Guides

Rides Ridekit helps with

From a Sunday loop to a week on the road: what to do before you go, and what to do when the plan changes and there's no signal.

Any ride

Send a route to your Garmin Edge with no internet

Ridekit sends courses from your iPhone to your Edge over Bluetooth: no cable, no computer, no signal needed. Here's how, and what to do if Garmin Connect gets in the way.

4 min read Any ride

Change your route mid-ride, with no signal

Plans change at a café: a headwind, a closed road, a shorter way home. Send a new course from your iPhone to your Garmin Edge during the ride, no internet needed.

4 min read Any ride

Routes from Komoot, Ride with GPS or Strava to your bike computer

Any route file from any app, email or link: open it in Ridekit and put it on your bike computer. GPX, FIT, TCX, KML, KMZ and zips, with duplicates spotted.

4 min read Any ride

Keep every route on your phone, not on your bike computer

Keep your whole collection of routes in Ridekit, find any one in seconds, and put on your bike computer only the one you're riding today.

4 min read Garmin Edge

Edge slow with big GPX files? Send a lighter course

Some route files carry a point every metre. Choose a lighter detail level when you send: a 240 km route goes from a minute to 6 seconds, rides the same, and the original is kept.

4 min read Group rides

Share a route with your riding group, ready for no signal

Pass a route to another rider by AirDrop, with its stops, road surface, places to stay and offline map. No internet needed, on either phone.

3 min read Any ride

Water and food along the way: know where the next stop is

See every water tap, café and shop along your route, spot the long gaps before you ride, and put the stops you need on your bike computer.

5 min read Touring

Riding abroad without roaming: get every route ready before you go

Offline maps, stops and places to stay saved on your iPhone, and the route on your bike computer. What works with no data abroad, and what to do at home first.

4 min read Touring

A multi-day tour, stage by stage

Keep a tour's routes together as stages, split one long route into days at good stops, and put each day's course on your bike computer as you go.

5 min read Bikepacking

Find a bed on tour, even with no signal

Say how much longer you can ride and see hotels, hostels, guest houses and campsites you can reach, with arrival times. Works offline after Get ready, and it's free.

3 min read Night rides

Riding into the night: controls, the Lock Screen and battery

Riding after dark, on a summer evening or an audax? Mark your controls, keep the ride on your Lock Screen, and get a warning before the last water and before dark.

5 min read Any ride

Know the climbs before you ride

Every climb on your route, found the way bike computers find them, with length, gradient, category and shape. Elevation coloured by gradient, road surface, and the route in 3D.

4 min read Any ride

Weather along your ride: the forecast for where you'll be

Set your start time, pace and breaks, and see the forecast for each place on the route at the hour you'll reach it: headwind, rain and darkness by km.

4 min read