TUESDAY SOCIAL RIDE
As RACZ25 is slowly approaching, we would like to invite all riders and also his families, RACZ25 team and fans of our event, to the new feauture - 40km/400m relaxing Tuesday's Social Ride, which we organize day before start, on 1st July.
It can be a great ...opportunity to stretch your legs, try out the bike and equipment and get to know the beauties of the westernmost corner of Bohemia for all those who will not go to work on Tuesday and will arrive in Cheb on Monday evening or around lunchtime on Tuesday. This is a new feature of RACZ organization and we are sure you will enjoy it.
The route will lead through picturesque spa town Františkovy Lázně (start of racz24), where there will be a first break for delicious ice cream, then continue along luxurious gravel roads through the spa park and around adjacent ponds, then you will check out Seeberg Castle, have a beer in Lipá and turn back to Cheb along the cycle paths near the German border. At the end of the route, we have also prepared a passage through the historical center of the city, which unfortunately did not make it into the official racz25 route.
You can click on Social Ride route here:
https://mapy.com/s/cukenekoda
Social Ride is of course voluntary, and will start with a (also voluntary) lunch at Stein resort at 12.00, after eating we would set off around 13.30, we expect about 2 hours of riding to enjoy the route, plus 1 hour of breaks.
Presentation and pick-up of trackers will start at 18.00, with planned pre-start meeting and presentation of RACZ25 route then at 21:00.
In the meantime, have fun and train hard to be in shape for racz25 adventure
See you soon in Cheb
RACZ25 team
Moravia Divide Day 2
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15Qzf3fjEV/
Our last RACZ winner Tim De Witte is still in superb shape and proved that he can beat his rivals also on a mountain bike.
Yesterday won our sister event 800km/13000m MTB challenge Moravia Divide in less than 2 days.
You can follow this event and support also cca 30 racz25 ...riders on GPS tracking FollowMe, which we will also use during our event.
https://cs.follow.me.cz/tracking/md25/
LAST CALL FOR CAPS ORDERS /
POSLEDNÍ VÝZVA PŘED OBJEDNÁVKOU ČEPIC
(EN) Hello riders and fans,
We still have more than 2 months until the start of RACZ25, but we need to finish an order for caps in RACZ25 design, this week, so that they can be made in time.
Caps ...are not mandatory and are not part of the entry fee, you can pay an additional fee of 400 CZK / 16 EUR.
If you plan to attend our event and want one if this nice piece, please fill the registration form until Friday 25th April.
https://raceacross.cz/registration/
If you don't want to attend racz25, or you have completed one of the previous editions and would like to have a cap as a souvenir, fill out the simpler order form on UB website
ultrabikers.eu/cepice
(CZ) Ahoj závodníci a fanoušci,
Do startu RACZ25 nám zbývají ještě více než 2 měsíce, ale do konce tohoto týdne potřebujeme dokončit objednávku cyklistických čepic v designu RACZ25, aby se stihly včas vyrobit.
Čepice nejsou povinné a nejsou součástí startovného, můžete je získat za dodatečných 400 Kč / 16 EUR.
Pokud se plánujete zúčastnit letošního ročníku a chcete-li přitom mít tenhle pěkný kousek na hlavě, vyplňte prosím registrační formulář do pátku 25. dubna.
ultrabikers.eu/racz25-registration
Pokud závodit nechcete, nebo jste absolvovali některý z minulých ročníků, a chtěli byste čepici jako suvenýr, vyplňte jednodušší objednávkový formulář na UB webu
ultrabikers.eu/cepice
WITAMY W POLSCE 🇲🇨
RACZ25 route will not lead only through Czechia, but on 665.km Riders will leave CZ in Bartošovice and will make a 28km shortcut through Poland.
We discovered some luxury gravel roads nearby Miedzylesie, mainly the one on Debowiec hill is delicous. Then ...riders can take some french fries in Žabka, enjoy views from fotogenic panel road to Sikornik, pass dry polder in Pisary, climb a hill do Jodlow and finally crunch a bit on other superb gravel road above that village.
Our director Číža checked this section yesterday, so you can convince that this shortcut was definitely a good choice.
Afterwards, our Riders will climb to 1150m elevation and spend probably the most beautiful 20km of racz25 route in gravel paradise above Dolní Morava.
RACEACROSS.CZ
NEW WEBSITE ESPECIALLY FOR RACZ !!!
Hello riders and fans, we have a good news mostly for all of you, who dont speak czech and dont want to participate in our UltraBikers Cup more significantly than by attending RACZ ;-)
After several weeks of work, we finished ...specific website just for RACZ, which is designated to non-czech riders - it is written in english and you won´t be disturbed by tons of infromations regarding our UltraBikers Cup whole-year competition here (though you will find there at least some basic info about other 3 main events).
We tried to make it mainly simple - so on a homepage you will find some late news, and in upper menu you can easily find direct links to basic info, route, registration, gallery, rules, organizational stuff or merchandising.
We hope you will like it and that you will safe some time and misunderstanding, unlike on UltraBikers website.
So, remember this link, which you can send to your friends who are considering to participate our event this year or in a future
raceacross.cz
RACZ24 MOVIE ALSO WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES !
We have a good news mainly for foreign riders and fans of our event ;-)
Since today you can play again a movie from last year´s edition on our YouTube channel also with english subtitles, to understand also emotions of domestic participants ...of racz24, who - of course - communicated with our team in czech language.
We can also reveal that The Team for racz25 is almost complete, with few strong guys with good experience of shooting outdoor events, including bikepacking. We will introduce it during February ;-)
And yeah, we plan movie from it with more english than czech talking :-D
Movie from 1150km gravel bikepacking adventure Race Across Czechia 2024, with english subtitles. Informations about actual edition (RACZ25):...
www.youtube.com
MEET RACZ25 RIDERS #4
Well, today we will introduce last group of racz25 riders, where czech colours represents for example 3rd rider of last year´s edition Jirka Turek or Adam Záviška, who was 3times on start of racz in the past.
Strong army sends Poland, with Marcin Witkowski as... one of last two 3-times finishers of RACZ history, 4th rider of racz24 and 50+ category winner Krzysztof Szawdzin or Urszula Zuchowicz, whose CV (for example 4th general on Montenegro Mountain Madness 2024) fits her to role of one of favourites in Female category.
We can find there also other two hungarians, Tamas and Robert Kanyi, who are until now the only brothers on racz25 list of riders
ultrabikers.eu/racz25-riders
MEET RACZ25 RIDERS #3 (K-S)
Let´s gonna introduce third group of RACZ25 riders.
While first two groups included mostly czech guys, this bulk is pretty international - we will look forward to see again superexperienced bikepacker Morten Kjaersgaard from Denmark, first hungrian rider ...in racz history László Pusztai, New Zealander Matt O´Brien and few familiar polish faces, including Kamila Pociech who attended our first edition and plans to return back after 3 years.
We are really getting excited...