Personalised mountain bike poster — your ride, its gradients, its climbing

From your ride, as your bike computer recorded it: upload the GPX file of the ride (exported from Garmin Connect, Komoot, Strava, Polar Flow, your device’s website…) or connect your Strava account and pick the ride. There is no library of mountain bike routes: a ride is yours, and yours is the one we print.

The colour is the average gradient of each stretch, worked out from the elevation in your file: green under 3%, blue from 3 to 7%, red from 7 to 12%, black above 12% (on dark backgrounds the colours are lighter and black becomes cream, since black would not show). It tells you how steep, not which way: a 15% descent and a 15% climb are both black. It is averaged over stretches of about 250 m on a 40 km ride (a 160th of the distance), so a short ramp or a technical section is smoothed out. It is not a trail grade, which only someone who knows the trail can judge. The elevation profile takes the same colours, and the key shows how much of the ride falls in each band.

All of them come from your file: the distance, rounded to the kilometre (one decimal under 20 km); the climbing, meaning the elevation gain worked out from its altitudes; the descent, which is the climbing minus the difference in altitude between finish and start (on a loop the two roughly match); and the maximum altitude, the highest point of the smoothed profile. With Strava, the distance and the climbing are the figures Strava shows you. Two devices will not record the same elevation gain (barometer or GPS): the figure in your file is the one printed.

The time you write, as h:mm:ss, always with the hours: 4:04:05, not 4:04. When the field is empty, the editor fills it with the elapsed time from the GPX file (if it has timestamps) or from Strava, and you can correct it. Average speed is the distance of the route, unrounded, divided by that time. Elapsed time includes stops, so the speed is then lower than the figure on your bike computer, which usually leaves the stops out — write your riding time if you prefer that speed. It is recalculated as you type. With no time, the box disappears: nothing is made up.

The GPX file is read in your browser and is never sent to our servers. With Strava, we read the list of your activities and the route of the one you choose, then hand the authorisation back to Strava as soon as the route is imported. In both cases the order carries only your texts and choices, the simplified route, the elevation profile and the figures.

Yes: it is a free-text field of up to forty characters, with the date underneath. You write the name of the ride, the area you rode or the event you took part in. We add no organiser’s logo and no event name of our own: the poster carries only what you put on it.

Yes, as long as you have their route: ask them for the GPX file of their ride (on the Strava website on a computer: the GPX export option of the activity) and upload it in the editor. You can add their name in seconds; the time is optional. Without a route, the poster would carry the example route.

A4, 30 × 40, 40 × 60, 50 × 70 and 70 × 100 cm: standard frame sizes, easy to find. Optional wooden frame on the A4 and 30 × 40, black, white or natural, with acrylic glazing; the large sizes are delivered rolled, to be framed at home.

Satin matte paper, 250 g/m², lightfast pigment inks. Printed to order in our workshop in Aveyron, whatever the size. Shipped rolled, in a long rigid cardboard box; the A4 goes flat, in a card mailer, and a framed poster in a carton.

Yes. The print-ready file contains all five sizes, each as a PDF and as a 300 dpi PNG — ten files in all, delivered by a download link sent after payment, to print wherever you like.

Printed within 48 hours, then delivered to your home or a pickup point — home delivery only for the 50 × 70 and 70 × 100. Allow a week in France and ten days in the rest of the European Union. The download link for the print-ready file is sent the same day.