Garmin has curated the greatest places to ride a motorcycle. Here's how to use it.
To access the Great Rides we're going to use the Tread app.
Open the Tread app and in the Tread app there's a map layer now for Garmin Great Rides.
On the map you'll see these blue lines with motorcycles at the end of each line.
That indicates a Garmin Great Ride
You can pan around the map and you can find different Great Rides on the map.
Another way to find Great Rides is is to go into
the Great Rides library in the Tread app.
At the top of the library there's three tabs, you'll see top rides which are all of the rides
with the highest ratings and the most likes near you.
There's a bookmarks tab which are all the Great Rides
that you've bookmarked or you've saved for later.
Your bookmarks will sync to your Garmin zumo XT2 device
so then you can see those on your XT2 and you can navigate those rides.
The third tab is is going to be Nearby.
The Nearby tab allows you to search and filter
based on different things that you care about for that ride.
So, we can click on this button here and we can sort them by the curviness,
the scenery or the most or least difficult.
So if we say we want to sort them by the curviest ones near us we can do that.
And now we'll see the ones with the highest curve scores.
So now if we find a ride in the Tread app that we want to ride with our zumo XT2
we can bookmark that ride.
So we can open one up. We can look at it on the map
We can look at the statistics elevation curve score
the length and the time that it'll take to do that ride.
If we bookmark that one
it'll sync that one then to our zumo XT2 device.
So we can see all of our bookmarks here in this folder.
Now on the XT2 we're going to go to our apps
and then we're going to click on Great Rides.
And this list of Great Rides will be all the same rides that you have in your Tread app.
So now that we can see our bookmarked rides on the zumo XT2
we can pick one of those and we can navigate to it.
Now it's going to navigate me here from Olathe, Kansas all the way to Virginia.
Alright, so another great benefit of having Great Rides
is that you can plan routes around those Great Rides
and you can link multiple Great Rides together to create one long epic ride.
So let's talk about how to do that.
Okay we're going to open the route planner in the Tread app
and then we're going to find a Great Ride that we want to take.
We're going to press on that Great Ride.
We're going to choose to add that Great Ride to the route.
We're going to begin our route with the Great Ride
and we're going to choose which end we want to start from.
Then we're going to find another Great Ride
that we want to take and we're going to touch on the end of that Great Ride.
We're going to add it to the route
and again we're going to choose which end we want to start with.
Now we have two of our rides connected here.
We could add yet another Great Ride
to our route
and choose which end we want to start with.
And now we have an even longer route that's made of three Great Rides.
If we want to save it, we save that Great Ride.
We can give it a name, press save.
And then we can navigate that ride on our zumo XT2 later on.
Alright, now that we've planned our route in the Tread app
let's find that route on the zumo XT2 and navigate that.
So on the zumo XT2 we're going to go to our explore library
and in our explore library under routes we're going to see that route called Great Ride.
We're going to press on that and then we'll be able to see
the same route that we planned in the Tread app.
If we want to take that route all we have to do is press go.
Alright, so after you've gone out and you've ridden some of the Great Rides
we're going to talk about how you can contribute to the Great Ride experience.
So, in the Tread app we're going to go to the Great Rides that we've taken
we're going to open those up and we can see all the information about it.
Then we're going to select to rate or add photos for this Great Ride.
Here we can say how the scenery was
so if it was a really nice ride we can give it a higher rating.
And then we can rate the difficulty of it.
So if it was mostly on pave roads and trails we're going to choose a middle difficulty.
And then we can choose to add photos or we can say we're done.
If we want to add photos that'll show other riders that are interested in that Great Ride
what it looks like at that ride with the scenery maybe,
maybe some landmarks around the way whatever you think is interesting.
and then we'll press we're done.
And now we've contributed back to the Great Ride community
to help other Riders discover the best places to ride.
Okay, I hope that helps you make the most out of Great Rides using your zumo XT2.
Thanks for stopping by for more information head on over to garmin.com