Import GPX into a motorcycle app without losing your riding history

Plenty of riders have years of rides sitting in an old app or on a handlebar GPS. Switching apps usually means starting from zero, and nobody wants to throw away the record of the trip they rode across three states.

The other side matters just as much. If an app won't let your rides out, your history belongs to the app, not to you. GPX import and export fixes both: you bring the past in, and you can always take your rides somewhere else.

GPX stands for GPS Exchange Format. It's an open, plain-text file that stores a list of points with latitude and longitude, and usually elevation and a timestamp for each one. Because it's open, almost every GPS unit, ride tracker and mapping tool can read and write it.

You've been logging rides on a handlebar GPS since 2021, including a trip up the coast to the Pacific Northwest you still talk about. You start using Rippin' for the turf and the poker runs but don't want that history stuck on a device in a drawer.

So you export the trips you care about as GPX, import them into Rippin', and the trip sits alongside everything you've recorded since. Later a friend on a different app asks for the line you took through the mountains. You export it as GPX and send it over. Different apps, same file.

GPX import and export are free for every rider. Rippin' Plus ($4.99/mo) pays 1.5x points on every ride, adds auto-recording and makes AI ride plans unlimited. It doesn't change what you can import or export.

Imported rides fill out your riding history, and your bikes and service log live in the Garage. For new rides, the ride tracker records them for you, and for planning something new, the loop builder and AI ride planner do the work inside the app.

To be fair about it: if pure navigation and offline maps are what you need most, REVER and Calimoto are better at that. Rippin' is built around the ride as a game. Our comparison of motorcycle apps lays out the differences.