On Sunday, June 9, 2024 you can cycle the Tour of Italy in Brabant. A unique event. It’s not about the 3,400 km and almost 45,000 elevation meters of the real Giro d’Italia. But on a 75, 95 or 100 km long tour through Brabant where you cycle the shape of the boot. Just for fun.
Moreover, just by participating, you sponsor a good cause: the Muscles for Muscles foundation. Get sponsored by family, friends or acquaintances and raise even more.
And… our editors know from experience “that a Brabant sausage brooike and an Italian cappuccino go ‘very well’ together. Very tasty even!”
Two distances for both racing bike and gravel bike
Two different routes have been set out: one for the bici da corsa, racing bike, and one by one bici da stradagravel bike.
The first is on asphalt through beautiful Brabant. The Tour of Italy is 95 km long. If you choose the 75 km, you follow the shape of the boot. In any case, afterwards you can proudly say that you completed the Tour of Italy in one day.
The gravel bike tour is over strade bianche, unpaved roads and paths. You then cycle a beautiful and challenging route from the Maaspoort over the beautiful Maashorst and back. You can choose the 75 or 100 km.
Brabant sausage brooike and cappuccino Italiano
Of course you can go for the fastest time, but hey, it’s Brabant! This means that you also follow the route con calma, can complete in peace.
Along the way you can feel free to ‘stay put’ on a cozy terrace. Recover your strength with a Brabant sausage brooike in combination with an Italian cappuccino. A really tasty combination, as Brabanders know better than anyone!
You ride the route individually or in a group. The start and finish of the route is at the Maaspoort in Den Bosch.
Raising money for Muscles for Muscles
The aim of the event is not only fun, but also to raise as much money as possible for Spieren voor Spieren. Ask your friends, family and acquaintances to sponsor you to make research into muscle diseases in children possible. And thus banish the disease from the world. All proceeds from individual participations go to the Muscles for Muscles foundation.
In the four previous editions where the Tour de France and the Tour of Spain were held in Brabant, € 115,000 was raised for Muscles for Muscles. The goal for this year is €15,000.
The registration fee is €20. Register on the Sports for Muscles website. Or see the page about the Tour of Italy in Brabant for more information.
Tip: It is also possible to participate with your company. Or to the percorso to ride together with an ex-professional cyclist.
If you are an Italy lover and would like to participate, please let us know!
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