The MotoRidez blog
Straight answers on motorcycle route planning, turn-by-turn navigation, ride recording and the apps that do it — including honest comparisons with the paid ones. Written by the people building a free alternative.
Comparisons 6 min
calimoto pioneered curvy motorcycle routing. Here's an honest look at what a free alternative gets right, where paid apps still win, and how to switch without losing your rides.
ReadHow Motoridez stacks up against the paid motorcycle nav apps — feature by feature, price by price.
Comparisons 6 min
A rider's guide to the free motorcycle navigation apps worth installing — what each one is genuinely good at, what it quietly charges for, and which to pick.
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Rever built ride tracking into a social network. Here's how a free alternative compares on routing, recording and privacy — and what you actually lose by switching.
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Scenic is one of the best-looking motorcycle apps on iOS — and iOS only. Here's how a free, cross-platform alternative compares on planning, navigation and ride tracking.
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Kurviger's planner is excellent and its free mobile tier is thin. Here's how a free curvy-routing alternative compares, and where Kurviger still deserves your desk time.
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A dedicated bike GPS costs as much as a good jacket. A phone app costs nothing. Here's an honest breakdown of glare, gloves, vibration, waterproofing and battery.
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Google Maps is superb at arriving and hopeless at enjoying. Here's what it does to a motorcycle route, why it happens, and what to use instead when the journey is the point.
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A free navigation app raises a fair question: what's the catch? Here's the actual cost structure, what we will never do with your ride data, and how this gets funded.
ReadHow to plan, ride, record and share a better ride — whichever app you use.
Guides 5 min
A step-by-step method for building a day ride worth the fuel — choosing anchors, dialling curviness, placing fuel and food, and the mistakes that ruin good routes.
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Groups fragment, riders get lost, and the fast ones vanish. Here's the planning and the on-road system that keeps six bikes together without radios or shouting.
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Phones suspend apps, batteries die and tunnels eat signal. Here's how to get a clean GPS recording of a ride, and what to do about the gaps you do get.
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Vibration kills phone cameras, glare makes screens useless and weak USB ports lose the battery race. Here's how to mount and power a phone so it survives.
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GPX is the format that makes your routes yours. Here's what's actually inside one, the difference between a route and a track, and how to move rides between apps.
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Curvy riding drinks more fuel than the highway, country pumps keep country hours, and your range is not your tank size. How to plan fuel so it never ruins a ride.
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Unsealed surprises are how good rides end badly. Here's how routing apps handle surface, how much gravel is acceptable, and how to ride the bit you can't avoid.
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Turn instructions that arrive at the apex are useless. Here's how to set up helmet comms, pairing and prompt timing so navigation works at riding speed.
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A first long day out is won in the planning. Here's how to structure the distance, the stops, the gear and the pace so you get home tired in the good way.
ReadWhat the app actually does, how it works under the bonnet, and why we built it that way.
Features 4 min
Twistiness isn't a vibe — it's a number. Here's how routing engines measure curviness, why two apps disagree about the same road, and how to ask for what you want.
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The best road near you stops being the best road on the twelfth lap. Here's how avoid-visited routing works, what it costs in route quality, and when to switch it off.
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Turning a wobbly GPS trace into 'you have ridden this road' is harder than it looks. Here's how map-matching works, and the rule that keeps the map honest.
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Sometimes you want to ride and have no idea where. Here's how automatic route generation actually chooses roads, and how to steer it without taking over.
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Crash detection can get help to a rider who can't call for it. Here's how phone-based detection works, why false alarms are the hard part, and what it will never replace.
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Phone lean angle numbers are often nonsense. Here's why the sensors mislead, what a correct measurement requires, and why we don't show it live while you ride.
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Sharing your position on a ride should reassure people at home and keep a group together — without broadcasting where you live. Here's how to set it up sensibly.
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A ride tracker holds a map of where you live, work and go on Sundays. Here's what that data actually is, what should never happen to it, and what to check in any app.
ReadThe rides worth the fuel, state by state — with the corner counts measured, not guessed.
Roads 4 min
The Black Spur is famous for a reason and it isn't the best road in the state. A rider's guide to Victoria's great roads, when to ride them, and what's nearby.
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The Old Road, the Putty, the Oxley — NSW has the best riding roads in Australia and the heaviest enforcement. A guide to which ones are worth the trip.
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Mount Glorious, Mount Mee and the hinterland ranges — a rider's guide to the roads around Brisbane, when to ride them and which ones the locals actually use.
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Gorge Road, the Adelaide Hills and the run down to Victor Harbor — SA packs excellent riding within half an hour of the city. Here's where to point the bike.
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Perth's hills, the Darling Scarp and the run south to Margaret River — where to ride in a state where the distances are the main planning problem.
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Loops that actually work from the city, sorted by how much of your Sunday they need — with the roads, the stops and the timing that makes each one good.
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