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Ride with support watching.

The phone on the bars talks you through the day, shows your sensors, and keeps the people you choose up to date. They see where you are; you get on with riding.

On the bike

  • Start riding? Route, bike and safety are checked before you go, with the ride’s weather.
  • Spoken turn-by-turn, with the music turned down while it talks.
  • Rerouting when you leave the line, a way around a closed road, and Go to finish to skip the rest of the day or stop short.
  • Ride numbers that rotate through pages, including a wind dial relative to you and the radar. Portrait or landscape.
  • Music controls on the riding screen: play, pause and skip without leaving the ride.

Sensors, live

Heart rate (strap or watch), power meter and rear radar. A sensor check before the ride warns you if one hasn’t woken up.

Pack Mode

Riders near you see your live numbers and you see theirs, phone to phone, with no signal needed.

Pack Mode on the phone: your speed, average, heart rate and distance beside Loclyn's, phone to phone and live, 20 m behind you, with a vehicle 27 m behind
You and Loclyn, side by side. Heart rate and power show only if a rider shares them.

Haptic buzzes

Each pattern means one thing: reroute, can’t reroute, stopped soon, SOS, crash countdown. You can feel it without looking.

Battery care

On a long day the phone can lock, and the app eases off by itself. A phone setup guide covers the settings that matter.

Live tracking

When you start a ride, the people you choose get a private link by email. No account, no sign-in.

The private live page a follower sees while Doug rides: the live dot on the route ridden so far in gold, last seen 1 minute ago, battery 75%, 25 km/h, 9.4 km today
What your followers see on your private link while you ride
  • Followers see the live dot, the planned route, when you were last seen, your speed and your phone’s battery.
  • Two lists: riders whose rides you follow, and everyone who gets your live link and SOS. Unfollow or remove anyone, any time.
  • Out of coverage, your track is saved and sent when signal returns. The page says how long since it last heard from you.
  • After the ride the page stays live for 30 minutes, then shows your public stats page.

Your rides and stats

Record

Start a ride in the app and it tracks, with your followers told. Save it to Apple Health as an Outdoor Cycle workout.

Bring in

Your whole Strava history from its export zip, or open a GPX, FIT or TCX file from Files, Mail or the share sheet.

Stats

What you’ve ridden, how hard and on what. Stats for each bike, too.

Ride Score

One number, 0 to 100, for how fit you are for a loaded day.

A public stats page, on your terms

Totals, trips and recent rides, with home trimmed off the map. It never shows anything live, planned trips, or your kit. Turn it off and the address opens nothing.

Doug's public stats page: 38 rides and 2 nights camping this year, 600 rides and 30 nights camping all time, 18,345 km and 111,250 m climbed, then a completed ride on the map with its height profile
Doug’s public page: totals and finished trips, nothing live
Never on the public page
  • Where you are now
  • Trips you’re planning
  • Your bikes and kit
  • Anything inside your privacy zone
Out riding with no signal?

That’s where Secret Rides gets tested: on real rides, a long way from anywhere. Tell Secret Rides where you ride, and you could be one of the first to take it out.

Contact Doug

Questions, ideas, or something not right. Doug reads every one and replies by email.

Only used to reply to you. Never shown anywhere.

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