CYCLIXPeace Ride Stage 1: Zittau to Liberec
107 km from the three-country corner at Zittau, north into Poland, then up and over the Jizera mountains into Liberec. Three countries and one long climb to the Czech border.
European Peace Ride 2026
Three stages, three countries, 454 km and roughly 5,000 m of climbing, running from the three-country corner at Zittau to the ice sports park in Chemnitz. These are the tracks from riding it in September 2026, so they are what the road actually did rather than what the plan said.
A warning worth reading before you load any of them. We rode these on closed roads behind a police escort, in a peloton of two hundred. You will not get that. The lines are good and the scenery is the same, but several junctions that we rolled straight through are junctions you will have to stop at, and a couple of the descents are a lot less relaxing when you are watching for traffic. Day two in particular has long stretches of Czech main road that were pleasant only because nothing was coming the other way.
Ride them as three days, or cherry-pick. Day one is the most varied, day two is the hardest, day three has the famous bit.
Each stage has a GPX simplified for head units and Komoot, plus the original FIT with the full second-by-second data. The ride reports, with photos and what actually happened, are over in the blog.
Peace Ride Stage 2: Liberec to Dresden
171 km and 2,354 m, the hard one. A 400 m climb in the first nine kilometres, two river valleys, then the Ore Mountains in a staircase before the drop into Dresden.
Peace Ride Stage 3: Dresden to Chemnitz
175 km across Saxony with the gentlest profile of the three, saving the Steile Wand at Meerane for km 130. Short, cobbled, and up to 19 per cent.