Love Komoot or RideWithGPS but frustrated when waypoints won't show on your Wahoo or Garmin? Here's an honest look at where VeloPin fits alongside them - and where it does things they don't.
Nothing ruins a ride like hitting unexpected gravel on 28 mm slicks. Here's how to see your route's surface - paved, gravel, path - before you leave, so you bring the right bike and tyres.
Multi-day bikepacking lives and dies on resupply. Here's how to plan a route that splits into ridable days and never leaves you short of water or food — with stops that are actually open when you arrive.
You planned the route and the resupply — now the water, food and camp stops have to show up on your head unit, day by day, with the right icons. Here's how to get bikepacking waypoints onto a Wahoo or Garmin so you can actually navigate to them.
VeloPin is a browser-based bike route planner built around the details that make or break a long ride: waypoints that show up on your device, surface analysis, weather timing, and a 3D preview before you clip in.
VeloPin runs in your browser, but you can add it to your phone's home screen so it opens full-screen like an app — no app store, no download. Here's how to install it on iPhone, iPad and Android in a couple of taps.
A single weather forecast can't tell you when to leave for a long ride. Here's how to time a bike route around rain and wind — and how VeloPin's Ride Radar shows the weather along your whole route at the moment you'll be there, then picks the best window to set off.
Import a Komoot or Strava route to your Garmin Edge and the café, water and summit markers vanish? Garmin only shows them as Course Points. Here's why — and how VeloPin's dedicated Garmin export adds them automatically — with the right icons.
Import a route to the COROS Dura and every waypoint looks the same? Here's why the icons go missing — and how VeloPin makes the right ones show up automatically.
The Karoo won't read POIs from a GPX, and Komoot/Strava drop rich waypoints. Here's the free, three-step way to get named, described pins onto your Hammerhead Karoo.
Planned a route in Komoot with cafés, water stops and viewpoints — but your Wahoo shows nothing but identical purple pins? Here's why it happens and how to fix it in minutes.