Your best rides deserve more than a GPX file
Some rides stay with you ten years later: the low light on the ridge, the sunken lane you'd never seen, the descent you rode three times just for the fun of it. Then you get home, and all that's left is a line in a history list: 62 km, 740 m of climbing. Numbers have their charm, but they tell you very little about how beautiful a route was. Spots, Stories and route sharing exist for exactly that: to give a memory to what deserves one.
1. A beautiful route takes a little looking for
Beauty doesn't always turn up by chance: it can be planned. In the VéloCore planner, the Touring profile trades the straight line for the pretty roads, and the loop generator offers several candidates depending on the distance and the mood you're after. Switch on the points-of-interest layers and the landscape fills in before you even leave: viewpoints, curiosities, heritage. You're no longer heading out towards a distance — you're heading out towards something.
2. Spots: the exact place, not "somewhere around there"
A Spot is a place that was worth stopping for, pinned to its precise coordinates: a panorama, a legendary descent, an unusual corner, a terrace in exactly the right place. The difference from an ordinary photo comes down to one word: findable. A lovely picture on a social network disappears into the feed; a Spot stays attached to the map, and the next cyclist planning a route in the area comes across it. Your memories become someone else's landmarks.
Spots are browsed full screen, like a gallery, with likes from the community and a Spot of the week to highlight the finest find of the moment. And the universal search finds a spot just as readily as a place or one of your own routes.
3. The photo finds its place on its own
The real obstacle to documenting a ride is the chore afterwards: sorting, locating, captioning. VéloCore takes care of it. If your photo carries its coordinates, the Spot places itself. And if it doesn't — camera with no GPS, location switched off to save battery — the app puts it back on your track using its timestamp: it knows where you were at 2:07 pm, so it knows where the photo was taken. You shoot, you ride, and the filing happens without you.
4. Stories: the tale, not just the numbers
A ride recap is a track, some numbers and some images. The Story pulls all of it together into a vertical format ready to share, with no video editor involved. The ride wall then collects everyone's kudos, comments and stories: that's where Sunday's ride carries on existing into Monday, when you think back to that stretch along the river.
5. Share the route, not just the photo
A beautiful image makes people want to go. A beautiful route can actually be ridden again. That's the whole difference, and it's why sharing covers the track itself: send it to a friend who loads it into their cockpit in one tap, export it as GPX for a bike computer, or turn it into a ride call to do it together next weekend. What you found stops being a personal memory and becomes an invitation.
And it works both ways: community Spots are a goldmine of ideas when inspiration runs dry. A viewpoint someone else pinned 30 km from your door is a ready-made excuse for a ride — and the perfect destination for a loop to plan.
6. What you publish stays your call
Documenting commits you to nothing. Sharing a ride is always a decision, never a setting that's on by default: you can keep your routes and photos to yourself, publish only the best ones, or open everything to the community. Your online status follows the same rule. The memory of your rides belongs to you first; the rest is just a box to tick, whenever you feel like it.
7. A habit that changes how you look around
Hunting for the Spot of the day transforms a ride. You look up more, you stop where you'd otherwise have ridden straight past, you take the little track just to see what's at the end of it. Riding for performance is great. Riding while looking for what deserves a photo is often what you remember longest.
Plan it, ride it, capture it
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