Bikepacking Wizard

Race intelligence for bikepacking

Know if the store will be open when you get there.

Bikepacking Wizard plans your race from what real finishers did on your exact course. For every stop, it tells you whether the store will be open when you arrive, what to carry if it won't be, and the pace that finishes on your goal.

In development · Coming to iPhone · Not on sale yet

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The app's map of the Colorado Trail Race, eastbound from Durango to Denver. The course is drawn in orange, each resupply stop shows its predicted arrival time, and the Perfect Pacer panel sits at the bottom with a Start race button.
Colorado Trail Race, eastbound: a predicted arrival time at every stop.

Will it be open when you get there?

Every stop on the course gets a plain answer for the hour you will actually arrive: open, a close call, or closed. The answer follows your start date and your goal, so it is your answer and not the race's.

  • Open
  • Close call
  • Closed
  • Hours unknown

What to carry to the next open stop

From each stop, the app works out the food to carry to the next one that will be open, including any miles off route to reach it. If you would reach a store before it opens, the app shows both choices: when to be moving to arrive as it opens, or what to carry past it.

The app's card for Buena Vista. Predicted arrival Day 5, Thursday 5:59 AM, likely between Wednesday 10:45 PM and Thursday 12:22 PM. The grocery store is open, the restaurant is a close call, and lodging hours are unknown. Carry about 2,570 calories from here to Leadville, 50 miles.
Buena Vista: open, a close call, and the carry to Leadville.

A pace from real finishers on your course.

Pick your goal and the app builds your race from the finishers who rode this course near that time: when you reach each stop, where a bedtime of your choosing puts you each night, and when you finish. It shows how many finishers your prediction comes from.

On the map, every stop carries its predicted arrival time, and a pacer dot rides the course to finish exactly on your goal.

The app's home screen for the Colorado Trail Race, eastbound. Predicted finish Day 8, built from about 34 of 106 finishers near a 7-day goal. Finishers near the goal moved about 16.4 hours a day. Resupply at your pace across 12 stops: 3 open, 5 close calls, 0 closed, 4 unknown. Below, the key carries before the start.
A 7-day goal on the Colorado Trail Race.

Built for the race

No signal needed

Your plan, arrival times, store answers and race mode work for days without a phone signal. Download the map before you leave and it works offline too.

Any start date

Grand depart, individual time trial or a tour on your own dates. Every answer follows the day you start.

Race mode

During the race, every arrival time and every store's answer updates from your real pace. Leave the course and the app warns you.

Your calls

The app shows facts: arrival times, store hours and what to carry. If you fall well off your goal, it offers a new one and never changes it for you.

Routes

  • Colorado Trail RaceDurango to Denver, and Denver to Durango
  • Tour DivideBanff to Antelope Wells
  • Arizona Trail Race 800Mexico border to Utah
  • Arizona Trail Race 300Mexico border to Picketpost

More routes are coming.

About

Nate Griffee has finished the Colorado Trail Race twice and scratched once. He started building Bikepacking Wizard to answer his own race questions.

Bikepacking Wizard LLC is an Arkansas company based in Bella Vista.

Coming to iPhone

Bikepacking Wizard is built and working in development on the routes above. It is not on sale yet.

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