Grevet

25/03/2026

Five brothers. 560 victories. One route that changed everything.
In September 1894, Friedrich (“Fritz”) Opel — 19 years old, son of Adam Opel — won the 620 km race from Basel to Kleve in 27 hours and 50 minutes. First place. Imperial prize from Kaiser Wilhelm II.
The night before the race, a rival told him: “Fritz, you’ll turn off at Strasbourg or Mainz.”
Fritz passed Strasbourg. He passed Mainz. He finished first.
The Opel brothers weren’t just cyclists. They were the product. Every race was a test of the bicycle they built. 560 victories between 1889 and 1898. The race was the factory.
By 1898, the export markets had closed. US tariffs: ~48%. Russia: fixed duty per wheel. Domestic overproduction had crashed prices. The brothers turned to the automobile — not instead of the bicycle, but alongside it. In 1925, Opel was the world’s largest bicycle manufacturer.
Same brothers. Same routes. Same logic.
Grevet revives Basel–Kleve on 26 September 2026.
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22/03/2026

Three days in Düsseldorf. CyclingWorld and the opening round of the Grevet Niederrhein series.
Düsseldorf delivers. The is well curated, worth the trip — and the city knows how to welcome people on bikes.
had the full lineup on display — including the new GR4. Catching views all weekend.
Grevet #1 went ahead — 100 km into the Niederrhein, 350 m of climbing, shared start on Saturday morning. Riding on the GR4. The talk didn’t make it (trains happened). The ride did.
Sunday: 60 km gravel social with and through the city and out into the flatlands. Good atmosphere, good people. Afterwards: bikes at the stand, coffee, cold drinks, the kind of debrief that goes on longer than planned.

The Grevet Niederrhein continues. Link in bio.

19/03/2026

Registration is open — and the season starts next weekend.

The full 2026 series is now live. Seven regions, 28 stages, three Supergrevets. Sign up now at grevet.de.

A long winter is behind us. Ice, snow, three months of barely any sun. We're all a little less fit than planned. But the roads are calling, and we have exactly the right programme for it.

This Friday, Saturday and Sunday is at CyclingWorld Düsseldorf — together with and Meerbusch for three days of riding, talking and connecting.

Friday, March 20 – 8:30 PM
Talk at the Bloggers Lounge: Your First Long-Distance Ride. Entry with CyclingWorld ticket.

Saturday, March 21 – 10:15 AM
Grevet No. 1 Lower Rhine: 100 km, 500 m. Social start at the trade fair entrance. Meet & greet at Booth at Cyclingworld after.

Sunday, March 22 – 10:00 AM
Gravel Social Ride powered by and . 60 km, moderate pace. 15 € incl. CyclingWorld ticket. Max. 40 riders.

Three events. Three partners. One season opener.

What's next for the Lower Rhine:

Grevet No. 2 Between Rhine and Meuse — 200 km / 500 m. Along the Niers and Rur, through Meinweg National Park to the Maas. May 1–31.

Grevet No. 3 Over Dunes to the Imperial Forest — 300 km / 950 m. South to north and back. Ice Age ridgelines, Dutch trails, Reichswald near Kleve. June 5–28.

Grevet No. 4 In a Wide Arc — 400 km / 1,200 m. Sophienhöhe, heathland, the Dutch border — back along the Düsseldorf promenade. July 3–24.
And the season ends here: Basel–Kleve Supergrevet, September 26. 750 km from the Rhine bend to the Lower Rhine. A ride with 130 years of history behind it.

→ Link in bio.


📷 Images: Johannes Pöttgens /

19/03/2026

The gravel is open.
The weather is turning.
A long season is waiting.

Registration for the Grevet Quartett 2026 is now open across all regions.

The season begins this weekend with the first Social Grevets in Graz and at the Niederrhein as part of — surrounded by community events and the first real gravel kilometres of the year.

The Graz season opener is hosted bygrinders.graz — bringing the Austrian Grevet community onto the gravel for the first time this year.

Season opening at CyclingWorld Düsseldorf:

Friday 20:30
Practice talk: Your first long distance
with (Grevet founder)

Saturday
Grevet #1 Niederrhein Social Grevet
100 km / 500 hm
Start directly at the exhibition grounds

Sunday
Gravel Social Ride powered by
& Grevet
60 km community ride

Grevet exists because of its regional structure and the people behind it.
Our local organizers don’t just host events.

They curate their regions.
They design the routes.
They shape the character.
They bring the local communities together.

This season is built together with:





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GREVET AUSTRIA 2026 — curated with care by
grinders.grazgranadia


The Quartett is the foundation.
For many riders, it leads toward the real season objectives:

The Supergrevets

Mailand–München
Wien–Triest
Basel–Kleve

Not races.
But lines you grow into over a season.

Registration via grevet.de
→ link in bio

Different regions. Different terrain. One long season.

See you out there.

17/03/2026

In 1893, a blacksmith from Bavaria rode Vienna to Berlin in 31 hours.

The cavalry officers had done it the year before. On horseback. It took them 71 hours — and 30 of their 250 horses were dead within a week.

Josef Fischer did it on a bicycle. Faster. Alone. With a torn tendon in his left foot.

He won the first Paris–Roubaix in 1896. He finished the first Tour de France in 1903. He rode routes that no one rides anymore.

We do.

Wien–Graz–Triest · 25 July 2026
Mailand–München · 29 August 2026
Wien–Berlin · 2027

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09/02/2026

GREVET 2026 — BAVARIA & THE ALPS

Grevet is long-distance cycling beyond asphalt.
Self-supported. Regional. Built by riders.

In 2026, the Bavarian Grevet series forms a clear progression — from open foothills to deep forest and sustained distance.

Curated by the team around : &

GREVET BAVARIA 2026
Four routes. One arc.

• No1 – Off the Radar
140 km · Ammer–Lech region

• No2 – The Rolling Western Forests
185 km · Augsburg West

• No3 – Chiemgau
200 km · Alpine foothills

• No4 – The Bavarian Forest
300 km · Bavarian Forest

All routes are self-supported, ridden within time windows.
No rankings. No start gun. Clear lines only.

Beyond the regional series lies the alpine line:

SUPERGREVET — MILAN → MUNICH
750 km · 12,000 hm

One of the earliest transalpine distance routes in cycling history —
not reenacted, but continued.
High altitude, long climbs, sustained focus.

Registration is open.

Bavaria prepares you.
The Alps test you.

Dates are live and available for calendar download.
Series registration opens soon — newsletter recommended.
Details via link in bio.



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09/02/2026

GREVET 2026 — HAMBURG & THE NORTH

Curated by

Hamburg doesn’t look wild at first glance.
But distance reveals what maps don’t.

In 2026, Grevet arrives in the North — shaped by open horizons, glacial edges, sand, wind and long, quiet lines.

This series exists because one ride became an idea.

After finishing Vienna → Berlin 2025,fank returned north — and encouraged his ultra-riding circle in Hamburg to build something of their own.
Among them: Constantin, Ultracycling World Champion 2008 — and riders who know what long days really mean.

Together, they shaped Hamburg’s first Grevet series.

GREVET HAMBURG 2026
Four routes. One northern arc.

• No1 – Central North
140 km · Ice Age edge, forests, flow

• No2 – Sand Without a Beach
200 km · Heathland, former military ground

• No3 – Elbe, Lakes & the Highest Point
300 km · Long lines, quiet elevation

• No4 – The Baltic Beast
400 km · Coast, wind, sustained distance

Self-supported.
Ridden within time windows.
No rankings. No spectacle. Just commitment.

Hamburg proves it again:
Ultra doesn’t need mountains — only distance, restraint, and people who mean it.

Dates are live and available for calendar download.
Series registration opens soon — newsletter recommended.
Details via link in bio.

09/02/2026

GREVET BERLIN / BRANDENBURG 2026

Berlin doesn’t end at the city limits.
It continues — in lines, corridors, and open space.

The Berlin 2026 leads out of the metropolis into a landscape shaped by order, intervention, and distance: the Fläming, the Schorfheide, the Lusatian mining region — and finally the return from Poznań to Berlin.

Curated with care by the Berlin team around .

Four long-distance routes.
Four distinct territories.
One coherent progression.

GREVET No1
Brought into Line
150 km · Fläming
Riding window: 04 April – 26 April 2026
Social Grevet: 04 April

GREVET No2
The North’s Second Layer
200 km · Schorfheide
Riding window: 01 May – 24 May 2026
Social Grevet: 02 May

GREVET No3
Fire from Below
300 km · Lusatian lignite region
Riding window: 05 June – 21 June 2026
Social Grevet: 06 June

GREVET No4
Return of the Heart
400 km · Poznań → Berlin
Riding window: 03 July – 26 July 2026
Social Grevet: 03 July

All routes are self-supported and ridden within defined time windows —
no start gun, no rankings, but clear lines and real commitment.

Social Grevets mark the shared starting point.
The rest is yours.

Dates are live and available for calendar download.
Series registration opens soon — newsletter recommended.

More details via link in bio.

Photo credits:
Images 1 & 3 ©
Further images by Maurice Tricatelle and Boris Stroujko ( #471901243, #617482060)

09/02/2026

GREVET AUSTRIA 2026

Curated with care bygrinders.grazgranadia


Austria is where the line turns south.
Out of river plains, into transition zones, and eventually into real alpine ground.

The Austria 2026 runs along the eastern Alps through landscapes shaped by borders, history, and elevation: Styria, the Vienna basin, Slovenia’s Pohorje, and the alpine corridors between Carinthia and Italy — culminating in the long line toward Trieste.

Four long-distance routes.
Four distinct landscapes.
One continuous progression.

GREVET No1
The Green Heart
150 km · Styria
Riding window: 21 March – 26 April 2026
Social Grevet: 21 March

GREVET No2
North of Vienna
200 km · Weinviertel
Riding window: 01 May – 24 May 2026
Social Grevet: 16 May

GREVET No3
In the Shadow of Resistance
200 km · Pohorje (SI)
Riding window: 05 June – 21 June 2026
Social Grevet: 20 June

GREVET No4
Dolce Vita
270 km · Carinthia / Italy
Riding window: 03 July – 26 July 2026
Social Grevet: 11 July

SUPERGREVET
Vienna → Graz → Trieste
650 km · 14,000 m
Start: 25 July 2026

A line through the eastern Alps toward the Adriatic.
Not a reenactment — a modern long-distance route across historical terrain.

All routes are self-supported and ridden within defined time windows —
no start gun, no rankings, but clear lines and real commitment.

Social Grevets mark the shared starting point.
The rest is yours.

Dates are live and available for calendar download.
Series registration opens soon — newsletter recommended.

More details via link in bio.

09/02/2026

20/01/2026

GREVET 2026

Grevet is long-distance cycling beyond asphalt.
Self-supported. Regional. Built by riders.

It was never meant to get louder each year.
It was meant to become clearer.

In 2026, Grevet continues as a long-distance cycling project — rooted in the early heritage of distance riding and shaped for today’s gravel reality.

What defines Grevet is commitment:
self-supported routes, long days, and lines that work beyond asphalt.

Across Germany, regional teams curate their own Quartets — four long-distance routes per region, each reflecting the terrain it comes from.

Built together with:




eic.bike

Austria follows — curated by .grinders.graz

Supergrevets 2026
Vienna – Trieste
Milan – Munich
Basel – Kleve

Long-distance rides consciously working with cycling’s pre-asphalt heritage.
Not reenactments. Continuations.

Grevet is not an event series.
It’s a shared framework for long-distance cycling beyond asphalt — built locally, carried collectively.

Save the dates.
Details via link in bio.
See you out there.

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20/12/2025

Schotter & Schaum — Recap.**
Yesterday was exactly what it needed to be.

The ride in: fast, dry, surprisingly smooth.
(Alright — there *was* one river crossing. Berlin stays Berlin.)

Outside ****:
bike racks lined up in the cold.
Inside: beer and bike people packed shoulder to shoulder.
Warm halls, full glasses, loud conversations — the good kind of crowded.

**Andrew** was quick on the taps,
the beer was cold,
the conversations warm.

The tables were full —
thanks to everyone who brought food for the **potluck**.
As always: unevenly distributed, always more than enough.

A big thank-you to our partners for the support —
especially for the **Grevet finisher prizes** and the evening itself:

🙏 ****
🙏 ****
🙏 **** — for beer *and* warmth
🙏 **** — for the beautiful art prints
🙏 **** — for letting Sata rolling in with their gravel cargo bike

From ****, the new **FLÄSH reflective vests** were raffled off —
and immediately put to use. A genuinely strong product for **ultra rides**, **night cycling**, and just as much for **urban riding**.

The prizes didn’t just appear —
they arrived the proper way:
**on a cargo gravel bike, ridden in with the group, packed tight in a full waterproof sack — the Hase Bikes *Gravit Dust*.**
Practical, quiet, and perfectly on theme.

The **Grevet Finisher Tombola** ran smoothly —
thanks to **@17843013509319905** for drawing names & keeping things organized.

Thanks to everyone who rode, stayed, talked, and shared the evening.
No Chrstimas kitsch, no big finale —
just a good way to close the year.

See you out there.