About Bikepackia
Pack a bike. We'll handle the planning.
Bikepackia is a route planner for multi-day bikepacking trips. You describe where you want to go in plain language, and Mec — your route partner — drafts a GPS-accurate plan: day stages, sleep stops, resupply, the logistics that usually eat a weekend before you've turned a pedal.
We built it because the riding is the easy part. The planning is what stops good trips from happening. So we made the planning fast, honest, and yours to keep.
- Free to try
- No card
01 · Why
Why we built it
Planning a self-guided multi-day ride means living in a dozen tabs. A routing map in one, a spreadsheet for daily plans, a notes app for water and food, and three booking sites for a bed at the end of each day, and a lot of fun finding them when you acually need them. None of them talk to each other, and a single change — a longer first day, a detour around a closed pass — means redoing all of it.
That friction is why most people ride the same loops over and over. The long way round, the route that crosses a real range or threads a coastline, stays on the someday list because the planning is a project in itself.
We wanted the planning to take minutes, not evenings — without handing you a generic, off-the-shelf route you'd never actually want to ride.
02 · How
How it works
You tell Mec what you're after — a four-day gravel trip out of Bordeaux, an off-road traverse of the Vercors, somewhere quiet with a bed each night. Mec reads the brief, asks the questions a planning-savvy friend would, and drafts a plan you can ride: split into days, with sleep stops, resupply points, and the logistics pinned to the map.
Here's the part we're careful about. The AI never draws the route. Mec interprets and clarifies what you want — distance, surface, pace, what to avoid — but the actual geometry comes from dedicated routing providers like BRouter, with deterministic fallbacks when a provider can't be reached. That separation is deliberate: a language model is good at understanding a trip and bad at inventing roads that exist. We let each part do what it's good at.
The result lands in an interactive planner. Drag a stage, swap a sleep stop, re-route around a road you don't like — then export a GPX and put it on your head unit.
Pack a bike. Go somewhere real. Made by bikepackers, for bikepackers.
03 · Beliefs
What we believe
Real trips over hype. We'd rather ship a planner that gets you out the door than a demo that looks good in a pitch. The taglines we actually use say it plainly: pack a bike, go somewhere real — made by bikepackers, for bikepackers.
- Your routes and your data are yours. Plans you make are yours to keep, edit, and export.
- Honest about limits. A drafted route is a starting point, not gospel — always check it against current conditions, closures, and the season before you commit.
- Ride safely. Carry the right gear, tell someone your plan, and trust your own judgement on the ground over anything on a screen.
- No slop. Mec is a route partner, not a content generator — it's there to plan a trip you'd genuinely want to ride.
04 · Next
Where we're headed
Bikepackia is experimental and pre-commercial today. It's based in Europe, it's growing, and it's free to try — no card, no account required to start drafting. We're building it in the open, one real route at a time, and the riders trying it are shaping where it goes next.
If you've got a trip in mind, that's the best way to help. Describe it, ride it, and tell us where the plan held up and where it didn't.
