5 Essential Motorcycle Apps for Every Rider

Eat Sleep Ride is more than just a way to connect with other riders. You can track and share your rides and participate in competitions to win gear. However, one of the most helpful features is a crash detection system which shares your location in the event of an emergency.

When you’re on an epic adventure ride with friends, swapping driving duties for some hands-free time isn’t an option. So who takes all the road notes and jots down the exact route (and where you took all those amazing photos)? Once you find cell service and/or an internet connection, Polarsteps syncs up your route, your stops along the way and then geotags your photos, organizing them all on a vivid, shareable map.

Since motorcycles have much shorter ranges than cars, it’s even more crucial to know where your next fuel stop is. GasBuddy is a way to find and share gas stations and prices in your area. On top of that, if you join Pay with GasBuddy, you can save 15 cents a gallon on your first fill-up and five cents a gallon every fill-up after that.

Most of the free riding world doesn’t have access to the same technology MotoGP riders have — tech that records almost every detail about each lap, like lean angle, speed, lap time, acceleration, altitude, etc. But the Pirelli Diablo Super Biker app brings you a couple steps closer by putting all of that data acquisition in your pocket.

When you head out in a car for a drive, you generally don’t have to worry about the weather unless there’s a hurricane or blizzard inbound. On a motorcycle, we’re a tad more vulnerable. Dark Sky provides valuable and accurate foresight with weather reports updating by the minute over the hour, plus hour to hour predictions throughout the day and for the week ahead.