride Details

After uploading a ride from your Garmin device, or saving a ride with our mobile app (for iPhone and Android) you can add details about the ride. What’s a ride? A ride (or run, hike, etc.) is an activity that…

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Ride Center

The Ride Center allows you to filter your rides by date, ride name, ride tags, bike, distance, elevation and average speed. So, for example, you could quickly find out how many miles you rode your road bike in June at…

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Advanced Route Planning and Editing

As a Premium subscriber, you gain access to more advanced tools to help you plan and edit multi-staged routes, combine or split routes, delete entire sections of routes, and easily turn rides into routes. Quick Jump: Delete Section Remove Control…

Switching Map Styles

When you’re planning a route or viewing a route/ride, you can switch map styles to work in your preferred style. Not all maps have the same routing functionality, so switching maps allows you to gain additional information, or work around…

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Group Live Logging

Group Live Logging is an awesome feature for our mobile apps. Now, when you and your friends are Live Logging and have joined the same club on the website, you can view each others current location in real time on…

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Offline Maps on Android

Plan on adventuring into an area with limited or no cell-phone network? You can still navigate your route with the OFFLINE MAPS feature where you pre-download the route and map tiles before heading out. Our Premium and Basic memberships unlock…

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Flatten Elevation

Learn how to use our Flatten Elevation tool to correct elevation inaccuracies caused by bridges, tunnels, and tall buildings. All Ride with GPS users can utilize this tool to correct rides they’ve uploaded and routes they’ve planned. This tool will…

Create & Customize a Cue Sheet

Premium and Basic members get access to our PDF maps and cue sheets for any route that has cues. These are great for navigation if you don’t have a GPS unit or smartphone, or to pass out to riders participating…

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Private Segments

Rides saved as PRIVATE will not be matched against a public segment unless the privacy is changed to PUBLIC. Premium subscribers can take advantage of segments with private rides and you can create private segments so that you can quickly…

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Advanced Lap and Split Support

[tboot_spacing size=”40px”]Advanced Lap and Split support makes it easy to view your rides in all sorts of slices and dices. Advanced Lap and Split support is a Premium feature. Not a Premium User? Find out more about our Premium Plan.…

Stationary Ride Support

Premium members who ride indoors on a trainer, rollers or a stationary bike, can have their stationary rides count toward Ride with GPS career totals and Goals. Note: If you have a smart indoor trainer, you can also ride your…

Compare Plans

Upgrade now Want to know what features are in what plan? Here’s a handy table: Feature Starter Basic Premium Free for all users $50 per year/$6 per month $80 per year/$10 per month Ride Clean-up Private Segments Stationary Bike Support…

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Embed a map on your own website

Do you blog about your rides? Do you have a website that you share rides and routes with your club or team? Our embed feature is a great way to share this information on your site with an interactive map…

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Bicycle Maintenance Log

The bicycle maintenance log requires a Basic or Premium account. Find out more about our Membership Plans. Keep your bike in tip-top shape by planning and tracking your maintenance. The Bicycle Maintenance Log is a feature for Basic and Premium…

Ride Clean Up

Ride Cleanup is a set of features for Premium subscribers. Why would I need to clean up my ride? There are many, many reasons you might need to tweak your ride data to make it more accurate. While we always…

Pinning

You’re browsing through another user’s route, ride, profile or gear and stumble upon something you never want to forget. We know the feeling, and we’re here to help you remember! Just pin whatever it is to keep track of it…

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Segments

Segments are a great way to get involved with fellow cyclists and local routes in your area. Segments offer a way to measure progress on sections of your favorite rides, or compare your ride times with other Ride with GPS…

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