27 Sep
TOUR de MANC
TOUR de MANC
Choose one of our 4 routes to suit your ability
Tour de Manc is one of the North West’s leading charity cycling events, bringing together riders of all abilities to experience some of the best roads in and around Greater Manchester.
Founded in 2016, Tour de Manc was created with a simple mission: using cycling as a force for good in Greater Manchester. Through the power of cycling, we raise funds for local charities and community projects while helping people become fitter, healthier and more confident.
We believe cycling can transform lives. Whether it’s improving physical fitness, supporting mental wellbeing, overcoming personal challenges or achieving goals that once felt out of reach, every rider’s journey matters. From first-time sportive riders to experienced cyclists taking on the Mad Manc, Tour de Manc is about inspiring people to be the best version of themselves.
Our four routes, Northern Quarter, Manc Challenge, Classic Manc and Mad Manc, showcase the very best of Greater Manchester’s cycling roads. Supported by dedicated volunteers, fantastic feed stations and an incredible cycling community, the event provides a memorable experience for thousands of riders each year. But Tour de Manc is about more than miles ridden and hills climbed. It’s about bringing people together, supporting local causes, improving health and wellbeing, and demonstrating the positive impact that cycling can have on individuals, communities and the region as a whole. Every year, riders, volunteers, sponsors and supporters come together to prove that cycling can make a real difference.
Ride. Challenge Yourself. Support Your Community.
The toughest challenge in the Tour de Manc® programme is the Mad Manc – It’s called that for a reason – as well as the challenge of 200km distance and a LOT of climbing, you’ve a time limit too. Too slow and you’ll be diverted onto one of the shorter routes.
The Mad this year, should you want to embrace this 200km monster, sees a few changes and improvements with the route being simplified slightly by joining the Challenge and Classic Routes to Greenfield and being extended slightly further north.
£55.00 Early Bird
A testing Tour de Manc® challenge programme. This route is not for the unprepared or faint hearted. It’s a challenge, epic and based on our previous rides feedback you’ll be “Mad ‘fer it”.
£45.00 Early Bird
For 2027 a big change for the Manc Challenge. Slightly longer at 70 miles but the payback for that is the pleasure of being kept company by the Mad and Classic riders until the routes begin to diverge in Oldham. Oh yes, you read that right, 2027 takes the Challenge back up Werneth Low. Either enjoy or endure the closed road here and don’t forget to grimace or smile for the spectators and photographers. At Saddleworth we change our ride company to those friends we have on the Northern Quarter, who we accompany back to Bowlee through Rochdale and Heywood.
£45.00 Early Bird
This route is aimed at new cyclists who want an achievable ride, but it still tackles a couple of tough hills and will offer you one of the best views of Manchester and the Pennine hills.
£35.00 Early Bird
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World leading sports nutrition provided free to our event
Providing our parking venue, Norden Feed Stop location and great Tour de Manc support
Long term jersey sponsor, provider of our first feed station and great Tour de Manc support
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