Route library · after you buy

Get your route onto your device

Every route you buy comes as two files that work on almost anything with a screen: a Garmin, a Wahoo, a Hammerhead, a watch, or the phone already in your pocket. Here is where to find them and how to load them, one device at a time. It takes about two minutes.

Find your device
Your downloads

First, get the file

Nothing below works until the file is on the phone or computer you are going to load it from. There is no rush and no deadline: the files stay in your account for good.

Three places your files are waiting

  1. In your emailThe order confirmation carries both files as links. This is the one that matters if you bought without making an account. It is your only copy, so keep it.
  2. On the route’s own pageOnce the route is yours, the buttons above the map stop being padlocks and become the two files. You need to be signed in to the account you bought with.
  3. In your account, foreverUnder Downloads. There is no download limit and no expiry date. Change your phone, change your computer, come back in three years: they are still there.

Downloading on a computer is easier if you have one. On a phone the file is not lost, it is just quiet: look in Files → Downloads on an iPhone, or the Downloads folder on Android.

You get both files. Which one to use

GPX
Wahoo, Garmin, Hammerhead, Bryton, Komoot, Strava
TCX course
Garmin Edge: the coffee stops arrive as alerts on the road

Both files carry the full-detail track. The map drawn on the route page is deliberately simplified. What your head unit follows is far more precise than what you saw on screen.

If in doubt, take both and try the GPX first. They are the same ride, drawn from the same recording.

Now find your device

Pick the one you ride with. Each panel has the easy way first (usually straight from your phone, no cable) and then how to find the route once it is on there, which is the part most instructions leave out.

These apps redesign their menus every year or so. If yours does not look like this, the shape of the job is always the same: the file goes into the phone or web app first, and the app sends it to the device. Stuck? Message the shop and Ramo will walk you through it. WhatsApp the shop

Garmin Edge

and the Edge Explore

Take the TCX course

Through Garmin Connect (no cable) easiest

  1. Get the file onto your phone or computer first. Whichever you downloaded it on is the one to do this from.
  2. Import it into Garmin Connect’s course list. In the phone app that list is under More → Training & Planning → Courses; on a computer it is Training → Courses at connect.garmin.com. Use the +, then Import, and choose the file.
  3. On an iPhone there is a shortcut: find the file in Files, tap Share, and pick Garmin Connect out of the list. It lands in the same place.
  4. Send the saved course to your Edge. Open it in Connect and use Send to Device. If your Edge is not offered, it has not talked to the app recently. Wake it up beside your phone and try again.
  5. Leave the Edge switched on and near the phone until it syncs. It is a few seconds, but it does not happen while the unit is in a drawer.

With a USB cable

  1. Plug the Edge into a computer with its charging cable. It appears as a drive named GARMIN.
  2. Copy the file into the Garmin/NewFiles folder on that drive. Do not rename it and do not unzip anything. It goes in exactly as it downloaded.
  3. Eject the drive properly, then unplug it. The Edge reads that folder the next time you switch it on, which takes a few seconds longer than a normal start.

On the road On the unit: Navigation → Courses → pick the route → Ride. Start pedalling and it will take you to the beginning of the line first.

Take the TCX for an Edge. It is the same ride as the GPX, but the coffee stops and the viewpoints are attached to a position on the road, so they arrive as an alert a couple of hundred metres out instead of as a pin you have to notice on the map.

Garmin watches

Forerunner · Fenix · Epix · Instinct · Venu · Vivoactive

Take the GPX

Through Garmin Connect

  1. Import the GPX into Garmin Connect’s course list, exactly as you would for an Edge: More → Training & Planning → Courses in the phone app, then + and Import.
  2. Open the saved course and use Send to Device, then choose the watch rather than a head unit.
  3. Keep the watch on your wrist and the phone nearby until it syncs.

On the road On the watch: start a Bike activity, hold the menu button, and look for Navigation → Courses. The wording moves between models; the word to hunt for is Navigation.

Not every Garmin watch can follow a course. The smaller and older models have no Navigation menu at all. If yours does not, nothing is broken: ride it from your phone and let the watch do what it is good at, which is recording you.

Wahoo ELEMNT

and the BOLT and ROAM

Take the GPX

Through the ELEMNT app (no cable) easiest

  1. Download the GPX on your phone. On an iPhone it lands in Files → Downloads; on Android, in your Downloads.
  2. Hand the file to the ELEMNT app. Find it, tap Share, and choose ELEMNT from the list of apps. It arrives under Routes.
  3. Wake the head unit next to your phone. It pulls the route across by itself. There is nothing to press on the unit.

With a USB cable

  1. Plug the head unit into a computer. It appears as a drive.
  2. Copy the GPX into the folder called plans.
  3. Eject the drive and unplug it. The route is waiting under Routes on the unit.

On the road On the unit: open Routes, choose this one, and start it. The ELEMNT draws the line and counts down to each turn.

Hammerhead Karoo

Take the GPX

Through the Hammerhead dashboard

  1. Sign in to your Hammerhead dashboard in a browser, with the same account the Karoo uses.
  2. Upload the GPX into your route list: the Routes section, where you can drop the file straight onto the page.
  3. Put the Karoo on wifi and leave it a moment. It syncs the route down on its own.

On the road On the unit: Routes → pick this one → ride it.

Bryton

the Rider computers

Take the GPX

Through the Bryton Active app

  1. Download the GPX on your phone and open the Bryton Active app, signed in to the account your unit is paired with.
  2. Import the file into the app’s course list (the Course section), picking the GPX out of your phone’s files.
  3. Sync the unit from the app while it is switched on beside you.

On the road On the unit: open Course and choose this route before you start the ride.

COROS

PACE · APEX · VERTIX · DURA

Take the GPX

Through the COROS app

  1. Download the GPX on your phone.
  2. Import it into the app’s route library. In the COROS app it sits under your profile, as Navigation or Route Library depending on the version. You can also find the file, tap Share, and pick COROS.
  3. Keep the watch near the phone so it syncs.

On the road On the watch: open Navigation, choose the route, then start your ride from there rather than starting the ride first.

Suunto

Take the GPX

Through the Suunto app

  1. Download the GPX on your phone.
  2. Import it into the app’s routes: the map tab, where your saved routes are kept.
  3. Connect the watch to the app. Routes travel across with the next sync.

On the road On the watch: choose your sport, then Navigation and the route, before you press start.

Polar

Take the GPX

Through Polar Flow

  1. Sign in to Polar Flow in a browser on a computer. This one is easier there than on the phone.
  2. Import the route into your favourites, which is where Flow keeps routes.
  3. Sync the watch with Flow, from the phone app or over the cable.

On the road On the watch: pick your sport profile, then look for route guidance in that profile’s settings before you start.

Apple Watch

Take the GPX

With a navigation app

  1. Install a cycling navigation app that reads a route file (WorkOutDoors, Komoot and Outdooractive all do). Its watch app installs alongside the iPhone one.
  2. Open the GPX in Files on the iPhone, tap Share, and send it to that app.
  3. Start the ride from the app on the watch, not from Apple’s own Workout app.

On the road Whatever you install draws the line on the watch face itself. Apple’s own Workout app will not.

Being straight with you: an Apple Watch cannot open a route file on its own, and no setting turns that on. If you would rather not buy an app for it, ride from your phone (the next panel) and let the watch record you as usual.

Just your phone

no head unit needed

Take the GPX

Through Ride with GPS easiest

  1. Make a free Ride with GPS account and upload the GPX to it from a browser. It becomes one of your routes.
  2. Open the Ride with GPS app on the phone, signed in to the same account. The route is under your own routes.
  3. Save it for offline use before you leave the hotel wifi. Cyprus roaming is not the place to find out the map needs downloading.
  4. Start the navigation, put the phone somewhere you can hear it, and ride.

Or Komoot, or any map app you already use

  1. Komoot reads a GPX as well: import it there and it turns up in the app with everything else you have planned.
  2. So do the offline map apps such as OsmAnd and Organic Maps, if you would rather not sign up for anything.
  3. Whichever you use, download the map of eastern Cyprus for offline use first.

On the road A phone on the bars is a real option here. The coast is flat, the roads are short, and you are never far from a village.

Bring a battery pack if you are out for the Historical route. Navigation with the screen on is the fastest way to flatten a phone.

When something does not look right

Five things go wrong, and four of them are not about cycling at all. Each one has its own heading, so you can search this page for what you are seeing.

The link opened a page full of text instead of downloading

Your browser decided to show you the inside of the file. Nothing is broken. Go back, then long-press the link on a phone, or right-click it on a computer, and choose Download linked file or Save link as.

It saved as .xml or .txt

Same thing, one step later. Rename the file so it ends in .gpx or .tcx and it will import perfectly. Nothing inside it has changed.

I cannot find the file on my phone

It is there. On an iPhone open the Files app and look in Downloads; on Android look in your Downloads folder or in your browser’s own download list. If you would rather not hunt for it, download it again on a computer instead. Every device in this guide can be loaded from one.

Strava will not let me import it

Strava does not take a route file. That feature does not exist, so nothing is wrong with you or the file. Use the app that came with your head unit, or put it into Ride with GPS, which does.

I bought without an account and lost the email

Check the spam folder first, then message us with the email address you used at checkout and we will send the files straight back to you. Nothing is lost.

Ask us

Riding indoors? That is a different file

A route is a line on a map: your head unit follows it along a real road and tells you where to turn. A smart trainer does not need a map. It needs a workout, which is a list of efforts in watts or heart rate, and that is what makes the resistance change under you. The two are not interchangeable, and a route file will not do anything useful on a turbo.

If Ramo coaches you, your sessions are already in the members’ area as files your trainer app can read, with their own instructions beside them. Your app then sends the finished ride back to wherever you keep your training, so you do not upload anything by hand.

Indoor session files
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