If you want to access your list of badges & mission, the only way to access it is once you start to RIDE. This is quite anoying if you are just curious and want to see those screen without riding.
Since your list of friends who following you is getting notification when you start a RIDE, this is quite anoying for everyone as user are forced to use the RIDE to access those screen even if they didn’t want to ride per say.
Having a place from the home screen to access those screen seems to be logical to me.