210-mile and 100-mile finishers will also receive a sticker and likely a Salsa top cap.

All 210- and 100-mile racers will receive a Coast to Coast shirt (new design shown upper left) or SockGuy 5″ wool socks, plus a water bottle and likely an Orange Mud buff/neck gaiter.

Ludington provides an ideal finish town for venues, lodging, breweries and love for the outdoors. – Rebecca Rusch, world champion mountain biker (and gravel road lover) Finish your race in one of the great outdoor towns in the country, Ludington, touching the waters of Lake Michigan and completing your amazing adventure. You’ll never forget the sunrise start on Lake Huron and the journey westward through farmland, wetlands, pine barrens, rolling uplands and magestic forest, toward the amazing sunset over Lake Michigan. We’ve teamed up with top Midwest endurance racer Matt Acker, who knows Michigan’s gravel roads and gravel racing better than anyone, to create a course you will be sure to love.

It’s a memorable, powerful experience.īicycling Magazine’s Selene Yeager captures the essence of this experience in her ode to this race. And you bond with your amazing support crew who are helping you achieve your goal. And then you open up to a stranger about your life and why you are doing this race. The rider next to you shares that he just beat cancer and this is his victory ride.

It’s just you, your bike and a strip of dirt winding its way from one freshwater sea to another.Įxcept it’s not just you. Start: Point Au Gres Marina, Lake Huron.

Set your eyes on the glorious sunset over Lake Michigan or ride into the night to get to the finish line on time. Much of the second half of the course is heavily forested, closed in, constantly changing. The Coast to Coast gravel grinder, presented by Salsa Cycles, will not be known for its gravel (actually more dirt than gravel), ironically, but for everything that’s NOT gravel – the forest roads, the two-tracks, the snowmobile trails, even a little gravel-friendly singletrack.

Coast to coast