Stop the WhatsApp roll call.
Plan a Saturday group ride. Share one link. Everyone RSVPs, everyone sees the gradient profile, everyone gets turn-by-turn on their head unit when they roll out. The 14-message group chat about who is coming and when can finally die.
The Friday-night WhatsApp archaeology.
- Three group chats, two of them muted, one of them on Signal.
- A club event nobody actually clicked "going" on.
- A screenshot of a route, sent without a GPX file.
- An email chain from someone who only uses email.
- Two people who turn up at the wrong cafe.
The Saturday ride is the social glue of cycling. Coordinating it should not take more effort than doing it.
Four steps. Done in five minutes.
Sketch the route.
Click the start, click the cafe, click home. The router snaps to road or trail and shows the gradient profile while you draw. Move a point, the route reflows.
Set pace expectations.
Z2, sweet spot, hammer. Name the groups, put a target speed on each, and riders pick theirs when they RSVP. Nobody turns up to the wrong ride.
Invite by link.
One link. Anyone who opens it sees the route, the profile, the pace groups, the head count and the forecast for the start - no account, no app. RSVP takes a free account, and that is the whole friction. No "what was that WhatsApp message?" archaeology.
Everyone gets navigation.
On ride day, the route syncs to every connected head unit - Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead - plus a turn-by-turn web view for phone users. No more screenshots of GPX files.
No more "what pace are we doing?"
Name the groups on the invite and put a target speed on each. Riders choose theirs at RSVP, and the organizer sees the split - who is in which group, and the power-to-weight the platform already knows about them - before anyone clips in.
Coffee-paced. Conversation. Wave at dogs.
Steady tempo. Through-and-off on the flats.
No-prisoners. Bring snacks. Drop policy: enforced.
Everything a group ride actually needs.
Meet-up points
One meet point with a note and a parking note - "car park behind the church, not the one on the main road". On the day, the organizer drops labeled regroup points on the live map.
Drop policy, written down
Pick from "no drop", "regroup at the top", "every man for himself". Set it once on the invite - no one is wondering at km 30.
Weather, baked in
Forecast at start time pulled from the nearest grid point. Headwind direction shown on the route preview. Rain probability flagged.
Coffee stop selector
Half-joke, half-feature. The planner finds the cafes, bakeries and bike shops that actually sit on your line - not everything within a mile of it. Pin one as a regroup point and the ride is now a coffee ride with a bike attached.
Thread per ride
A comments thread tied to the ride invite. Last-minute weather change, swap of meet point, "running 5 late" - all in one place, not three WhatsApp groups.
The practical bits.
Who can join the ride? +
Whoever has the link. The share page is public and needs no account to read: route, elevation, pace groups, head count, forecast. Set a capacity and the planner runs a waitlist past it. RSVP itself needs a free account, so the organizer knows who is actually coming.
Do I need a Garmin or Wahoo? +
No. The phone view works as turn-by-turn nav. We integrate cleanly with Garmin Connect IQ, Wahoo, Hammerhead, and Bryton via standard channels. For other devices: export GPX from the invite link.
Is the group ride planner free? +
Yes - the whole thing. Planning, pace groups, RSVPs, the share link, the ride thread and the live map are on the free tier, with no cap on how many rides you organize. There is no Pro version of the group ride planner.
What happens if I am late? +
Post it in the ride thread. Every ride has one, everybody who RSVPd is in it, and "running 5 late" lands in the one place people are already looking - not three WhatsApp groups. The organizer can move a regroup point on the live map while you are still parking.
Can my club use this for weekly rides? +
Yes. Attach a ride to your club and the members see it. Saved routes make the Saturday loop a two-click ride to publish each week - a repeating ride that posts itself is not built yet, so for now somebody still presses the button.
Does this work for casual riding clubs? +
Yes. The "plan a ride" part is what most clubs actually need - the feed is a separate question. NeverChill has a feed too, and your club members can follow each other there without ads.
One link. Everyone on the road.
Group rides should be effortless to organize. Create a free account and the whole planner is yours - there is no Pro version of it.