Some people plunge themselves into freezing water, others shimmy onto the dance floor and shake it to the beat...
We humans do all kinds of things to get pumped on life. At komoot, it’s adventure that fuels us. We think the humble bicycle is an A+ freedom machine, and bikepacking is an A+ way to embrace that freedom. No desolate gravel roads in a remote corner of the map necessary. No ultra-lightweight kit required.
All it takes to stir your inner bikepacker is the desire to discover more, a little spare time, and maybe a nudge to set yourself a new challenge.
Ride – Camp – Ride
If it’s a nudge you need, consider the Ride – Camp – Ride Challenge your official adventure permission slip. Set yourself a bikepacking challenge in September that’s doable in 48 hours or less. Not only will you bag yourself an awesome summertime adventure, you could be celebrating your achievement with a year’s subscription to komoot Premium, or even a Cannondale Topstone bike.
Off-road capable and on-road comfortable, Topstone is built for chasing horizons, exploring routes less travelled or accelerating your bikepacking adventure.
What counts as a bikepacking challenge?
As far as we’re concerned, bikepacking is 2 rides with an overnight stop in-between: Ride – Camp – Ride. To stand a chance to win, all you need to do is ride a bikepacking route that fits into 48-hours or less. You set your own challenge, whether it’s getting out on your first ever multi-day ride, bringing your kids along for the first time, or pushing the distance you can cover in a 48-hour period. If you consider it a challenge, we’ll consider it a challenge.
How to submit your bikepacking challenge
Go on a bikepacking adventure and upload your two completed Tours to komoot (or record them) by 1 October 2021.
Include the hashtag ‘#RideCampRide’ in the name of your completed Tour on komoot and follow Cannondale’s official komoot profile 'Ride Cannondale': komoot.com/user/ridecannondale. Tag Cannondale in your completed Tour.
Spice up your Tours
Include pictures that capture your experience, for example, snaps of your camp, your coffee break, something pretty you spotted en route – anything that helps to bring your adventure to life.
Fill in the comment box with the story of your adventure: Which challenge did you set yourself and how did the experience play out? Include the details that made the adventure come alive for you – your favorite memory from the ride, a problem you overcame, something unexpected that happened en-route...
Set your Tours to ‘Visible to anyone’ so the world can see them!
Winners will be contacted by email.
How we’ll award the prizes
Ride – Camp – Ride is not a competition. There are no points for speed or distance, and style won’t necessarily come into it. Just like on an adventure, our panel of bikepacking pros will go with the flow and embrace the entries that come in.
Maybe you’re new to bikepacking and your kit list is full of hacks. We might give you a prize for the most creative rig. Honed your camping breakfast to a lightweight nutritional feast? You could find yourself with a Best Brekkie award.
Ultimately, our panel will be looking for Tours that they feel capture the spirit of adventure – an unapologetically subjective criterion. Winners will be contacted by email.
Our Judges
Enthusiastic cycling photographer and rider of all roads.
Community Manager Spain at komoot
Community Manager Netherlands & Belgium at komoot
German ex pro cyclist gone gravel racer and podcaster.
Terms & Conditions
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1. General
By participating in this competition, participants warrant that they own all necessary rights to the submitted content and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, the terms of service (www.komoot.com/terms-of-service,) and the privacy policy (www.komoot.com/privacy) of komoot. The contest begins 01.09.2021 and ends 30.09.2021. The competition is organised by komoot GmbH, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Boelcke-Straße 2, 14473 Potsdam, Germany. This competition is governed by the laws of Germany. Participants are obliged to follow the ethics of leave no trace and abide by the laws of the relevant country when undertaking this bikepacking trip.
2. How to Participate
The competition is open to everyone, except employees of komoot and their immediate family. Entrants must have signed up for a komoot account. To participate entrants must follow the steps described on this page and submit their information completely and truthfully. All images and content submitted by the entrants may be used by komoot in emails, social media, and other marketing communications.
3. The prizes for this competition are as listed below:
– 1x Cannondale Topstone 1 bike: https://www.cannondale.com/nl-nl/bikes/road/gravel/topstone-alloy/topstone-1 color: Slate Gray – 10 x 1-year komoot Premium packages
The entries for any of the prizes mentioned above will close on 30.09.2021. A jury consisting of komoot employees and ambassadors will review the entries after 30.09.2021 and the Cannondale winner will be chosen at the judges’ discretion. Premium voucher winners will be randomly selected. Submitted Tours may subsequently be promoted in a Collection. Komoot reserves the right to promote the Collection in the feed, on social media, and via email. Komoot is the arbiter of the competition and reserves the right to alter, suspend, amend or foreclose the competition at any time without prior written notice and without any liability to any qualifying participant. Prizes are subject to availability and Cannondale reserves the right to substitute any prize with another prize of equivalent nature and economic value without giving prior notice. The winners will be notified via email to the address connected to their komoot account. If a winner does not reply within 2 weeks, the prize will be forfeited. The prize is as stated above and no cash or other alternatives will be offered to the winner(s). The prizes are not transferable.