For parents
Built so your kid rides with people they know.
Ride Out XD helps riders aged 13 and up coordinate group rides with their own friends and local riding groups. It was started by a teen rider, and it is designed around one idea: group rides organized among people who trust each other are safer than riding alone or meeting strangers from an open feed. This page explains, in plain terms, how the app is built to protect young riders.
Tiered visibility
Ride listings show only a general area — a neighbourhood or trail zone, never an address or map pin. The exact meetup location is hidden from everyone except riders who have already been approved by the group organizing the ride. A stranger browsing the app cannot find out where your child will be.
Approval-gated meetups
Nobody can simply show up to a ride. To join, a rider sends a request, and the group running the ride reviews and approves it. Until that approval happens, the requester sees no meetup details and no member locations. This mirrors how healthy riding groups already work in real life: you ride with people you know, or people your group has vetted.
Verified adult organizers
Groups can register an adult organizer — a parent, coach, or club leader — who completes an identity verification step. Verified-adult groups are labelled in the app, so riders and parents can choose rides with adult oversight. We are building this verification with a third-party provider rather than handling identity documents ourselves.
Location data that disappears
Live location sharing is only active during a ride, is only visible to that rider’s own group, and is automatically deleted from our systems within 24 hours. We do not build or store a history of where any rider has been, and we never sell location data — there is nothing to sell.
Data minimization by default
Riders do not need to provide a real name to use the app, and we ask for as little as the product genuinely needs. Even our waitlist collects only an email address. The less data we hold, the less there is to lose — we treat that as a safety feature, not a limitation.
Reporting and moderation
Every profile, message, and ride can be reported in two taps. Reports go to a human moderation team, and accounts that make others unsafe are removed. Riders under 18 have additional protections on who can contact them. We publish our community rules plainly, and we enforce them.
What we encourage
Ride Out XD is for coordinating rides on trails and in places where riding is allowed. Our community rules prohibit organizing rides that break traffic laws or trespass, and listings that do are removed. We encourage helmets, daylight rides, and riders telling someone at home where they are headed — the app makes that easy to do.
Questions we haven’t answered here?
We would rather over-explain than leave a parent guessing. Our privacy policy covers data handling in detail, and once we launch you will be able to reach a human on our team directly from this page.