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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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Automatic Ride Sync with Garmin Connect

Automatically synchronize your rides from Garmin Connect to Ride with GPS. Synchronizing with Garmin Connect is a one-way process. It will take rides from your device, synchronize it to Garmin Connect, then transfer it over to Ride with GPS. The…

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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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Add Photos to a Ride or Route

Want to share photos of the sights along the route? Upload photos to any of your rides or routes. Select the activity in which you want to add photos. Click the “Add Photos” button on the left-hand side of the…

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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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Record your first ride with our mobile app

The Ride with GPS mobile app for iPhone and Android allows you to record your ride and upload to ridewithgps.com along with geotagged photos to share or keep for your personal use. Premium and Basic subscribers will unlock even more…

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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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Do I have to use a GPS?

While a GPS device will help you get the most out of the site, you can still use Ride with GPS without a device. How? Use our route planner to create great rides or to figure out how to best…

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…

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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Uploading Rides & Routes

You’ve recorded a ride with your GPS device or you have downloaded a Route file, now upload it to the Ride with GPS website in one of several ways: Upload to the website Click Upload in the left hand dashboard navigation.…

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