Motorcycle app privacy that keeps your home location off the map

Post enough rides on any ride-tracking app and the lines all start from the same street. Anyone looking can work out roughly where you live. For a rider that means a garage with one or more bikes in it, and sometimes a lot of expensive gear.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't share rides. Sharing is half the fun. It means the app should keep the start and end of your rides near home to itself, without you thinking about it every time.

Recording a ride is not the same as sharing where you are right now. In Rippin', your live location is only shared when you start a group ride or broadcast. Group rides put everyone in the group on one live map while you ride, which is the point of a group ride. The rest of the time, nobody is watching your dot move.

You roll out of your driveway, tap Record Ride, and ride a loop through the hills with a stop for coffee. You come home the same way and post the ride to the feed.

Your squad sees the loop, the coffee stop and the turf you claimed. What they don't see is the stretch near your house. The line on their screen starts and ends a distance away from your street. You didn't have to start the recording a few blocks away or edit anything afterward.

The home safe zone is free for every rider. Privacy shouldn't depend on a subscription. Rippin' Plus ($4.99/mo) pays 1.5x points on every ride and adds auto-recording and unlimited AI ride plans. It doesn't change who can see your home.

Your rides show in the feed for riders who follow you and riders in your area, and the safe zone applies to what other riders see. The live web map shows riders out right now, and you only show up there when you've chosen to share live location. For group plans, squads keep the chat and plans inside your crew.