225-Kilometer Ötztaler Bike Marathon! Join the Epic Stubai Alps Circumnavigation

Are you up for a bike marathon? Make sure the 2-wheel ride works perfectly, warm up on a light ride the day before, prepare your water and food, and join Mountain Moments on a 225-kilometer circumnavigation in the Stubai Alps -also known as Ötztal Bike Marathon. The classic route leads via Innsbruck – Kühtai – Timmelsjoch – Jaufen – Brenner and back to Innsbruck, so prepare to cycle on all cylinders. Here you can find a route map and various useful tips and tricks.

Since the premiere in 1982 there is the Ötztaler bicycle marathon as a cycling event – sometimes also briefly “Ötzi” called or geographically more correctly: Stubai Alps circumnavigation. The routes and destinations since then varied, but the rough dates, tears, and in any case sweat and pain remain similar. 

238 kilometers and 5500 meters of altitude are written since the 1990s on the finisher jerseys of those who have made the event before the time limit.

Route description! This is how your Ötztal bike marathon looks like on a map

This route follows signposted country and federal roads. Except for the start and finish in Innsbruck, the route can therefore be ridden without navigation assistance. The following waypoints are sufficient for navigation:

Innsbruck (575m) – Kühtai (2017 m) – Sölden (1377 m) – Timmelsjoch (2474 m) – St. Leonhard in Passeier (689 m) – Jaufenpass (2094 m) – Sterzing (948 m) – Brenner (1374 m) – Innsbruck (575m).

Photo tips that will make your Instagram pop – rare but good photo spots

Even if there will be little time for the rider: good photo spots are always near the pass summits when the riders are struggling uphill and the effort is chiseled into their faces.

Mountain Moments Photo Workshops provide Photo Tours for everybody, Alpine Experience for beginners and intermediate-level photographers with 3 to 6-hour routes, as well as Summit Experience for more advanced photographers and hikers. We have private workshops and group classes.

More information about your long 2-wheel journey in the Stubai Alps

How to get there by public transport: bus stops along the route, train stations between Sterzing and Innsbruck.

Difficulty: difficult

Duration: 16h, 225km   

Ascent/Descent: 5850m/5850m   

Highest/lowest point: 2474m/575m  

Refreshment stop: Various

Start/Finish: Innsbruck (coordinates: geogr. 47.265529,11.384196)  

Best time: June-October

Tips: Observe weather-dependent closure times of the pass roads.

Special dangers: Observe safety precautions for road travel. Please carry adequate lighting also for a possible night ride.

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