In case you have dreamed of tackling the most productive gravel occasions within the U.S. however were unfortunate within the access lotteries, you’ll quickly be experience they all, at your recreational and with out ever having to depart your own home.
Six of Existence Time’s iconic gravel occasions will quickly come to the Rouvy digital driving platform, enabling riders to experience the ones rugged, huge landscapes from anyplace on the planet.
The Sea Otter Vintage, Unbound, Large Sugar Gravel, Leadville 100, Crusher within the Tushar and the Rad Grime Fest will all characteristic at the platform.
It comes as a part of a two-year sponsorship deal between Rouvy and Existence Time because the Czech driving platform goals to convey extra gravel riders to the digital international.
Those that had been a hit in securing entries to Existence Time occasions in actual lifestyles will likely be given virtual activation codes as a part of the sponsorship, enabling them to organize for the races through experiencing them on Rouvy first.
The Rouvy driving revel in is in accordance with augmented fact, which makes use of video pictures coupled with virtual riders and heads-up show, serving to to offer potential entrants an affordable concept of what the path looks as if.
The broader Rouvy neighborhood will have the ability to experience the occasions too, as they’re added all through the season.
Rouvy additionally lets in riders to make classes through including their very own video and is hoping the deal will result in extra gravel choices coming to the platform. It’ll be launching a brand new AI direction author device within the coming months, it says, that can support with this and allow digital riders from world wide the revel in the United States gravel scene.
“We’re continuously looking for new ways to provide engaging indoor riding adventures for our users,” says Petr Samek, co-founder and CEO of ROUVY. “Whilst the outdoor gravel scene has exploded in the past years, this hasn’t been well supported by the indoor cycling space, until now.
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“With this exciting new sponsorship, we’re looking to encapsulate the joy and excitement of Life Time’s incredible, genre-defining events within our realistic high quality video virtual routes, allowing everyone the chance to experience what it’s like to ride some of the world’s most loved gravel races.”
This 12 months’s Existence Time Grand Prix kicks off on Friday, April 10, with the Sea Otter Vintage gravel race. The six-event collection runs via October, culminating within the Large Sugar Gravel on October 18.
