You join a Saturday gravel ride two weeks out, a Tuesday-night spin the same evening, and a club tour for next month. On Friday night you’ve forgotten the gravel ride starts at 6:30 not 7:00 because the organiser shifted it on Thursday and the in-app notification got lost between a parcel delivery and a school newsletter.

We can’t fix the school newsletter. We can fix the calendar.

Party Onbici now publishes a personal calendar subscription for every account — a single URL your phone, laptop, or work computer can subscribe to, so every ride you join shows up where you already look. When a start time changes or a ride gets cancelled, the calendar updates on its own. No re-importing, no re-downloading, no missed memo.

Here’s how to set it up — once, for any calendar app — in about 30 seconds.

What you get

A read-only feed of your upcoming rides — plus anything from the last 30 days — covering:

  • Rides you’ve joined as a participant
  • Rides you’ve organised that have a scheduled date
  • Time, departure point, and a link straight back to the ride page in the app

It refreshes itself. If a host moves a ride from 7:00 AM to 6:30 AM, the next time your calendar polls (usually a few minutes to an hour later, depending on the app), the entry shifts. If a ride is cancelled, the entry disappears.

It’s personal and revocable. Only you have the link, and if you ever want to invalidate it — say a phone walks off — you can rotate it from your profile in one click.

  1. Sign in to www.partyonbici.com.
  2. Open Profile from the top-right menu.
  3. Scroll to the Calendar subscription card.

You’ll see two things side by side: a big Subscribe to my rides button, and a long link you can copy. The button is the one-tap path for Apple devices. The link is the universal path for everyone else.

On an iPhone, iPad, or Mac (Apple Calendar)

This is the easy one.

  1. On the device where you want the calendar to live, open the profile page in Safari.
  2. Tap Subscribe to my rides.
  3. Safari hands the link to Apple Calendar, which asks you to confirm. Tap Subscribe.
  4. Choose how often you want it to refresh — Every 15 min or Every hour are good defaults — and which calendar account to put it on (iCloud is fine).
  5. Tap Add. You’re done.

Your rides appear immediately. Any changes from then on roll in automatically.

Tip: if you use both an iPhone and a Mac, subscribe on whichever one syncs to iCloud — the subscription will appear on the other device on its own.

In Google Calendar

Google doesn’t open webcal:// links the same way Safari does, so you’ll use the copy the link path.

  1. On your profile page, click the copy button next to the subscription link.
  2. Open calendar.google.com on a computer. (The mobile Google Calendar app can’t add subscriptions — but once you add it on the web, the app shows it on every device you’re signed into.)
  3. In the left sidebar, hover over Other calendars and click the + icon.
  4. Choose From URL.
  5. Paste the link and click Add calendar.

Give it a minute. Your rides will appear in a new colour. To rename it or change the colour, hover the calendar in the sidebar and click the three-dot menu.

Google polls subscription URLs a few times a day rather than on demand, so changes can take a little longer to appear here than they do on Apple Calendar. Worth knowing if you’re checking right before heading out the door.

In Outlook (Microsoft 365, outlook.com, or the desktop app)

The wording shifts a bit depending on which Outlook you have, but the recipe is the same.

Outlook on the web (outlook.com / outlook.office.com):

  1. Copy the subscription link from your profile page.
  2. Open Outlook calendar → Add calendar (left sidebar) → Subscribe from web.
  3. Paste the link, give it a name (something like Party Onbici rides), pick a colour, and click Import.

Outlook desktop (Windows or Mac):

  1. Copy the subscription link.
  2. File → Account Settings → Account Settings → Internet Calendars tab → New.
  3. Paste the link, click Add, give it a friendly name, click OK.

Outlook mobile app: like Google, it doesn’t accept subscription URLs directly — add it through Outlook on the web first, and the mobile app will pick it up via your account.

What about ride invitations for guests?

If you’ve joined a ride as a guest — using a magic link from the host without creating a full account — you get a single-ride calendar entry instead of a full subscription feed. Look for the Add to calendar button on the ride confirmation page or in your invitation email. It downloads one .ics file you can open with the same one tap.

Hosts: this means a guest who can’t (or won’t) sign up still gets the date and time in their calendar, with a link back to the ride page if they want to see updates.

Privacy and the small print

A couple of details worth knowing:

  • The link is a credential. Anyone who has it can read your upcoming rides. Don’t post it in a public chat or in screenshots. Treat it like a private bookmark.
  • It’s read-only. Subscribing can’t change anything about your account or the rides — calendar apps cannot send anything back.
  • We don’t see what your calendar app does with it. Once the app has the URL, it polls in the background; we just serve the file when asked.
  • You can revoke it. If you ever need to invalidate every copy of the link — including on devices you no longer have — there’s a reset option on the same profile card. It mints a fresh URL and breaks every old one in a single click.

Why we built it

We watched the same thing happen too many times: someone joins a great ride, gets a push notification, then forgets about it three days later because life is loud. Calendars aren’t loud. They just sit there until 8:55 AM and quietly tell you to get on the bike.

Putting Party Onbici rides into the calendar you already use means we don’t need to compete with the parcel delivery and the school newsletter. The ride is just there, alongside the dentist appointment and the dog’s nail trim, until the moment arrives.

That’s the whole feature.

Get my subscription link

If you hit a snag setting it up — or you use a calendar app we haven’t covered above — let us know and we’ll add the steps.