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Horses grazing in a pasture below snow-covered Mount Elbert

Founding partners

Help build the race gravel has been missing

Grand Tour Gravel is in development, so the ground floor is open. Come in now and you don't sponsor a race — you help shape the first edition of one.

Mount Elbert · Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Who this is for

Three kinds of partner

Brands

Bikes, tires, nutrition, apparel, timing, hydration, recovery, trucks, and mountain-lifestyle brands who want a foothold in the fastest-growing part of cycling, at the most photogenic altitude in the country.

Land & hosts

Stage towns, lodges and landowners who want the economic lift of a marquee event and a role in the route.

Founders' circle

People who want to help stand up a genuinely new event and have their name on its first edition.

Why the ground floor

What an established race can't offer

Gravel is the fastest-growing part of cycling and Colorado is its center, but no marquee stage race owns the American high country yet. A founding partner gets what a sponsor of an established race never can: category exclusivity while it's still open, a hand in the format and route, and the story of having built it.

The audience is the riders who chase Leadville, SBT GRVL and the Life Time Grand Prix, plus the towns and media that follow them. The backdrop is five passes above treeline.

Tiers

Where a partner fits

The full structure and budget are in the playbook. The shape:

LevelWhat it is
Title / presentingThe race's name partner, category exclusivity, top billing everywhere.
Stage & jerseyOwn a stage or a classification — GC leader, KOM/QOM — the grand-tour sponsorship model on gravel.
Official supplierOne brand per category, with on-course presence and product integration.
Host & communityStage towns, venues, lodges and local businesses in the host village.
Aerial view of the snow-lined ridges of the Sawatch Range

Start the conversation

Founding partnerships are being set now, ahead of the inaugural edition.