Group Rides | Schedule, Share, and Start Together | Ride Cave

Group Rides

Pick a route. Pick a time. Roll out together.

Post a Group Ride on any public eRoute in seconds, share it with a poster drawn from your route, and meet everyone on the start line. The clock counts down, the whole group rolls out on GO, and every finish lands in the official results.

Free for every rider. Up to 120 riders per ride.

How it works

From idea to start line in a minute.

  1. Start one

    Tap Group Ride on Home, or Host a Group Ride on any public eRoute or track. The route or velodrome comes with you.

  2. Set the ride

    Give it a title and a start time. Ride it once, weekly, or every 2 weeks, loop the route, or add a workout everyone rides at their own FTP.

  3. Share it

    Pick a poster, post it publicly or to a club, and send the link. Riders tap I’m going and it lands on their calendar.

  4. Roll out

    Joining opens 15 minutes before the start. Everyone waits on the line, the countdown runs, and the group rolls out together.

Create and share

Built to be shared.

A poster for every ride.

Every Group Ride gets a poster drawn from your route’s real shape and climbs. Choose from 12 designs, from a Grand Tour stage profile to a topo map and a synthwave night ride, or hit Shuffle for a fresh look. Download it to share anywhere.

Six poster designs for the same Group Ride: topo, night ride, riso, seventies race, velodrome, and club patch

Everything riders need on one page.

Each ride has its own page with the poster, the route, the start time in every rider’s own time zone, pace, and who is going. Shared links preview with the poster, and the page has buttons to post it on X, Facebook, WhatsApp, or by email.

A Group Ride page with its stage profile poster, description, six riders going, and the start time

Set it up your way.

Mark the pace with one or more levels, from A for the fastest to S for social, and flag it No-drop if the group waits for anyone who falls off. Post it as a public ride anyone with the link can see, or to one of your clubs. A private club keeps it private.

The Create a Group Ride form with a live poster preview, title, route, and ride settings

Ride day

A real start, together.

Up to 120 riders on one line.

A Group Ride holds up to 120 riders, all lined up together on the start line in their own kits. The countdown shows how many riders are on the line, so you can watch the group fill up before the start.

More than a hundred riders in different kits lined up behind a checkered start line, with 112 riders on the line under the countdown

Wait on the line.

Riders gather on a checkered start line in the 3D world with the countdown floating above the road, on a computer, tablet, or phone. In the last seconds it counts you down, and everyone rolls out at the same moment on the same clock. Late? You can still join for 30 minutes after the start and chase the group from the line.

A Group Ride countdown on a phone, with riders waiting on the line at night

Ride as a group.

Everyone in the ride shares the road live. Sit on a wheel and the draft helps you (unless a workout is attached), send quick messages, ring a cowbell, and see who is up and down the road. Prefer just maps and charts? Turn the 3D world off when you join and the countdown still runs.

Riders passing on a mountain road just after the start

On the track

Group Races on the velodrome.

Race your friends, live.

Host a Group Ride from any velodrome: ride it in laps, with the first rider across the line on the last lap winning, ride a track workout together, each at your own FTP, or make it a race in scratch, points, elimination, tempo, keirin or the Madison, where the race room pairs riders into teams. Up to 30 riders line up on one grid, each from their own slot, and the race room records the official places, times and gaps.

Riders sweeping past on the banking in a live Group Race, with the other riders named on the leaderboard

The details

Everything a club ride needs.

Official results

Finishes are timed from each rider’s line crossing on the ride’s shared clock, the same on every screen, and show on a Group Ride tab in your ride summary.

Weekly rides

Run a ride every week or every 2 weeks. Edit one date or all of them, move a single date up to a week, or cancel one date while the series goes on.

RSVP and calendar

I’m going adds the ride to your calendar and shows the group who is coming. On a weekly ride it is for the next date.

Countdown on your calendar

Ten minutes out, the calendar tile counts down to the start, then switches to Live and Join.

Up to 120 riders

Each ride holds up to 120 riders. If it fills up, you can still ride the course on your own.

Shared by link

Group Rides are not listed in a global feed. Riders find them through your link, your followers’ feeds, or your club.

Riding together

Which one do I want?

Ride Cave has a few ways to ride with other people. Here is how they differ.

Get the group together.

Open any public eRoute, tap Host a Group Ride, and send the link. Free for every rider.