Getting Started
Plan motorcycle routes built for the ride, not just the fastest path.
MotoCurve helps you choose better roads, shape the route exactly where you want it, compare alternatives, and move plans from web to mobile.
First Route
A simple flow
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Add start and destination
Search for places, paste coordinates, or right-click the map to place exact start and end points.
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Choose the ride style
Pick Fastest, Balanced, Curvy, Extra Curvy, or Off-road depending on whether you want practical roads, more enjoyable riding, or gravel.
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Tune, save, and share
Add stops, shape the route, compare alternatives, then save it, export it, or share it to your phone.
Demo
See a whole ride planned, start to finish.
Two and a half minutes: plan a ride at motocurve.com, ride it on your phone, then share it.
One feature at a time.
Short videos, one feature each: route styles, round trips, offline maps, group rides and more.
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Add start and destination
Search for places, paste coordinates, or right-click the map to place exact start and end points.
2
Choose the ride style
Pick Fastest, Balanced, Curvy, Extra Curvy, or Off-road depending on whether you want practical roads, more enjoyable riding, or gravel.
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Tune, save, and share
Add stops, shape the route, compare alternatives, then save it, export it, or share it to your phone.
Route Styles
Choose how the ride should feel.
Route style changes the personality of the route. You can keep one style for the whole ride or use different styles between waypoint segments.
Fastest
The quickest route right now, with live traffic shown in red and yellow.
Balanced
Mostly direct, but takes the nicer road when it costs little time.
Curvy
Twisty roads and no highways, at the cost of some time.
Extra Curvy
Hunts small winding backroads. Expect a much longer ride.
Off-road
Gravel and forest roads with as little pavement as possible, for an adventure bike, a dual-sport or a dirt bike.
Everyday Tools
Small controls make the route yours.
MotoCurve is most useful when you guide the route instead of accepting the first path. These tools help you add stops, pull the route onto better roads, and compare options.
New rider tips
Start with Balanced until you understand how each route style behaves in your area.
Use shaping points to influence roads. Use via points only for stops you actually care about.
Save an overlay before changing a route you already like, so you can compare the old and new versions.
For long rides, verify closures, weather, road surface, and fuel availability with official or local sources.
Via points
Use blue via points for real stops like fuel, food, or meeting places. They are numbered 1, 2, 3 in the order you ride them.
Shaping points
Use small gray shaping points to bend the route onto a specific road without treating it like a stop. They stay unnumbered so the stop numbers read clearly.
Direction arrows
White arrows inside the route line show which way the ride runs, so a loop or a doubled-back leg is never ambiguous.
Round trips
Generate a loop from your start point by choosing distance (10 to 300 mi), direction on a compass dial, loop shape, and route style.
Places
Fourteen categories along the ride: gas, restaurants, coffee, convenience, pubs, wineries, repair, medical, hotels, camping, sights, mountain passes, twisty roads, and motorcycle shops. Each shows how far along the route it sits, and one click turns it into a stop.
Map styles
Six basemaps, including Dark for night planning and Satellite imagery for reading terrain.
Overlays
Keep up to five saved routes on the map at once so you can compare route styles side by side before choosing one.
Import, export, and share
Bring in a GPX, KML, ITN, or JSON file, download GPX, a Garmin trip GPX, KML or TomTom ITN, or create a share link with a QR code.
Unpaved road markers
Gravel, dirt, and other unpaved sections are drawn as a dashed amber line on the route so you can spot them before you ride.
Live traffic
The Fastest style colors the route with current traffic, so you can see the jams before you commit to it.
Dirt roads
Find dirt roads and off-road trails near any spot, rated for street, dual-sport, ADV, or dirt bikes, or switch on the dirt map to see them all. One click routes along a road from end to end.
Hiking trails
Trails near the map centre with their length, climb, and difficulty, plus recent condition reports. Ride there sets the trailhead as your destination.
Multi-day trips
Set the most hours you want to ride in a day and MotoCurve suggests the overnight stops, finds hotels and campsites near each one, and gives every day its own Garmin GPX.
More Control
Helpful once you know the basics.
These features are not required for your first route, but they make MotoCurve more powerful as your plans get longer or more specific.
Swap
Reverse Start and End when you want to plan the ride back. Intermediate waypoints reverse with the route.
Route styles between waypoints
Use different styles on different segments, such as Fastest out of town and Extra Curvy through the mountains.
Avoidance controls
Bias the route away from motorways, main roads, toll roads, ferries, or unpaved roads, at six strengths from Off to Max.
Turn info and elevation
Hover or click the route line to read the turn at that point. The summary carries distance, riding time, curvature, and the full elevation chart.
Your pace
Nudge the estimated speed up to match how you actually ride, and the riding time follows.
Closure check
Ask MotoCurve to look for reported road closures along the planned route before you set off.
Saved routes and collections
Create an account to save planned rides, search them, and group them into collections such as Weekend loops or Alps 2026.
Community routes
Publish a route for other riders, or browse what they have shared by state, by distance from you, or by what is most liked. Fork any route into your own list, or open it straight in the planner.
Biker events
Rallies, meetups, and bike nights on the map with their dates, so you can plan the ride out to one.
Rides & Walks
Rides and walks you have recorded land in your account with their track, distance, and time. Export one as GPX or hand someone a link to it. Recording happens in the MotoCurve mobile app, which is still in testing.
Trip plan
Paste a booking email or drop in a screenshot or PDF, and the hotel, flight, or rental lands under its day of the trip.
Garage
Keep each bike's service history, get reminders by miles or months, log a service from a receipt photo, and print the record.
Follow a group ride
Enter the six-letter code from a group ride to see every rider on the map, live.
Mobile handoff
Plan on the larger web map, then open the share link on your phone for the ride.
On the Ride
The speed limit, and a word before the road changes.
While the MotoCurve mobile app is navigating, it shows the speed limit and warns you about what is coming on your route.
Speed limit
The posted limit of the road you are on sits next to your speed, drawn like the roadside sign and in the units you ride in, mph or km/h. The number turns red while you are over it. Many back roads have no limit on the map, and there the sign is simply left out.
Road-ahead warnings
A short spoken line and a small see-through notice beside the map, shown for about 12 seconds and then gone, so the road ahead stays visible. Each warning is said once, not repeated after a reroute.
Speed and red-light cameras
Announced about 0.1 mi before the camera and drawn on the map where they stand - orange for speed, red for red-light. Not every camera is mapped, so treat a quiet road as unknown, not as clear.
Surface and hazards
Pavement ending in gravel or dirt, metal-grate bridges, rail crossings, and a sharp bend after a fast stretch - but not on roads that are all corners.
Fuel and weather
The last station before a stretch of 50 miles with none, and rain, strong gusts, or near-freezing air where the route will take you.
Traffic, tolls, and borders
Accidents, closures, and roadworks on the Fastest style, plus tolls, ferries, and state lines on any style.
You choose what you hear
Every group of warnings has its own switch in the app settings. Switching cameras off removes their icons from the map as well.
Support
Questions, fixes, or feature ideas?
Email [email protected] for route feedback, account help, mobile app feedback, or improvement requests.
Deployment
Deployed at Nov 12, 2026, 9:39 PM EST