A new Discover tab puts scored rides around you next to the ones you already keep. Preview one on the map, save it if the hour looks good, and start from a suggestion nearby when you sign up.
Good for a fresh ride when your usual one is straight into the wind.
Browse the route explorerDraw or import a ride and the wind score shows up on the map straight away, while the rest of the forecast fills in. Compare hours as soon as it appears.
Good for checking a new ride the moment it lands on the map.
Draw on the map, upload a file, or pull a route from Strava. All three now live in a single Add route menu, so the ride gets onto the map in one step.
Good for starting a ride from one place on the page.
One Strava athlete can now be linked to more than one Tailwind account. Handy when a household shares a login, or you keep a second account for another bike.
Good for a shared family Strava login, or a second bike with its own Tailwind account.
New Pro starts with 30 days free, then $2.99 a month. You get the two-week forecast, room for 60 rides, and a weekly email of your best ride windows.
Good for a full month of planning around the wind, before you decide to pay.
See pricingWork out the watts a ride will ask of you, from your weight, your speed, and the road. It is free and open in the browser.
Good for sense-checking a climb, an effort, or whether e-bike assist will be enough.
Open the calculatorShare your invite link from Settings. Every friend who signs up adds two extra saved rides to your account, on top of your plan.
Good for room for the club runs, and a riding partner on the same forecast.
Open refer a friendWay of the Roses, Coast to Coast, London to Brighton, and more now have their own guides. Read the ride, look at the map, and download the GPX for your head unit.
Good for a big day out, from the write-up to the file on your bike computer.
Read the route guidesPro keeps up to 60 rides, including the files you upload. Club rides, holiday rides, and the Sunday favourite can all stay scored and ready.
Good for anyone who plans more than a handful of regular rides.
Compare Free and ProA light shower keeps a gentle score of its own. A good hour stays a good hour when the rain is light.
Good for those grey days when the road will still be fine.
Reverse a saved ride and the score updates for the way back. Same roads, other direction, often a completely different hour.
Good for heading out into the wind so the ride home is the easy one.
Highlights name the stretches worth knowing: a long easy run, a hard headwind, a sprint. You see how the ride will feel, right next to the number at the top.
Good for seeing the hard kilometre inside a high score.
The public library grew again. Open a ride in a city you are visiting, see how the wind treats it, and save the one you want to ride.
Good for a weekend away, or a city you are visiting.
Find cycling routesFrom the map, pull in a ride from the library and stay on the page. It arrives already scored.
Good for your first ride, straight from the library.
Open the mapRide Huddle puts a few rides in front of the group and lets everyone vote from one link. Share it, see the favourite, and ride that.
Good for Saturday club runs, with the vote in one link.
Start a huddleSend a ride with a link. If it expires before you meet, your friend can still save it and open it on the map.
Good for sending Saturday’s ride a few days before you meet.
Route explorer opened with rides you can filter, score, and save, plus pages of cycling routes for cities and countries. Open a local ride and score it.
Good for finding a ride nearby from the library.
Open route explorerThe line on the map is coloured by the wind. Watch it change with the hour and spot the stretch that helps, and the one that hurts, before you pick a time to leave.
Good for catching the one exposed kilometre before you commit to a departure.
Search for a place in the route builder, then draw from there. Home, a café, or the start of a trip.
Good for a ride that begins exactly where you will clip in.
Open the route builderTurn-by-turn navigation guides you back onto the line and carries on with the rest of the ride.
Good for unfamiliar roads, and a coffee stop along the way.
Sketch a ride on the map and score it the same way as one you imported. If it only exists in your head, it can still get a wind score.
Good for a new ride you want to try.
See the route builderThe score includes forecast rain and temperature along the ride, in the units you ride with, so each hour shows the full picture.
Good for choosing the hour that feels good in the legs and in the kit.
Copy a link and send the ride to a friend or the whole club, so everyone is looking at the same one before anyone clips in.
Good for agreeing the ride from one link.
Turn-by-turn navigation runs in the phone browser. It says the ride name as you start, and gives you a summary when you finish.
Good for a phone on the bars when the head unit can stay at home.
See how a ride worksDistances and speeds follow the units you choose, and the map can filter down to the rides you actually want to see.
Good for a trip somewhere that measures the road differently from home.
Download a GPX for Garmin, Wahoo, or any head unit that reads the file. Pick the hour in Tailwind, then ride it on the bars.
Good for the ride itself, once you know when to leave.
Pro emails the best windows for the rides you have saved. A short note in the inbox, so you can pick a day before you open the map.
Good for choosing the ride of the week from your inbox.
See what Pro includesOpen the map and see a wind score straight away. A first look at planning around the wind.
Good for deciding if Tailwind is for the way you ride.
Open the mapPro is for riders who want more than a few rides and a short forecast. Free stays, with three rides and three days ahead. Pro looks up to two weeks out.
Good for a season of rides, planned further ahead than the weekend.
Compare plansTailwind opens. Sign in, bring your rides across from Strava, and see each one scored hour by hour for the wind along the way. The score follows where you will be on the ride.
Good for picking the easiest hour on a ride you already do.
How scoring works
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