Every road you conquer, kept forever.
No other nav app has it. Ride a legendary road, log the endurance run, finish the challenge — and it becomes a permanent medal in a trophy case tied to your real rider profile, kudos, and social graph. Badges are earned, never rented.
Black chrome. Here and gone.
A handful of badges are struck in black chromeand only available for a window — launch events, the founder run, the beta. Once the window closes, they're sealed forever.
Bronze to Elite. Earn your metal.
Every badge has a tier. The harder the challenge, the rarer the metal — capped by Elite, reserved for the rides almost nobody finishes.
Bronze
Entry challenges and first milestones — your starter rides.
Silver
Real accomplishments: long routes, mountain passes, 100-route explorers.
Gold
Serious feats — 10,000 miles, Four Corners, the iconic roads.
Elite
The rarest metal. Bun Burner 1500, Ride All 50, top 2% of riders.
Three steps. One permanent reward.
Ride it
Track a qualifying ride in the app — a legendary road, a 1,000-mile day, all four corners of the lower 48. Switchback verifies it from your route.
Earn it
The badge unlocks the moment you meet the criteria, stamped with the date, your time, and how rare it is among all riders.
Keep it forever
It lands in your Trophy Case for good — pinned to your profile, shareable, and never lost to a broken streak or a lapsed subscription.
75 badges across 8 categories.
From your first century to the Iron Butt endurance runs and the iconic-route checklist — here's everything there is to chase.
Your case lives on your profile.
The Trophy Case isn't a side feature — it's the heart of your rider profile, right next to your garage, your stats, and your ride history. Followers see what you've conquered; kudos roll in when you earn the rare ones.
And it's free, forever — community and core badges never sit behind a paywall.
Your first badge is waiting.
Join the waitlist, and the day you take your first ride with Switchback, the Trophy Case starts filling up.
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