South
Asheville, NC
Blue Ridge climbs, a dense club scene, and a hospitality core already built for destination sport.
Host cities
A stage is civic infrastructure.
Barriers for a day. A club graph for a decade. We are talking to cities that already know what two wheels do to a downtown.
In conversation
Early route cities
These names appear in the working concept because the clubs, the terrain, and the visitor economy already argue for them. None of this is a signed host-city contract.
South
Bentonville, AR
The American mountain-bike capital — a city that already treats two wheels as civic infrastructure.
Mountain
Boulder, CO
Altitude, altitude, altitude. A proving ground the peloton already knows how to race.
South
Greenville, SC
A proven U.S. road-racing host with downtown finish energy and mountain stages an hour out.
What a host actually gets
More than a finish-line banner.
Start / finish theater
A downtown that becomes the day's television set — and a hospitality village that local operators can own.
Year-round demand
Clubs, meetups, and the rider app keep people coming back after the caravan leaves. The stage is the advertisement.
A brief, not a brochure
Economic-impact and route-credibility surfaces exist so city staff can argue the event with numbers, not vibes.