Road and Adventure presets
Two buttons, two kinds of ride. Road gets you there on sealed roads without mucking about. Adventure goes looking for the interesting way, and will put you on dirt to find it. On a multi-stop trip you can set them leg by leg.
The Routing Mode block lives inside the planning sheet, below your stops. The two preset buttons sit at the top of it, with the sliders underneath.
Above them, one chip per leg of the trip. The chip with the brighter outline is the leg you’re currently editing.
What the two presets mean
Road
The sensible option. It aims for an efficient run on sealed roads and doesn’t go hunting for scenery. Use it for the commute, for the boring leg out of the city, and for any stretch where you’d rather be there than enjoying yourself getting there. This is what the app starts with on a fresh install.
Adventure
The one for a Sunday. It leans towards backroads, corners and climbs rather than the direct line, and it is willing to take you onto unsealed surfaces to do it. Expect a longer route and a longer ride time than Road gives you between the same two points — that’s the point of it.
Unsealed doesn’t mean impassable, but it also doesn’t mean graded. If you’re two-up, loaded, on road tyres, or it’s been raining, look at the route on the map before you commit to it rather than finding out at the corner.
Applying one
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Scroll down to Routing Mode
It’s inside the planning sheet, under your list of stops. The round trip sheet has its own version of the same two options.
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Tap Road or Adventure
The settings underneath change to that preset’s baseline immediately, and the route recalculates.
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Fine-tune if you want to
The sliders below the buttons let you push the route further one way or the other. There are seven of them, and they’re remembered on your phone for next time.
Every one of the settings underneath snaps to that preset’s baseline — including anything you’d adjusted by hand. There’s no undo and no confirmation. If you’ve spent a while dialling in a route and then tap a preset out of habit, you start again.
The first time you open the sheet you’ll see a one-off tip: Tap Road or Adventure for quick presets, or adjust sliders for full control. Tapping it dismisses it for good.
A padlock on Adventure, or on a slider, means that control isn’t available on your current plan. Tapping the locked Adventure button tells you so. A locked slider is quieter — it will not move, and tapping it shows nothing at all, so the padlock beside its name is the only explanation you get.
Per-leg profiles on a multi-stop trip
This is the part most apps don’t do. A trip with via stops is made of legs — start to first stop, first stop to second, and so on — and each leg can have its own profile. Slog out of town on Road, take the range on Adventure, come home on Road.
Each leg gets a chip above the Routing Mode block, reading Leg 1: Road, Leg 2: Adventure and so on, with a 🛣 or 🌿 in front. They appear under the stop list once your trip has at least one leg, on plans that include per-leg profiles.
- Tap a chip that isn’t active — it becomes the active leg. The sliders below switch to show that leg’s settings. The route doesn’t change.
- Tap the active chip again — that leg flips between Road and Adventure, and the route recalculates.
- Press and hold any chip — every leg on the trip is set to that profile at once.
Dragging a slider only affects the leg whose chip is currently active. That’s what the brighter outline is telling you.
Drag any stop into a new position and every leg goes back to Road, quietly. Settle the order of your stops first, then set the profiles.
If a leg is set to Adventure and that option isn’t available on your plan, previewing puts every leg back to Road and offers you the upgrade instead of routing.
Saving a trip to the calendar keeps which legs were Road and which were Adventure, but not any hand-tuning you did on the sliders. A restored trip’s legs come back at their preset baseline.
Which one should you use
Start on Road, ride it, and see whether the route bores you. If it does, plan the same ride again on Adventure and compare the two on the map before you leave. The distance and time on the result card tell you what the fun is costing you, and on a long day that’s worth knowing before you’re committed rather than after.