Cycling events calendar

Cycling events calendar

Rides for cyclists of all types - from small club rides to the biggest mass participation cycling events in the world.

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UK cycling events

We've collated a huge range of organised bike rides to grease the wheels of your search, from mass sportives to remote Audax rides. Use the search filters below to find a specific event or keep browsing for cycling inspiration!

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Sportives

Non-competitive road cycling events ranging from 25km to 100 miles!

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking

Off-road events perfect for exploring the great outdoors at pace!

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Gravel rides

Gravel rides

Mixed terrain rides, including dirt paths, forest track and shingle.

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Charity bike rides

Charity bike rides

Join a peloton of charity cyclists in these fantastic, world-famous rides.

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The biggest and best cycling events in the UK and overseas.

Netherlands Liberation Trail
New for 2025

Netherlands Liberation Trail

A historic tour to freedom, filled with commemoration and camaraderie.

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Pedal to Paris 2025
Pro-rider experience

Pedal to Paris 2025

Remembrance ride with rolling road closures, ride captains and motorcycle outriders.

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Cycling events in 2024/2025

Featured events are listed below - select your region to see all events.

A lapped off-road course mostly on gravel fire roads so perfect for gravel bikes but also well suited to cross-country bikes or mountain bikes. Everyone will finish within a few minutes of the winner!
  • Sun 23 Mar 2025
  • £15-£30
Exeter, Devon, UK

Exeter Gravel Races

A lapped off-road course mostly on gravel fire roads so perfect for gravel bikes but also well suited to cross-country bikes or mountain bikes. Everyone will finish within a few minutes of the winner!

  • Gravel events 2
An early season ride in the heart of Berkshire featuring some of the very best of the North Wessex Downs AONB with three road routes offering something to suit all abilities.
  • Sun 30 Mar 2025
  • £28.50-£40.50
Reading, Berkshire, UK

RIDE Wessex Downs

An early season ride in the heart of Berkshire featuring some of the very best of the North Wessex Downs AONB with three road routes offering something to suit all abilities.

  • Short sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Long sportive
Featured in Red Bull's Best Cyclocross and Gravel Events and 2024 Best of the Year on offroad.cc! Gravel rides on the best trails the Haldon Forest has to offer.
  • Sun 13 Apr 2025
  • £33-£44
Exeter, Devon, UK

Haldon Heroic

Featured in Red Bull's Best Cyclocross and Gravel Events and 2024 Best of the Year on offroad.cc! Gravel rides on the best trails the Haldon Forest has to offer.

  • Gravel events 3
This popular early season sportive offers a mixture of open, flowing, flat roads combined with a couple of testing climbs in the Blackdown Hills - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
  • Sun 27 Apr 2025
  • £44
Honiton, Devon, UK

Taunton Flyer

This popular early season sportive offers a mixture of open, flowing, flat roads combined with a couple of testing climbs in the Blackdown Hills - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

  • Short sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Long sportive
Ride the Reservoir returns for its 10th year! Take on 75km, 100km or 100miles all in support of Birmingham Hospice.
  • Sun 27 Apr 2025
  • £27-£38
Birmingham, West Midlands, UK

Ride The Reservoir

Ride the Reservoir returns for its 10th year! Take on 75km, 100km or 100miles all in support of Birmingham Hospice.

  • Medium sportive
  • Long sportive 2
Pedal through the Liberation of the Netherlands: A historic tour to freedom, filled with commemoration and camaraderie, to help support the Armed Forces Community.
  • Fri 2 - Tue 6 May 2025
  • £300-£2,250
Nijmegen, Netherlands

Netherlands Liberation Trail

Pedal through the Liberation of the Netherlands: A historic tour to freedom, filled with commemoration and camaraderie, to help support the Armed Forces Community.

  • 338 km road cycling
Join hundreds of women for a night of remembrance and celebration and ride past iconic city landmarks then cross the finish line to receive your well-deserved finisher's medal!
  • Sat 10 May 2025
  • £45
Windsor, Berkshire, UK

Women V Cancer | Ride the Night

Join hundreds of women for a night of remembrance and celebration and ride past iconic city landmarks then cross the finish line to receive your well-deserved finisher's medal!

  • Charity bike ride 2
King of the castle, or dirty rascal? Expect some tough climbs after departing the imposing Tonbridge Castle with 800 other riders and experience some amazing views across the Kent countryside.
  • Sun 11 May 2025
  • £28.50-£50.50
Tonbridge, Kent, UK

RIDE Castle

King of the castle, or dirty rascal? Expect some tough climbs after departing the imposing Tonbridge Castle with 800 other riders and experience some amazing views across the Kent countryside.

  • Short sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Long sportive 2
The UK's Number 1 Mountain Festival! Sport, Speakers, Live Music, Activities, Good Times. A full multi-sport and entertainment festival with exciting new changes!
  • Fri 16 - Sun 18 May 2025
  • £30
Keswick, Cumbria, UK

Keswick Mountain Festival

The UK's Number 1 Mountain Festival! Sport, Speakers, Live Music, Activities, Good Times. A full multi-sport and entertainment festival with exciting new changes!

  • 5K run
  • 10K run
  • Half marathon
  • 50K ultra run
  • Fell run
  • + 12 more races
One of the biggest charity sportives in the East, where experienced riders cover a fast and furious sportive or newer riders tackle their first long-distance on flat and forgiving terrain.
  • Sun 18 May 2025
  • £28.50-£40.50
Woodbridge, UK

RIDE Suffolk Sunrise

One of the biggest charity sportives in the East, where experienced riders cover a fast and furious sportive or newer riders tackle their first long-distance on flat and forgiving terrain.

  • Sportive 3
Cancelled
RideLondon was established as an Olympic legacy event and has grown into the world’s greatest festival of cycling, featuring 100,000 riders of all ages and abilities.
  • Sun 25 May 2025
  • FREE-£99
  • Cancelled
London, UK

RideLondon

RideLondon was established as an Olympic legacy event and has grown into the world’s greatest festival of cycling, featuring 100,000 riders of all ages and abilities.

  • Long sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Short sportive
  • Road cycling events
Start and finish in style from the fantastic grounds of a multi award-winning spa with fantastic views throughout then return to a welcome party with medal, hot food, music, fun and family games!
  • Sun 1 Jun 2025
  • £30-£48
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, UK

The Grange Spa Sportive

Start and finish in style from the fantastic grounds of a multi award-winning spa with fantastic views throughout then return to a welcome party with medal, hot food, music, fun and family games!

  • Short sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Long sportive
Europe's oldest charity bike ride is back and you can be part of it! Ride from capital to coast covering 54 miles through rolling countryside to a Brighton Beach. Charity places available for 2025.
  • Sun 15 Jun 2025
  • £45
  • 5 charities
London, UK

London to Brighton Bike Ride

Europe's oldest charity bike ride is back and you can be part of it! Ride from capital to coast covering 54 miles through rolling countryside to a Brighton Beach. Charity places available for 2025.

  • 54 miles road cycling
Welcome to the biggest multisport festival in Europe! It's a huge multi-sport festival in stunning Pembrokeshire featuring runs and rides of a range of distances.
  • Sat 28 - Sun 29 Jun 2025
  • £20-£75
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, UK

Long Course Weekend Wales

Welcome to the biggest multisport festival in Europe! It's a huge multi-sport festival in stunning Pembrokeshire featuring runs and rides of a range of distances.

  • Marathon
  • Half marathon
  • 10K run
  • 5K run
  • Short sportive
  • + 2 more races
The spectacularly beautiful but equally tough northernmost event of the RIDE series featuring one of the most unrelenting climbs in Nidderdale - Trapping Hill. Yorkshire doesn't really do flat.
  • Sun 29 Jun 2025
  • £28.50-£40.50
Ripon, North Yorkshire, UK

RIDE The Dales

The spectacularly beautiful but equally tough northernmost event of the RIDE series featuring one of the most unrelenting climbs in Nidderdale - Trapping Hill. Yorkshire doesn't really do flat.

  • Short sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Long sportive
Ride through Britain's beautiful countryside for one day or the full eight days between Honeypot sites while supporting young carers along the way.
  • Sun 29 Jun - Sun 6 Jul 2025
  • £100
Cumnock, East Ayrshire, UK

Honeypot House to House Cycle

Ride through Britain's beautiful countryside for one day or the full eight days between Honeypot sites while supporting young carers along the way.

  • Charity bike ride 3
Sun, sea and saddles to stop MS! Round the Harbours Bike Ride gives you the choice of two scenic coastal routes around Havant, Southsea, Fareham and Gosport to enjoy at your own pace.
  • Fri 4 Jul 2025
  • £20
Gosport, Hampshire, UK

Round the Harbours Bike Ride

Sun, sea and saddles to stop MS! Round the Harbours Bike Ride gives you the choice of two scenic coastal routes around Havant, Southsea, Fareham and Gosport to enjoy at your own pace.

  • Charity bike ride 2
Join Action for this iconic, once-in-a-lifetime charity cycle challenge which sees you celebrating under the Eiffel Tower AND soaking up the atmosphere of the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France!
  • Wed 23 - Sun 27 Jul 2025
  • £49.98-£1,750
London, UK

RIDE London to Paris | Tour de France Edition

Join Action for this iconic, once-in-a-lifetime charity cycle challenge which sees you celebrating under the Eiffel Tower AND soaking up the atmosphere of the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France!

  • 440 km road cycling
The toughest cycling challenge in the South West! This epic route is against a pace clock. Any rider who falls behind the minimum pace will be required to retire from the event.
  • Sat 2 Aug 2025
  • £42.50-£100
Yelverton, Devon, UK

Dartmoor Legend Sportives

The toughest cycling challenge in the South West! This epic route is against a pace clock. Any rider who falls behind the minimum pace will be required to retire from the event.

  • Long sportive 4
Gravel cycling routes sampling the best gravel trails of East Devon - ideal for gravel bikes, MTBs, cyclocross bikes and ebikes and welcomes riders of all abilities.
  • Sun 24 Aug 2025
  • £39-£43
Budleigh Salterton, Devon, UK

Devon Grit

Gravel cycling routes sampling the best gravel trails of East Devon - ideal for gravel bikes, MTBs, cyclocross bikes and ebikes and welcomes riders of all abilities.

  • Gravel events 4
The Long Course Weekend Yorkshire is back for a second year! A huge multi-sport festival in stunning Nidderdale featuring runs, rides, triple-style challenges and junior events too.
  • Fri 29 - Sun 31 Aug 2025
  • £10-£545
Masham, North Yorkshire, UK

Long Course Weekend Yorkshire

The Long Course Weekend Yorkshire is back for a second year! A huge multi-sport festival in stunning Nidderdale featuring runs, rides, triple-style challenges and junior events too.

  • Ironman
  • Half Ironman
  • Kids triathlon
  • Lake swim 2
  • Long sportive
  • + 6 more races
Close your cycling season on a stunning ride through the Essex countryside, quiet villages and farmland where the undulations will have you in and out of the saddle.
  • Sun 31 Aug 2025
  • £28.50-£40.50
Chelmsford, Essex, UK

RIDE Essex

Close your cycling season on a stunning ride through the Essex countryside, quiet villages and farmland where the undulations will have you in and out of the saddle.

  • Long sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Short sportive
Choose your distance and take in the breathtaking scenery as you cycle through the world famous cycling routes of the Trossachs National Park.
  • Sun 31 Aug 2025
  • £35-£60
Stirling, UK

Pedal Stirling Sportive

Choose your distance and take in the breathtaking scenery as you cycle through the world famous cycling routes of the Trossachs National Park.

  • Short sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Long sportive
Get the Pro-rider experience on this Remembrance ride with rolling road closures, ride captains and motorcycle outriders with various speed groups, to help support the Armed Forces Community.
  • Thu 4 - Mon 8 Sep 2025
  • £199-£2,069
London, UK

Pedal to Paris

Get the Pro-rider experience on this Remembrance ride with rolling road closures, ride captains and motorcycle outriders with various speed groups, to help support the Armed Forces Community.

  • 460 km road cycling
Three great routes to choose from showcasing the amazing Cornwall coast road! Fully supported on all distances, with a time-graded medal awaiting at the finish.
  • Sat 13 Sep 2025
  • £40-£43
Marazion, Cornwall, UK

Lands End 100

Three great routes to choose from showcasing the amazing Cornwall coast road! Fully supported on all distances, with a time-graded medal awaiting at the finish.

  • Short sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Long sportive
Britain's best-known one-day cycle route! Wake up in London, get on your bike and end up on Brighton's pebbly beach plus conquer the mile-long climb of Ditchling Beacon on route.
  • Sun 14 Sep 2025
  • £55
  • 3 charities
London, UK

London to Brighton Cycle Ride

Britain's best-known one-day cycle route! Wake up in London, get on your bike and end up on Brighton's pebbly beach plus conquer the mile-long climb of Ditchling Beacon on route.

  • 55 miles road cycling
Join over 2000 riders in taking on 61 miles of superb views and technical terrain, conquering Europe's biggest charity mountain bike event to fund lifesaving research.
  • Sat 20 Sep 2025
  • £60
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, UK

London to Brighton Off-Road Bike Ride

Join over 2000 riders in taking on 61 miles of superb views and technical terrain, conquering Europe's biggest charity mountain bike event to fund lifesaving research.

  • 61 miles mountain biking + 1295 m ascent
Choose between three sportives exploring the quiet roads of Dartmoor and surrounding area. Finish on a tough climb & earn your gold, silver or bronze medal based on finishing times.
  • Sun 27 Sep 2026
  • £37-£43
Exeter, Devon, UK

Moor to Sea

Choose between three sportives exploring the quiet roads of Dartmoor and surrounding area. Finish on a tough climb & earn your gold, silver or bronze medal based on finishing times.

  • Short sportive
  • Medium sportive
  • Long sportive

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Triathlons

Triathlons

Swim-bike-run events of all distances plus novice and kids events.

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Aquabikes

Aquabikes

Triathlon without the run events.

Tri with no run