RIDER SAFETY RULES AND REGULATIONS

Acceptance of Rules & Regulations

In order to proceed with your registration you have to confirm that you have read and understood the event rules and regulations listed below and will abide by these rules and regulations for all associated events in the 15th Edition of the Spinneys Dubai 92 Cycle Challenge.

iQuick visual guide – Rider Do's & Don'ts

The rider's age for all events in this series is set in line with the UCI Gran Fondo qualifying age eligibility which is defined by the rider's age on 31 December of the year of the qualifier event (6th and 7th September 2026), in this case 31 December 2026.

Riders Age / Category = Rider's age on 31 December 2026.

The events will be timed using rental chips only. These timing chips will be provided prior to each event in your race pack on a per-event rental basis and must be returned to the organisers at the finish recovery area of each ride. Failure to do so may incur a time penalty and you will need to pay the replacement fee of AED 300 for the lost chip, which must be paid prior to collection of your race pack for the following event.

The following is not permitted, and penalties may be imposed at the sole discretion of the organiser:

• Headphones – strictly no headphones allowed whilst riding; be attentive and alert to calls.
• Using your mobile phone or taking selfies whilst riding – let the official photographers take the photos.
• Making contact with any other rider whilst on the bike.
• Physical contact with another rider with the intention of causing harm is strictly forbidden.
• No helmet, no ride.
• Solid disc wheels, TT bikes, TT bars and aero bars are not allowed.
• E-bikes or motors – only 100% human-powered bikes are permitted.
• Littering on the course.
• Carrying or wearing another rider's timing chip during the ride.
• Starting in an earlier group than your allocated or allotted seeding when you are a seeded rider.

All participants agree to act in accordance with acceptable rider etiquette. The following acts are deemed unfair, unsportsmanlike or potentially unsafe conduct in terms of this event and are strongly discouraged. The organisers reserve the right to sanction participants for flagrant violations:

• Looking back in a bunch – do not look back in a bunch as this can cause an accident.
• Not holding your line – keep it steady, ride in a straight line and in a predictable manner.
• Braking suddenly without warning.
• Overlapping wheels – do not overlap wheels; keep a distance of approximately 1 to 1.5m off the rear of the wheel in front.
• Sandbagging – hanging back at the start in a chip-time format to gain an unfair time advantage.
• Blocking – deliberately blocking other riders.
• Being rude to marshals, race officials or other riders.

You may appeal a result or contest rider behaviour by following the official appeal process.

• Any rider wishing to lodge an official appeal against another rider must complete the appeal form, sign it and pay an AED 100 deposit for the appeal to be considered.
• The appeal form will be provided as a downloadable digital form and as a hard copy at each event at the information stand within the finish village.
• To lodge an official appeal, the rider must pay an AED 100 deposit. Should the offender be found guilty, the deposit will be returned to the appealer. If the offender is found not guilty, the deposit will be retained by the organisers.

To enter a team, a team leader will need to have all team member details to hand when registering their team online through the entry platform. A link for team entries will be shared when online entries launch.

For assistance in registering a team, please contact info@ucigranfondochina.com.

• Age eligibility for UCI Gran Fondo qualifier races is 19+ years.
• There are no gender-based team categories; a team may consist of all males, all females or a mixed group of male and female riders.
• Team members do not need to hold a valid Elite License; however, only valid UCI license holders will be eligible to start in the Elite Start Group on the main event race day if they have qualified to do so. All non-license holders will start in one of the open seeded groups according to their seeding taken from the build-up rides.

• All riders in a team must ride with their allocated timing chip.
• Seeded teams will start separate from the rest of the field for safety reasons.
• Race teams will start in the front group; social teams, riding for social and personal achievement, will start within their relevant speed group according to their seeding.
• The team's time for each event is taken from the 4th team member to cross the finish line.
• At least 4 riders in a team must finish each event in order to stay in the competition.
• If fewer than 4 riders in a team finish an event, the team will be scored as DNF and will be out of the team competition, but each member will still be eligible to compete in the individual category as they finish each race.
• All safety rules remain applicable across all events.