Your own road
Ride any GPX file on your smart trainer
Got a route in Komoot or Strava? Export it as a GPX file, drop it into longvoie, and ride it in 3D on your trainer with the real gradients.
How to do it
- In Komoot, Strava, Ride with GPS or Garmin Connect, open the route and export it as GPX.
- Open longvoie in Chrome or Edge on a laptop or desktop and drag the file onto the page, or use Make your own road.
- longvoie turns it into a road in 3D and tells you its length, its climbing and how many rides it will take you.
- Ride. Your trainer follows the gradients in the file, and if you stop halfway, the rest is waiting for next time.
About the file
The gradients come from the heights stored in the file. GPX files exported from Komoot, Strava, Ride with GPS and Garmin Connect include them. A file without heights will ride completely flat.
Tracks and routes both work, and any waypoints in the file show up as places along the road. Length doesn't matter: a 10 km loop is one ride, and a 900 km trip is just more of them.
Why people do this
Usually it's to preview something: a sportive, a climb on next summer's holiday, the course of a race. Riding it indoors first tells you where it gets steep and how long each part lasts. Other people ride their usual weekend loop on weekday evenings when it's dark out.
Our roads are GPX files too
Every road in longvoie can be downloaded as a GPX, for your bike computer or another app. See the roads.
Questions
Can I ride a GPX file on my smart trainer for free?
Yes. longvoie turns any GPX file into a road in 3D and sends its gradients to your FTMS trainer, for free.
Can I ride a Komoot or Strava route indoors?
Yes. Export it from Komoot or Strava as GPX and drop the file into longvoie.
Who can see the roads I add?
Only you. They are saved to your account so they are there on your other computers, and nobody else sees them.