Explore maps and popular cycling routes through the mobile app, on both iOS and Android. Discover the best bike rides near you. To access EXPLORE, open the Ride with GPS app and tap EXPLORE tab from your menu options at…
Delete or Merge Account
Want to remove your account from our system? You can Delete all of your account data yourself within your account settings menu. Note: Account deletion is irreversible. We will place your deletion request in pending for 7 days, and afterward…
Hammerhead Karoo
Hammerhead Karoo Syncing with Ride with GPS The Hammerhead Karoo and Karoo 2 are standalone GPS units that are configured by a companion website through the Hammerhead dashboard portal. There is not a direct file sync service to this device,…
OSM Routing Data
Contributing Routing Engine Data Ride with GPS uses map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) to power the RWGPS, OSM, OSM Cycle and ESRI map styles in our route planner and navigation software. OSM is a free and collaborative project to create…
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…
Event and Challenge Participant Page
Are you participating in an upcoming event or Challenge? Pick the page that’s right for you. Details for: Event Participants Details for: Challenge Participants
Challenges
Jump To: Joining a Challenge Accessing a Challenge Challenge Rules Participating in a Challenge Updating Your Ride’s Name with a Hashtag FAQ Joining a Challenge Challenges can be accessed by visiting the host organizations home page or by clicking the…
Challenges for Organizations
Challenges are flexible and accessible opportunities to motivate and engage your base, no matter where in the world they may be. Challenges are free for all Clubs, Event, and Tourism account holders and free for all participants. Jump to: Creating…
Challenges for Clubs
Challenges are flexible and accessible opportunities to motivate and engage your base, no matter where in the world they may be. Challenges are free for all Clubs, Event, and Tourism account holders and free for all participants. Jump to: Creating…
Collections for Tourism
Collections are a great way to bundle similar routes to share and follow. Group together your area’s best road, gravel, or mountain bike routes; or even your best family, public art, or coffee shop routes. Public Collections will be able…
Collections for Clubs
Collections are a great way to bundle similar routes to share with your members or the general public. Group together your best hilly routes, routes starting from a certain part of your town, gravel routes, and anything else you’d like.…
Feed, Friends, and Following
When you join Ride with GPS, you become part of a global network of cyclists who share routes and rides with each other. Once you connect with other users you can share your activities with your community, look at your…
Offline Maps in the mobile app
Adventure planning in an area with limited or no cell-phone network? Or using an older phone with no cell plan? Download your route prior to heading out with the OFFLINE MAPS feature. Navigate routes that you have downloaded to your…
Manage App Settings
Below are all of the options available for both the iPhone and Android app. The interface of the two apps are slightly different, but the available options and functionality remain the same. To access Settings, tap the More button at…
Record Rides
Use the Ride with GPS mobile app for iPhone and Android to record your trip. Save the recording and any geotagged photos to your account for secure data storage. View your ride on the website to analyze metrics and share it…
Using the Elevation Profile on the Web
The Elevation Profile offers so much more than just analyzing the difficulty of hills. Interacting with the profile allows you to make selections, create segments, trim the ride data, dive into metrics, and more. Now let’s learn what can be…
Advanced Route Planning and Editing
As a Premium subscriber, you gain access to advanced tooling on the website for planning and editing your routes. You can combine or split routes, delete entire sections, and easily turn recorded rides into routes with cuesheets. Customize the route…
Garmin Courses Sync
Have an Garmin EDGE device that you want to sync routes wirelessly to but no IQ app is available? You can still use these devices for wireless route transfer using the Garmin Courses Sync API. Connect your Account If you…
The Great Community Route Celebration – FAQ
What are the requirements for routes for the Celebration? We will highly emphasize detailed routes that include cues and points of interest (POIs) for businesses, but no one will be “disqualified” if they have a good route and cuesheet without…
Route Planner
You are here. You want to ride your bike to there. Use our Route Planner to find the best way to get there. We’ll show you how to get there, the amount of climbing you’ll endure, and more. Go to…
Riding Routes Indoors
Looking to ride your favorite route indoors with your smart indoor trainer? You can follow routes planned our our website or app using a Wahoo or Garmin device. Follow the steps below to get started. The rides you record on…
Collections
Use collections to organize your favorite rides and routes. You can also follow collections of other rides that have been shared with you. Creating a collection Go to Collections Click ‘New Collection‘ Fill in a Title and Overview, add a…
Ride Metrics
Any activity you record in Ride with GPS contains a host of data points on distance, speed, elevation, and more. Let’s dive into the data from a ride recording and learn how to use this information to look back on…
Sharing with a Shortcut
You can easily share your profile, your completed ride, or a route with a QR code shortcut. Your friends can scan the QR code with our app to be able to view your profile, ride, or route. After scanning the…
Trace Tool
Do you have a route without a cuesheet, or one that is in a foreign language? Perhaps you uploaded a GPX route file sent to you by a friend, or from another website and need to make it available for…
Connected Services
Garmin Connect IQ App Wirelessly sync routes from your route library and Pinned section to your Garmin device. Automatic Garmin Ride Sync Automatically sync the rides recorded on your Garmin device to Ride with GPS. Connecting Bluetooth Sensors Learn how…
Mobile Route Planning
Create a Route You are here. You want to ride your bike to there. Use the mobile route planner to get it done, now in the palm of your hand A route is a plan for a ride. A route…
Connect with Strava
By connecting your Ride with GPS account to Strava, you’ll be able to automatically sync the rides recorded on the Ride with GPS app, or manually uploaded from a Garmin unit, to your Strava account. Your rides will upload to…
Connect with Relive
By connecting your Ride with GPS account to Relive, you’ll be able turn your rides into 3D videos. Relive will retrieve all of your future rides for viewing. Viewing your historical rides on Relive may require a subscription to their…
Archiving Routes
The Archive Route option allows you to clean up routes from your route library without permanently deleting them. Archived routes can be unarchived for later use. This is a great option for users who sync with Wahoo or our Garmin…