APPLICATION PISTE ROUTE
For experienced bikepackers only.
NEW CONCEPT:
Time doesn’t matter.
More information in this blog.
REGISTRATION ROAD ROUTE
Fixed route of 2,590km and 29’100m vertical climbing
For any cyclist who likes extensive distances without services.
Cycling from Tangier to Sidi Ifni in Morocco. The 6th edition of the piste route and 5th edition of the road route will again start in Tangier October 5th 2025. The route brings riders trough the Rif and Atlas mountains to the Sahara desert.
The routes of the Morocco Bike-Adventure brings you to rural places tourists rarely see. It doesn’t follows petrol station shops and sometimes you spend the night under millions of stars. The Rif mountain, the Atlas mountains and the Sahara desert are part of the routes.
in the Sahara desert
Where we meet, the start
Tangier, Morocco: a port city on the Strait of Gibraltar in Africa, only a few kilometers south of Tarifa, Spain and yet, a world away. The same place that was used in the scenery of the James Bond film, The Living Daylight.
About
- 4th October 2025, 16:00: Riders briefing and registration
- 5th October 2025, 09:00: Start
- Where: Tangier, Morocco
- Finish: Sidi Ifni
- Finisher party: 17th October
- Two categories solo and pair riders.
- No time limit.
2 routes
- The classic Morocco-BikeAdventure: PISTE route: about 1,700km till 2,300km and 17,000m till 23,000m vertical climbing.
NEW: build your own route out of the kit - ROAD route: 2,590km / 29,100vm
Important
The piste route is for experienced bikepackers only. Navigation skills and the ability to keep calm in extreme situations like a sand storm in the desert or a storm in the mountains are mandatory.
Blog
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Riders feedback
I need to send you a wholehearted THANK YOU, for your fantastic route: I had planned to cycle in Morocco and stumbled across your MBA site, and your insights have made this exactly the adventure I had hoped for: a perfect combination of mountains, piste and awesome roads.
Nb your Road section 12 were yet gave me another masterpiece: the big smile it gave me
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when I rejected the temptation to follow the signs to Sidi Ifni and instead followed your route with perfect small roads, that curved through the landscape and the last hit from the dragoons tail with the nasty hills and crosswind the required a last dig deep in my resources 👌
Kasper – November 2024
Middle Atlas
The route
On route to Sidi Ifni, adventurers will travel through many beautiful areas of Morocco, among others that have been used in films or have been part of the legendary Paris-Dakar rally.
The Morocco Bike-Adventure is a single-stage, unsupported, cycling adventure across Morocco.
New for the piste route: Build your own route out of defined piste modules.
Get more information about the PISTE route and ROAD route, click the link.
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