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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.

How the Screen Is Laid Out

Everything is on one screen, in three parts, so nothing is hidden behind a tab you have to remember:

  • Quick Navigation at the top, with a Where to? field for getting somewhere once without saving anything.
  • Destinations: individual places you have navigated to, switchable between Recent and Favorites.
  • Routes: your saved routes, each with waypoints, elevation and turn-by-turn support, switchable between All and Favorites.

The search field in the navigation bar filters both lists by name, which is the fastest way through a long collection.

The add button opens four choices: Create New Route, Import GPX File, Import from Strava and Import from Ride with GPS. See Route Builder and Importing Routes.

Favorites

Tap the heart on any route or destination to mark it. A favourite does not jump to the top of the main list: it goes into that list's Favorites view, which is a separate switch. The distinction matters once you have a lot of routes, because the main list stays in the order you built them.

All is ordered newest first, so a route you just made or imported is at the top. Favorites is ordered alphabetically, which is the more useful order for a list you are picking from rather than scrolling through.

Favourite destinations are also what the ride screen's navigation button offers when you press and hold it, so a favourite is reachable mid-ride without opening this screen at all.

Recent Destinations

Every time you navigate to a specific location, Bike IQ saves it as a recent destination. These appear under Destinations as 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.

Tap Rename Destination to give one a name you will recognise instead of the raw address. You can also favorite them so they stay accessible even as newer destinations push older ones down the list.

What You Can Do With a Saved Route

Tap a route to open it in the route viewer, which draws the whole route with its elevation profile. From there:

  • Start Navigation begins turn-by-turn on it straight away.
  • Edit Route opens it in the route builder, where you can add waypoints, drag them on the map, reorder them or turn one into a rest stop. This is how you adapt an imported route: move the start to your front door, or pull it off a road you would rather not ride.
  • Duplicate copies it under a new name you type in. Worth doing before a big edit, so the original survives.
  • Export GPX shares it out as a GPX file, through AirDrop, Messages, mail or anything else that takes a file. A route you built in Bike IQ is not trapped in Bike IQ.
  • Delete Route removes it, after a confirmation that names the route. This cannot be undone.

From the list itself, press and hold a route for a shorter menu: add or remove it from favourites, or delete it. Deleting from there asks for confirmation too.

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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