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Riders registering to ride this course need to have a high level of endurance fitness, confident bike handling skills over variable terrain and a capacity to ride long hours, often in difficult conditions.  Your bike, bikepacking bags, sleep kit, navigation system all need to dialed, tested and understood BEFORE you attempt this ride. This is not a camping touring trip, ride light, ride fast. It's you against the clock, pushing your personal limits. Wether you ride the course in 4 or 14 days the challenge is for you to uncover your inner strengths and weaknesses and deal with them to achieve an outcome that delivers a unique personal sense of inner pride and satisfaction.

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Monaro Cloudride 1000 - STARTS: Friday 10 April 2020 - 8:00am

The Monaro Cloudride 1000 is a mountain bike endurance race that traverses the ridgetops of the Great Dividing Range through the Monaro region of south east Australia. Constantly challenging the  bike handling skills of the rider with the demands of speed, climbing, descending, endurance and – add the demands of navigation, limited resupply along the route, long hours in the saddle and you introduce the companions of the long distance rider, mental fatigue, loneliness and the mirror of self. 

The journey takes riders 1000 kilometres across the rooftop of Australia to experience breathtaking wilderness areas of our national parks, vistas that go forever and the solitude and beauty of our high country plains. The Monaro Cloudride 1000 demands extraordinary determination and also an acceptance that the elements can and will sometimes prevail and reshape your journey. Those who finish can cherish and remember their time on the Monaro Cloudride 1000 as a lifetime achievement.

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Cloudride Prologue 500 - STARTS: Saturday 7 March 2020 6:00am [Registration opens 1 January 2020]

The intention of the Prologue is to provide an entry level for first time bikepacking racers to test gear, navigation and themselves over two or three days and gain an experience of the terrain and fatigue levels that they will encounter on the full 1000k Monaro Cloudride. A secondary option for the  Prologue is for strong but time poor XC racers who want to dig a little deeper without having to commit to the expense of a full multi-day bikepacking rig. These riders will need to meet the navigation challenges, ride light, ride hard and hit the commercial ’sleep/food’ options to make it work. 

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NOTE: Cloudride Prologue Course 

The Course for the 2020 Cloudride Prologue will be announced in December. As in previous years it will be a completly different course but similar in terrain and experience to this years course. The information and notes relating to the proposed Prologue course will be published as Blog posts [see Menu top right on this page] to avoid any confusion with the full Cloudride 1000. Rider Services for the Prologue are included with the full Cloudride 1000 services. See Menu heading 'Rider Services' above.

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