Gravellina – Rural Roads Regulations
Art. 1 – General information on Gravellina – Rural Roads
Gravellina – Rural Roads is a non-competitive cycling event that aims to promote and publicise the local area, tours, culture, food and wine of the Valtellina.
Gravellina – Rural Roads will take place in Sondrio on 20 and 21 September 2025.
Art. 2 – Event overview
Gravellina – Rural Roads is a non-competitive cycling tourism event over unsignposted and unsupervised routes to be completed by participants entirely autonomously and at their own pace.
Participants acknowledge and accept that Gravellina – Rural Roads tours include dirt roads and mountain routes over sometimes rough and uneven terrain.
Likewise, Gravellina – Rural Roads participants acknowledge and accept that they take part in the event freely, at their own risk and on their own responsibility, and with no additional rights to those enjoyed by other users of the trails and roads.
Gravellina – Rural Roads offers tours requiring a high degree of mental and physical effort and riding skills.
When choosing to register for a tour, participants must give due consideration to their own physical fitness and riding skills, their willingness to adapt to route and weather conditions, and their ability to use navigation instruments. By registering for a tour or initiative, participants make an informed and conscious decision that releases the event organisers from all liability.
Art. 3 – Permitted bicycles
Gravellina – Rural Roads routes are designed for gravel bike riding. Other types of bicycles are also permitted, provided that they are suitable for riding over dirt, paved and rough terrain.
Art. 4 – Gravellina – Strade Rurali tours
The tour programme is as follows:
Saturday, 20 September 2025
“1/2 Gravellina – East” is an intermediate-length tour with average elevation gain that is concentrated at a few points involving steep climbs and challenging sections and requires a high level of fitness and stamina. The tour is aimed at professional athletes as well as amateur or leisure sports practitioners and is a high/special cardio stress sports activity within the meaning of Article 4(1) of Ministerial Decree of 24 April 2013.
“1/4 Gravellina – The Short Tour” is a shorter tour with less elevation gain and more gradual climbs that nonetheless requires a good level of physical fitness. The tour is aimed at those who carry out occasional motor activity for mainly recreational purposes, on an intermittent and non-continuous basis within the meaning of Article 2(2)(b) of Ministerial Decree of 24 April 2013.
Sunday, 21 September 2025
“1/2 Gravellina – West” is an intermediate-length tour with average elevation gain that is concentrated at a few points involving steep climbs and challenging sections and requires a high level of fitness and stamina. The tour is aimed at professional athletes as well as amateur or leisure sports practitioners and is a high/special cardio stress sports activity within the meaning of Article 4(1) of Ministerial Decree of 24 April 2013.
“E-bike among the Vines” is a shorter tour with less elevation gain and more gradual climbs that nonetheless requires a good level of physical fitness. The tour is aimed at those who carry out occasional motor activity for mainly recreational purposes, on an intermittent and non-continuous basis, within the meaning of Article 2(2)(b) of Ministerial Decree of 24 April 2013.
GPX maps of the routes will be sent by email prior to the event and are to be considered valid – together with authorisation to pass through certain protected areas, areas of historical and natural interest or private areas – exclusively for the day of the event on which the specific tour is scheduled.
Participants should load the itinerary of their registered tour onto their navigation device and follow it without diversions or shortcuts. In case of accidental deviations from the route, participants must backtrack to the point where they left the route and continue on their way. Off-track participants will be considered excluded from the event. The event organisers reserve the right to set up checks along the route to ensure that participants do not make use of shortcuts.
In the interests of participant safety, the event organisers reserve the right to change or completely revise tour itineraries up until the scheduled departure time, subject to notification, including details of the new itinerary and how to download it.
Participants are responsible for ensuring that they actually participate in the tour for which they are registered.
Participants are further responsible for ensuring they take out personal and third-party insurance cover, either in the form of individual policies or by virtue of membership of sport event organisations.
Art. 5 – Timed sections
At the event organisers’ discretion, timed sections may be included on the “1/2 Gravellina – East” and “1/2 Gravellina – West” routes for added participant enjoyment and therefore for purely recreational and strictly non-competitive purposes.
Art. 6 – Registration
Registration can be completed at: www.gravellina.com
Once users have examined tour details (length, elevation gain, etc.) and carefully matched them to their mental and physical fitness, stamina and cycling ability, they can register for individual Gravellina – Rural Roads tours and initiatives, or for other packages offered by the event organisers.
Online registration will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 September 2025. On-location registration can be done at the times and in the places specified by the event organisers for any tours or initiatives with remaining availability. On-location registration is subject to a €10.00 administrative surcharge.
Art. 7 – Payment methods
Tours, weekend packages and side activities can be purchased at www.gravellina.com using the Stripe payment platform that accepts all major credit, debit and prepaid cards.
Art. 8 – Minors
The following initiatives are open to minors aged 14-17 years of age:
“1/4 Gravellina – The Short Tour”
Parental/guardian authorisation is required for minors. Download authorisation form: click here.
Art. 9 – Medical certificates
In the interests of the health and safety of Gravellina – Rural Roads participants, event organisers apply the rules on the certification of non-competitive and amateur sport activities laid down in the Ministerial Decree of 24 April 2013.
Participation in the “1/2 Gravellina – East” and “1/2 Gravellina – West” NON-competitive tours, which require a HIGH degree of mental and physical effort, is subject to the following requirements:
- Italian residents must obtain a fitness certificate for non-competitive cycling or a fitness certificate for practising high/special cardio stress sports activities within the meaning of Ministerial Decree of 24 April 2013, valid on the date of the event (click here to download certificate template);
- Non-Italian residents must obtain a fitness certificate for taking part in competitive cycling races that can also be issued by a doctor in their country of residence (click hereto download certificate template).
Participation in the “1/4 Gravellina – The Short Tour”, which is a NON-competitive tour requiring a LOW degree of mental and physical effort, does not require a sport fitness certificate. As specified in Ministerial Decree of 24 April 2013, a medical check-up prior to participation in recreational motor activities is nonetheless recommended to assess risk factors, particularly for individuals with a sedentary lifestyle taking up such activities or engaging in intense physical exercise.
Participants must check the certification requirements of each tour and submit the above-mentioned documents, as relevant, by email to people@gravellina.com by 23:59 on Wednesday, 17 September 2025, the deadline for online registration.
Participants registering on location must present copies of any required documents at the time of registration/accreditation at the info point set up by the event organisers.
Participants failing to submit or present the required documents will be automatically excluded from the event, will be deemed not to have properly completed registration and will not be entitled to a registration fee refund.
On submission, participants will be required to declare under Presidential Decree No 445/2000 of 28 December that any documents sent or uploaded are genuine and true copies of the originals in their possession.
Art. 10 – Insurance
All registered participants in Gravellina – Rural Roads initiatives are covered, at no additional cost, by an accident and third-party liability insurance policy under the agreement between the UISP amateur sports association and Unipolsai insurers (click here to download 2024/25 policy conditions).
Art. 11 – Mandatory equipment requirements
Participants are strictly required, on their own responsibility, to ensure that they are equipped with the following items for the duration of their registered tours:
- certified helmet, to be worn at all times;
- navigation device;
- mobile phone;
- bell or whistle;
- sufficient water supply;
- breakdown/puncture repair kit;
- first-aid kit;
- clothing designed to withstand adverse weather conditions.
Art. 12 – Health and transport services
The Gravellina – Rural Roads event does not provide en-route transport services. No pick-up service will be provided for en-route withdrawals and the event organisers will not be required to locate any missing persons failing to notify their withdrawal using the telephone number provided.
Statutory health services will be provided.
Art. 13 – Code of conduct
Registered participants must confirm their participation at the event by accrediting at the info point set up by the event organisers at the specified event meeting point.
At the start of tours, participants must show their numbers, wristbands or any other means of identification specified by the event organisers and provided at the time of accreditation.
The Highway Code must be strictly observed at all times, since tours take place independently on roads open to ordinary traffic. Participants have no additional rights with respect to other road users along the routes. Participants undertake not to bunch together in groups but to ride in single file on roads open to ordinary traffic.
Participants undertake to show due respect for other participants, non-participants and vehicles met en route, as well as for public and private property, historical heritage, flora and fauna. Participants undertake to behave in a proper and civil manner en route, not to litter and to use refillable water bottles rather than disposable items.
Participants must confirm their arrival at the end of the tour at the info point set up by the event organisers (where they will receive a ‘race package’). Participants withdrawing en route must notify their withdrawal by calling or texting the telephone number provided by the event organisers.
Art. 14 – En-route refreshment points
Where refreshment points are set up en route, participants will be informed of their location and opening times time prior to the start of the event.
Art. 15 – Participant or tour changes
Participant changes must be requested before 31 August 2025. Requests must be sent officially by email to people@gravellina.com, specifying ‘Participant change’ in the subject line and giving the details (first name, surname, email) of the person who will be replacing the participant in the body of the email.
Participants can apply to change booked events before 31 August 2025. Requests must be sent officially by email to people@gravellina.com, specifying ‘Tour change’ in the subject line and giving the details of the currently booked tour and the desired alternative event in the body of the email. The tour change will be considered valid only on receipt of the event organisers’ confirmation email. In case of price differences between activities, the request will only be granted on payment of the balance.
On-location requests for tour changes are subject to availability of places and a €10.00 surcharge.
Art. 16 – Participant cancellations
Where registered participants are unable to take part and can provide documentary evidence of the injury or illness effectively preventing their participation, their registration will be valid for the following edition of the event.
Under no circumstances will registered participants be entitled to reimbursement of the cost of tours or shipment of items such as race packages, merchandising and so on.
Art. 17 – Event cancellation
If the event is cancelled on grounds of participant safety or for reasons beyond the event organisers’ control (force majeure), amounts paid at the time of registration will not be refunded, but participation fees can be used to register for the following edition, whether at a later date in the same year or in the following year.
The event organisers reserve the right to suspend or cancel the event at any time on grounds of participant safety.
Art. 18 – Non-sporting side events
Gravellina also includes scheduled non-sporting side events such as dinners, concerts, talks, workshops and educational activities. Some of these activities may be subject to a fee and/or open to a limited number of participants and can be booked through the website www.gravellina.com.
Art. 19 – Merchandising
The event organisers will produce merchandising items (hats, T-shirts, etc.) that can be purchased through the www.gravellina.com website, also when buying event tickets.
Purchased items can be collected on location during the days of the event. Home delivery is not available.
Art. 20 – Amendments to regulations
The event organisers reserve the right to amend the event regulations at any time. Updated versions of the regulations will be promptly posted on the website www.gravellina.com and are to be considered the only official source of information on the event.
Art. 21 – Communication with event organisers
All enquiries must be addressed to the event organisers, by email to people@gravellina.com to be considered the only official channel of communication with event organisers.
Art. 22 – Event organisers and data controllers
The organising entity of the Gravellina – Rural Roads event, referred to herein as the ‘event organisers’, is:
DAYS OFF ADVENTURES A.S.D.
Via San Marco 3
23017 Morbegno (SO)
Tax ID and VAT No 01076280146.
The proprietor of the Gravellina trademark, the slogan/tagline ‘Strade Rurali/Rural Roads’ and all their associated forms and signs is:
DAYS OFF OUTDOOR
Via San Marco, 3
23017 Morbegno (SO)
VAT No 01076280146
Participants automatically authorise both of the above-mentioned parties to process, record and use their personal data in the manner described in the Privacy Policy. Participants’ personal data will be processed and registered in accordance with the provisions of the Italian Personal Data Protection Code – Legislative Decree No 196/2003 of 30 June and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation).
Art. 23 – Liability and final provisions
By registering to take part in Gravellina – Rural Roads tours and initiatives, participants declare that they:
- have carefully read and accepted these regulations in their entirety;
- have thoroughly examined the characteristics of the routes planned for the event before making their choice of tour;
- are aware that the routes include stretches over uneven, rough and slippery terrain with obstacles such as stones, roots, mud, etc;
- are aware that the route is open to ordinary traffic and that the Highway Code must therefore be observed;
- have sufficient experience of long-distance routes, including in mountain and alpine areas, and are able to use navigation systems;
- warrant that all documents submitted with a view to participation, including the medical certificate required by the event organisers, are genuine and true copies of the originals in their possession;
- will not to take substances included on the World Anti-Doping Agency – WADA prohibited list, or drugs or medicines potentially leading to circumstances that might endanger or harm their own health and safety or that of others;
- possess the high level of fitness required to undertake their registered tours and routes, have submitted truthful documentation and fully indemnify the event organisers and hold them harmless against any loss or damage they may suffer as a result of their participation in the event;
- expressly and unreservedly release the association Days Off Adventures ASD, its chair, board members, staff and partners, as well as local administrations, local accommodation providers and any other persons involved in the initiative in any capacity whatsoever from all civil or criminal liability, including strict liability, for any loss or damage suffered by things owned by them and/or in their possession and for any loss or damage suffered by them during the excursion, including loss or damage suffered as a result of use of infrastructure, including personal injury (of any nature and seriousness) and/or death;
- release the event organisers from any liability for theft of and/or damage to bicycles or personal belongings of any nature;
- assume full and sole liability for any loss or damage to third parties and/or to third-party property, expressly releasing the event organisers from any liability and indemnifying the event organisers and holding them harmless from any amount they may consequently be required to pay;
- consent to the use of their data, including for commercial purposes within the meaning of Article 13 of Legislative Decree 196/2003 and Articles 12, 13 and 14 of Regulation (EU) 679/2016;
- have carefully read the event organiser’s Privacy Policy and consent to all relevant processing of their personal data for the purposes and in the manner described in the policy;
- consent, in the broadest manner possible, to the lawful use, including for profit, of any video or photographic images taken of them during the days of the event, also granting the event organisers the right to transfer such images to third parties;
- acknowledge and accept that by registering for and participating in the event they authorise the recording and use of their image in the manner and for the purposes specified in these Regulations, as well as in the Release Form and Privacy Policy, in consideration of the public nature of the event, the need for broadcasting and marketing services to take videos and photographs of the event and the unfeasibility of selectively limiting any such video and photographic work;
- acknowledge and accept that this authorisation to use their image is deemed to given for an open-ended period and worldwide, without territorial limitation, for use in sundry publications and videos, including but not limited to promotional and/or advertising materials produced in all mediums; acknowledge and accept that the event organisers can also assign the rights of use provided for under this agreement to third parties, as well as to their institutional and commercial partners.