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, 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?
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 build a route in Bikepackia: by hand on the map or with Mec, bike setups, map layers, and importing an existing GPX.
Day stages, stops and places to sleep
How Bikepackia splits a route into day stages, what each stage shows, and how stops and a place to sleep are added to each day.
Mec, the AI route partner
What Mec, Bikepackia's AI route partner, can and can't do: drafting routes, re-planning days, finding stops, remembering preferences.
Exporting GPX
Exporting a Bikepackia route as GPX: whole trip, one file per day or all days in one file, with waypoints for your stops and turn cues.
Accounts, saving and sharing
What works 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 credits (only Mec's AI), the €2 welcome credit, and the credit packs.
The web planner
Every part of the planner screen, one page at a time, with a screenshot of each.
The top bar
The web planner's top bar: route name, save status, undo and redo, the Route and GPX menus, Share, Save route and your account.
The Route Assistant tab
The web planner's Route Assistant tab: describe a trip to Mec, watch it build the route, and see which mode it's working in.
The Trip points tab
The web planner's Trip points tab: set start, destination and waypoints, reorder or reverse them, and pick your bike profile.
The Stages tab
The web planner's Stages tab: split a route into days by day count or distance, then set stops, a place to sleep and per-day GPX.
The Trip preferences tab
The web planner's Trip preferences tab: travellers, sleep and lunch style, pace, budget, start time, dates, scenery and notes.
The map and the stats bar
The web planner's map: base layers, what to show on it, climb and cycle-network overlays, and the stats bar with the elevation profile.
Your dashboard
Your saved routes, the defaults every trip starts from, and your credit — tab by tab, with screenshots.
The Routes tab
Your dashboard's Routes tab: every route you've saved, with filters, and buttons to reopen, favourite, rename or delete each one.
The Preferences tab
Your dashboard's Preferences tab: the defaults every new trip starts from, the standing notes Mec follows, and email updates.
The Credits tab
Your dashboard's Credits tab: your balance in euros, the credit packs, and a line-by-line history of what your credit was spent on.
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, authenticated with an API key.
Bikepackia API keys
How Bikepackia API keys work: the bpk_ bearer token, one active key per account, credit billing and per-key limits.
Bikepackia MCP server
The four MCP tools (planRoute, refineRoute, exportGpx, getRouteSafety) that let any MCP-compatible AI client plan and export bikepacking routes.