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What is RideForge

Five tabs, one ride.

Planning a ride today means a maps app that doesn’t know what gravel is, a forum thread for the road notes, a fitness tracker convinced you jogged 240 kilometres, a weather tab, and a service reminder you wrote in your phone and never opened again. RideForge is one place, shaped around how adventure and touring riders actually plan, ride, and look back on a trip.

RideForge
Maps app
Forum thread
Fitness tracker
Weather tab
Service notes
What it does

Everything the ride needs, in one place.

Planning, navigation, tracking, safety, and the garage log — designed together, so nothing has to be stitched back together when you get home.

01GPX · KML · in / out

Plan the line, not the shortcut

Draw a route by hand, import a GPX, or start from one another rider logged. Tell it you want gravel, elevation, or the long way round — it stops routing you onto the motorway.

02Bar-mount layout

Navigation you can read at 80 km/h

Big type, high contrast, one instruction at a time. Designed to be glanced at from a bar mount with gloves on, not read like a map.

03Offline regions

Works where signal doesn't

Download the map region before you leave. Routing, tracking, and your roadbook keep working with the phone in airplane mode.

04Auto start / stop

Tracking that starts itself

Distance, elevation, moving time, and stops, logged from the moment you pull away. Nothing to remember, nothing to tap.

05Per-leg forecast

Weather along the route, not overhead

Conditions at each leg and each altitude, so you know the pass is icing over before you commit to the climb.

06Live group view

Group rides on one map

Everyone's position, live, on the same route. Regroup points, a shared ETA, and no one left guessing at the last junction.

07Per-bike intervals

A garage that remembers

Per-bike service intervals for chain, oil, tyres, and brakes, counted against real logged mileage instead of a note in your phone.

08Tank range alerts

Range you can trust

Set your tank range and RideForge flags the stretch where the next fuel is further than you can reach. Plan the reserve, not the panic.

09Geotagged log

The ride writes its own story

Photos drop onto the route where you took them. At the end you have a ride report worth keeping — post it, or don't.

10Rider-logged routes

Roads you'd never have found

Passes, fire roads, and detours other riders have already ridden and rated nearby. The best route usually isn't the one you know.

Riding alone, riding remote

Somebody should know where you are.

The best roads are the ones nobody else is on. RideForge is being built so that riding them alone doesn’t mean riding them unaccounted for.

01

Incident detection

If the phone reads a hard impact and you don't cancel the prompt, RideForge alerts your emergency contact with your last known position.

02

Live share with one person

Send a single link to someone at home. They see where you are and where you're headed — no account, no app, no group chat.

03

Check-in timer

Riding alone? Set an expected arrival. Miss it without checking in and your contact is notified with your route and last ping.

04

Off by default, on when you choose

Location sharing is per-ride and expires on its own. Nothing broadcasts until you switch it on for that ride.

These alerts travel over the mobile network to a contact you choose. RideForge is not a satellite beacon and is not an emergency service. If you ride genuinely remote terrain, carry a dedicated beacon as well — this is meant to sit alongside one, never to replace it.

How it works

Four steps, whether it's a Sunday loop or a two-week crossing.

The shape of a ride doesn't change with its length. RideForge is built around that shape rather than around a dashboard.

01

Set up the bike

Add your machine, its tank range, and the surfaces you're willing to ride. Every route it plans after that respects those answers.

02

Build the route

Draw it, import a GPX, or take one from the community library. Download the region before you go.

03

Ride it

Navigation on the bars, tracking in the background, contact notified if you asked for that. The phone stays in your pocket.

04

Keep the ride

The log, the elevation, the photos, and the notes assemble themselves into a ride report. Share it or keep it.

Inside the app

Built to disappear into the ride.

A first look at the shape of the product. These are conceptual previews of the interface, not screenshots — the app is still in development.

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Concept preview

Coastal Pass Loop

Trailhead Ridge→Overlook Pass

86 mi

Distance

4,120 ft

Elevation

2h 40m

Est. time

01 / 05

Plan the line

Drop waypoints, import a GPX, or start from a route someone else logged. Tell it you want gravel and it stops steering you onto the motorway.

The honest comparison

You already do all of this. Just across five apps.

Nothing here is impossible today — it's just spread across a maps app, a forum tab, a fitness tracker, a weather widget, and a note to yourself. That's the problem RideForge is built to close.

Planning a route worth riding

TodayA desktop map tool, exported and emailed to yourself

Planned on the phone, gravel and elevation included

Finding out what the road is like

TodayA forum thread from 2019 and a screenshot

Notes from riders who logged it recently

Navigating out of signal

TodayA second app, downloaded and hopefully current

The same map, already downloaded, still routing

Knowing how the ride went

TodayA running app convinced you jogged 240 km

Distance, climb, stops, and surface, per leg

Telling someone you're fine

TodayA text from the fuel stop, if there's bars

A live link and a check-in timer that speaks up

Remembering the chain was due

TodayA note app, a receipt, or nothing at all

Counted against the mileage you actually rode

Why RideForge

Built to a short list of rules.

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Capabilities in the plan

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Platforms, day one

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Stages to launch

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Ads. Ever.

01

Built for motorcycles, not repurposed from running

Tank range, surface type, gear, service intervals, and pass elevations are first-class ideas here — not fields bolted onto a fitness tracker.

02

One app instead of five browser tabs

Planning, navigation, tracking, safety, community, and the garage log live together, so the ride doesn't get stitched back together afterwards.

03

Your location is yours

Ride data is the product's substance, not its business model. Sharing is opt-in per ride, and we don't sell location data to anyone.

Where the build is

What's built, what's queued, what's still a plan.

Pre-launch pages usually list everything as if it already exists. This one doesn't. Here is the honest state of the three stages — the order is the plan, and it can move.

01Active

In build now

  • Route planner and GPX import
  • Offline map regions
  • Automatic ride tracking
  • The garage log
02Queued

Queued for the beta

  • Bar-mount navigation
  • Live share and check-in timer
  • Group rides on one map
  • Per-leg weather
03Planned

After launch

  • Community route library
  • Incident detection
  • Fuel and range planning
  • Ride reports with photos

No launch date is announced yet. When there is one, waitlist members get it first.

Launching soon

Coming soon to iOS & Android.

RideForge is still being built. Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know the moment early access opens — no exact date yet, but you’ll be first to hear.

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