Profiles and NoRoad
The profile decides how your route gets built. You pick it per route, while planning.
The four profiles
- Fast - the first and the last day of a trip: quickly away from home and back again, freeway included. Where there are several options, the one with fewer traffic lights and less city, without an extra detour.
- Tourer - the standard for riding rather than arriving: the back road over the highway, the curve over the straight, the detour that pays for itself.
- Adventure Light - asphalt as the base, gravel welcome, but measured out with restraint. For 80/20 or 70/30 tires.
- Adventure - prefers whatever isn’t paved: gravel, pistes, everything the map knows about but never put asphalt on. For 50/50 tires. The arrival time is a rough guide here, not an appointment.
You switch per route, not per waypoint: a tour has one character. On the road you set the next destination and pick another profile for it, and the ride keeps going.
How clearly that character comes through also depends on how close together your waypoints sit. The waypoints chapter spells it out. What the profiles are like on the road is covered in Navigation modes.
NoRoad
Desert, steppe, dune field - where there is no road, NoRoad takes over: waypoints, bearing, straight lines. On the map there is the line to the next point, plus the distance, instead of a turn instruction. The terrain decides the way through. And you.
You turn it on where the profiles otherwise sit: the “- NoRoad” entry. It’s also good for quietly collecting places without a route getting in the way.
Off-road mostly means off-asphalt. What most people call that - gravel tracks, pistes, unpaved but mapped - is what the Adventure profile rides here, on a perfectly ordinary route. NoRoad takes the word literally: no road at all, so no route either. How a tour changes from one kind to the next mid-tour is in Navigation modes.
Because there is nothing here for a waypoint to be pulled across to, the growing radius from the waypoints chapter doesn’t apply: a point counts as reached within a fixed radius, 100 meters out of the box. You can change it under burger menu → Settings → Navigation.