Solstice Gravel Grinder 2025

Event dates: Saturday, June 21st, 2025 to Saturday, June 21st, 2025

Event Registration Period: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 to Saturday, June 21st, 2025

Solstice Gravel Grinder

 

Pork Belly Ventures is excited, for the third year, to offer our shower service on the Solsice Gravel Grinder for 2025. This is the ninth year of the event, and we are again excited to offer our shower service as part of the registration fee.

From the organizer: 

About Solstice Gravel Grinder

The 2025 Solstice Gravel Grinder will be in its ninth year as a premier grassroots Nebraska gravel grinder that starts and ends in Beatrice, NE on June 21st. This ride will again journey through some of the most beautiful back roads and gravel and we’ll be traveling north and east of Beatrice this year. The terrain mixes steep hills, rollers, and minimum maintenance roads. The Solstice 100 (The Hundy) is our original distance, and the field will be limited to 175 riders. We will also offer a couple of shorter routes. The 66+ mile gravel grinder, called the Solar Fiddy, which will be limited to 175 riders. And the Kindler (37+ miles) will return again this year and will follow many of the same roads as the other routes and also mix in a few miles on the Chief Standing Bear Trail. We added a few new categories a few years ago, the Hundy Team Relay and the SS Hundy Team Relay. These are co-ed events in which you are required to have at least one female rider on your team. We also added a Juniors Category in the Kindler and Fiddy distances for youth 18 and under, at a reduced price. And new this year are Men’s and Women’s E-bike categories in the 37 mile Kindler division.

THE RULES:

The Solstice is a self-supportive ride, so plan to bring enough water and supplies to get you in between checkpoints, which are roughly 15-25 miles apart. We will have water, minimal SAG support, and a tire pump at the checkpoints. If you want, you can stop in the local convenience stores or bars and do your own thing. 

This is your ride, so you do what you have to do to make it to the end. You can’t cheat though. There will be checkpoints you must go through to be a Solstice finisher and earn your finisher patch! And if you want to quit? Well, this is your ride, so you will need to find a ride home.

We called this event the Solstice for a reason; it’s the day before the longest day of the year, so it’s gonna be HOT! Hot and you will be pedaling 37-101 miles on your own, so prepare yourself. We will release the routes the week before the event and will have an all-gravel backup route planned in case of muddy roads. Both routes will be downloadable for cue cards and GPS files. It is your responsibility to print the routes as we will not be supplying them the day of the race.

You are responsible for your safety and well-being. We cannot stress this strongly enough--YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU! No one who has anything to do with this race, including EVENT SPONSORS, ORGANIZERS, PROMOTERS, or STAFF, bears any responsibility for your safety or well-being at any time before, during, or after the race. 

Each participant is considered to be on a private excursion and remains solely responsible for any accidents in which he or she may be involved. No responsibility can be accepted for participants who get lost, stranded, injured, or worse.

Be courteous and respectful at all times. Participants must obey all city, county, and state laws, and the Nebraska Rules of the Road.  Each participant must wear a CPSC approved cycling helmet. Each participant is required to have a clear front headlamp and a red tail light for the duration of the event. At the start of the race, and when riding after dark, participants are required to have a clear front headlamp capable of in the dark (minimum 500 lumens) and a red tail light. Be careful and take care of yourself! Your safety is up to you. Bring plenty of food and hydration. Cellular service may not always be available, but we highly recommend carrying a cell phone to contact someone in case of an emergency. Carry spare inner tubes and an inflation system. 

 

 

$80 registration fee for the Hundy, $70 for the Fiddy, and $60 for The Kindler includes:

Entry into the event

Pick up your packets at our sponsor Cycle Works, 720 N 27th St, Lincoln, Nebraska, on Friday June 20th from noon to 6pm. There will be a limited supply of refreshments. We will also have a packet pick-up on Friday June 20th from 7:30pm to 9:00pm at Stone Hollow Brewing, 301 Court St, Beatrice, NE. And if you can’t make either of those, you will have an opportunity for you to check in the morning of the event at the start/finish 6:15am-6:45am.

 Get signed up! https://www.bikereg.com/solsticegravel

Solstice Gravel Grinder, June 21st 2025… Plan to be there!

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