Routes from Komoot, Ride with GPS or Strava to your bike computer

The club sends the Sunday route as a GPX in an email. Your weekend away is planned in Komoot, an event posts a link to a file, and a friend’s favourite loop lives in Ride with GPS. Four sources, and you want all of them on your bike computer, without a cable or a computer.

Ridekit takes route files from anywhere and keeps them in one library on your phone. From there, each one goes to your bike computer: over Bluetooth to a Garmin Edge, or as a FIT or GPX file for a Wahoo, Hammerhead, Bryton or another.

Which files work

GPX, FIT, TCX, KML and KMZ, or a ZIP of them. That covers what route planners export, what bike computers record, and what most people pass around by email.

Get a route into Ridekit

There are four ways in, and they all end up in the same library.

From another app, with the share sheet. In the planner’s app, use its option to export or share the route as a file (GPX is the safe choice), and pick Ridekit in the share sheet. A small Add to Ridekit page shows what’s coming and lets you choose where it goes: the Library or one of your collections.

From Files. In Ridekit, tap + and then Import route files…, and pick one or several. Files you saved from Safari, Mail or a cloud drive are all there. You can also open a route file from the Files app and send it to Ridekit.

From a link. If you have a link straight to a route file, share the link to Ridekit and it downloads the file. (A link to a planner’s web page isn’t a file; export the file instead.)

By AirDrop. A GPX from your Mac or a friend’s iPhone opens in Ridekit like any other file. For a route from another Ridekit rider, with its stops and offline map, see share a route with your riding group.

While a big file is read you’ll see Importing… at the bottom; the library stays usable meanwhile.

Zips

A ZIP of several routes, like an organiser’s pack for a multi-day event, comes in as a new collection named after the zip, with its routes in file-name order. Other files in the zip are skipped.

Duplicates are spotted

Ridekit recognises a route by its track, not by its name. The same route as GPX or as FIT, downloaded again, or renamed, is still the same route. When you import one you already have, Ridekit tells you before adding it:

• Already in your library: Show it takes you to the one you have, or Import a copy adds it anyway.
• Deleted earlier: Restore it brings back the one in Recently Deleted, with its stops and offline map.
• Importing a batch where some are new and some aren’t? You can import just the new ones.

An edited route, a lighter copy or a route split into stages counts as a different route. If the organiser sends an updated version, both stay in the library, and Compare routes (under Tools on the route page) shows exactly what changed, where, and how much it climbs.

Put it on your bike computer

1. Open the route and, under Tools, tap Send to bike computer.
2. Check the map and the points that go with the course (Points on the Edge, or Points on your bike computer).
3. Garmin Edge: tap Send. On the Edge, the course is under Navigation → Courses.
4. Wahoo, Hammerhead, Bryton and others: tap Export for your bike computer…, choose FIT course or GPX with stops, and pick your bike computer’s app (ELEMNT, Hammerhead, Bryton Active…) or Save to Files.

Tell Ridekit what you ride in Settings → You ride with, and the page leads with the right one.

No internet is needed to send to an Edge. If the Edge seems busy, Garmin Connect or Connect IQ is probably holding it: send a route to your Garmin Edge with no internet has the fixes.

The planner’s own points

Many planners put waypoints in the file: a café, a control, a viewpoint, the red pins on their map. Ridekit shows them on the route and sends those within 100 m of the route as course points (on a Garmin Edge, under Up Ahead). Tap one on the map to see its full name and the name a Garmin Edge will show: only the first 15 bytes fit.

On the Send page, in the list of points, you can switch the file’s waypoints off if you’d rather not have them, and add your own points and stops instead.

Huge files

Some exports have a point every metre or two. Ridekit keeps the file as it is, and on the Send page you can choose a lighter detail level that sends in seconds and rides the same. See Edge slow with big GPX files.

Good to know

• Your original is kept. Whatever you do in Ridekit, the route’s Share menu can give you back the Original file, or a GPX with stops or a FIT course.
• Import is free, like sending and exporting.
• Ridekit isn’t affiliated with Garmin, Komoot, Ride with GPS or Strava. It works with the files they export.

More on files and routes on the support page.