Yes, as long as it has a track or a route with points: from Wikiloc, from another navigation app or one recorded on your phone. If it has several segments, they're all read. What can't be checked is whatever lies outside the covered area.

Does it change the original GPX?

No. The original is kept as it is; what you download is the adapted route with the alternatives you chose, and on the map you always see both.

What if the track goes down a footpath?

Corally marks it as outside your filter and, if it's recorded as closed to motorbikes, tells you with the reason. The alternative it suggests avoids footpaths; if there's no other way, you'll know before setting off.

Why does a section show hard for me when my friend rode it fine?

Because the difficulty is calculated at your level, not theirs, and because it counts the gradient in the direction you ride. A steep descent they climbed is a different thing going down.

How to read an adventure bike GPX before following it, and fix it if it's not for you

Last reviewed: October 16, 2026

A GPX is a line. It doesn't say which bike it was ridden on, in what season, or whether whoever recorded it took a closed footpath because nobody was around. Before following it you want to know three things: which sections will cost you on your bike at your level, where it goes that it shouldn't, and where you get out if things go wrong. Ten minutes at home save an afternoon on the hill.

What a GPX doesn't tell you

A friend's track on a 110 kg enduro is a different route for your 190 kg adventure bike. The same descent they rode standing up leaves you thinking. And a track from three years ago may go down a track that today is chained off or closed in summer for fire risk.

Nor does it say whether it uses footpaths, drove roads or bicycle-only ways, which are closed to motorbikes even if the map doesn't say so on every section. Whoever recorded it didn't know, or didn't care.

What to check, in order

First, the hard sections: how many, how long and why. A 300-metre hard section for a rocky climb goes; a four-kilometre one for broken track gets thought about. Second, what's closed: any section marked as closed to motorbikes gets changed, no discussion. Third, the warnings: fords with water, steep descents, long stretches without fuel. Fourth, the exits: where you can reach a road if someone falls, breaks down or has had enough.

How to fix a section that isn't for you

There are three ways, and it's worth picking the one that changes the route least:

Skip that part: the route gets shorter and that area isn't ridden. That's the one when the section sits on a loop or an out-and-back.
Detour the section: it rejoins the route another way and makes it a few kilometres longer. That's the one when the section is an unavoidable pass.
Draw your own way round: you mark two or three points where you want to go and the route is recalculated through them.

What to do with the fixed GPX

Save it with the changes and take it to the bike: to the Corally app, which guides you by voice, warns about hard sections and fords and lets you skip a section on the move, or as a GPX for the app you already use, with the problem sections and the alternatives marked as waypoints.

If you ride in a group, send the route to everyone the night before: each rider seeing at their own level which sections will cost them saves the conversation in the middle of the track.

How to do it in Corally

Upload the GPX to the checker, pick your level and the roughest track type you accept, and you'll see every section with its colour and its reason.
Problem sections appear in the list: for each one, keep the route, Skip, Detour or draw your own way round.
Short, flat sections are forgiven automatically (tolerances), so the list is the one that matters.
Save the check and send it to the app or download the adapted GPX.

Check a GPX

Frequently asked questions

Does any GPX work?: Yes, as long as it has a track or a route with points: from Wikiloc, from another navigation app or one recorded on your phone. If it has several segments, they're all read. What can't be checked is whatever lies outside the covered area.
Does it change the original GPX?: No. The original is kept as it is; what you download is the adapted route with the alternatives you chose, and on the map you always see both.
What if the track goes down a footpath?: Corally marks it as outside your filter and, if it's recorded as closed to motorbikes, tells you with the reason. The alternative it suggests avoids footpaths; if there's no other way, you'll know before setting off.
Why does a section show hard for me when my friend rode it fine?: Because the difficulty is calculated at your level, not theirs, and because it counts the gradient in the direction you ride. A steep descent they climbed is a different thing going down.

Guide written by Corally from riding experience and from how the planner works. The difficulty of each section comes from public, community-made data and may differ from the terrain: what you see when you get there, the signs and each region's rules come first.