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What is the Difference Between a Route and a Ride?

Ride with GPS allows you to both create your own routes and to log your rides on our site. Your routes and your rides will be be stored in your Ride with GPS account and will be available on the…

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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…

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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Export Routes to Garmin Device

After planning your route, export it to your Garmin device in various file formats for navigation via a wired connection to your computer. Want to load routes to your Garmin wirelessly? Set up the Garmin Courses sync option and you’ll…

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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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Combining and Splitting Routes

Premium subscribers can combine multiple routes or split a long route into many using our simple split and combine tools. For advanced route splitting where you can retain all cue and POI data, please use the Advanced Route Splitting Tool.…

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How do I log a ride manually or from another device?

Sometimes it happens…your GPS device won’t turn on, you forgot to hit record on the mobile app — whatever it may be, you can still track your mileage on the site. Click UPLOAD on the left side of your navigation…

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Saving & Sharing a Private Route

Learn how to save a route as private, and then be able to share that route with friends. Sharing Private Routes and Rides On a Ride, click the Share dropdown in the upper right and select Link. On a Route,…

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Forgot Your Password?

We understand there are so many passwords to track and inevitably a password doesn’t work anymore. Here are some steps to follow to get you signed into the website again and planning routes. If after all these steps you still…

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What payment types do you accept?

Like with carbon, aluminum, titanium and chromoly we don’t discriminate against your preference of credit cards. All of our financial transactions are protected by SSL encryption provided by DigiCert. We accept the following payment methods: Visa Mastercard American Express Discover…

Does Ride with GPS work outside of the United States?

Yes, you are welcome to use Ride with GPS outside of the U.S. In fact, you can find routes and rides from other users all around the world on our site. What’s more, you can use the FIND page to…