What is Supergrevet?
Supergrevet is unsupported long-distance gravel on the historic lines of the old endurance rides. One route, one time limit, no support. Whoever starts rides on their own – scouted, documented as a GPX file and built for a long, self-supported ride.
Where Grevet builds progression across the season with the Quartett, the great lines stand at the end: the Supergrevets as goal and finale.
The lines · since 1892
- Vienna–Trieste (1892) — over the mountains to the sea. 650 km · 14,000 m elev. Explore route →
- Milan–Munich (1894) — across the Alps. 800 km · 13,000 m elev. Explore route →
- Basel–Kleve (1894) — the Rhine line heading north. Explore route →
- Vienna–Berlin (1893) — the long-distance ride that turned the bicycle into a means of transport. Explore route →
Today’s Supergrevets are exactly these lines. More on their origins: The history of long-distance riding →
Planned in Berlin. Scouted on the ground. Ridden across Europe.
Supergrevet is a project by Grevet and CXBerlin. The routes emerge from maps, archive research and many kilometres on the ground.
How a trace became a line
Supergrevet did not begin with an event, but with research.
It started with a question about fatigue. I worked through old newspaper reports and cycling magazines to understand how riders dealt with exhaustion more than a hundred years ago — papers like Radhumor, and later Der Radfahrer, which only appeared around 1900.
That is where I came across the Vienna–Berlin distance ride of 1893. What interested me was not the legend but the route: where those riders had actually gone.
From reports, accounts and maps, a rideable line took shape step by step. Vienna–Berlin was the first. I did not re-enact it, I rode it — and the first ride promptly began with a tubeless disaster on the first long descent.
That became Supergrevet. Not a staging of the past, but an old question in the present: how far a bicycle carries you when you rely on the bike and your own decisions.
Behind Supergrevet is Tim, also founder of CXBerlin and Grevet. Since 2006 CXBerlin has gathered experience on the unpaved roads around Berlin — today’s Supergrevet routes grow from that practice and from the historical research.
What Supergrevet is – and what it isn’t
Unsupported. No support vehicles, no feed stations, no service team. You carry what you need, or buy it along the way.
Not a race. No ranking, no winner – but a time limit. Whoever completes the route cleanly within the limit is a finisher, regardless of time.
Self-determined. Route, breaks, sleep and supplies are up to you. Long distance tests judgement under fatigue, not the capacity to suffer.
Documentation, not staging
Supergrevet documents and preserves the culture of long-distance riding – it doesn’t stage it. No show, no heroic epics: what actually was. Weather, mechanicals, hours. Whoever rides here continues a tradition – on the trails, in the landscape, in their own body.
