Bike Lube Advisor
Event lubricant planning

Bucket-list events, pre-configured

Pick an event below and the ZFC-grounded lubricant strategy renders without any scenario configuration. Tweak priorities if you want, or jump to the full scenario builder for an unlisted event.

Road

July

L'ร‰tape du Tour de France

France (route follows a Tour de France stage)

One Tour mountain stage, on closed roads, with you in the bunch.

170 km5,400 m climbing
July

Maratona dles Dolomites โ€“ Enel

Alta Badia, Dolomites, Italy

Dolomite queen sportive โ€” Sella, Gardena, Giau, and ten thousand cyclists.

138 km4,230 m climbing
July

La Marmotte Granfondo Alpes

Alpe d'Huez, France

Croix de Fer, Tรฉlรฉgraphe, Galibier, Alpe d'Huez โ€” French Alpine brutality.

177 km5,000 m climbing
April

Paris-Roubaix Challenge

Northern France

Hell of the North โ€” 30 cobbled sectors, grim spring weather, equipment lottery.

170 km1,400 m climbing
April / May

Mallorca 312

Mallorca, Spain

Spring's benchmark long-day amateur sportive โ€” 312 km round the island.

312 km5,050 m climbing
May

Ride Londonโ€“Essex 100

London / Essex, UK

UK's mass-participation closed-road classic โ€” 25,000 riders, one day.

160 km800 m climbing
May

Fred Whitton Challenge

Lake District, UK

Hardknott, Wrynose, Honister โ€” the UK's brutal-hills sportive rite of passage.

180 km3,900 m climbing
August

ร–tztaler Radmarathon

Sรถlden, Austria

The hardest amateur Alpine sportive โ€” four passes, 238 km, no negotiation.

238 km5,500 m climbing
March

Peaks Challenge Falls Creek

Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia

Australia's signature alpine sportive โ€” Hotham, Tawonga Gap, Falls Creek, one very long day.

235 km4,500 m climbing
June

Mt. Fuji Hill Climb

Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan

Japan's flagship hill-climb โ€” 24 km uphill TT to Mt. Fuji's 5th station.

24 km1,255 m climbing
July / August

Transcontinental Race

Western to Eastern Europe โ€” route changes annually

Europe's definitive self-supported ultra โ€” 4,000 km, single push, your own route.

~4,000 km over 2โ€“3 weeks (~200โ€“400 km/day depending on pace)

Gravel

MTB

Everyday