Rides, Races & Events

The 2025 YGR Time Trials are set to start on Tuesday, April 8th!
The first race is the Horsetooth Time Trial followed by the Taft Hill Time Trial on April 15th and finally the Doube Damn Dams on April 22nd.  The racing continues with the same courses in June and again in August.  These are great, no-pressure training races for everyone from experienced pros to first-timers. Categories for road, knobby-tired (gravel, cx and mtb) and aero.

The NoCo Gravel Stage Race is back for 2025. The first stage starts on April 1st with a new route dropping every month through August.

154 racers kicked off their road season with the Frostbite Time Trial in Wellington. The race is hosted by Team Rio Grande Racing and sanctioned by USA Cycling. The 11 mile out and back course featured categories for Aero, Eddy Merckx, tandem and collegiate teams.

Event Type: Gravel Group Ride
Time of Year: Spring
The OSO is the OG NoCo gravel event, first taking place in 2005. V1 was a fundraiser so the legend Rafael Millan-Garcia could return to Mexico to visit his ailing father. The lowkey grassroots gravel race has happened more or less every year since.

Event Type: Mountain Bike Series
Time of Year: Summer
The best grassroots race series in the universe will return in 2025. The Laramie Mountain Bike Series will feature five Tuesday night races on Wyoming's Pilot Hill (first two races) and Happy Jack (final three races) trail systems.

Time: Spring, Summer Fall @Tues PM
Pace: Conversational Pace
Join us for fun and only slightly spicy rides on Tuesday nights. Expect a 13-14 MPH average pace with 1-2 re-groups per ride. We aim to keep the stoke high and the jerks out.

Event Type: Gravel Stage Race
Time of Year: Spring/Summer
The NCGSR is a free, Strava-based gravel stage race that takes place during the Spring and Summer in Larimer and Weld counties. The goal of these races is to "create a grassroots gravel event that creates a welcoming and supportive environment where people can challenge themselves, explore Northern Colorado roads, and get involved with a community of like-mined riders."

Event Type: Gravel Group Ride
Time of Year: Winter, Spring, Summer
Whit and Zack with Bike Sports are hosting training rides leading into this summer's FoCo Fondo. The series includes a women's only weekend, a beginners clinic, on-your-own rides and gravel group rides. The rides are free, but you must sign a waiver. The Fondo takes place on July 21st, 2024.

Time: All Season @ Sunday AM
Pace: Conversational Pace
Supported by Trek and the First City Cycling Team, this group ride will find the best gravel rides around Fort Collins. Rides are anywhere from 40-70 miles in length. Although they are not no-drop, usually groups will form so that you're not stuck out on your own. Make sure you have enough food/water/gear to support yourself for the entire ride because there aren't always stops along the way.

Time: All Season @ Sunday AM & Wednesday PM
Pace: Conversational Pace
Twice a week gravel group rides and good company. Join us at rotating starting points around town for some rowdy rides and raucous times exploring our NoCo gravel.

Time: May-August @ Monday PM
Pace: Recovery Pace
These are great ways to spin the legs out and exchange war stories after a hard weekend of racing. Be sure to head back to the afterward Rio for a world-famous recovery marg.

Event Type: Gravel Group Ride
Time of Year: Winter, Spring, Summer
Whit and Zack with Bike Sports are hosting training rides leading into this summer's FoCo Fondo. The series includes a women's only weekend, a beginners clinic, on-your-own rides and gravel group rides. The rides are free, but you must sign a waiver. The Fondo takes place on July 21st, 2024.

Event Type: Gravel Group Ride
Time of Year: Winter
The Winter Ralleye is a series of gravel group rides that take place every winter in Larimer and Weld Counites. They are usually held regardless of weather conditions and can be done on any type of bike you are comfortable riding/pushing in harsh conditions. These conditions include but are not limited to; cold, darkthrity, COLD, snow, rain, deep snow, goat heads, wind and 60 degrees and sunny. It's not a race and there are no entry fees.

Event Type: Moutain Bike Series
Time of Year: Each Season
The Four Seasons of Horsetooth Mountain Bike Challenge is a grass-roots un-event with no entry fees and no real start times and is ridden on the two solstices and two equinoxes in Horsetooth Mountain Park and Lory State Park.

Event Type: Gravel Stage Race
Time of Year: Spring/Summer
The NCGSR is a free, Strava-based gravel stage race that takes place during the Spring and Summer in Larimer and Weld counties. The goal of these races is to "create a grassroots gravel event that creates a welcoming and supportive environment where people can challenge themselves, explore Northern Colorado roads, and get involved with a community of like-mined riders."

Event Type: Bike Holiday
Time of Year: February
Winter Bike to Work Day encourages thousands of cyclists to ride their bikes to work (or wherever) each February. Dozens of local businesses sponsor free breakfast stations all over town.  It's like Bike to Work Day but with mittens. 

Event Type: Bike Swap/Party
Time of Year: Feburary or March
RioSwap is one of the crown jewels of the YGR empire. The annual bike and outdoor swap and season launch party is hosted by YGR in the Rio's Agave Room every year.