Scenic Motorcycle Navigation 4+

Sure there are better options out there for routing and navigating your rides but they’ll cost you $500+. This app combined with a phone mount and power source is just as useful. Route sharing is easy and uses standard GpX files that are fairly universal no matter what system your friends are using. Creating a route within the app is easy and can be done without struggle while eating lunch and shared with everyone immediately. One of my favorite features is to search for already popular rides and edit them to cater to your needs along the route. This is like having a tour guide everywhere you go as many local riders share good routes for you to enjoy when you’re in a new area and for the most part I’ve found them to be some amazing rides I never would’ve found otherwise. I’d recommend anyone give this app a try. Spend an hour or two playing around with it and I’m sure you’ll start to understand how it works and find new rides around your area you probably never knew of. One downside is when your routing preference is set to “extra curvy” it will send you down a lot of dead end roads and it’s especially good at seeking out roundabouts. Not a major issue, just pay attention when letting it plan your route for you and you can fix it in less than 5 minutes using waypoints.

I own a 2019 Harley-Davidson Street Glide with the optional larger screen Infotainment GPS system and leading group rides. I also love the power of my Apple iPad Pro 11 inch (new Pro models that came out on late 2018) and coupled with the Scenic app and an Apple Pencil (2nd generation) you have a powerful Road Captain ride planning console that has taken my ride planning game to the next level. I love the graphics, the ability to place waypoints with pinpoint precision (with some practice), and being able to do so from the comfort of wherever I am (my favorite leather chair, my bed, or sitting at a bar as I plan away with my favorite drink to go along). I love that I can also download Scenic on my iPhone and check ride plans on the fly and even make tweaks and adjustments on the fly. I also love that I can export GPX files directly from my iPad onto a memory stick from which I can then easily load ride plans onto my Harley's Infotainment system (which has a beautiful mapping interface IMO). I have friends that are hard core Garmin BaseCamp lovers but they have seemingly fallen asleep at the wheel as they haven't yet developed a compelling and user-friendly app for iOS devices. I highly recommend Scenic and celebrate Guido's work. By the way he is super responsive to questions and publishes a great newsletter too!

I have a BMW R1250 GS and have been using the BMW/Garmin Nav VI unit which although in many ways made the navigation experience nice through its functionality with the Wunderwheel and many features (eg, weather, traffic alerts, media player etc), ultimately became greatly inconvenient due to its screen ghosting issues and the need to connect to a pc in order to add routes created on the computer. I used several apps for route creation and navigation, but had not found any that did both well until I found Scenic. It will work on my iPhone and iPad so I can create routes as I would on a computer with my iPad 11 pro, and then navigate the route on my iPhone or iPad mini. No more having to export the route from a route creation app to a standalone gps or another navigation app. And through its integration with the WunderLink app, I can use my BMW wunderwheel to control the app in an even more robust way than I could with the Garmin Nav VI unit. Last but not least has been the awesome accessibility and responsiveness of the app’s developer who truly monitors the forum and is obviously interested in helping you and developing a great app for motorcycle adventures.I am looking forward to the app’s future development.