There are some fantastic century rides in Australia, with over sixty on offer each year.
You’ll find them in most of the capital cities, like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth and even Darwin. As well as in regional areas in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory.
In Australia, you’ll find century bike rides of both the Metric 100km or Imperial 100km mile.
A century ride is very much like a gran fondo but the emphasis is on the distance, rather than the scenery.
Upcoming Century Rides
You’ll find a list below of century rides within Australia. Click on the first little grey box to search for a Ride by the Discipline (Climb, CX, eBikes, Family, Gravel, MTB, or Road), the Terrain (flat, undulating, mountainous, mixed), the Distance (1-40, 41-80, 81-120, 121-160, 161+ km), the Type of Ride (12 hr, 24 hr, Bike Packing, Century, Charity, Gran-Fondo, Multi-day, Race, Recreational, Retro, Tour, Ultra and Women only), the Support (Semi-supported, Supported and Unsupported), the Guiding (Guided, Self-guided, Unguided), and the Location.
Other cycling events
You can find other rides in our online Cycling Event Calendar, which has over 300 events listed in it.
Please don’t forget to leave a review of any rides you’ve attended. This helps other riders to work out if it’s a ride that they want to attend or not! All you have to do is leave a comment at the bottom of the page of the ride page. You can find a list of all the rides here.
And please do contact me if there are any Century rides that we’ve missed!
Hi,
Would be great if you could include the Gears and Beers festival in Wagga Wagga on this list, featuring the Dirty 130 (130kms). Riders in 2019 included Phil Anderson and Henk Vogels (with commentary from Mike Tomalaris). All proceeds go to local charities (almost $200,000 in 2019) and finishes with one of Australia’s best craft beer festivals at the finish line!
hi Liam,
Thanks for the comments,
I will add the gears and beers ride to the list.
it is a unique event on the calendar.
BTW I did do a recon of the route from 2018, which was interesting travelling through the fields and some stretches of gravel to mix it up.
more than happy to support events in Australia.
cheers, Jon