Quick info

• Event name: Stor­uman Gravel.
• Courses: 30, 50, 70, och 116 km. (450 km is a dif­fer­ent event, see XL).
• For­mat: non-​competitive bike event, sanc­tioned by the cy­cling fed­er­a­tion, on gravel roads open for traf­fic, traf­fic laws apply.
• Classes: women, men, e-​bike and tan­dem.
• Date: Sat­ur­day August 2, 2025.
• Start: 11:00, En­samheten 9 km out­side Stor­uman (car park­ing ex­ists).
• Fin­ish: no later than 17:30, same place as the start.
• Reg­is­tra­tion: 9:30 to 10:45 at the start.
• Ser­vice: sign­posted courses, de­pots, race tim­ing, live­track, sup­port car, medic car, toi­lets at start/fin­ish, shower in Boll­hallen Stor­uman.

Equipment

You will need the fol­low­ing equip­ment to par­tic­i­pate:

• Re­quired: a bike that can be rid­den och gravel roads. Aer­o­bars are not al­lowed.
• Re­quired: a bike hel­met.
• Rec­om­mended: about 1 liter of liq­uid and some kind of en­ergy such as sports bars or gels.
• Rec­om­mended: equip­ment to fix a punc­ture (or two if you tend to have bad luck).
• Rec­om­mended: fully charged mo­bile phone, with the num­ber to the event leader (you get that when you get your num­ber tag).
• Rec­om­mended: the Xarepo Live Tracker app in­stalled in the mo­bile so that the au­di­ence and of­fi­cials can see where you are on the course dur­ing the event through our live track fea­ture.
• Rec­om­mended: SOS Alarm’s 112 app that helps the emer­gency ser­vice with po­si­tion­ing in the event of a se­ri­ous ac­ci­dent.

If you want to ride a bit faster, a tire width in the range 35 – 45 mm is best, but wider works of course, and nar­rower for those who are ex­pe­ri­enced or ride the eas­ier 30k course.

Speed-​loving gravel rid­ers usu­ally have drop bars on their bikes, but it’s in no way re­quired to ride fast. If you have an MTB and want to tune it for gravel, mount a bit nar­rower and smoother tires and lower the han­dle­bars as the speed is higher and the course is less tech­ni­cal than an MTB course. About half of the bikes in the event are usu­ally MTBs of var­i­ous kinds, so you will def­i­nitely not be alone if you use one.

If you in­tend to take it a bit eas­ier, it’s fine to ride a reg­u­lar every­day bike, pro­vided it has a brake on both front and rear wheels (only foot brake is not safe as it be­comes dis­abled if the chain jumps, which might hap­pen when you ride over a bumps in a down­hill).

Our spon­sor out­door store Utrustad of­fers 10% dis­count for bikes and 20% for bike ac­ces­sories for par­tic­i­pants in Stor­uman Gravel!

E-bikes

We wel­come e-​bikes in their own class, as long as they are legal with 25 km/h as the upper limit for motor as­sis­tance. Keep in mind that the courses have quite some climb­ing in them so many e-​bikes don’t have bat­tery ca­pac­ity for more than the 30k course.

Exotic bikes

Un­usual bikes such as re­cum­bents and tri­cy­cles are also wel­come, but then we want you to take it easy, start fur­ther back in the field and not ride in a group of reg­u­lar bikes as they re­quire more space, and vis­i­bil­ity to and from these bikes in close rid­ing is often less than good. Also, keep in mind that many of these bikes don’t work par­tic­u­larly well on tougher gravel roads, so use them only if you know how they be­have when there’s some loose and un­even ground.

Tandems have their own class that ap­plies re­gard­less of team com­po­si­tion — women / men / mix, two or more.

Bike trailers

It’s al­lowed to have a trailer at­tached, but then we ask you to take it re­ally easy and don’t ride in a bunch. Keep in mind that it may be­come bumpy, es­pe­cially down­hill.

Important for safety

• The roads are open to traffic, traffic rules apply, and cars may appear.
• Several intersections have give way duty, obey the signs!
• Do not take ad­van­tage of the sit­u­a­tion if some­one needs to wait for a car.
• If you ride in a bunch, don’t for­get to pay at­ten­tion to signs and traf­fic.
• This is a non-​competitive event, not a for­mal race, don’t push it!

There’s very lit­tle traf­fic on the roads so you prob­a­bly don’t have to wait for a car at an in­ter­sec­tion, but if a car ac­tu­ally ap­pears, it’s likely that the mo­torist is not ex­pect­ing that a cy­clist can ap­pear. Keep in mind that cars are hard, cy­clists are soft and you can­not trust that the right hand rule is fol­lowed.

Sponsors

Stor­uman Gravel is de­pen­dent on spon­sor sup­port. We would like to thank the fol­low­ing spon­sors who have made this event pos­si­ble:

Before and after

Getting here

If you need help find­ing suit­able means of travel to Stor­uman, we rec­om­mend Stor­uman’s of­fi­cial vis­i­tor guide.

Accommodation and food

We have put the start in the mid­dle of the day so those who can get up early in the morn­ing and have a dri­ver can come from far and visit only dur­ing the day. Of course, you are wel­come to stay longer and there are sev­eral dif­fer­ent ac­com­mo­da­tions to choose from within Stor­uman de­pend­ing on needs. Again, Stor­uman’s of­fi­cial vis­i­tor guide is a good source of in­for­ma­tion. There you also get tips of where to eat.

Our spon­sor Stor­uman’s Camp­ing of­fers a full 30% dis­count on ac­com­mo­da­tion for par­tic­i­pants at Stor­uman Gravel. This ap­plies to all types of liv­ing, so you can choose from the al­ter­na­tives avail­able. Reg­is­ter for the event first, and then book via email and write there that you will par­tic­i­pate, then you will get the dis­count.

No post-registration

We do not offer post-​registration so you have to sign up in ad­vance. As long as the event is not fully booked this can how­ever be done up to very close to the event here on the web through the signup page.

Start and finish area

The start and fin­ish area is in En­samheten, 9 km out­side Stor­uman. En­samheten lacks a per­ma­nent park­ing for these type of events, but we have a tem­po­rary so­lu­tion in place. Drive to En­samheten as usual, look for a park­ing sign and then fol­low the in­struc­tions given by the park­ing at­ten­dant. Keep in mind that when you leave the park­ing with your car, you drive out onto the course where tired cy­clists bet on goals. The road is wide enough and it’s up­hill for the cy­clists so it’s not a prob­lem as long as you are care­ful.

If you can get a ride and and be dropped off so there will be fewer cars in En­samheten, that’s great. There is a turn­ing cir­cle in­side En­samheten where it is ap­pro­pri­ate to be dropped off and turn the car around.

You can also choose to park in­side Stor­uman and, as a warm-​up, cycle to En­samheten. It’s a scenic 9 km long bike ride on as­phalt along the low-​traffic Kungavägen that goes next to Storumansjön.

Number tags

Num­ber tags are re­trieved at the start (be­tween 09:30 and 10:45). They are needed for the tim­ing and make it eas­ier for the of­fi­cials to see who is par­tic­i­pat­ing and not.

The num­ber tag is of the type that’s put around the seat­post as a flag, vis­i­ble from the side. This way you don’t have to pin a num­ber to your ex­pen­sive cy­cling aparrel or have a large wind catch on the han­dle­bars. The num­ber tag usu­ally fits even if you have a sad­dle­bag, but if it doesn’t work you have to im­pro­vise, for ex­am­ple at­tach it around the top tube or a seat stay.

Timing

Stor­uman Gravel is a non-​competitive event, not a race. We still pro­vide tim­ing so you can see your re­sult af­ter­wards. How­ever, the pur­pose of the tim­ing is not to sin­gle out win­ners — no place is awarded and there are nei­ther prizes nor podi­ums. If sev­eral rid­ers come in at about the same time, they get the same time in the re­sult. Take it easy out on the course!

As a par­tic­i­pant, you can of course ride as fast or slow as you want. The im­por­tant thing is to fol­low the traf­fic laws and stop and give way if nec­es­sary, show each other con­sid­er­a­tion, avoid fight­ing for po­si­tions, and take it easy where the sur­face is tricky or vis­i­bil­ity is lim­ited and cars may ap­pear.

Changing room, shower and toilet

Shower and chang­ing room with toi­let will be lo­cated in “Boll­hallen” in Stor­uman. The premises are lo­cated next to Stor­uman’s Camp­ing. It will be open 09:00 to 19:00 the day of the event. It’s un­at­tended, so do not leave valu­able things there.

At the start and fin­ish area in En­samheten, there will be portable toi­lets, but nei­ther a shower nor a chang­ing room.

After finishing

As this is a non-​competitive event we don’t have any prizes or cer­e­mony, which means that the rest of the day is free as soon as you ar­rive at the fin­ish, but do stay and min­gle for a while if you like. There's also some re­fresh­ments to get.

Your re­sult is an­nounced here on the web.

Social media

It will be great if you use the hash­tag #sto­ru­man­gravel when you post things re­lated to the event on so­cial media.

Merchandise

It may of course it be nice to have some phys­i­cal item as mem­ory from the event, which is why we offer print t-​shirts. In­stead of let­ting the reg­is­tra­tion fee fund a t-​shirt in the wrong size and a color you don’t like, we let those who want buy them­selves from our on­line mer­chan­dise shop. There’s a large se­lec­tion of col­ors, mod­els, sizes and ma­te­ri­als, in­clud­ing or­ganic cot­ton. We have cho­sen not to have the year in the print so you don’t have to buy one more next year — we want to avoid un­nec­es­sary con­sump­tion.

The price is the cost of the prod­uct and the print, we don’t add any­thing on top so this isn’t a source of in­come. If you just want to con­tribute to the event or­ga­nizer, we are happy if you just come back again next year and maybe get some more peo­ple to come.

Insurance

The event is sanc­tioned by the Swedish Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (SCF), which means that the fed­er­a­tion’s group in­sur­ance for ac­ci­dents is in­cluded in the reg­is­tra­tion fee. How­ever, the in­sur­ance only ap­plies to the event, so we rec­om­mend hav­ing your own ac­ci­dent in­sur­ance that ap­plies in your free time through­out the year so you have in­sur­ance cov­er­age when you train as well.

Out on the course

Cycling in a group

This event is open to every­one, re­gard­less of am­bi­tion and ex­pe­ri­ence. Ex­pe­ri­enced road cy­clists know that you can save sig­nif­i­cant en­ergy and ride faster by co­op­er­at­ing and stay closely to­gether re­duc­ing aero­dy­namic drag. How­ever, keep in mind that your fel­low rider may not have much if any ex­pe­ri­ence of group cy­cling and draft­ing. There­fore, keep a rea­son­able dis­tance if you don’t know how ex­pe­ri­enced the per­son you are close to is.

If you have not done any group rid­ing be­fore, the most im­por­tant thing to keep in mind is to not make sud­den side move­ments or brake hard un­nec­es­sar­ily, as there may be cy­clists near you who may not react fast enough.

Car traffic

All roads used by the courses are open to car traf­fic and the traf­fic laws apply.

The smoother the road, the more traf­fic. The gravel roads in the moun­tains are ex­tremely low on traf­fic so you usu­ally don’t see any car at all, but you still have to keep in mind that be­hind the crest or around the bend a car might ap­pear so you have to stay to the right. If the vis­i­bil­ity is good you can use the en­tire gravel road, but do so with cau­tion and full aware­ness of the sur­round­ings.

Dur­ing the event, it’s likely that there will be more cars out than usual with cu­ri­ous spec­ta­tors. To you who drive a car out on the course we ask you to be ex­tremely care­ful and as far as pos­si­ble avoid dri­ving while the event is on, and if you have to, try avoid dri­ving in the op­po­site di­rec­tion, es­pe­cially in those nar­row down­hill sec­tions. In some places there will be cars pro­hib­ited signs.

Own cars

It is nor­mal for cy­cling events that only the or­ga­nizer’s cars are al­lowed on the course. We don’t have a strict ban, but don’t want you to have com­pan­ion cars that fol­low along. How­ever, it is okay to call for your own sal­vage or re­pair help if you or your bike breaks down along the course. Make sure that the dri­ver knows the routes so that dri­ving in the op­po­site di­rec­tion is avoided. If you go home, do not for­get to quit the race first so we don’t think you have gone miss­ing.

Course marking

The course is sign­posted at all crit­i­cal in­ter­sec­tions so you won’t get lost.

At exits and cross­ings where you should con­tinue rid­ing straight ahead there are how­ever no di­rec­tional signs, so it should be said that if you are used to big run­ning com­pe­ti­tions with fences and of­fi­cials who shout, wave and point at each cross­ing, then an event like this re­quires the par­tic­i­pant to take a lit­tle bit more re­spon­si­bil­ity for the nav­i­ga­tion. But, if you just fol­low the signs and don’t take a turn where there isn’t any, you will come to the fin­ish.

The signs con­sist of lam­i­nated white A3 sheets on sticks. They are quite large, but smaller than reg­u­lar road signs, so do not for­get glasses or lenses if you need them to see clearly.

In ad­di­tion to signs show­ing the di­rec­tion of travel, there are also warn­ing signs for steep down­hills, and in­ter­sec­tions that re­quire extra at­ten­tion.

The gravel roads used have vir­tu­ally no of­fi­cial road signs. To im­prove safety at the in­ter­sec­tions, we have sign­posted a num­ber of yield­ing oblig­a­tions where you as a cy­clist must stop if there is a car or other ve­hi­cle. There are no pure stop signs and cars are rare so you prob­a­bly never have to stop, but be pre­pared! At other in­ter­sec­tions, the right-​hand rule ap­plies, but do not ex­pect all mo­torists to fol­low it — be care­ful!

There are no signs for each kilo­me­ter, so if you want to know how far you have trav­elled you need to have a cy­cling com­puter.

To get an idea of how we have marked the course, you can down­load the map we use when we place the signs: map with sign place­ment.

Depots

The de­pots offer water, a basic en­ergy drink and fruit. The most com­pet­i­tive par­tic­i­pants will prob­a­bly not take the time to stop, but in­stead carry all the liq­uid and en­ergy needed for the en­tire ride on the bike (or have pri­vate liq­uid sta­tions). Even if you plan to ride at a slower pace, we rec­om­mend that you bring some water and some en­ergy if you get hun­gry or thirsty be­tween de­pots.

For the longest course (70k and 116k, blue and pur­ple in the pic­ture) one depot is used twice. The depot is placed to be in the best po­si­tion the last time it is passed, which means that if you are thirsty or hun­gry al­ready at the sec­ond depot, you have to ride about 100 me­ters extra out­side the course to reach the depot. It’s sign­posted.

For the 50k course (yel­low line in the pic­ture), this depot is in­cluded only once and is lo­cated right next to the course.

Trash

At each depot there is a garbage bag where you can dump trash.

It’s of course ob­vi­ous to most peo­ple, but we men­tion it any­way: it is strictly for­bid­den to throw waste off the bike. If you ac­ci­den­tally drop a gel wrap­per, water bot­tle or some­thing else, you stop (care­fully), turn around and pick up the trash. Being in a fast group in the front is no ex­cuse for leav­ing the garbage on the ground — it’s a part of rid­ing to be able to hold on to your stuff.

Road surface

The sur­face of gravel roads varies in a more tan­gi­ble way than as­phalt. After a pro­longed pe­riod of rain gravel roads can have some more dam­age and they can be soft mak­ing the bike roll slower. Newly main­tained gravel roads typ­i­cally have rougher gravel than usual on top. The roads are usu­ally dry, fast and in rel­a­tively good con­di­tion, but we can­not give any guar­an­tees.

In parts with steep slopes, it’s com­mon for the sur­face to be a bit looser and that there is some ero­sion dam­age from rain and spring floods. There­fore, if you ride fast, you must have a sharp eye on the ground, es­pe­cially if you ride with nar­row tires.

Punctures and other breakdowns

If you have rea­son­ably fresh tires punc­tures are rare. The tires can with­stand more than you think and the gravel out on the course is gen­er­ally not that sharp. If you in ad­di­tion ride at a tour­ing pace the risk of get­ting a punc­ture is very low. If you are an ex­pe­ri­enced cy­clist who can re­pair a punc­ture in the field, we still rec­om­mend that you bring re­pair equip­ment just like you would on a reg­u­lar long ride.

Since the event wel­comes every­one re­gard­less of ex­pe­ri­ence, we don’t ex­pect every­one to be ex­perts at fix­ing a punc­ture or other break­downs in the field, so if you don’t have any re­pair kit or don’t know the craft, we think it’s okay, and we want you to come and ride any­way. Most likely it will go well with­out a mishap. If you don’t carry a re­pair kit we rec­om­mend that you do not choose the longest course (116k) though.

If you do get bad luck and get stranded on the course with a bro­ken bike, then some pa­tience is needed. We have an as­sis­tance car but the course is long and it can take some time for the car to reach you. If you have a friend who can pick up or re­pair it’s okay, but if car is dri­ven to the site the dri­ver should be very care­ful and if pos­si­ble avoid dri­ving op­po­site to the course di­rec­tion.

It’s al­lowed to re­ceive re­pair as­sis­tance from out­side or swap the bike and then con­tinue the event from the same place (or where you went by foot to have the bike re­paired or re­placed).

Quitting the event

If you need to quit the event then no­tify the event leader by phone or at a depot or fin­ish. To make it eas­ier for the of­fi­cials and the tim­ing, re­move the num­ber tag and don’t ride in over the fin­ish line.

It’s im­por­tant that you let us know if you are going home be­fore you reach the fin­ish line be­cause we keep track of every­one to make sure that no one gets lost. If some­one is miss­ing, we need to do a search out on the course.

Injuries

Par­tic­i­pa­tion is at your own risk. The Swedish Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion’s ac­ci­dent in­sur­ance is in­cluded in the reg­is­tra­tion fee, but it only ap­plies dur­ing the event it­self, so if you want cov­er­age dur­ing train­ing be­fore the event, you need to get your own.

We rec­om­mend that you bring a mo­bile phone so you can call for help in the event of an emer­gency. The mo­bile phone can also be used for po­si­tion­ing if you can­not de­scribe where you are, and for that SOS Alarm’s 112 app is an ex­cel­lent com­pan­ion.

As a par­tic­i­pant, you are obliged to stop and help if some­one needs emer­gency as­sis­tance due to in­jury or ill­ness.