Have you ever met your biking objectives for 2022? If not but, Rapha desires to inspire you to crush the final week of the 12 months with their twelfth annual Festive 500 between Christmas and New 12 months’s. As at all times, they’ve some particular restricted version Festive 500 equipment to egg you on whether or not you’re driving inside or outdoors, digital bragging rights for people who go the gap, and prizes on provide like an OPEN UP, plus extra from Wahoo, POC, Snow Peak & Campagnolo…
2022’s twelfth annual Rapha Festive 500
The Rapha Festive 500 is straightforward in idea – trip 500 kilometers within the remaining 7 days of the 12 months, from Christmas Eve to New 12 months’s Eve. However in observe, it’s usually fairly a bit tougher for the reason that nearly 90% of the world’s inhabitants dwelling within the Northern Hemisphere are at the moment within the deep throes of winter. (Editor’s observe: It’s at the moment -5°C/23°F with blowing snow out the window, as Cory wrote this up right now. Time for fats biking, which doesn’t actually rack up the kms in a short time!)

Nonetheless, greater than 100 thousand of us fellow loopy cyclists have already signed up for the Festive 500 problem on Strava to provide it a go. To make it extra affordable in recent times, Rapha & Strava did conform to make digital indoor rides eligible too, in the event you actually can’t get outdoors to log these miles.

Full it and also you get at minimal a digital badge in your Strava profile, however you’ll even be entered in a raffle the place one bicycle owner will trip away with a brand new Open UP carbon gravel bike kitted out with a Campy Ekar 1×13 groupset.

Actual-world meatspace group rides are organized by means of Rapha clubhouses worldwide (discover one on the Festive 500 web page). However in the event you can’t make a kind of, you haven’t any excuse to not take part on Zwift. Each two hours throughout the whole Strava Problem, a brand new Festive 500 Zwift group trip will begin, so that you’ll at all times be capable of hop on, even in between busy vacation household obligations.
Spirit of the F500 Awards too!
Past simply cranking out the gap, Raphe desires to additionally reward those that inform a great story, too. So have fun your effort (profitable or not) so as to add some extra kilometers to your annual complete nonetheless you deem match. Possibly again some Festive 500 cookies, illustrate a comic book of your feeble F500 try, or just doc your rides on photograph or movie. Determine find out how to share what motivates you to trip by means of the darkest days of the winter, and Rapha will reward these exhibiting the Spirit of the Festive 500 with one other batch of prizes, together with extra gear from Wahoo, POC, Snow Peak & Campagnolo.
Festive 500 restricted version biking equipment – indoors & outdoor

Every year, Rapha places collectively a restricted version assortment of driving equipment to assist inspire cyclists to achieve the 500km aim. This 12 months’s Festive 500 equipment includes a gentle & pastel-colored design impressed by the geometric blocks of a calendar overlaid with graphics based mostly on the golden ratio – a nod to discovering an ideal human stability between vacation time with household & time on the bike.

Accessible for males & ladies, there are a couple of items of outside driving equipment – a cool-weather or mid-layer Professional Staff long-sleeve Coaching Jersey curiously 135€ for males however 195€ for ladies, a easy 21€ Snood (learn: Buff-like), or a pleasant 30€ merino wool Beanie hat.

For riders in hotter climes or sticking to digital driving inside, there’s a few Indoor Coaching Tank tops (65€ for males or ladies), a 21€ cotton Cap, and 21€ Professional Staff Socks. Lastly, a 17€ white Bidon water bottle and a 18€ cotton Musette that may serve on or off the bike, inside or out.

Rapha says you possibly can order till Friday down underneath or Monday for a lot of the remainder of the world, and nonetheless obtain your gear earlier than Christmas with Specific transport.