Celebrate Ride Like King’s 16th year (and 7th year on Zwift) next week with events featuring celebrity leaders, product giveaways, jersey unlocks, and even Buffalo bikes!
Every 500km ridden by the Zwift community means one more Buffalo bike donated to World Bicycle Relief – up to 600 bikes! Read on for details…
What is Ride Like King?
In 2007, at age 73, Giant Group King Liu completed a 15-day, 927km ride around Taiwan. This resulted in a renewed passion for cycling and the benefits it brings to the individual, community, and country. Following this, King traveled to countries and spoke with governments to promote the positive impacts of cycling.
His message resonated within the company as well. ‘Ride Like King’ started in 2009 as a small event within the Giant Group to celebrate their founder’s passion for cycling. But it grew to be an annual event and now is in its 16th edition! Zwift is an active partner and has been hosting the event on its platform since 2018.
Event Details
“Ride to Raise” warm-up rides are scheduled hourly from 6am UTC Monday, May 13 to 3am UTC Friday, May 17th. These rides rotate every other hour between two formats and have no special unlocks or prize drawings, but rides in these events (and all events in the RLK16 series) count toward our community distance goal to earn Buffalo bikes:
- Turf N Surf (1 lap, 24.7km with 197m elevation)
- Open Category D will ride Giant TCR Advanced SL road bikes
- Women-Only Category E will ride Liv Langma SL road bikes
- Jungle Circuit (3 laps, 29.2km with 255m elevation)
- Open Category D will ride Giant Revolt gravel bikes
- Women-Only Category E will ride Liv Devote gravel bikes
“Celebration Rides” are scheduled from 4am UTC Friday, May 17th to 6am UTC Monday, May 20th and include in-game kit unlocks and prize drawing entries. The schedule rotates through three blocks of events, with each block hosting 7 event time slots which are 4 hours apart:
- Event Block 1: Sugar Cookie (1 lap, 39.2km, 258m)
- Open Category D will ride Giant TCR Advanced SL road bikes
- Women-Only Category E will ride Liv Langma SL road bikes
- Event Block 2: Makuri 40 (1 lap, 40.3km, 312m)
- Open Category D will ride Giant TCR Advanced SL road bikes
- Women-Only Category E will ride Liv Langma SL road bikes
- Event Block 3: R.G.V. (1 lap, 24.8km, 133m)
- Open Category D will ride Buffalo Fahrrad bikes
- Women-Only Category E will ride Buffalo Fahrrad bikes
See upcoming events at zwift.com/events/series/ride-like-king-16/
Celebrity Ride Leaders
The big weekend Celebration Rides will feature pro riders from Giant and Liv’s most notable teams, including Team Jayco AlUla, Liv AlUla, Liv Factory Racing, the Giant Factory Off-Road Team, and Liv Racing Collective. Also, Giant and Liv ambassadors like Ayesha McGowan, Gustav Iden, and others will join in on the fun!
Hint: check the signup list in Zwift Companion to see who is signed up as a ride leader for any events you’re interested in!
Giveaways and Prizes
Participate in the RLK main events from May 17–19, and you’ll unlock the exclusive Ride Like King 16 kit in game.
Also, each main event you complete earns you an entry to win a limited-edition RLK16 jersey along with a signed card by King Liu himself! Three winners will be drawing per main event, meaning 63 winners will be drawn overall.
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