Bikepackia guide
How Bikepackia works.
Bikepackia is a route planner for multi-day bikepacking trips. This guide is the plain-language reference for what it does and how it behaves — for riders planning a trip or riding it with the app, and for developers connecting an AI agent.
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About Bikepackia
What Bikepackia does and how planning, stages, Mec, export, accounts and credits work.
What is Bikepackia?
Bikepackia is a route planner for multi-day bikepacking trips: routes on OpenStreetMap, day stages, stops, GPX export and Mec, an AI route partner.
Planning a route
How to plan a bikepacking route in Bikepackia: by hand on the map or with Mec, the AI route partner, plus bike setups, map layers and importing a GPX.
Day stages, stops and places to sleep
How Bikepackia splits a bikepacking route into day stages, what each stage shows, and how to add stops and a place to sleep to each day of the trip.
Mec, the AI route partner
What Mec, Bikepackia's AI route partner, can and can't do: drafting bikepacking routes, re-planning days, finding stops and remembering your preferences.
Exporting GPX
Exporting a Bikepackia route as GPX: the whole trip, one file per day or all days in one file, with elevation, waypoints for your stops and turn cues.
Accounts, saving and sharing
What works in Bikepackia without an account, what a free account adds (Mec, saved routes, share links, preferences), and how sharing a trip works.
Credits and pricing
What's free in Bikepackia, what spends credit (only Mec, the AI route partner), the €2 welcome credit, and the Starter and Pro credit packs you can buy.
The web planner
Each part of the Bikepackia web planner with a screenshot: the top bar, the map, and the Route Assistant, Trip points, Stages and Trip preferences tabs.
The top bar
The Bikepackia web planner's top bar: route name, save status, undo and redo, the Route and GPX menus, Share, Save route and your account menu.
The Route Assistant tab
The Bikepackia web planner's Route Assistant tab: describe a trip to Mec, the AI route partner, watch it build the route, and see which mode it's in.
The Trip points tab
The Bikepackia web planner's Trip points tab: set a start, destination and waypoints, reorder or reverse them, and pick the bike profile the route uses.
The Stages tab
The Bikepackia web planner's Stages tab: split a route into days by day count or distance, then set stops, a place to sleep and a GPX file for each day.
The Trip preferences tab
The Bikepackia web planner's Trip preferences tab: travellers, sleep and lunch style, pace, budget, start time, dates, scenery and notes Mec plans from.
The map and the stats bar
The Bikepackia web planner's map: base layers, what to show on it, climb and cycle-network overlays, and the stats bar with distance, climbing and elevation.
Your dashboard
Your Bikepackia dashboard tab by tab, with screenshots: the routes you've saved, the preferences every trip starts from, and your credit balance and packs.
The Routes tab
The Routes tab on your Bikepackia dashboard: every route you've saved, with filters, and buttons to reopen, favourite, rename or delete each one.
The Preferences tab
The Preferences tab on your Bikepackia dashboard: the defaults every new trip starts from, the standing notes Mec follows, and your email updates choice.
The Credits tab
The Credits tab on your Bikepackia dashboard: your balance in euros, the credit packs you can buy, and a line-by-line history of where your credit went.
The mobile app
Your companion on the road: the day you're on, tonight's bed, Mec in your pocket when the plan changes — and what the app leaves to the web planner.
The Bikepackia app
The Bikepackia app is the rider's companion for the trip you're on: the days ahead, tonight's bed, and Mec, the AI route partner, when plans change.
Signing in and first-run setup
Sign in to the Bikepackia app with Google or email, then answer five short questions so Mec, the AI route partner, knows what kind of riding you like.
The Plan tab
The Bikepackia app's home screen: describe your next ride to Mec, the AI route partner, use a starter prompt, or reopen your latest route or an earlier chat.
Planning with Mec in the app
Mec is how you change a route in the Bikepackia app: shorten the day you're on, route round what's closed, find a bed — in plain language, redrawn on the map.
The route screen
The Bikepackia app's route screen: the map, the trip's numbers, the way into the day-by-day, elevation and sleep screens, GPX export and 'Ask Mec to tweak'.
Elevation and climbs
The Bikepackia app's elevation view: drag along the profile to read height and gradient at any point, see the climbs on the route, and check its surfaces.
Day by day
The Bikepackia app's day-by-day view: each day's distance, climbing, a ride-time range for your legs, the climbs still ahead and where the day ends.
Where you sleep
Find where you sleep tonight in the Bikepackia app: places near the end of each day, how far off route they sit, and one tap to make one the day's end.
Your routes
Your routes in the Bikepackia app: every saved route with search, filters, favourites and swipe-to-delete — and what the app keeps when you lose signal.
Account, preferences and credit
The Bikepackia app's Account tab: your ride preferences, your credit balance and where it went, notification settings, and the parts that aren't built yet.
Developers and AI agents
The MCP server and API keys that let AI agents plan routes with Bikepackia.
Bikepackia for developers and AI agents
Let AI agents plan real, rideable bikepacking routes through Bikepackia's MCP server: what an agent can do, how it signs in with an API key, and what it costs.
Bikepackia API keys
How Bikepackia API keys work for AI agents and scripts: the bpk_ bearer token, one active key per account, credit billing and per-key limits.
Bikepackia MCP server
Bikepackia's four MCP tools (planRoute, refineRoute, exportGpx, getRouteSafety) let any MCP-compatible AI client plan and export bikepacking routes.