In case you don’t know, Ride with GPS is a website and smartphone app. Onondaga Cycling Club uses Ride with GPS to store our ride routes in a format that is compatible with GPS devices and phone apps. You can download these routes to a Garmin or similar device or navigate a route using a smartphone.

OCC now has a club account at Ride With GPS. All paid members of OCC can join the club account for free. Those that join will have access to advanced features while riding all OCC routes (almost 400). There are benefits no matter how you navigate.

If you use your phone to navigate, you can use the Ride With GPS app and get turn-by-turn navigation with voice prompts. You can also download the maps to the app at home and save mobile data while riding.

If you use a Garmin or other GPS bike computer, you can get advanced turn notifications. A popup appears on your screen before you get to the turn. You can even set how soon you get the popup.

If you use paper to navigate, you can print customized maps and cues.

For a complete list of benefits please visit Ride with GPS These benefits are only for the routes that are posted by OCC on Ride With GPS.

To use the Ride with GPS club account you must:

Be a current OCC member.
Have a Ride with GPS account. The Ride with GPS account can be a free account.
Join the OCC/Ride with GPS club for free.
To get a link to join, you must be logged in to this website. You can do so here.
Instructions to join Ride with GPS are in the members-only area. You must log in to view this page.

To navigate an OCC route on your phone you need to install the Ride with GPS app. Once you have logged into the app with the email address you used when joining the club account, you can find an OCC ride by tapping on the menu icon at the upper left, selecting Organizations or Clubs and selecting Onondaga Cycling Club. You can then tap on Organization Routes or Events. There you can scroll through events, routes or use the search icon to find the route you want to navigate. You can then choose Download or Navigate. If you want to navigate a route off-line (not using mobile data while riding), you can select Download. You then go to your Routes and Offline to navigate it.

You also get the route on your GPS-enabled bike computer.

I hope you find this membership benefit useful.