If you fancy riding the best of all three of the Stone King Rally race routes in 2025, then one of the three Stone King Club Weeks should be high on your list.
Fans of Stone King Rally will be happy to see the return of Stone King Club Weeks, where, for 2025 you can enjoy the very best of the three Stone King Rally race routes.
Sign-up for the 2025 Club Weeks goes live at 8am UK time on Thursday 9th January. Subscribe to the mailing list to get the sign up form here.
Photos by Pete Scullion.
2025 Stone King Club Week dates:
- 13/09/2025 – 20/09/2025
- 20/09/2025 – 27/09/2025
- 28/09/2025 – 05/10/2025
Our Club Week package tour allows you to experience every trail of the legendary transalpine Stone King route, backed up by best-in-the-business tour support.
We sort out ideal accommodation, wonderful meals, baggage transfer, and all of the trail shuttles needed. Everything is taken care of so that you can focus on enjoying the incredible riding with zero hassle.
New for 2025:
Until now, the Club Weeks have, each given year, followed the Stone King® Rally race route from earlier that Summer. For 2025, we have put together an all-time classic Stone King route, blending the best of the best trails from the 2022, 2023 and 2024 race events. It’s going to be mind blowing.
Route Details:
- Start: Arvieux [Hautes-Alpes, France]
- Finish: Bordighera [Liguria, Italy]
- Duration: 6 days
- On-bike distance: 270km [~30% in France / 70% in Italy]
- On-bike vertical ascent: 7000m (average 1150m per day; hardest day 1700m; easiest day 500m)
- On-bike vertical descent: 22000m
- An ultimate blend of the most popular trails from the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Stone King® Rally race event
What’s included:
- Riding: the full 6-day Stone King route in its new all-time classic guise. As per the race, the Club Week tour is self-guided with full navigational support
- Logistics: like clockwork. Your bags moved from hotel to hotel. You and your bike elevated to high points by shuttle approximately 20 times over the course of the week so that, whilst pedalling is required, you can focus on the descents. Airport transfers from and to NCE are also included.
- Accommodation: carefully selected. We use the best hotels in each stopover village, offering a warm welcome and a good night’s rest. There are seven hotel nights included in the tour.
- Meals: you won’t go hungry. You are provided with three wholesome meals per day, plus our home-made snacks for the trails. Our mid-ride lunches are a treat but dinner is an undeniable highlight; you will get to sample delicious local cuisine in each valley that we pass through.
- Package price: €2095 (includes all taxes)
Why Book With Us?
From the outside looking in, Stone King started life as a race event but the overarching mission was to create the ultimate point-to-point MTB route across the Southwestern Alps, period. So, somewhat regardless of the race, simply riding endless awesome trails has always been (and will always be!) the focus of the route. Now that we no longer organise a race, our energy is concentrated on providing the ultimate tour on these trails. Some further detail on what this entails:
- Knowledge: we are the originators of Stone King and our staff have years of experience at running this tour. Not only do we have unmatched geographical knowledge of our route and the roads which access it, but we also know many alternative trails in each valley. This gives us the ability to replan on our feet and make adjustments to a day’s itinerary should circumstances demand it (e.g. making the most of a rainy afternoon by using a lower, more sheltered route).
- Format: three years of running the Club Week tour has proven our app-supported self-guided format to be an absolute winner amongst riders. Ride at your own pace and/or with your friends, in flexible ride groups of your own choosing. Immerse yourself in the autonomous nature of adventure but with back-up never far away.
- Support: we pride ourselves on providing you with the best on-tour support imaginable. Navigational issues, bike repairs, emergency caffeine… a staff member is always available to help.
- No skimping: this is a no-expenses-spared tour because keeping you comfortable and well-fed is an utmost priority to us. Admittedly the tour is not inexpensive, but past riders tell us it is worth every penny and more.
“It was the best biking holiday I’ve been on. Absolutely amazing trails, really really well organised and great company. Met lots of new friends from around the globe” —S.F. (USA)
“I’m still buzzing. Brilliant trails, challenging days on the bike but very rewarding. Good food, amazing scenery. Best MTB trip ever, I’m recommending it to all.” —T.S. (Ireland)
“An amazing time – one that I will never forget for the rest of my days, for all the right reasons.” —N.W. (UK)
“The organisation was flawless, the crew always super supportive. It was a great experience and adventure, and I truly hope to be able to do it again and again.” — A.R. (Switzerland)
How Do I Sign Up?
There will be an official Club Week entry process in January 2025
- A few days before entries go live, we will send a reminder via email and on social media.
- Sign-up will be from 09:00CET on Thursday 09/01/2025, open for 48 hours.
- Sign-up will be via an online registration form. You will be asked to provide personal details, some details on your MTB experience, and to give an order of preference out of the three possible tour dates. If you are already subscribed to our mailing list (i.e. you have received this newsletter by email) then you will automatically receive the Club Week sign-up link on 09/01/2025. If you are not subscribed to our mailing list, please do so via the link below.
See You There.
I will personally be present on each of the Club Weeks to oversee the running of the tour and hopefully ride some trails with friends old and new.
Please get in touch with me if you have any questions at all regarding the tour.
