A motorcycle passport app that stamps every town you ride through

Riders have kept passports for years: stamp books at rallies, iron butt certificates, a map on the garage wall with pins in it. They all have the same problem. You have to remember to do it, and half the time the stamp is at a counter that's closed.

Rippin' does it from the ride itself. Ride through a town with a ride recording and that town goes in your passport. No counter, no check-in button, no photo of a sign. Badges work the same way. They unlock for places you've actually ridden, so a full badge case means something.

Over a season the passport turns into a record of where you've really been. It's the list you pull up when someone at a bike night asks how far you've ridden this year, and it's honest, because every stamp came from a ride.

Take a day ride out of San Diego into the backcountry. You usually go out to Julian for pie and straight back. This time you take the long way, through a couple of towns you've only ever seen on signs, and come home a different road.

Same day out, same pie. But the long way stamps several new towns in your passport and pays points for each one. That's the point of a passport: it gives you a reason to take the turn you always skip. The San Diego ride guide is a good place to find the roads that connect them.

The passport and badges are free and unlimited. Every rider gets stamps for every town and every badge they earn. Rippin' Plus ($4.99/mo) pays 1.5x points on every ride and can record rides for you, which helps on long days when you'd otherwise forget to tap Record. It doesn't unlock a different passport.

Your badges sit in your Garage next to your bikes, your lifetime miles and your level. The points they pay go into the same balance as your ride points, so a good stamp run helps toward gear-drop entries and turf locks. Riding more to fill the passport also moves your rider level.