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VeloPin as a Komoot and RideWithGPS Alternative - Honestly

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.

How to Check If Your Route Is Paved or Gravel - Before You Leave

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.

How to Plan a Bikepacking Tour With Resupply Stops — Without Running Dry

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.

Getting Your Bikepacking Waypoints Onto a Wahoo or Garmin

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.

How VeloPin Works — Plan Smarter Rides, Nail Every Detail

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.

How to Use VeloPin on Your Phone (iPhone & Android)

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.

When Should You Start Your Ride? Timing a Route Around the Weather

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.

How to Get Your Waypoints onto a Garmin Edge — With the Right Icons

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.

Why Your Waypoints Show as Plain Pins on a COROS Dura — And How to Fix It

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.

How to Get Your Waypoints onto a Hammerhead Karoo — For Free

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.

Why Your Komoot Waypoints Don't Show Up on Your Wahoo ELEMNT — And How to Fix It

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.