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The Top 10 Most Popular Events Worldwide

This year we award and recognize the Top 10 Most Popular Events on Gran Fondo Guide over the past ten years

Gran Fondo Guide has reached its 11th year of operation, the Worlds Leading Amateur Cycling Platform has reached a global audience of nearly 4 million unique usersover 185,000 visitors per month and over 1.61 million page impressions per month.

To celebrate, we bring you the top 10 most popular events on Gran Fondo Guide over the last ten years. *Please Note: This is the pure impressions, incoming organic traffic, by Fondo Fans over the last 10 years.

Make sure you add at least one of these outstanding events to your Bucket List this year!

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#1 Belgian Waffle Ride California

The most unique cycling event in the U.S., the Belgian Waffle Ride, affectionately known as the BWR

Created as an extremely challenging race in the spirit of the great European one-day Spring Classics, BWR is an unusually difficult race. This is the original. It’s diabolical; the Hell of the West (Coast).

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#2 GFNY World Championship NYC

Professional, elite and 5,000 weekend warriors from over 100 countries will race the GFNY World Championship from George Washington Bridge in New York City

The 11th GFNY World Championship NYC is where everyone gets to be a Pro for a day. On Sunday, May 21st 2023, riders will take on a challenging 100-mile route with 8,500 feet of climbing starting on the iconic George Washington Bridge at 7 a.m. and wind along the course in New Jersey and New York State that extends up to New York’s Bear Mountain State Park, with the finish line in Fort Lee, NJ.

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#3 Epic Tour

Epic Tour, located in Greater Toronto (aka the GTA GranFondo), is one of Canada's biggest rides and Toronto's premier cycling event 

The 11th edition takes place on Sunday September 10, 2023 from Milton in Ontario.

The Epic Tour is a one-day fully supported cycling event that leads cyclists over some of the most spectacular roads Southern Ontario has to offer.  Rolling country roads, dense forests and the Niagara Escarpment set the stage for an epic day on the bike that you won’t soon forget. Young or old, newbie or pro, with 6 routes to choose from catered to everyone.

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#4 Styrkeproven

Styrkeproven attracts up to 9,500 cyclists, one of the most prestigious bucket list endurance rides in the world

Styrkeproven translates to “Great Trial of Strength” in Norwegian, and is a ultra-distance bicycle race that starts in Trondheim and finishes in Oslo, Norway after 560 km with over 3,627m of climbing.

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#5 GFNY Bali

Gran Fondo on the “Island of the Gods”, one of the most sought after travel destinations in the world 

It’s one thing to travel to Bali to experience its beauty. But doing so for a bike race will make the experience so much more memorable, no wonder this is one of the most popular rides on Gran Fondo Guide.

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#6 BMC Rock Cobbler

The Ride, the Food, the Prizes, the stupidly hard route. The glorious euphoric pain, the rocks, the dirt, the mud. Gravel ride? Sorta! 

The “Cobbler” as it’s commonly known is scheduled for February 11, 2023, in Bakersfield, California. The Rock Cobbler is a stupidly hard ride conceived by Mad Men on barstools in the dark hours of the night.

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#7 Gran Fondo Hincapie-Greenville

A season highlight for thousands of amateur cyclists and celebrity guests in the stunning Blue Ridge Mountains

More than 2,500 cyclists took part in the 11th edition of the Gran Fondo Hincapie that started from Hotel Domestique, Greenville, South Carolina. The event focuses on recreation and fun with a competitive spirit.

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#8 Lu Lacka Wyco Hundo

This is the ride you've all heard about! This is the ride you've been waiting for! Up to 100 miles of mostly untraveled roads through North-eastern Pennsylvania

The 11th edition of the Lu Lacka Wyco Hundo takes place on April 23rd 2023 from Pittston and hits untraveled roads through Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wyoming counties in North-eastern, PA that will show you things you haven't seen, teach you things about yourself, and challenge your bike to keep you going when you can't see where the road and gravel and mud end, and civilization begins.

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#9 Gran Fondo Florida

This hugely popular ride allows cyclists to escape the cold and kick-start their season with a sunny ride on quiet roads and rolling hills through central Florida

The 11th edition of the hugely popular Gran Fondo Florida takes place on March 19th, 2023 from sunny Dade City Brew House in Dade City, where average temperatures are in the sublime 70’s this time of year.

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#10 Australian Unity Tour de Brisbane

Brisbane in Australia continues to make its mark on the world stage with their hugely popular inner-city UCI Gran Fondo

Over 5,000 riders are expected to take to the start line in the Australian Unity Tour de Brisbane on Sunday April 2nd 2023. The Australian Unity Tour de Brisbane sets itself apart by being one of the only inner-City cycling events held on fully closed roads in the world, offering a range of other distances including 14, 50, 80 and the 110 km Gran Fondo courses.

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