Born on 2,700 miles of dirt from Banff to Mexico.
In 2024, I raced the Tour Divide - 2,700 miles of remote dirt from Banff, Alberta to the Mexican border. It is the longest off-pavement cycling route in the world, and it breaks most people who attempt it.
I finished. But the hardest part was not the climbing or the weather. It was the decisions. Every day, dozens of them: Where do I camp tonight? Will I make that town before the store closes? Is that storm going to hit this ridge in two hours or four? Should I push through or hunker down?
I had a route on my GPS. I had a weather app on my phone. But nothing connected them. Nothing could tell me what the weather would be at mile 127 of my route at 7pm tonight. Nothing could give me an ETA that accounted for the 3,000 feet of climbing and the headwind waiting on the other side of the pass.
So I built the tool I wished I had. BikepackPro is not a route planner - it is the intelligence layer that sits between your route and reality. It is the difference between guessing and knowing.
— Matthew Founder, BikepackPro · Tour Divide finisher