Features – Workouts, AI Coaching, Group Rides, Training Plans & More | Ride Cave

Features

Everything you need to train.

Structured workouts, live group rides, track racing, a living 3D world, and now rowing. On any device, and free to start.

A rider under a starlit night sky in the Infinite World

Highlights

Built to make indoor training something you look forward to.

Infinite World

Ride a living 3D world built from real terrain.

Any eRoute becomes a world: day rolls into night, weather moves through, and the riders on your route are really there, live. Free on every route.

A rider on a coastal desert road in the Infinite World

Immersive Workouts

Ride your training instead of watching a graph.

Attach any structured workout to a 3D eRoute. Targets are painted on the road, colored by zone, with coins to chase above target and a heads-up display on your rider.

An immersive workout with targets painted on the road ahead

Workouts and Views

The data you want, laid out your way.

A massive library of structured workouts with ERG control, plus fully customizable data views: live charts, zone bars, and the exact numbers you train by.

A Ride Cave workout view with interval chart, power zones, and live metrics

Virtual Tracks

Race the velodrome, solo or head to head.

Beautifully rendered velodromes with banking, drafting, and record boards. Scratch, points, and elimination races against friends or your own best.

A 3D velodrome in Ride Cave

No corners cut

Everything here is free.

No trial clock and no feature gates on the basics. These are all part of the free tier.

New

Rowing

Connect a Concept2 PM5 or Bluetooth rower and train by split, watts, and stroke rate, with rowing workouts, zones, and a 2k test.

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Turbo Builder

Type a workout one step per line and watch it build as you write, for rides and rows.

Workouts

Structured workouts: FTP tests, intervals, endurance rides, race simulations, and more.

Atlas Coaching Session

One full free session with Atlas, your AI coach: analyze your riding, talk training, and build a first plan to keep.

Magic Ride

Instant AI-generated workouts. Set your duration, type, and spice, then hit start.

Just Ride

One click for an endless, procedurally generated route with real climbs and scenery.

Training Plans

Build a periodized plan with the wizard, follow a template, or clone a shared plan.

Coaching

Invite a coach or coach others. Free to be coached, part of Cave Crew to coach.

Workout Builder

Drag-and-drop interval editor with ZWO, ERG, and JSON export.

Group Rides

Synchronized workouts with live voice chat and real-time effort tracking.

Virtual Tracks

Rendered velodromes with banking, surface feel, and record boards.

Skills

Focused power and endurance tests with scores to chase.

eRoutes

Ride any GPX, TCX, or FIT route with live grade, or draw a new one anywhere with Ride Anywhere.

Infinite World

A living 3D world from real terrain, with live riders beside you. Free on every route.

Immersive Workouts

Structured workouts ridden inside the 3D world. Free on every route.

Ride Along

Ride real routes from pros and personalities and race their performance.

Ride With Bots

Up to 30 simulated riders on any eRoute, at your zone, as steady pacers or racers who talk back.

Views

Customizable dashboards with live charts and flexible panel layouts.

Workout Viewer

Responsive workout player with real-time metrics and interval breakdowns.

Gear Tracker

Track bikes, components, and maintenance, and know when parts need replacing.

Clubs & Events

Join clubs, follow their calendars, and RSVP to races and group rides.

Realistic Physics

Banking, air resistance, and drafting modeled for authentic track feel.

Weather Check

See the forecast before you ride and decide between indoor and out.

Total kWh Tracker

Your lifetime energy output, compared to powering everyday appliances.

Integrations

Strava, Garmin, Wahoo, Intervals.icu, YouTube, and Spotify.

Connect

Works with the tools you already use.

Sync rides and rows to Strava, Garmin, Wahoo, and Intervals.icu, import from them, and play YouTube or Spotify while you train.

All integrations
Strava
Garmin
Wahoo
Intervals.icu
YouTube
Spotify

Cave Crew

Want more? Join the crew.

Cave Crew keeps Ride Cave independent and adds the intelligence layer: Auto Train adaptive plans, ongoing Atlas coaching, the Data Lab, custom widgets and alerts, and more.

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Auto Train

Adaptive training plans that reshape themselves around the training you actually do, adjusting to your fitness, missed workouts, and changing schedule.

Ongoing Atlas Coaching

Ongoing coaching with Atlas: unlimited conversations and Atlas-built training plans up to a full year. Free riders get one full coaching session.

The Data Lab

17 analysis modules powered by your ride history: fitness trends, power curves, training distribution, recovery signals, unlimited saved reports, and unlimited FIT/CSV imports.

Quests

Complete curated collections of workouts, routes, skills, and track races to earn unique trophies and XP rewards.

Custom Widgets & Alerts

Build custom data tiles with a formula language, plus alerts that fire on any live metric: power, heart rate, cadence, W/kg, W'bal, and more.

Persistent Group Ride Links

Non-expiring links your friends can drop into any time. We spin up a fresh group whenever someone visits, no scheduling required.

Stealth Updates

Push your rides to Strava with a blank description: your fitness numbers and the Ride Cave mention stripped out, activity titles left untouched.

Private Discord Access

Join the Cave Crew channel. Get early access to features, vote on the roadmap, and connect with fellow riders.

Support Indie Dev

Help keep Ride Cave independent and ad-free. Your support goes directly to development and hosting.

Coming soon

On the roadmap

We ship every week. Here is what is next.

Roadmap

Running

Treadmill workouts with pace targets, your own run threshold and zones, and the same live experience as the bike and the erg.

Roadmap

Strength Training

Structured gym sessions with sets, reps, and rest timers, counted in the same training load as your rides and rows.

Roadmap

Multi-sport Plans

Training plans that balance cycling, rowing, running, and strength across your week.

Roadmap

Yoga

Yoga and mobility sessions to recover, stay supple, and balance out the hard days.

Roadmap

Omniums

Multi-event competitions combining scratch, tempo, elimination, and points races.

Ready to train?

Workouts, rowing, group rides, track racing, and more, in your browser, on desktop, or on your phone. Free to start.