The Gravellina regulations
General information about Gravellina – Strade Rurali
Gravellina – Strade Rurali is a non-competitive cycling event that aims to promote and make known the territory, the routes, the culture and the food and wine of Valtellina.
Gravellina – Strade Rurali is scheduled to take place in Sondrio on September 21 and 22, 2024.
Art. 2 – General event overview
Gravellina – Strade Rurali is a non-competitive cyclo-tourist event in which the routes are neither marked nor controlled and where participants must proceed in total self-sufficiency, following the pace that suits them best.
Each participant takes part in Gravellina – Strade Rurali in the knowledge that the tours include dirt roads and mountain routes that may have rough and irregular surfaces.
Each participant takes part in Gravellina – Strade Rurali in a reasoned and conscious manner, at his or her own risk and in a free, spontaneous and independent personal excursion without any extra rights in relation to other trail and road users.
Gravellina – Strade Rurali presents tours within its offer that require high psychophysical effort and riding skills.
When choosing which tour to register for, each participant must consciously assess his or her physical fitness and ability to ride a bike, his or her ability to adapt to route and weather conditions, and his or her ability to read navigation instruments. By registering for a tour or initiative, each participant makes a reasoned and conscious choice that absolves the organisation of any liability.
Art. 3 – Admitted bicycles
The Gravellina – Strade Rurali tracks are designed to be cycled with gravel bikes. However, it is possible to participate with other types of bicycles which allow cycling on dirt roads, paved roads and rough sections.
Art. 4 – Gravellina – Strade Rurali tours
The tour programme includes:
Saturday 21 September 2024
“1/2 Gravellina – East”: a tour with medium distance and medium difference in altitude, concentrated in some spots, which includes steep climbs and challenging sections and requires excellent physical fitness and resistance to fatigue. The tour is dedicated to professional athletes and practitioners of non-competitive or recreational sports activities and is characterised by particular and high cardiovascular effort as specified in the Ministerial Decree of 24/04/13 art. 4.1.
“1/4 Gravellina”: a tour with short distance and lower difference in altitude with the presence of not very steep climbs that requires good physical fitness. The tour is also dedicated to those who carry out occasional motor activity, performed mainly for recreational purposes and in an occasional and non-repetitive manner as specified in the Ministerial Decree of 24/04/13 art. 2,2,b.
Sunday 22 September 2024
“1/2 Gravellina – West”: a tour with medium distance and medium difference in altitude, concentrated in some spots, which includes steep climbs and challenging sections and requires excellent physical fitness and resistance to fatigue. The tour is dedicated to professional athletes and practitioners of non-competitive or recreational sports activities and is characterised by particular and high cardiovascular effort as specified in the Ministerial Decree of 24/04/13 art. 4.1.
“e-MTB tour”: a tour with short distance and lower difference in altitude with the presence of not very steep climbs that requires good physical fitness. The tour is also dedicated to those who carry out occasional motor activity, performed mainly for recreational purposes and in an occasional and non-repetitive manner as specified in the Ministerial Decree of 24/04/13 art. 2,2,b.
The GPX tour tracks will be sent by e-mail shortly before the event and will only be valid on the day of the event for which the individual tour is scheduled, including permission to pass through certain protected areas, areas of historical and natural interest or private areas.
Participants must load the track of the tour for which they are registered into their navigation device and follow it without changes or cuts. If you leave the track, you must return to it at the point where you left off. Outside the track one is considered to be outside the event. The organisation reserves the right to provide checkpoints on the route to verify that the participant has not made any cuts.
To ensure the safety of the participants, the organisation reserves the right to change or completely replace the tour tracks up to the last minute before the scheduled departure time by immediately informing the participants of this, together with how to download the new track.
It is the responsibility of the individual participant to ensure that he or she is participating in the tour for which he or she is registered.
It is the responsibility of individual participants to have personal insurance, either through Sports Federations or Associations membership or an individual stipulation, which includes coverage against injury and damage caused to third parties.
Art. 5 – Timed sections
At the organiser’s discretion, in the “1/2 Gravellina – East” and “1/2 Gravellina – West” tours, there may be some timed sections that have exclusively a playful purpose to increase the fun of the participants and exclude any competitive purpose.
Art. 6 – Registrations
It is possible to register at www.gravellina.com
Each person, having assessed the tour data (length, difference in altitude, exc) and having conscientiously related them to his or her psychophysical capacity, strength and cycling ability, can register for the individual Gravellina – Strade Rurali tours and initiatives, or opt for package solutions that will eventually be offered by the organisation.
Online registration will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 18 September 2024. It will be possible to register directly on site at the times and place communicated by the organisation for any tours or initiatives still available. On-site registration requires the payment of an additional secretariat fee of € 10.00.
Art. 7 – Payment methods
Tours, weekend packages and side activities can be purchased at www.gravellina.com using Stripe payment system, which accepts all major credit, debit and prepaid cards.
Art. 8 – Underage
Minors between 14 and 17 years of age are allowed to participate in the following initiatives:
“1/4 Gravellina – Short Tour”
Minors must provide authorisation from their parents or legal guardians. Download the authorisation form: click here.
Art. 9 – Medical certification
In order to safeguard the health of the participants in Gravellina – Strade Rurali, the organisation complies with the regulations of the certification of non-competitive and amateur sporting activity described in the Ministerial Decree of 24 April 2013. Therefore:
Participation in the tours: “1/2 Gravellina – East” and “1/2 Gravellina – West”, NOT competitive but of HIGH psychophysical commitment, is subject to the regular possession of the following requirement:
- for Italian residents: medical certificate for the practise of non-competitive cycling or sport activity of particular and high cardiovascular commitment valid on the date of the event, specified in the Ministerial Decree of 24/04/13 ((download the certificate model: click here);
- for non-Italian residents: medical certificate for participation in competitive cycling races issued by a doctor (download the certificate model: click here).
Participation in the “1/4 Gravellina – Short Tour” tour, which is NON-competitive and of LOW psychophysical commitment, does not require a medical certificate. As specified in the Ministerial Decree of 24/04/13, a medical check-up is in any case recommended prior to participation in recreational-motor activities for the evalutation of any risk factors, with particular attention to subjects who switch from a sedentary lifestyle to the practice of such activities or who undergo particularly intense physical exercise.
It is mandatory for the participant to verify the obligation to submit the required certification for each tour and to send the above-mentioned documentation to the e-mail address people@gravellina.com by the deadline of 23:59 on Wednesday, 18 September 2024, coinciding with the closing date for online registrations.
Participants who register on site are required, for tours where requested, to provide a copy of the documentation at the time of registration/accreditation at the info-point set up by the organisation.
Any participant who does not send or provide the required documentation shall be considered excluded from the event, shall not be duly registered and shall not be entitled to a refund of the registration fee.
Each participant declares pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 445 of 28 December 2000 that the documents sent or provided by him/her are true and correspond to the originals in his/her possession.
Art. 10 – Insurance
Participants registered in Gravellina – Strade Rurali activities are covered, at no additional cost, by an accident and third-party liability insurance policy in accordance with the insurance agreement between UISP and Unipolsai assicurazione (download policy conditions 2023/24 here)
Art. 11 – Mandatory equipment
Each participant must be autonomous and is responsible for ensuring that he/she has the following mandatory equipment with him/her throughout the duration of the tours for which he/she is registered:
- Homologated helmet to be always worn;
- Navigation device;
- Mobile phone;
- Bell or whistle;
- Adequate water supply;
- Repair kit for breakdowns and punctures;
- Firs aid kit;
- Appropriate clothing to face with any adverse weather conditions.
Art. 12 – Medical and mechanical assistance
The Gravellina – Strade Rurali event does not provide mechanical assistance along the route. There is no pick-up service for withdrawn participants, and there is no obligation for the organisation to search for any missing persons along the route who have not communicated their withdrawal to the telephone number provided by the organisation.
Medical assistance will be managed in accordance with the law.
Art. 13 – Rules of conduct
Registered participant must communicate his/her presence at the event by accreditation at the info-point that will be set up by the organisation at the place indicated as the meeting point for the event.
At the start of the tours, the participant must show the number, armband or any other identification sign indicated by the organisation and given at the time of the accreditation.
The tours take place in autonomy on roads open to traffic, therefore strict observance of the Traffic Rules is mandatory. Participants do not have any rights over other users along the routes. Participants undertake not to travel in groups but to proceed in single file on roads open to traffic.
Each participant undertakes to respect other participants, non-participants and vehicles encountered along the route, public and private property, historical heritage, flora and fauna. Each participant undertakes to behave in a civil and decorous manner on the route, not to litter the environment and to use water bottles instead of disposable products.
At the end of the tour, the participant must communicate his/her arrival by going to the info-point set up by the organisation (where he/she will receive the ‘race packet’). Participants who eventually withdraw along the route are required to communicate their withdrawal by calling or texting a telephone number that will be provided by the organisation.
Art. 14 – Refreshment point
There may be refreshment points along the tours, the location and time of access to which are communicated to the participants before the start of the event.
Art. 15 – Replacement of a participant or change of activity
By 31/08/2024 it is possible to request the replacement of a participant. The request must be made officially by e-mail to people@gravellina.com indicating in the subject line “Substitution of participant” and in the email message the name and surname of the participant and the details of the participant who will be replacing him/her (Name, Surname, E-mail).
By 31/08/2024 it is possible to request a change of the booked activity. The request must be made officially by e-mail to people@gravellina.com indicating in the subject line “Tour Change” and in the email message the name of the tour for which you have registered and the name of the tour for which you wish to register. The tour change shall be considered valid only after a confirmation email from the organisation. In case of a price difference between activities, the request will only be considered valid upon payment of the balance.
The change of activity requested on site will be possible, subject to availability of places, by paying a surcharge of € 10.00.
Art. 16 – Waiver of participation
If a participant is unable to participate and documents his/her objective inability to participate due to injury or illness, his or her registration will be postponed to the next edition.
Under no circumstances may the subscriber request reimbursement of the costs of participation in the tours or the shipment of material such as race packs, merchandising, exc
Art. 17 – Cancellation of the event
If, in order to guarantee the safety of the participants or for reasons of force majeure beyond the organisation’s control, the event should not take place, the amount paid at the time of registration will not be refunded, but the participation fee will be considered valid for the next event, whether it is in the same year or the following year.
To ensure the safety of participants, the organisers reserve the right to suspend or cancel the event at any time.
Art. 18 – Non-sporting side activities
The Gravellina event also includes the organisation of non-sporting side activities such as dinners, concerts, meetings, workshops and educational activities. Some of these activities may be offered for a fee and/or with a limited number of participants and can be booked via www.gravellina.com.
Art. 19 – Merchandising
The organisation will produce some merchandising items (caps, t-shirts, exc.) that can be purchased on www.gravellina.com also in combination with activities tickets.
Delivery of the purchased items is made on site during the days of the event. Shipping to the purchaser’s home is not foreseen.
Art. 20 – Changes to the regulations
The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the event regulations at any time. The new versions of the regulations will be published on the website www.gravellina.com, which is to be considered the only official information media of the event.
Art. 21 – Communicating with the organisation
All requests must be addressed to the organisation using the email people@gravellina.com, which is to be considered the only official communication channel with the organisation.
Art. 22 – Organisation and data controllers
The organising entity of Gravellina – Strade Rurali, referred to in the regulations as ‘organisation’ is:
DAYS OFF ADVENTURES A.S.D.
Via San Marco 3
23017 Morbegno (SO)
C.F. e P.I. 01076280146
The ownership of Gravellina trademark, the pay-off Strade Rurali/Rural Roads and all their image declinations is of:
DAYS OFF OUTDOOR
Via San Marco, 3
23017 Morbegno (SO)
P.I. 03844470132
Both above-mentioned entities are authorised by all participants to process, register and use their personal data in the terms described in the Privacy Policy. Participants’ personal data will be processed and registered in accordance with the Italian Privacy Act no. 196 of 30/06/2003 and the European Union Privacy Regulation 2017/679 (GDPR/18).
Art. 23 – Responsability and final rule
By registering for participation in Gravellina – Strade Rurali tours and activities, each participant declares:
- To have read carefully and accepted this regulation in all its parts;
- To have consciously examined the characteristics of the event tours before choosing the ones in which to participate;
- To be aware that there are route sections with uneven and/or slippery surfaces and that the trails may also have obstacles such as, for example, stones, roots, mud, exc;
- To be aware that the route is open to traffic and therefore traffic code apply;
- To have sufficient experience in dealing with long-distance routes, including in mountain and alpine areas, and to know how to use navigation systems;
- To ensure that the documentation submitted to participate in the event, including the required medical certification, is true and corresponds to the originals in its possession;
- Not to take substances on the World Anti-Doping Agency-Wada anti-doping list, drugs or medicinal substances that may lead to situations of harm or danger to one’s own health or that of others;
- To be in optimal physical condition to face the tours for which he/she is registered, to have provided truthful documentation, and to release the organization from any damage he/she may suffer as a result of his/her participation in the event;
- To expressly and without reservation exonerate the Days Off Adventures A.S.D. association, its president, members of the steering committee, its collaborators and partners, local administrations, the accommodations in which it is staying and any other person involved in the initiative in any title, from any liability of a civil or criminal nature, even if objective, for damages suffered by things in its possession and/or property and for all damages suffered by the participant during the tour and even consequent to the use of the infrastructures, including personal injury (of any nature and entity) and/or death;
- To release the organization from any liability related to theft and/or damage to the bicycle and any personal belongings;
- To assume full and exclusive responsibility for any damage to third parties and/or property owned by third parties, expressly exonerating the organization from any liability and assuming the obligation to indemnify, guarantee and hold harmless the organization from any amount it may be required to pay on this account and/or reason;
- To express consent to the use of his/her data, including for commercial purposes in accordance with Art. 13 Legislative Decree 196/2003 and Articles 12, 13 and 14 of EU Regulation 679/2016;
- To have carefully read the Organizer’s Privacy Policy and the processing of participants’ personal data for the purposes and in the manner described in the Organizer’s Privacy Policy;
- To grant the organizers the broadest consent to the use, in the ways permitted by law, including for profit, of any of its video or photographic images taken on the days of the event, providing the organization with the right to transfer such images to third parties;
- To accept that, in view of the public nature of the event, the object of the broadcasting and marketing services of the video-photographic filming of the event as well as the impossibility of selectively restricting the video-photographic filming, in order to register for and participate in the event it is necessary to authorize the filming and use of one’s image in the manner and for the purposes indicated in these Regulations as well as in the Release and Privacy Policy;
- To consider that the above authorization for the use of its image is to be understood to be lent indefinitely and without territorial limits throughout the world, for use in various publications and films, including, but not limited to, promotional and/or advertising materials made in all media. The organization may, in addition, assign to third parties and its institutional and commercial partners, the rights of use provided for in this agreement.