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Bespoke Corporate Cycling Days around the UK
Bike Adventure
Specialists in the field of Cycling Challenges, Adventure Café offer tours across the UK, Europe and worldwide. In addition to rides with professional cycle leaders, we also offer waymarked timed sportive events, which are ideally suited to Corporate Events. Both employees and clients alike will enjoy a well planned and executed challenge. With venues across the South of England to choose from, including venues suitable for large numbers of participants with event catering.
Our range of riding destinations includes some of the most iconic routes in the South of England, from Cheddar Gorge to the Weald of Kent, and Box Hill to the Cotwolds and the Chilterns. We are proud of our event leadership team who will ensure your riders are carefully looked after, given careful briefings and supported with great feed stations, and the best mechanical support. Our events are tailor made to suit your requirements, and any destinations mentioned are just indicative. We can even offer sportives across the water in northern France and Belgium.
Our routes can be offered in short, medium and long formats - from 25 miles up to 100.
Itinerary
All itineraries are made to measure - but a typical Itinerary is as follows:
08:00 Event Registration & Mechanical Check
08:40 Event Briefing
08:50 Departure on Ride - with ride leaders / support vehicles & waymarkers
10:30 Reach feedstation 1 - Stocked with water, snacks, electrolytes, and mechanical / first aid
12:15 Reach Feedstation 2
14:00 Return to Event HQ for celebratory drinks & buffet food 15:30 Expected end of event, riders to depart for home.
What is a Level 3.0 Cycling Challenge Like?
These rides are typically multi day rides, with medium distances and undulating terrain. Level 3 rides suit riders who ride regularly, and are looking for something challenging but manageable. In the case of single day events, you can expect up to 8 hours of cycling with breaks. In the case of a multi day ride, you can expect a slightly lower daily duration - but of course - the effort is sustained over a longer period. You should be a competent rider, with regular training outings - both at the weekend and ideally with another session during the week. A 10 week training programme is available for our 3 star rides.
How Fit Do I need to be to join a Level 3.0 ‘Bike Ride’?
You need to have good endurance for these events. You must be used to doing long bike rides in the countryside of 5 hours + and distances of between 45 - 55 miles . You should be doing regular exercise - with some serious cycle training (at least twice per week in the run up to the event). Your typical comfortable cycling speed will be around 21-23 km/hr on flat and gently undulating terrain, and you should be able to cycle at higher speed for up to 1 hour or 25 km (on a road bike). You may also blend in other types of exercise - but for longer periods of time (ie sessions in excess of 1.5 hrs.) - however cycling is the best preparation (obviously!)
Included In Trip
We can organise any element of a Corporate or Private Sportive. Typically this can be; Start Finish Venue, Breakfast, Feed Stations, Lunch, Waymarkers, First Aid, Support Vehicle, Multiple Route Choices, Mechanical Support, Emergency Support Telephone Number, Event Joining Information. For Larger Events, we are happy to provide a quote for Electronic Chip Timing Services and event photography.
Equipment Required
Bike Items
Road Bike / Hybrid Bike (with Appropriate Tyres) - please call us for guidance on a trip by trip basis
Water Bottles (bladder system/cycle water bottles)
Cycling Gloves
Under Saddle Pouch (recommended - can be used to carry asterik* items)
2 x Inner Tubes*
Multi-Tool (with allen keys)*
Mini Bike Pump (suitable for your valve type)
Helmet (compulsory)
Medikit
Suncream, Sunbloc (maybe... just maybe!)
Clothing
Medium Weight Softshell
Lycra Cycling Shorts, Long Cycling Trousers (Tights/Tracksuit Bottoms)
Short Sleeve Cycling T-Shirt (Dryflo type material) or Cycle Top with rear pockets
Cycling Shoes (to suit your own pedal choice)
1 Outer Fully Waterproof Jacket (gore-tex, e-vent) - comfortable to cycle in
1 Pair Extra Eight Long Tights (in poor conditions)
Other
Wallet, Credit Cards, Cash
Sunglasses, Mobile Phone (Essential)
Snacks for the day (dried fruits, nuts, flapjacks, cereal bars etc)
Safety Information
A full risk assessment is available for any of our events, with specific reference to the route selected. We use quieter roads as much as is possible, and we attempt to follow anti-clockwise circuits in order to minimise the number of turnings across traffic. Our knowledge and hazard identification has been a consolidation of years of cycling and adventure challenge management experience, and something we are very proud of.
Notes on Cycling Events
This is our standard range of Cycling Challenges in the UK, Europe and further afield. However, we offer completely tailormade itineraries to your specification. Call us to discuss!
Please note that for overseas point to point cycling challenges we can transport soft cases for bike transport - but not hard cases, due to space limitations on board our support vehicles.
On all our cycling events, please pack sensibly and bring a reasonably sized soft holdall type bag.
To participate in an overseas Adventure Cafe challenge - you must carry Travel Insurance (to be for the activity you are participating in, and to include repatriation to the UK).
Please also note that you should have a good level of cycling experience and be competent to handle your bike. We ride on roads shared with other vehicles - and you need to be able to deal with this safely.
Adventure Cafe Booking Terms and Conditions
By booking an event with Adventure Cafe, you agree to these standard terms of booking. Please ensure that you read the appropriate document for your type of event carefully.
Adventure Cafe Terms & Conditions - For all types of event
To Reserve Your Space on this Challenge
You should fill in the Google Form - linked here below, and then please call us on 01823 444 246 to advise of your payment method. We can accept card payments over the phone, or Bank Transfer.
Please note that your space is not confirmed until you have received your booking receipt.
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Adventure Cafe Challenge Booking Form - For Challenge Events