Read Your Ride Like a Rider: Post-Ride Summaries and Season Stats in BraapTrax

You park the bike, kill the engine, and hit stop. A summary pops up with a handful of numbers, and your brain, still buzzing and a little cooked, dismisses it. Fair. But those numbers are the cheapest coaching you'll ever get, and the season stats behind them tell you whether you're actually riding more or just talking about it.

Here's how to read them, and what's free versus Pro.

The post-ride summary (free)

The moment you end a ride, BraapTrax shows a summary. Recording itself is free: start a ride on the Ride tab, let it record your route on the map, and you get distance, speed, elevation, and moving time. No subscription needed for any of it.

A quick guide to what each number is good for:

• Distance is the obvious one, but compare it across the same loop. If your usual 22-mile loop suddenly reads 19, you rode a different line or lost signal somewhere.
• Speed tells you about the terrain more than about you. A tight, rooty trail will always read slow. Don't chase a number the ground won't give you.
• Elevation is the honest one. It separates a flat blast from a day that actually beat you up.
• Moving time is the one to watch. Time spent stopped doesn't count toward it, so lunch, a stuck bike, and a long chat at the gate don't pad your hours. It's the real measure of how long you were on the throttle.

If you want the raw data, you can export any ride of your own as a GPX file from the post-ride summary or the ride's detail screen. That's free too.

Hazards on the map (free)

On the map of a ride you recorded, you can long-press to report a hazard, and you'll see other riders' hazards near your route. If the summary shows you something you hit on the trail, drop a report so the next rider isn't surprised by it.

Season stats (headline stats are free)

Switch to the Stats tab. The headline cards, Miles, Hours, and Elevation, are free, along with the monthly rides and monthly miles charts.

The charts are where it gets useful. A season isn't a straight line. You'll see the month you rode every weekend and the month the bike sat because of work, weather, or a busted something. That's information. If the monthly miles chart shows a hole every August, that's your heat-and-excuses month, and you can plan around it instead of being surprised by it.

Hours versus miles matters too. Lots of hours with few miles usually means technical riding, and that's not slower, it's harder. Miles per hour is a poor way to judge a rider and a decent way to judge a trail.

What Pro adds

Free users can still see the deeper stats screens. Tapping one opens the paywall, and the app never forces you to subscribe. Pro unlocks:

• All-Time Stats, to look past a single season.
• The Leaderboard, to see how you stack up.
• Head-to-Head comparisons against another rider.
• The ride list behind the Rides card, so you can open any past ride from your totals.

If you mostly ride alone and care about your own numbers, the free headline stats may be all you need. If you want a long history, or you ride with a crew that loves to argue about who put in more days, those are the Pro features that earn their keep.

Is it worth Pro?

Pro is $4.99/month or $39.99/year, and new subscribers get a 1-month free trial through the App Store introductory offer. Subscriptions are managed and cancelled through the App Store or Google Play. Beyond stats, Pro also covers the Garage, saved routes, offline area downloads, and more, so the trial is a low-risk way to see which of it you'd actually use.

Get BraapTrax on the App Store or on Google Play. Record your next ride, actually read the summary, and see what the season says about you. Then go ride.