Dorset Gravel Dash 2024
Dorset Gravel Dash 2024
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About The 2025 Dorset Gravel Dash 50:50

What's Included

 

  • GPX route files, one for each day.
  • Support Vehicle if you need bringing on to the camp, or back to the finish.
  • Overnight camping.
  • Hot evening meal
  • Pay as you go bar run by Jules the friendly farmer from his horsebox.
  • "Cheese Contest". Bring a cheese along for the ride. Best cheese wins a prize.
  • Campfire with straw bales to rest up on.
  • Hot break

 

  • GPX route files, one for each day.
  • Support Vehicle if you need bringing on to the camp, or back to the finish.
  • Overnight camping.
  • Hot evening meal
  • Pay as you go bar run by Jules the friendly farmer from his horsebox.
  • "Cheese Contest". Bring a cheese along for the ride. Best cheese wins a prize.
  • Campfire with straw bales to rest up on.
  • Hot breakfast.
  • Pay as you go morning coffee (TBC)
  • Goody bag from Bum Butter chamois cream.

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Everything You Need To Know.

 

The Kinesis UK Dorset Dirt Dash 5050 is split over two days with an overnight camp on 24/25 May 2025.

What else you need to know before entering

  • When: Saturday 24 May to Sunday 25 May 2025
  • Format: non-timed, self-supported reliability trial with overnight camping 
  • Route: around 152km /100 miles with 2,000m of climbing. 
  • Entries: £95 
  • Navigatio

 

The Kinesis UK Dorset Dirt Dash 5050 is split over two days with an overnight camp on 24/25 May 2025.

What else you need to know before entering

  • When: Saturday 24 May to Sunday 25 May 2025
  • Format: non-timed, self-supported reliability trial with overnight camping 
  • Route: around 152km /100 miles with 2,000m of climbing. 
  • Entries: £95 
  • Navigation: The route will be supplied electronically before the event. The course is not marked, you are responsible for your own navigation.
  • Bikes: mountain bikes & gravel bikes (e-bikes are allowed, but we cannot guarantee charging points) with a minimum recommended tire size of 40mm, which must be in good working order
  • Terrain: Singletrack, gravel paths, forestry roads, public roads, cycle paths
  • Start: sign on at 8am in/near Swanage.
  • Finish: Sunday afternoon/evening in/near Swanage.
  • What is provided: rider briefing, route for navigation, campsite, evening meal, breakfast, broom wagon
  • Camping: We provide a suitable place to pitch your tent with other riders, toilets, drinking water supply, and catering. There are no other facilities on site (shop etc.) But there is a small supermarket at the other end of the village.
  • Food: Riders will be provided with a complimentary evening meal. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free version are available on request (please let us know when you sign up). 
  • Minimum kit: Helmet, front and rear lights, sufficient water, emergency blanket or sleeping bag, waterproof jacket, first aid kit, phone or GPS for navigation, multitool, spare tube, bell, tire levers, puncture repair kit, tent/bivvy bag/tarp. You need to carry all your own kit.
  • Insurance: You will need your own insurance.
  • Refunds: No refunds. You can insure your entry for an additional fee (service is offered by a third party).
  • Registration & Rider Briefing
    You need to register for the event. Registration is open on Saturday 24 May from 8am. All riders MUST attend a rider briefing at 8.45am.

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