Recording a ride

The record button is the top button in the column down the right-hand side of the map. One tap starts logging where you go, another stops it and offers to save. It keeps logging with the screen off and the phone in your pocket, and it pauses itself when you stop for coffee.

While a recording is running the button grows taller, turns red, shows a stop square and counts the time. The banner above it is the hard-braking flash — it appears for a couple of seconds and clears itself.

Everything else on the map keeps working. You can navigate, search and drop markers with a recording running.

Recording in progress. drawn from code

Starting and stopping

Tap the record button
Top of the right-hand button column. It fills out into a tall red rectangle with a running timer underneath the stop square. Recording is a premium feature — if your subscription isn’t active you’ll get the upgrade prompt instead.
Ride
Your position is written down every five seconds, along with height above sea level, speed and your lean angle at that moment. You can lock the screen and put the phone away.
Tap it again to stop
The timer clears and the Ride Complete box appears with your numbers and a name field.

Auto-pause

If you haven’t moved more than about ten metres for two minutes, the recording pauses itself. The button border turns orange, the icon becomes a pause symbol, and the word Paused appears under the timer.

It’s distance that decides this, not the speed reading — a stationary GPS rarely reports a clean zero, so the app watches whether you’ve actually gone anywhere. Move more than ten metres and it picks up again on its own. You don’t need to touch anything.

While paused it still drops a point every thirty seconds, so a long lunch stop leaves a small marker in the file rather than a hole. Each pause is stored as a break, and those breaks are what the Break Time figure on the stats screen adds up.

Two minutes is deliberate.

Long enough that a set of lights or a slow servo queue won’t trigger it, short enough that a proper stop gets counted. It isn’t adjustable.

The hard-braking flash

While a recording is running the app watches the accelerometer for a hard stop. If it sees deceleration above 0.3 g held for more than three hundred milliseconds, an orange banner flashes up reading HARD BRAKE with the peak force and how long it lasted. It clears itself after about two and a half seconds.

The event is saved with the ride, along with where it happened, so it turns up later as a count on the stats screen and as a warning marker on the analytics overlay. It’s there to tell you something about the ride afterwards, not to nag you at the time — there’s no sound and nothing to dismiss.

Braking detection only runs while you’re recording.

It starts with the recording and stops with it. Riding without recording gives you no hard-brake events and no markers later.

Naming and saving

When you stop, Ride Complete shows three figures — Distance, Duration and Avg Speed — over a name field pre-filled with something like Ride — 4 Aug 2026. Type over it if you want, then tap Save. Leave the field empty and the default name is used.

Discard asks you to confirm with Delete this ride? before it deletes the file. There’s no undo after that.

The duration here is moving time. The stats screen shows wall-clock.

This box takes your break time off the total, so a four-hour day with an hour of stops reads as three hours. Open the same ride later under View stats and the duration is the full four hours, with the stopped time shown separately as Break Time. Both numbers are correct; they answer different questions. The average speed in this box is worked out from moving time too, so it also reads higher than the one on the stats screen.

If the save fails, nothing tells you.

Writing the name back into the ride file is done quietly, and if it can’t be written — storage full, file gone — the box closes exactly as though it worked. If a ride matters to you, open My Rides straight afterwards and check it’s there under the name you gave it.

When no file appears

If a recording captured no points at all, nothing is saved and the Ride Complete box never appears. The button goes back to its idle circle and that’s the only sign. It happens when you start and stop within a few seconds, or when the app never got a GPS fix — indoors, in a basement car park, or with location permission not granted.

If you expected a ride and there’s nothing in My Rides, that’s almost always why. Give the app a fix on open sky before you tap record.

Where the ride goes

Straight onto your phone, into your rides folder, named for the date and time it started. Nothing is uploaded. From My Rides you can show it on the map, look at the numbers, colour it by lean and speed, export it as a GPX to share, or save it to a date on the calendar to ride again.

Start the recording before you pull out.

The first fix can take a few seconds. Starting while you’re stopped means the file begins where you actually began, not two streets later.

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