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What is an adventure ride?
Adventure rides are extreme gravel rides that include more technical surfaces and steep terrain than your average gravel ride. Most of the routes within the Sky Islands Adventure Ride Series include surfaces ranging from smooth and washboard gravel, loose, very steep, rocky, and even sandy terrain over a mix of paved, gravel, and jeep roads, as well as single-track.
Self-supported?
Sky Islands Adventure Rides are completely self-supported with little-to-no resupply options. Each rider is responsible for their own food, water, mechanicals, clothing, navigation, and their safe completion of the ride no matter how long it may take.
Ideal Gear
The ideal bicycles for the Sky Islands Adventure Rides are bicycles equipped with a minimum tire size of 47mm - 2.3" tires with a wide range of gears. Each rider should have a GPS device and/or have the route downloaded onto their phone. Gloves. The ability to carry plenty of water and food for 6-8 hours is also important. Layers, gloves, helmet, lights, tool kit, pump, etc.
Community
These rides are all about having fun and riding bikes with new and old friends, but they are also challenging and time consuming. For the first half of the ride we typically ride as one big group and regroup frequently. Halfway through the ride the group tends to split in two. Ombraz Sunglasses chipped in some cash to buy everyone bagels in the morning. Please bring a couple beverages and snacks to enjoy at the end of the ride with everyone.
Extreme gravel * Self-supported * No-resupply * Free
Routes are subject to change at any time leading up to the schedule ride date.
