Three steps between the file on your device and a print on your wall. The whole thing takes about four minutes at your end and five working days at ours.
What we need from you
One activity file. Your watch or bike computer produced it the moment you stopped the recording, and every platform will hand it back to you:
- Garmin, Wahoo, Coros — export the activity as FIT or GPX
- Strava — open the activity, menu, Export GPX. Or connect your account and pick from a list
- Apple Watch, phone apps — most export GPX directly
We read GPX, TCX and FIT. If a file has several activities in it, we split them apart. You pick which one is the subject, and the rest stay on the sheet — that is what Heatmap, Coverage and Multisport are drawn from.
Which numbers end up on the print depends on which of those you bring, and on what your watch was wearing that day. What your file carries maps it out source by source, and Six steps to a print shows the whole thing on screen, step by step.
What happens to your address
Every route you record from home starts and ends at your front door, and a print on a wall is not the place for that.
We clip a radius from both ends of the track before anything is drawn. You set how much. The default removes the first and last 500 metres, which is enough that the line begins somewhere on a road rather than at a building.
It is on by default, and it is not a setting we hide. You can push it out to two kilometres, or switch it off — the slider then says OFF. That goes for a file and for an activity from Strava alike.
Cropping the route
Sometimes the ride is not the print. You rode a hundred kilometres to the foot of the climb, and the climb is the thing you want on the wall. In the same panel as the privacy radius, two sliders cut the start and the end of the route; the strip underneath shows where the cut falls, and the sheet redraws with only the part you keep. If the activity came from Strava, you can pick one of its segments instead, and the cut lands exactly where Strava puts the segment. With a file, connect Strava and the picker shows the segments that lie along your route, matched to your own track at their start and end.
Two things to know. The privacy radius still applies to the ends you did not cut, and a cut can only take more, never less. And the numbers on the sheet — distance, time, elevation — are measured on the part you keep, not copied from the file's own totals, because those describe a ride that is no longer on the sheet. When the cut is a Strava segment, the distance and time are Strava's own figures for that effort.
What you choose
The motif. Eleven of them. Five are drawn from the routes you bring: Clean line, Track + elevation, Heatmap, Coverage and Multisport. Which one works depends on the route — a climb wants the profile, a coastal loop rarely needs it. Heatmap layers every route semi-transparently, so the stretches you repeat come out darker; Coverage draws them all at one weight, which answers where rather than how often. Multisport gives a race with several disciplines one row per leg, each with its own distance, time and pace in that discipline's own unit — there is no combined average, because nobody swam or rode one.
The other six are drawn from a whole Strava account — The Streak, The Year, The Split, The Curve, The Stack, The Clock — and need at least ten activities before they will open.
Size and framing. A print drawn from your routes comes in three sizes — 30×40, 50×70 and 70×100 — chosen next to the object, loose or framed. The six Data prints have one size each, because the motif decides the sheet: The Clock is square at 50×50, The Curve is 30×40, and The Streak, The Year, The Split and The Stack are 50×70. How much room sits around the route is a separate choice, from tight to panorama. The preview updates as you switch, so you can see how the route actually sits.
Paper. Two: Museum 250 gsm, an uncoated offwhite archival matte, and Classic 170 gsm, uncoated matte. Both come loose and both come framed. One exception — a loose 70×100 is 250 only, because the lighter sheet bends at that width.
Colourway. Natural, Night, Signature or Ember. All four flood the whole sheet with ink, edge to edge — Natural is a warm off-white rather than the bare stock, so the paper's own colour does not show through on any of them. Colourway is ink, not paper; what it is printed on is the choice above.
The title. It prints bottom-left, where a race name would go. It starts as Medal Not Given, and most people leave it.
What we print
A loose print goes on the paper you picked, 250 or 170 gsm uncoated matte. Out the door within five working days, rolled in a tube.
Ordered framed, it goes on either paper behind glazing in a pine wood frame, assembled and ready to hang — behind glass you see very little of the sheet, which is worth knowing before you pay for the heavier one. That one ships flat in a box with the hardware already fitted.
What we will tell you
If your route does not draw well, we would rather say so before you spend money. An out-and-back is one line drawn twice. A flat, straight ride is a line with a bend in it. Both can be the hardest day you had that year and still make a poor print.
The preview shows you exactly what arrives. If it does not look like something you want on a wall, it will not look better on paper.