EpicRide, the desktop planner
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Dirt-first routing sends you down forest roads, and forest roads have gates. Most you open and close behind you. Some are padlocked, and the only thing worse than a locked gate 40 km in is one nobody told you about. Routes now carry their gates: drawn on the track, avoided when they are shut, and called out on the way.
EpicRide has always opened on a map. You arrived, a route planner loaded, and whatever you actually came for was somewhere behind it. From today the desktop client opens on a Dashboard of what you are riding, and the planner is a place you go.
Behind that change is a new object: an event. A time, a roster, and the library records you ride.
EpicRide's Library used to be two tabs and a scroll: everything you had saved, fetched in one go and filtered in the browser. Today it becomes a primitive — one component that is the Library page, the picker inside the planner and the roadbook editor, and the save form everywhere something can be saved. And rally roadbooks move into it: a saved book is now a library record like a route or a ride, so it can be shared, exported, searched and linked to the track it came from.
For a month the roadbook program has been building its foundations: a data model that carries the official FIM/FIA structure, an exporter that real rally readers accept, a symbol library drawn glyph by glyph, a print module measured off the FIA's own Diagram 1. Today the last and largest piece ships: a full roadbook editor in EpicRide, and with it the whole pipeline — from any GPX to a printed, regulation-shaped book — is live.
We route motorcycles through the Alps. This week we discovered that, as far as the software was concerned, the Alps were not there.
Some things belong on a phone. Planning a two-week trip across four countries is not one of them. This week was almost entirely the desktop client, and it went from useful to genuinely good.
Generated writing has one honest failure mode: it is confidently almost right. The fix is not a better model. It is giving you the pen.