Grass Routes Gran Fondo

• Event Date: 20SEP2020
• Event Time: 08:30 to 09:30 (Staggered Starts)
• Event Location: Tipperary Town Plaza

What is the Grass Routes Gran Fondo?

Best described as “self supported with benefits” this is a cycle challenge ran by three misfit cyclists from The Bike Place Tipperary who have a passion for rural roads, grass roads and no roads at all!

Influenced primarily by the DIY gravel movement in North America but more in common with the European classics, the Grass Routes Gran Fondo offers a unique experience for riders looking to explore beyond the norm. Taking in boreen, gravel, limestone and dirt sectors you weave a path through the best of what the Glen of Aherlow and East Limerick has to offer, rich in history and historical sites to see, these are the roads less travelled by.

The cycle itself is a self-guided 140km adventure following the GRGF demarcation arrows, maps and signage; starting in Tipperary Town Plaza and finishing at the High Nelly Bicycle Café, Pallasgreen. Along the way participants will traverse 11 key sectors and multiple KOM’s (which can be used later for bragging rights). This is a stage event and post event participants have a 14km trek back to the start… its really boring so we didn’t include it.

Now, if you’ve read this far then we have appealed to your curiosity and we invite you to join us on this epic ride on Sunday September 20th 2020.… oh yeah and it’s free; too many things in this life cost money and cycling your bike shouldn’t be one of them.

The only contradiction to this is a €5 one day licence fee for Non-Cycling Ireland members!