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About Gravelcyclist

Gravelcyclist is a cycling community that organizes gravel, road and cyclocross races. We run about 30 races a season. Entry is free, and we publish the results on Masters Cycling Stats.

Riders at the start of the Old Kaluga Road gravel race
The start of the Old Kaluga Road, the main gravel race of our season.

What we organize

The Gravelcyclist gravel series has twelve routes from 45 to 183 km on dirt roads, gravel and asphalt, some of them with fords. The main race is the 183 km Old Kaluga Road. See the race calendar.

Tour de Klenovo, our road series, has been running since 2014. In season we hold a training race on a loop of about 20 km every weekend: riders choose 80 or 100 km and start in several groups.

We have held cyclocross races since 2018, and the 2025–26 season opened in October 2025.

A group of riders on a corner at a Tour de Klenovo road race
A Tour de Klenovo road race. Photo: MTBMoscow.
A rider running uphill with his bike at a Gravelcyclist cyclocross race
A Gravelcyclist cyclocross race, 2025. Photo: MTBMoscow.

In numbers

About 30 races a season
Up to 110 riders at a Tour de Klenovo start (June 2025)
83 riders at the Troitskoye gravel race (May 2026)
3,400 followers of our gravel channel and 3,300 of the Tour de Klenovo channel on Telegram

Who races with us

Both amateurs and professional riders come to our starts, and local clubs and sports schools use the Klenovo races for training. Stepan Grigoryan of the Armenian national team won a Klenovo race in July 2025, and in October 2026 the winner was a 16-year-old junior who had raced the Junior World Championships in Montreal two weeks before.

Racing abroad

Oleg Lazarevich, who regularly wins Gravelcyclist races, has also raced in Georgia and China.

Oleg Lazarevich in a group of riders at the Tour de Zegaani in Lagodekhi, Georgia
Oleg Lazarevich (white and red kit, left of the rider in turquoise) at the Tour de Zegaani in Lagodekhi, Georgia.
Oleg Lazarevich with another rider at the Yuanshan Hill Climb in Shenzhen, China
Oleg Lazarevich (left) at the 9th Yuanshan Hill Climb in Shenzhen, China.

Contact

Email: info@gravelcyclist.ru

Telegram: @gravelcyclist_team

Channels: @gravelcyclist (gravel races) and @tourdeklenovo (road races)

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