Rotary Rides Canberra

Murrumbidgee Canberra Rotary Club’s
bike ride charity fundraiser

Five Peaks Challenge

A personal bike riding challenge

The Five Peaks Challenge offers two riding length options: you can choose to ride the 88 km route or the 120 km route, both include six peaks.
Tailor your ride by selecting as many or as few peaks as you like, allowing you to customise both the distance and climbing intensity.

This is your personal challenge, so feel free to select as many or as few of the six peaks as you wish, and ride a distance that suits you, ranging from 57 km (with no peaks ridden) to 120 km.

Electric assist e-bikes are welcome.

If you are unable to participate as a rider, we would greatly appreciate your assistance as a valued volunteer.

Join us in Canberra and make a weekend out of it. Forrest Hotel and Apartments is offering a special deal for riders.

Profits from the event goes to support selected charities including

Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children providing surgical treatment for children in Australia and New Zealand
The Early Morning Centre that supports homeless people in Canberra
Australian Rotary Health for mental health research and Indigenous scholarships

88 88 km Classic

The original Five Peaks Challenge now has Dairy Farmers Hill (in the Arboretum) added

giving you six peaks -- that's 20% extra!

It's an 88 km ride including all six peaks with 1,750 m vertical climbing.

It's 57 km with no peaks.

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120 120 km Uriarra Plus

For an added challenge include the the Uriarra Loop

for a 120 km ride with 2,000 m vertical climbing.

It's 87 km with no peaks

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The Murrumbidgee Canberra Rotary Club organises this non-competitive cyclo-sportive bike riding event as a fundraiser. The event, previously run by the Woden Rotary Club until 2022, when it merged with the Canberra East Rotary Club to create the Murrumbidgee Canberra Club.

This challenging event invites participants to conquer the six peaks of Canberra: Mount Stromlo, Red Hill, Mount Pleasant, Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, and Dairy Farmers Hill in the Arboretum. Originally named the 'Five Peaks Challenge' when it began in 2004, the addition of Dairy Farmers Hill in 2015 expanded the Challenge to include six peaks, providing a 20% bonus of peaks.