LIVE: Seven Serpents: Quick Bite! 2026
This 520km route runs from Ljubljana to Trieste, crossing mostly smooth gravel with minimal hike-a-bike sections. Riders take on 10,000m of elevation in what serves as an ideal early-season bikepacking warm-up.
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👥 175 participants (2 scratched) from 22 countries
🧭 Solo: 129 · Pair: 48
🛣️ 1 route · 523 km · 9.299 m elevation
LIVE: MittelgebirgeClassique
This ultra-distance route takes riders over approximately 40 mountain passes across the Palatinate Forest, Black Forest, Jura Mountains, and Vosges Mountains. Mostly paved and road bike-friendly, the course climbs to over 1400m at its highest points in the Black Forest, Jura, and Vosges.
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👥 163 participants (26 scratched) from 12 countries
🧭 Solo: 172 · Pair: 17
🛣️ 1 route · 1.120 km · 21.985 m elevation
LIVE: Our Way to Zegama
A relay race from Temple Running Girona to Zegama. 4 teams of 7, with someone always running. With three mandatory sections, each team decides on their route, covering about 600km.
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👥 4 participants
LIVE: Anatolian Mountain Race
Starting in Cappadocia among fairy chimneys and volcanic rock formations, this inaugural race stretches over 1,121 kilometers across some of Turkey's most remote and untouched terrain. Riders will climb nearly 26,000 meters as the route winds through the wild mountain landscapes of Anatolia.
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👥 3 participants from 3 countries
🛣️ 1 route · 1.120 km · 30.829 m elevation
LIVE: GRIT
Covering 430 km of gravel and road, this challenge traces hidden trails and lesser-known roads through the Oberpfalz. Riders can expect an equal split between gravel and pavement across the full loop.
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👥 86 participants
🧭 Solo: 73 · Pair: 13
🛣️ 1 route · 445 km · 4.840 m elevation
LIVE: Heart Times #2
This community-driven bikepacking challenge rides in support of Pikala Bikes, bringing cyclists together for a good cause. The route is open to all riders, run without profit and with nothing but the ride itself at its core.
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LIVE: Lost Dot 101
The inaugural edition starts in Santiago de Compostela and follows a free-route format between a series of controls before finishing in Southern Spain. This 1200 km race is open to women, non-binary and trans riders.
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👥 147 participants (1 scratched) from 24 countries
🧭 Solo: 130 · Pair: 18
LIVE: Highland Trail 550
Covering 550 miles of rugged, remote Scottish Highlands terrain, this grassroots bikepacking classic is the toughest of the UK Triple Crown events, drawing riders from across the world.
The route mixes world-class singletrack and dirt roads with hike-a-bike sections, river crossings and weather that rarely plays along.
This year sees a defining moment for the event, with a 50/50 gender split on the start line for the first time.
You can find the map on our Live Maps page - link in bio 🔗
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LIVE: 303 Lucerne
I’m a self-supported, single-stage, fixed-route cycling event in Lucerne, Switzerland. My course is challenging, beautiful and wild!
An approx. 300km loop with mixed terrain and some elevation. Two days of mixed emotions, beautiful landscapes and wild rides. At least 60% of the route was on natural roads, singletrails. Of these, at least 95% (time) will be rideable.
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👥 101 participants from 4 countries
🧭 Solo: 79 · Pair: 20 · Crew: 2
🛣️ 1 route · 303 km · 8.914 m elevation
LIVE: Gravel Rallye Rhine Valley / Long Distance Ride
A long-distance ride threads through the vineyards, parks, forest edges, and river valleys of the Alsace region in France. Riders traverse narrow gravel trails past vineyard villages, mountain ruins, and the 15th-century pilgrimage site of Notre-Dame du Schauenberg Chapel, finishing with a Golden Gravel Rally Series medal.
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👥 39 participants
🛣️ 1 route · 157 km · 1.383 m elevation
LIVE: Gravel Birds Ultracycling
Riders tackle an unsupported bikepacking challenge through Alentejo, one of the most remote and striking territories of Southern Europe. The 5th edition departs and finishes in Castro Verde, with three route options covering 350, 750, and 1000 kilometers.
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👥 181 participants (10 scratched) from 21 countries
🧭 Classic 750 - Solo: 65 · L'Abetarda 350 - Touring: 50 · XL 1000 - Solo: 35 · Classic 750 - Pair: 18 · XL 1000 - Pair: 14 · Classic 750 - Touring: 9
🛣️ 4 routes · 3.042 km · 40.270 m elevation
LIVE: Backyard Gravel Bodensee
Winding through the picturesque Lake Constance region, this bikepacking adventure is tailored for those with a passion for exploration, camaraderie... and cake.
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👥 35 participants
