The history of modern bikepacking races is quite short. The first races that can be given this label are some off-road races in the USA in the early 2000s: the IditaBike race on the Alaskan snow and the Great Divide Race across the Rocky Mountains. Road-based bikepacking races started with the World Cycle Race in 2012, then the first Transcontinental Race in Europe in 2013 brought much more attention. In addition to the more modern style of bikepacking races, near the origins of cycle sport in the late 1800s there were many people recording times for riding ultra-distances solo and self-supported.
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Overview of the 2018 Transcontinental Race, No6, which is a self-supported, ultra-distance bikepacking race that visits various iconic locations between NW and SE Europe.
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Latest news about the 6th edition of the Transconinental Race, a bikepacking race across Europe that will hopefully be held again in 2018.
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This is the second of two pages containing information about the 2017 Transcontinental Race No5. See the page for a…
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Personal race report of the second half of my 2016 Transcontinental Race.
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Personal race report of my 2015 Transcontinental Race.
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Personal race report of the second half of my 2014 Transcontinental Race.
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Personal race report of the first half of my 2016 Transcontinental Race.
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Personal race report of the first half of my 2014 Transcontinental Race.
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Mike Hall won various bikepacking races, founded the Transcontinental Race and inspired people all over the world to ride farther than they thought possible.
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