Grupetto: Get Dropped

Every group says "no-drop." Grupetto is what it takes to mean it. NOBODY RIDES OFF THE BACK UNNOTICED Drift off the group and the riders nearest you get a quiet nudge — not the whole bunch, and not twenty minutes later. Stop moving and the app asks if you're okay before it tells anyone. Don't answer, and it escalates. NEED A HAND? ONE TAP Flat, mechanical, bonked, crash, lost. It reaches the ride leaders with where you are. Someone answers "on my way," and everyone else is told they can keep rolling, so the whole bunch doesn't turn around. IT WORKS WHEN THE PHONE IS IN YOUR POCKET Sharing survives a locked screen. Alerts arrive at the highest priority Android allows, so they reach a Wear OS watch, a Garmin or Wahoo that mirrors notifications, and a pocket you'd otherwise never feel. IT WORKS WHERE THE PHONE DOESN'T Ride through a dead zone and your fixes queue up and send when service returns. If half the bunch goes quiet at once, Grupetto knows that's terrain and not twelve emergencies. Grupetto is not an emergency service and does not contact anyone for you. If it's serious, call emergency services first — the app says so too. THEN IT ENDS ITSELF Start a ride, share one link, and everyone sees everyone on the same live map — whatever phone they brought. When the last rider taps End, the sharing stops. Not "goes idle". Stops. There's nothing to remember to turn off. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THE RIDES Standing rides — your Tuesday AM, your Saturday shop ride — each with its own leaders, routes, notes and the riders who follow them. Rolling one out buzzes those riders, not the whole club. Paste a RideWithGPS link and the route draws under everyone on the map. Attendance fills itself in. A ride leader can be named for one Saturday, and nobody has to remember to undo it. THE HONEST BIT ABOUT PRIVACY Grupetto is not Find My and not Life360. Nobody is tracked between rides. Location is shared only with the riders on that ride, only while it's live. There are no accounts, so there's no email list to leak and nothing to sell. The servers are ours, not an ad network's. WHAT IT COSTS Riders never pay. Rides of up to 15 are free outright. Clubs that want the whole roster covered have one organizer subscribe — sized to the roster, not to how many turn up on a Saturday. We ride at the pace of the day. We wait at the top of the climb. We regroup at the turns. Nobody navigates alone. Nobody finishes alone. Everyone's in.