BigRingVR 8.0.1.128: Rider levels, Rings and a faster start (Release Candidate 2)

Nineteen builds since Release Candidate 1, and this one brings your riding history to the front: every ride now earns Rings, Home shows your Rider level and how much of our catalogue you've explored, and your Strava activities carry both. RC2 also starts faster, speaks five more languages in full, and polishes the details you told us about. Thank you for all the feedback on RC1 — it shaped this build.

Rider level and Rings, right on Home

Every ride earns Rings — the distance you ride plus the climbing, so a mountain day counts for as much as a long flat one. Your Rings add up to your Rider level: seven levels, each with its own icon and five stars along the way. Home shows how many Rings you need for the next star and the next level, plus what you've earned this week.

• Explorer — how many of our 983 rides you've completed, with a progress bar and a quick way to find rides you haven't ridden yet.
• Recent rides — each of your last rides shows the Rings it earned, coloured by how big a day it was.
• The same level, Rings and Explorer progress are on your Dashboard.

Rings and Rider level on Strava

When BigRingVR uploads a ride to Strava, the description now also shows the Rings that ride earned and your Rider level after it — two short lines under the usual links.

A faster start

The Rides list loads in about a second and a half after a Windows restart — your catalogue opens straight away, every time.

BigRingVR in your language

French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian are now complete — every screen, every setting, every message. Switch in Settings → General → Language; the new language appears the next time you start BigRingVR.

Challenges

• Rides you've completed in a challenge show as a whole green row, as on the website.

Updating

• Already on BigRingVR 8.x? You'll get this build automatically — just accept the in-app update prompt.
• Upgrading from BigRingVR 7.x? Please uninstall 7.x first, then install the new version.

BigRingVR 8 runs on Windows 10/11 (64-bit), including Snapdragon/ARM laptops, and macOS 13 (Ventura) or higher. The Mac build is universal — native on Apple Silicon (M-series) and Intel Macs.

Download: Windows · Mac (Intel & Apple Silicon)

What would help most from this round

1. Check your Rider level on Home and on your Dashboard — do they match, and does it feel right for the riding you've done?
2. Upload a ride to Strava and look at the two new lines in the description.
3. Windows riders: after your next restart, tell us how quickly the Rides list appears.
4. Riding in French, German, Dutch, Spanish or Italian? Tell us about any word that reads oddly.

If anything looks wrong, Settings → General → Upload Logs to Support right after the ride is worth more than a description.