
Velo29 Events
Ronde Yorkshire Sportive
12 April 2025
HQ Stokesley Show Ground, Helmsley Road, Stokesley
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Entry
Ride Stats
Distance: 77.8km
Elevation: 1,185m
Ride Time: 3-5 hours
Feed: x1
Price: £27.50
Ride Stats
Distance: 142.3km
Elevation: 2,427m
Ride Time: 6-8 hours
Feeds: x2
Price: £32.50
Ride Stats
Distance: 172.8km
Elevation: 2,971m
Ride Time: 7hrs
Feeds: x3
Price: £37.50
The Monday before the sportive at 6pm, you will receive a ‘Get Ready’ email with all the information and links you need to complete the Pre-Event Questionnaire and Book a Time Slot.
Booking opens from 10am Tuesday until 18:00 Thursday. This is ESSENTIAL to ride.
No entries on the day.
Entries close on Sunday night 1 week before the event.
For any questions relating to Pre-Event Questionnaire or Time Slot Booking email depart@velo29.com
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Ronde Yorkshire Cycling Jersey
Rider Manual
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A Beginner’s Guide to Sportive Riding
What to Expect in a Velo29 Sportive
No other Sportive organisation knows Yorkshire like Velo29 do! We grew up here and still today spend our time exploring this stunning part of the World on a bike.
Ronde translates to Circle Of and this certainly is a ‘Circle of Yorkshire’. An early season event which took in as much of this brilliant area as possible, we think we’ve achieved that.
There are Hills of course! We find the first (Clay Bank) in the opening 10km! The short departs Medium and Long at the top of Clay to enjoy Bilsdale and Newgate Bank before re-joining M&L at the Feed.
Medium and Long twist through some of Yorkshire’s finest roads, Heartbeat Country if you know it? Kildale, Castleton, Danby, Lealholm, Glaisdale, Egton, Rosedale….we’ve picked the best route through. The long route drops into Whitby, it’s worth the extra KM to ride up the Keiber Pass to the Whale Bone, along the cliff top then down to Sandsend. The coastline here is amazing!
The good news is that Medium and Long get to ride up Rosedale Chimney before heading South to Helmsley and then back along the delightful Hawnby to Osmotherley Road. Flat all the way back to HQ for an amazing medal, hot BBQ and can of erdinger alkoholfrei!
A must do event for any keen rider.
The title Ronde was inspired by Richard’s years in France riding The Ronde Finistere, a series of super tough races based in Finistere, Brittany. ‘It’s always nice to keep the memories alive in our own events’ comments Richard.

