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The Goats 2024

The Goats 2024

Started: 06:30, 6 October, 2024

The Goats is a gravel cycling challenge that takes place in the heart of Portugal. With the late season start and a selection of dirt roads to tackle, this race will entice the gravel riders to do one last ride in this wonderful scenery.

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Location: Serra da Estrela, Portugal

Length: 740km

Elevation: 17,500m

Terrain: Gravel

Arkansas High Country Race 2024

Arkansas High Country Race 2024

Started: 06:00, 5 October, 2024

The Arkansas High Country Route has it all, there are three route options available taking in a plethora of sparkling streams, hills and hollows, shady rivers, mountain views, waterfalls, swimming holes, historic sites and bustling cities.

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Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA

Length: 1,600km

Elevation: 23,000m

Terrain: Gravel

DEAD ENDS & dolci 2024

DEAD ENDS & dolci 2024

Started: 04:00, 4 October, 2024

The five checkpoints are situated in very remote, beautiful areas of Ticino, Switzerland, each at the end of a dead end road. This is certainly one for the grimpeurs with a sweet tooth!

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Location: Bellinzona, Switzerland

Length: ~500km

Elevation: ~9,000m

Terrain: Gravel

Upcoming races

Ultrabiking Sardinia 2024

Ultrabiking Sardinia 2024

Starts: 04:00, 9 October, 2024

UBS defines itself as an adventure dedicated to those who love to dream, know how to push themselves and strongly believe in the values of sportsmanship. An idyllic end of the season Mediterranean adventure, but don't be fooled, it's no holiday.

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Location: Sardinia, Italy

Length: 790km

Elevation: 14,000m

Terrain: Road

Two Volcano Sprint 2024

Two Volcano Sprint 2024

Starts: 22:00, 12 October, 2024

After a year hiatus, 2VS will be held as a free-route for the first time ever since its inception in 2019. Often used as a European season finale, this Southern Italian will take riders from Mount Vesuvio to Mount Etna via eight parcours and, undoubtedly, some steep climbs, excellent food and rough roads.

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Location: Mount Vesuvio, Italy

Length: ~1,150km

Elevation: ~24,050m

Terrain: All-road

Arizona Trail Race 2024

Arizona Trail Race 2024

Starts: 13:00, 17 October, 2024

A stalwart of the MTB bikepacking calendar: the Arizona Trail Race is known for its rough nature, extreme temperatures, long stretches without resupply and an arduous 23 mile hike-a-bike through the Grand Canyon. The AZTR regularly attracts some of the strongest off-road racers and has remained true to its original self-supported ethos.

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Location: Arizona, USA

Length: 1,330km / 490km

Elevation: 24,500m / 10,650m

Terrain: MTB

Peninsular Divide 2024

Peninsular Divide 2024

Starts: 05:00, 20 October, 2024

The inaugural Peninsular Divide is a Malaysian self-supported ultra covering 1500km with 20000m ascent. 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

Across Andes 2024

Across Andes 2024

Starts: 09:00, 24 November, 2024

The 2024 edition of Across Andes is called Patagonia Verde as riders head further south than ever before into Chile's Aysén region known for its greenery, large glaciers, fjords, and snow-capped mountains. A ride at the end of the world.

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Location: Coyhaique, Chile

Length: 1,020km

Elevation: 14,710m

Terrain: Gravel

GranGuanche Audax Trail 2024

GranGuanche Audax Trail 2024

Starts: 12:00, 24 November, 2024

The fourth edition of the Granguanche Audax Trail is a self-supported, single-stage, fixed-route, endurance cycling event across the Canary Islands; an unpaved route with considerable elevation gain. In true audax spirit, riders must be self-supported but are allowed to ride together and draft one another.

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Location: Orzola, Spain

Length: 900km

Elevation: 20,000m

Terrain: Off-road

Past races

Tour de Farce 2024

Tour de Farce 2024

Started: 07:00, 28 September, 2024

The Tour de Farce is the Adventure Syndicate’s offering to the bikepacking world to take itself less seriously, foster fun and develop a community during the race. With time penalties and bonuses for a wacky mix of trials, the TdF is an antidote to the increasing professionalisation of the sport.

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Location: Scottish Highlands

Length: ~530km

Elevation: ~7,000m

Terrain: Mixed-terrain

Trans Pyrenees Race 2024

Trans Pyrenees Race 2024

Started: 05:00, 27 September, 2024

With a mix of control points and parcours, riders take on around 2,000km of the most spectacular and remote scenery in the Pyrenees. For the first time, riders will start in Girona before riding west across the Pyrenees to the Bay of Biscay on France's Atlantic coast back again.

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Location: Girona, Spain

Length: ~2,000km

Elevation: ~40,000m

Terrain: All-Road

Istra Land 2024

Istra Land 2024

Started: 22:00, 26 September, 2024

Istra Land has been designed to unveil the secrets of the three colors of Istria County: White Istria, as the limestones around the mountain peaks; Grey (or Yellow) Istria, as the fertile inner lands; and Red Istria, as the clayey land near the coastline.

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Location: Basovizza, Italy

Length: 400km

Elevation: 5,000m

Terrain: Off-road

Bikingman X #4 2024

Bikingman X #4 2024

Started: 09:00, 22 September, 2024

Bikingman X Race Tracking: the Queen Stage of the series, taking place in the unrivalled and unique landscapes of Morocco's Atlas Mountains.

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Location: Morocco

Length: 1000km

Elevation: Secret

Terrain: Gravel

Borderland 500 2024

Borderland 500 2024

Started: 08:30, 18 September, 2024

BorderLand500 is a new ultra-distance cycling event aimed at bridging the gap between sportives and 1000 + mile ultra races. With three routes to choose from all starting and finishing at the same location, distances are 150, 250 & 500 Mile routes around the stunning Welsh landscape.

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Location: North Wales

Length: 820km

Elevation: 12000m

Terrain: Road

The Black Mountain Challenge 2024

The Black Mountain Challenge 2024

Started: 08:00, 13 September, 2024

An off-road challenge tackling one of the most demanding and scenic routes in South Wales. This self-supported bikepacking event begins and ends in the historic town of Abergavenny and takes participants through the rugged heart of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park.

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Location: Abergavenny, Wales

Length: 250km

Elevation: 4500m

Further East 2024

Further East 2024

Started: 05:00, 13 September, 2024

Further East takes riders deep into the disorientating flatlands of the East of England on a gravel epic. It may be fast and flat but there's no rest or respite; what doesn't go up, can't come down again.

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Location: East Anglia, UK

Length: 640km

Terrain: Gravel

Seven Serpents: Illyrian Loop 2024

Seven Serpents: Illyrian Loop 2024

Started: 07:00, 12 September, 2024

Illyrian Loop is an unsupported bikepacking event of about 550 kilometres that will take place in Albania. The route will go through 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: 550km

Elevation: 12,000m

Terrain: Gravel

Le Pilgrimage 2024

Le Pilgrimage 2024

Started: 07:00, 12 September, 2024

Le Pilgrimage is a journey inspired by the legendary travels of Saint Roch, the patron saint of pilgrims. Each day, the pilgrims embark on self-supported stages through some of the Alps’ most challenging terrain. Riders will navigate hidden valleys, isolated refuges, and high-altitude mountain lakes. This year’s stages will highlight the incredible beauty of the Parc National des Écrins, offering views of glaciers, glimpses of hidden valleys, and climbs to some of Europe’s highest mountain passes, like the Col du Galibier.

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Location: Puy-Saint-Vincent, France

Length: 461km

Elevation: 12820m

Terrain: Gravel

SUCH24

SUCH24

Started: 07:10, 11 September, 2024

The Swiss Ultra Cycling Challenge is a free-route ultra where 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

BikingMan Brazil #4 2024

BikingMan Brazil #4 2024

Started: 23:00, 8 September, 2024

In some of the oldest mountains in South America, riders will tackle the Mantiqueira Massif, known as the "mountains that cry" due to the numerous water sources, as well as the dense Atlantic forest and experience the famed Brazilian biodiversity and its multicultural society.

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Location: Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Brazil

Length: 1,000km

Elevation: 18,000m

Terrain: Gravel

Alps Divide 2024

Alps Divide 2024

Started: 15:00, 7 September, 2024

Alps Divide is a mixed-terrain bikepacking route, weaving along the Western Alps, from the Mediterranean Sea to Lake Geneva. Crossing back and forth along the national borders of France, Italy and Switzerland. A journey filled with high mountain passes, alpine pastures, turquoise lakes, and historic military gravel roads.

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Location: Menton, France

Length: 1050km

Elevation: 32000m

Terrain: Mixed

Cotswolds 200 2024

Cotswolds 200 2024

Started: 23:00, 5 September, 2024

Riders will follow the unsupported riders as they traverse the off-road tracks, singletrack, bridleways and everything inbetween along this nook of quintessential England.

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Location: Bath, UK

Length: 322km

Elevation: 6,480m

Terrain: MTB

Sneak Peaks 2024

Sneak Peaks 2024

Started: 06:00, 5 September, 2024

The inaugural Sneak Peaks is an unsupported gravel bikepacking race through the Italian Dolomites and the Triglav Mountains in Slovenia. With three fixed routes of varying distance and elevation, Sneak Peaks promises to be a brutal yet beautiful journey.

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Location: Bolzano, Italy

Length: 1086 / 764 / 487km

Elevation: 36760 / 28340 / 16890m

Terrain: Gravel

Badlands 2024

Badlands 2024

Started: 06:00, 1 September, 2024

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. With difficult terrain, an always competitive lineup, and deserts to cross, it's always exciting from start to finish.

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Location: Granada, Spain

Length: 800km

Elevation: 16,000m

Terrain: Gravel

Bohemian Border Bash Race 2024

Bohemian Border Bash Race 2024

Started: 03:50, 31 August, 2024

The fourth edition of the Bohemian Border Bash Race follows the ancient borderlands of Bohemia via the remnants of centuries-old road networks that still exist to this day. The riders will compete on an approximately 1300km long journey circumnavigating Bohemia - crossing back-and-forth along national borders - riding through Germany, Austria, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

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Location: Jetřichovice, Czech Republic

Length: 1,300km

Elevation: 24,000m

Terrain: Gravel

Ascend Armenia 2024

Ascend Armenia 2024

Started: 04:00, 30 August, 2024

This race is the product of a labour of love to invite riders to this small and beautiful country that's been tipped as an off-road bikepacker's paradise. With challenges a plenty, riders will need to be prepared for changing weather from the flatlands to the mountain passes, and the many surface types in between.

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Location: Yerevan, Armenia

Length: 1,100km

Elevation: 21,900m

Terrain: Off-road

Mountains of the Merfynion 2024

Mountains of the Merfynion 2024

Started: 08:00, 28 August, 2024

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. The Cambrians are quickly developing a reputation as offering some of the finest off-road riding and star gazing in the UK.

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Location: Cirencester, UK

Length: 940km

Elevation: 17,000m

Terrain: Gravel

Grevet Vienna-Berlin 2024

Grevet Vienna-Berlin 2024

Started: 08:00, 24 August, 2024

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

TransIbérica 2024

TransIbérica 2024

Started: 06:00, 24 August, 2024

For the first time in the race’s history, riders will start in the Italian Dolomites town of Bolzano and ride to Bilbao, Spain via ten CPs across Switzerland, France and Northern Spain.

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Location: Bolzano, Italy

Length: ~2,600km

Elevation: ~30,000m

Terrain: Road

Grevet Munich-Milan 2024

Grevet Munich-Milan 2024

Started: 05:00, 24 August, 2024

The Munich-Milan revives a long-forgotten classic that is considered a pioneering event for crossing the Alps by bike. The route originally ran from Milan over the southern end of Lake Garda and up the long Etschtal valley to Bolzano. From there the mystical Brenner Pass was tackled, which was a real challenge under the conditions at the time and was only overcome by the most skilled athletes.

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Location: Munich, Germany

Length: 750km

Elevation: 12,500m

Terrain: Gravel

The Land Between 2024

The Land Between 2024

Started: 06:30, 23 August, 2024

The inaugural 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: Alwinton, England

Length: 515km

Elevation: 6,700m

Terrain: Off-road

Further Pyrénées Le Chemin 2024

Further Pyrénées Le Chemin 2024

Started: 22:00, 22 August, 2024

For the 2024 edition of Further Pyrenees, riders will ride the length of the mountain range with a few familiar CPs and parcours. The curfews are still in.

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Location: Pyrenees, France

Length: ~1,000km

Terrain: Off-road

Liège Paris Liège 2024

Liège Paris Liège 2024

Started: 04:00, 22 August, 2024

Liège-Paris-Liège is a tribute to the race Liège-Paris-Liège, for which Liège-Bastogne-Liège, La Doyenne was born in 1892: the race that never happened. To make up for it, this road race with three extended Parcour takes riders all over NW France and Belgium. #lplchallenge #lplchallenge24 #lplchallenge2024

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Location: Liège, Belgium

Length: ~1000km (long) / ~500km (short)

Elevation: ~10,000m

Terrain: Road

The Perfidious Albion 2024

The Perfidious Albion 2024

Started: 08:00, 17 August, 2024

A very Great British adventure from the North to the South of the island through Scotland, Wales and England, tackling iconic British climbs. Riders will need to take photo selfies at a series of checkpoints.

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Location: Lockerbie, Scotland

Length: 1,600km

Elevation: 23,000m

Terrain: Road