The Longest Bike Race in the World

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The Moscow-to-Vladivostok epic’s the longest bicycle stage race in the world, but what’s it about?

1. The stages are up to 1,400km long

The new route covers 14 stages varying from 300km to 1,400km each and goes through Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Svobodny and Khabarovsk.

2. It ends at an opera house

The race finishes in Vladivostok by the Far Eastern Opera house on the shore of the Pacific Ocean.

3. It’s like the world’s toughest geography lesson

The participants are going to cross five climate zones, seven timezones, the Ural mountains and four of the longest rivers in the world. They'll pass Lake Baikal and ride along the borders of Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, covering a total of 79,000m of ascent and spending more than three weeks on the road.

4. Only the toughest finish this race

Last year four solo cyclists from Austria, Belgium, UK and Russia, and three duo teams from Germany, Italy and Russia, completed the premiere of the longest ultra-stage race in the world. The race is three times longer than Tour de France and twice as long as the Race Across America.

5. The first bit’s easier

The first part of the 2016 route will be slightly easier, with three stages instead of two up to the Ural mountains, but the rest of the route will be much more testing. The bikers will be able to rest on Lake Baikal in Irkutsk for one day before the extreme second half starts, with long stages of a minimum of 700km and the Amur challenge, the longest stage, of more than 1,400 km!

6. Entrants are on an exclusive list

Red Bull Trans-Siberian Extreme has already drawn the attention of a large number of cyclists from all over the world. Anyone who feels they have what it takes to overcome almost 10,000km on a bike can apply to participate. The race will accept only 20 cyclists in 2016, all chosen and evaluated by the race organisers. Registration is ongoing for both solo and duo categories.

7. The riders aren’t totally alone

An experienced support team providing medical, physio and mechanical services, as well as food, will make sure that bikers reach their ultimate results with professional and high-quality care.

https://www.redbull.com/us-en/events/red-bull-trans-siberian-extreme-2017

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