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The Southern Divide - Autumn Epic 2025
Started: 05:30, 18 September, 2025
This Southern Divide of the UK from Land's End on the Atlantic to the Kent coast uses ancient byways, mining trails, wild moors, forests, military gravel roads, and a bit of single-track, all sewn together with a few bits of tarmac.
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Location: Land’s End, UK
Length: 670km
Elevation: 8,850m
Terrain: Gravel
Upcoming races
Istra Land 2025
Starts: 22:00, 25 September, 2025
Istra Land is the ultimate gravel race around the Istrian peninsula. 400 km of dust, wild coastlines, and sun-baked roads — all leading to the sea and a party to bid summer farewell, together.
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Location: Basovizza, Italy
Length: 400km
Elevation: 5,000m
Terrain: Off-road
Pirenaica 2025
Starts: 24:00, 28 September, 2025
Based on the TransPirenaica MTB route, this mixed-terrain route across Pyrenees mainly follows hard-packed gravel roads and secondary lanes, including a few rocky descents and short single tracks.
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Location: Montjoi, Cap de Creus, Spain
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 24,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Peninsular Divide 2025
Starts: 05:00, 12 October, 2025
The Peninsular Divide is a Malaysian self-supported ultra. The route takes riders through all terrains, from smooth roads to rugged gravel paths, and racers must be prepared for the hot and wet weather of the rainy season.
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Location: Johor, Malaysia
Length: 1500km
Elevation: 20000m
Past races
Borderland500 2025
Started: 06:00, 10 September, 2025
Three distances to choose from, the 500-mile epic Borderland500 is a road ultra exploring the Welsh Borderland.
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Location: North Wales
Length: 800km
Elevation: 12,000m
Terrain: Road
Lakes ‘n’ Knödel 2025
Started: 09:00, 8 September, 2025
Lakes 'n' Knödel crosses the borders of Germany and Austria, whilst prioritising cycling, community and culinary art. It's dubbed as ideal for a rookie rider, due to the format, plentiful accommodation and excellent food.
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Location: Fuschl am See, Austria
Length: 750km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Alps Divide 2025
Started: 15:00, 6 September, 2025
Mixed-terrain route along the Western Alps crossing back and forth along the borders of France, Italy and Switzerland.
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Location: Menton, France
Length: 1,050km
Elevation: 32,000m
Terrain: Off-road
Mountains of the Merfynion 2025
Started: 08:00, 6 September, 2025
Best thought of as a beautiful obstacle course to be tackled by bike, this ride is for people looking to take drop bar bikes where they don’t belong.
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Location: Abergavenny, Wales
Length: 730km
Elevation: 14,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Bohemian Border Bash Race 2025
Started: 03:50, 6 September, 2025
The fifth edition of the Bohemian Border Bash Race follows the ancient borderlands of Bohemia via the remnants of centuries-old road networks crossing back-and-forth along the borders of Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czech Republic.
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Location: Srbská Kamenice, Czechia
Length: 1,300km
Elevation: 24,000m
Terrain: Gravel
SNEAK PEAKS 2025
Started: 06:00, 4 September, 2025
The second edition of SNEAK PEAKS is an unsupported bikepacking expedition through the highest mountain ranges in northern Italy. There are three fixed routes of varying distance and elevation, none are easy.
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Location: Bolzano, Italy
Length: 490km / 780km / 1,100km
Elevation: 17,000m / 28,000m / 40,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Seven Serpents: Illyrian Loop 2025
Started: 06:00, 4 September, 2025
Illyrian Loop is an unsupported bikepacking event over gravel and secondary roads in the most scenic routes of north Albania including reservoirs, forests and cultural heritage and historical sites.
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Location: Shkodër, Albania
Length: 650km
Elevation: 13,000m
Terrain: Gravel
SUCH25
Started: 08:10, 3 September, 2025
Riders have to pass through all 26 cantons (states) and additional checkpoints dotted around the country. The race always starts at any train station in Switzerland and finishes at the Bundesplatz in Berne.
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Location: Switzerland
Length: ~950km
Elevation: ~10,000m
Terrain: All-Road
Badlands 2025
Started: 06:00, 31 August, 2025
Badlands is a true test of gravel skill. At 800km, this race is a difficult balance between non-stop riding or adventuring through the Spanish wilderness.
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Location: Granada, Spain
Length: 800km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Ride Across Girona 2025
Started: 04:00, 30 August, 2025
TarmacWays.cc brings you a 100% paved Girona bikepacking adventure. This year riders choose a 400 or 700km distance and have 60 or 80 hours, respectively, to get back to Banyoles. If last year is anything to go by, it's going to be hot!
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Location: Banyoles, Girona, Spain
Length: 700km / 400km
Elevation: 11,000m / 6,000m
Terrain: Road
Further Perseverance Pyrénées 2025
Started: 07:00, 29 August, 2025
Starting and finishing at Refuge of Rulhe, riders will travel old routes that are forgotten to most and used by the more adventurous mountain randonneur. This year the trackers will use cell coverage only.
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Location: Pyrenees, France
Length: ~550km
Terrain: Off-road
Log Driver’s Waltz 2025
Started: 12:00, 23 August, 2025
The Log Driver's Waltz is a long-distance, multi-day ride through the Ottawa Valley including the beautiful Rideau Canal and Ottawa exploring the endless network of lonely backcountry gravel and dirt roads, forest paths and charming towns.
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Location: Ottawa Valley, Canada
Length: 380km / 800km
Elevation: 9,500m / 1,600m
Supergrevet Vienna-Berlin 2025
Started: 08:00, 23 August, 2025
The Supergrevet Vienna-Berlin follows the pioneering passion of those who rode the original event in 1893. While the route deviates slightly due to changes in the roads over the past 130 years, the spirit and flair remains.
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Location: Vienna, Austria
Length: 800km
Elevation: 7,000m
Terrain: Gravel
The Land Between 2025
Started: 06:30, 22 August, 2025
The edition of this off-road Northern England event will explore the ancient and varied landscapes of Northumberland over isolated fell, along stunning coastlines and through industrial landscapes, both old and new.
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Location: Northumberland, UK
Length: 530km
Elevation: 6,700m
Terrain: Off-Road
North Wales 400 2025
Started: 23:00, 20 August, 2025
The North Wales bikepacking weekend is a social and competitive event with a “group finish format” where riders are expected pick their own start time and date to aim to finish by Monday Bank Holiday afternoon.
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Location: Llandegla, Wales
Length: 410km
Elevation: 10,000m
Terrain: Off-road
Liège Paris Liège 2025
Started: 16:00, 20 August, 2025
A road race with three extended Parcours that will take riders all over NW France and Belgium. A tribute to the race that never happened.
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Location: Liège, Belgium
Length: 1111km
Elevation: 10000m
Transibérica 2025
Started: 04:00, 19 August, 2025
For 2025 the Transibérica route takes riders from Bolzano, Italy to Bilbao, Spain via some brutal mountain passes across the Iberian Peninsula including the Petit San Bernard, Alpe d'Huez, the Aubisque and many more.
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Location: Bolzano, Italy
Length: 2600km
Elevation: 45000m
Terrain: Road
Silk Road Mountain Race 2025
Started: 12:00, 15 August, 2025
One of the pearls of the calendar, SRMR offers one of the wildest and most inhospitable environments for a bikepacking race with its often harsh and unpredictable mountain weather, contrasted with the warmth of the local hospitality.
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Location: Kyrgyzstan
Length: 1900km
Elevation: 30,000m
Terrain: Off-Road
Colorado Trail Race 2025
Started: 10:00, 10 August, 2025
An original of the world of bikepacking, the Colorado Trail Race is a mountain bike race through the Colorado Rockies. Notorious for its tough terrain and altitude, the CTR is not for the faint of heart.
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Location: Durango, Colorado, USA
Length: 850km
Elevation: 21,200m
Terrain: MTB
Bentang Jawa 2025
Started: 04:30, 10 August, 2025
Once again, we return to the tropical Jawa Islands to follow the Indonesian Audax scene in their crown event, Bentang Jawa.
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Location: Jawa, Indonesia
Length: 1,500km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: Road
GBDURO25
Started: 07:00, 9 August, 2025
It's often referred to as the "scrappy rolling picnic through Britain's ever changing landscapes".
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Location: Land's End, UK
Length: 2,000km
Elevation: 30,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Munich Milan Gravel 2025
Started: 22:00, 8 August, 2025
Munich Milan Gravel is a gravel bikepacking challenge that leads over fast gravel paths, narrow single trails and small asphalt roads from Munich to Milan. The route crosses the Alps from north to south.
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Location: Munich, Germany
Length: 800km
Elevation: 13,500m
Terrain: Gravel
Mother North 2025
Started: 07:00, 3 August, 2025
Unsupported Bikepacking Adventure in the Norwegian lands through remote trails, ancient forests, and pristine fjords all under the magic of the midnight sun.
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Location: Lillehammer, Norway
Length: 1000km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Utrecht Ultra XL 2025
Started: 06:00, 2 August, 2025
Utrecht Ultra XL offers double the climbing of its sister race (Utrecht Ultra) on a mixture of free and fixed route roads. At the adventures farthest point, a stunning yet demanding parcours through the Vosges mountains awaits riders.
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Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Length: 1,600km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: Road
Dorset Divide 2025
Started: 08:00, 31 July, 2025
Dorset is the home of the Jurrasic coast. Well-known for its beautiful landscape and coast line this 320 mile route takes in its iconic places and best kept secrets! Although the landscape may be breathtaking so is the route.
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Location: Dorset, United Kingdom
Length: 530km
Elevation: 6700