First week off-road
Seven days, from your first standing lap to your first trail: stand, clutch, stop, turn, rest, hills, trail.
Off-road loops, checked way by way.
TourenUp builds a loop on unpaved ways and checks each one against public data before it routes it. Then you ride it as a rally roadbook, offline.
Laser · bare ground
Aerial photo
ODO 0.40 km
CAP 338°
TULIP 01 / 16
Scroll to ride the first 8 tulips
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010.40338°
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021.25023°
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032.10292°
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043.05348°
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054.60315°!!
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065.35098°
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076.80002°
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What the app does
01Live
Trips on data you can check
Each unpaved way is checked against public sources before it is routed. The trip shows what was checked, the source and the date.
See the sources02Live
Ride it as a rally roadbook
Any trip becomes a roadbook: tulips at the real junctions, distance and heading. It works with no signal.
See a roadbook03Live
Get better on the bike
A seven-day first week off-road, and a real coach who watches your clip and replies.
Meet the coach01 · Checked data
Every way is checked before it is routed.
Before TourenUp routes an unpaved way, it reads what public sources say about it. If the data marks the way closed or private, the way is left out of the loop.
What the laser model shows under the trees
IGN, the French mapping agency, flew the country with a laser that reaches the ground through the canopy. Its model has a point every 0.5 m. From it, each way gets four readings. Tap a number on the map, or swipe the card.
Laser model: with the trees taken out, the road, side tracks and paths show. Numbers match the readings. Forêt de Tronçais, Allier. © IGN.
Reading 1 of 4
Width of the track
3.2 m
Measured on the ground, not taken from a map line.
Real IGN tile. The readings are examples; the build shows the values measured for each way.
Eight sources, four questions
Every unpaved way is put to all four before it can go into a loop. One "closed" or "private" from any source and it stays out.
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Question 1 · 1 source
Who owns the land?
- Land registryCadastreWhether the parcels a way crosses belong to a commune, the State or a private owner, and whether the way is drawn as a rural or communal way.
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Question 2 · 3 sources
What kind of way is it?
- National topographic databaseIGN BD TOPORoad, track or path, as IGN classifies it.
- Laser model of the groundIGN LiDAR HDWidth, track or footpath, steepness, room to turn.
- OpenStreetMapLocal mappersAccess tags and barriers.
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Question 3 · 3 sources
Is it closed or protected?
- Forestry officeONFWhere public forests are. Their roads count as not confirmed unless a published plan opens them.
- Protected-area registersParks and reservesWhere protected areas start and end.
- Published closure ordersCommunes, prefecturesOrders that close a way to motor vehicles.
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Question 4 · 1 source
What did riders find?
- Rider checks on siteTourenUp ridersWhat a rider found at the way, and the day they found it.
What the app does with it
Three things happen on every trip it builds.
- Closed or private ways stay outIt never routes a way the data marks closed or private.
- Every check is on the tripEach trip lists what was checked, which source said it and on which date.
- Disagreements are shownWhen the sources disagree, the trip says so.
It is a check, not a permit.
Signs on site decide.
Data has a date. A barrier can go up the day after. If what you find differs from the trip, the sign on site is what counts.
The fit
The loop is also matched to your ride
Besides the data, it takes three things from you.
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Your time1 day2 days3 days
Tell it how long you have. The loop fits the time.
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Your bikeClearanceTyresWeight
Matched against the surface of each way.
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Your groupHeaviest bike
Riding together? The heaviest bike sets the limit for everyone.
02 · Rally roadbook
LiveNobody draws the tulips.
Every generated trip becomes a rally roadbook on its own.
- 01Tulips at the real junctionsIncluding the side tracks you don't take.
- 02CAP and a correctable ODOHeading to hold, and an ODO you fix by −100 or +100.
- 03Hazards and steep gradesHazard marks, and chevrons where the grade is steep.
- 04No signal neededIn the app cockpit, portrait or landscape.
- 05Your own readerExport it as OpenRally GPX.
- TULIP
- A junction drawn from above: in at the dot, out at the arrow.
- CAP
- The compass heading to hold, in degrees.
- ODO
- Distance ridden so far, in kilometres.
03 · Coach
Work on the bike and the ground. Nobody grades you.
Coach mode is about what the bike does on the ground in front of you. There are no levels, scores or rankings.
Moments from your ride
The phone notices moments during the ride, such as a hard stop or a stalled climb. Afterwards you get one or two exercises for each. In a closed pilot now.
A real coach watches your clip
Film the bit you want a second opinion on, up to 5 minutes. A coach watches it and replies in the app with pointers. A person, not a chatbot.
Your coach
Scott Holland
AzAdvTours and TourenUp. He reviews the clips himself.
Groups and clubs
LiveThe heaviest bike sets the limit.
Everyone in the group adds their bike. The loop is matched to the heaviest one, so the whole group can ride the same ground. Share the trip and each rider gets the same roadbook on their own phone.
Own land or manage a way?
Report a closure or ask us to take a way out of trips. You don't need the app.
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