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Managing Routes

All your saved and imported routes live in one place. Browse your library, favorite the routes you ride most, edit waypoints, and navigate to recent destinations with a single tap.

Route management requires Bike IQ Pro.

Route Library

The route library is your central hub for all routes — whether you built them in the route builder, imported them from GPX files, Strava, or RideWithGPS, or saved them from previous rides. Each route displays its total distance and elevation gain so you can quickly gauge the effort before selecting one.

Open the route library from the main screen to browse, search, and manage your collection.

Organization

The route manager is organized into two tabs to separate different types of saved locations:

  • Destinations: places you have navigated to recently, plus any destinations you have marked as favorites. These are individual locations rather than full multi-waypoint routes. Useful for quick "get me to this place" navigation.
  • Routes: your complete route collection, including all saved routes and any routes marked as favorites. Each route has a full path with waypoints, elevation data, and turn-by-turn navigation support.

Both tabs support a favorites filter, so you can toggle between viewing everything and viewing only your starred items.

Favorites

Mark any route or destination as a favorite to pin it for quick access. Favorites float to the top of their respective lists and persist across sessions. This is the fastest way to get to the routes you ride regularly without scrolling through your entire library.

To favorite a route, tap the star icon next to it. Tap again to remove it from favorites. The same mechanism works for destinations in the Destinations tab.

Recent Destinations

Every time you navigate to a specific location, Bike IQ saves it as a recent destination. These appear in the Destinations tab as quick-access shortcuts. Recent destinations are useful when you frequently ride to the same places — a trailhead, a coffee shop, a friend's house — and want to navigate there without building a full route each time.

You can rename recent destinations to something more memorable than the raw address. You can also favorite them so they stay accessible even as newer destinations push older ones down the list.

Editing Routes

Tap any route in your library to open it in the route viewer. From there, tap edit to modify the route in the route builder. You can add new waypoints, reposition existing waypoints using the elevation chart handle, reorder the sequence in list view, or remove waypoints you no longer want. The route recalculates automatically as you make changes.

This is particularly useful for adapting imported routes. If you imported a GPX from another platform but want to adjust the starting point or avoid a particular road, open it in the route builder and make the changes directly.

Deleting Routes

Swipe left on any route to reveal the delete option. A confirmation dialog appears before the route is removed, so you will not accidentally delete a route with a stray gesture. Deleted routes are removed permanently — they cannot be recovered. If the route was imported from Strava or RideWithGPS, it can be re-imported from the original source.

Quick Navigation

The hero button at the top of the route manager provides one-time navigation without saving a route. Tap it, pick a destination by searching for an address or place, and Bike IQ calculates a cycling route and starts turn-by-turn navigation immediately. The destination is not saved to your library unless you choose to save it.

Quick navigation is ideal for spontaneous rides when you know where you want to go but do not need the route for future reference. If you decide mid-ride that you want to keep the route, you can save it from the ride screen.

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