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February 2017
The Rocket Sportive
The Rocket Sportive starts from the well-equipped Amberley Working Museum, nestled in the heart of the stunning South Downs National Park. This ride will help you kick of your 2017 cycling season with the perfect early season test, designed to be an ideal cold-weather event with flat roads and warm feed stations throughout that will provide you a hot cuppa to keep spirits high as you chip away at the mile count. The route itself winds through the low Weald…
Find out more »Wiggle Super Series Rough Ride MTB
You might struggle to find an event that can promise to kick-start your cycling season in such a fashion quite like the Wiggle Southern Rough Ride MTB sportive – a classic start-of-season off-road event that is based in the heart of the South Downs in Sussex and explores all of the best descents in the area. Epic 36 Miles Standard 29 Miles Short 16 Miles Event Includes - Mechanical Support - Ride Photography - OS Maps Free Trial - Muc…
Find out more »Chilterns Wildwood CX Sportive
Ride through where the Thames cuts the Chilterns at Goring, up into the jagged profile of the Chiltern Hills, on a mix of surfaces to test your pace, performance and handling. This is the fourth year for the original CX Sportive, returning once again to Woodcote and this excellent Chilterns course! The route takes you south to the Thames, dropping on farm tracks to Mapledurham, to break you into the rougher stuff nice and easily. from there it’s onto Goring…
Find out more »RIDE IT London Bike Show Sportive
RIDE IT have joined up with the London Bike Show to give you a full biking day! Come along early to beat all the traffic and join for a 60 mile sportive, long enough for a decent ride but short enough to get you back in time to go and explore the Bike Show and ogle all the nice shiny stuff that you really do need. The £30 price includes the RIDE IT and full entry to the show, a…
Find out more »RIDE IT London Bike Show Sportive
RIDE IT have joined up with the London Bike Show to give you a full biking day! Come along early to beat all the traffic and join for a 60 mile sportive, long enough for a decent ride but short enough to get you back in time to go and explore the Bike Show and ogle all the nice shiny stuff that you really do need. The £30 price includes the RIDE IT and full entry to the show, a…
Find out more »March 2017
RIDE IT Leeds Sportive
Starting from the beautiful Harewood House Estate, we're ideally placed for an incredible day in the saddle. The route begins by heading North for some fantastic riding in the Wharfedale Valley, past Lindley Wood, Swintsy and the Fewston reservoirs. Riders on the long route will loop past Bolton Abbey, and have the pleasure of enjoying the remote road up to Craven Moor, before an even more enjoyable 8-mile descent. The difficulty of this ride is offset by an abundance of…
Find out more »Wiggle Chalky Chaser MTB Ride
Salisbury Race Course sits above a stupendous riding area, rich with a mixture of ancient drove tracks and winding descents and climbs. Now is your chance to experience what this area has to offer as you start cycling on the Old Shaftesbury Drove track, dipping in and out of the valley taking in the wooded wonderland of Knighton Woods. At the first course split, the standard riders drop down into Broad Chalke, a quaint little village, whilst epic riders do…
Find out more »Wiggle Super Series Ups and Downs Sportive
Inevitably, the clue is in the name of the Wiggle Ups and Downs sportive. It’s an early-season test like few others and its many climbs and descents will get the heart racing no matter what. The tight and technical turns in the fast country lanes add to a great variety of climbing roads in the North and South Downs on a great test of a route. Epic - 80 Miles Standard - 53 Miles Short 37 - Miles Event Includes…
Find out more »RIDE IT Cyclopark Sportive
Enter before 15th January to claim your free High 5 Bottle Pack at the ride Enjoy a flying lap of the closed road circuit before heading out into the Kent countryside with a leg-busting 25% climb on the long route. Beginning just outside Gravesend at the fantastic Cyclopark, we are soon out into the countryside and ready to explore the ‘Garden of England’. Quiet country lanes and an abundance of stunning scenery make this ride enjoyable from the off. Short,…
Find out more »Wiggle Super Series Haywards Heath Howler Sportive
Now in its seventh year, the Wiggle Haywards Heath Howler has gained a reputation as being one of the Super Series’ toughest events on the calendar, making it a haven for cyclists in the South of England and beyond for one great test. Thankfully there are three routes to choose from, so if you find high elevations a little daunting, opt to cycle the short route. You won't be disappointed. Starting off from the South of England Showground, the first…
Find out more »Wiggle Super Series Spring Saddle Sportive
The heritage of the humble saddle is strong around the Newmarket area – albeit with a different type of riding as this sportive leads out from The Adnam’s July Course of Newmarket Racecourses. Much like a horse racing course, the route is filled with flat and consistent terrain, leaving no excuse for stragglers to be behind by the first hurdle. You’ll cross through Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex in this tri-county sportive, which begins by heading south, picking up the River…
Find out more »April 2017
The Exmoor Beauty Sportive
The Exmoor Beauty is designed to be more of a beautiful bike ride rather than an all out endurance challenge with a single 69 miles/111km route option starting from Tiverton and heading into the Exmoor National Park.
Find out more »June 2017
King of The Downs Sportive
The flagship event of the Evans Cycles RIDE IT series returns for another year of hills and endurance, but for 2017 they've added in a new option. For all those riders who have done the half loop in the past and wondered what the second half of the long loop had in store, there are now 2 “Half” loops, the original West loop and the new East Loop. The West loop contains climbs like Leith Hill, Combe Lane and Box Hill, whilst…
Find out more »Tour Ride Northampton
Taking place just a week after the Women's Tour has reached its thrilling climax for 2017, the Tour Ride Northamptonshire is a chance for amateur riders of all abilities to try out some of the route for themselves, following on from the Northamptonshire Stage. Starting and finishing from the historic Delapre Abbey on the edge of Northampton, the Tour Ride Northamptonshire will offer riders 40 and 80-mile routes, complete with mechanical support and feed stations from sports nutrition experts HIGH5,…
Find out more »July 2017
The HOY One Hundred Sportive
Join Olympic legend Sir Chris Hoy for a ride around the Cheshire countryside with a choice or 100km or 100 mile routes on his local roads. Starting from the grounds of the Arley Hall Estate the 100km route winds its way through country lanes on the Cheshire Plains passing both Dunham Massey Deer Park and Tatton Park along the way before returning back to the finish. For riders looking for more of a challenge the 100 mile route is not…
Find out more »Brontë Sportive
The 8th running of this event will take place on Sunday 16th July 2017 and, as in previous years, there will be four routes to suit all abilities. The big one, the Brontë Monster, is 90 miles long and, although it's by no means one of the longest sportives, it is recognised as being, mile for mile, one of the toughest sportives in the UK. This year, the routes are currently under review and will be posted as soon as…
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