2025 • MONT VENTOUX
28 JUNE 2025 | MONT VENTOUX
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28 JUNI 2025 • MONT VENTOUX
Will you choose the road bike, gravel bike, handbike or hiking boots? Either way, it will be an epic but above all legendary ride.
La Cannibale is a tribute to the greatest rider of all time, Eddy Merckx, with an exclusive mix of sporting challenges and social experience. Once upon a time, the cannibal wrote history here… Now it’s your turn!
Challenges
Find your personal challenge from six options ranging from a route with 1200 altimeters to the ultimate Cannibale 220 with 5250 altimeters.
Graveling on and around Mont Ventoux is fantastic and very challenging but comparable to no other gravel ride. Choose from 3 options ranging from 80 kilometres and 1900 altimeters to 145 kilometres and 4000 altimeters.
People with physical disabilities also have a right to exercise and enjoy some self-development. Starting together from Malaucène or Sault, they handbike up Mont Ventoux purely on arm strength.
Hiking or trail running to the top of Mont Ventoux and then back again is an unforgettable lifetime experience and promotes you to a hike cannibal. Choice of 35 kilometres including the summit or 25 kilometres without the summit.
Participation package
+ Unique La Cannibale 2025 Bioracer shirt of high quality
+ La Cannibale 2025 souvenir
+ Free Komoot Regional Pack
+ Contribution To Walk Again
+ Bottle of wine ‘Cave Beaumont du Ventoux’
+ Standard insurance
+ Professional medical assistance
+ Numerous, well-equipped supplies
+ Professional technical assistance (Flemish Cycling School)
+ Clear signposting (gpx for gravel)
+ Timing service with the possibility of regrouping en route without losing time
+ Entertainment on Friday & Saturday
Sign up and claim your unique cycling or hiking shirt, a tribute to Mont Ventoux and Eddy Merckx.
Participants can personalise their unique shirt with a logo or text of their choice at a small additional cost. All proceeds will go to To Walk Again. When registering with a group of 10 or more, you will receive 1 free print.
A SOCIAL EVENT…
Everyone dresses in the same exclusive shirt
Recognisability through first name and country on back number and frame plate
Connection between everyone in an animated Village Cannibale
Regrouping points on the course at which timekeeping stops
Special attention to people with disabilities
Fantastic final party for everyone
LET’S RIDE HISTORY
Practical
La Cannibale 2025 will take place on 28 June 2025 on and around Mont Ventoux with start and finish in picturesque Malaucène.
HOW TO GET TO LA CANNIBALE
BY CAR
You can easily get to all the villages around Mont Ventoux by car. Set the address of your hotel on your GPS and you’re off. Parking is provided at the event. Following participants by car is strongly discouraged.
BY TRAIN
Avignon is the closest TGV station. After that it is about 40 km. There are also trains from Avignon to Carpentras, from where it is only 19 km to Malaucène. If you get picked up, the best stop is Monteux, just before Carpentras.
BY PLANE
The international airports of Marseille and Nîmes are both an 80-minute drive away.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY 26 JUNE 2025
Choose from three warm-up rides of about 50 kilometres, starting and finishing in Malaucène, Sault or Bédoin. GPX files are shared on the website. Please note: no technical or medical support.
FRIDAY 27 JUNE 2025
Visit the Village Cannibale in Malaucène from 11am to 5pm. Pick up your bib number, Bioracer shirt and goodie bag, enjoy partner stands and music, and get a final bike-check from the Flemish Cycling School.
SATURDAY 28 JUNE 2025
Group starts for La Cannibale 2025 between 6am and 8am in Malaucène. Exception for climbs from Sault. Consult your start time under ‘Registration’. In the evening, a great party starts at 19h30 with cover band The Pickles, a stage act and an afterparty that continues until 1h00.
A mythical journey
on and around the iconic
Mont Ventoux
Mont Ventoux is the most iconic cycling mountain, famous for its unique climbing profile and impressive lunar landscape in Provence. The Tour de France made the mountain legendary, and every self-respecting sports cyclist owes it to himself to do the climb(s) at least once in his life. We offer customised climbs for everyone, and the Village Cannibale in Malaucène is not only the start and finish location but also the place where we meet and party together. For the long tours, we make sure participants can cycle together as much as possible.
OUR CHARITY
TO WALK AGAIN
La Cannibale supports people with physical disabilities through To Walk Again.
To Walk Again activates people with disabilities. A recognised voluntary organisation, they support projects to enable people with profound physical disabilities to live full lives and contribute to society to the maximum extent possible.
Their programmes promote exercise, friendship and recovery, with guidance from experts.
EDDY MERCKX, THE CANNIBALE ON THE VENTOUX
No cyclist can match Eddy Merckx’s palmares, and no rider has had as much impact. Merckx also left his mark on Mont Ventoux.
In 1970, after Tom Simpson’s death on the Ventoux in 1967, the Tour climbed the mountain again. Merckx rode solo to the summit, saluted Simpson at his monument, but finished exhausted. He was taken away by ambulance, but would still win that Tour.
In 1972, he finished second after a surprise attack by Bernard Thevenet. Merckx later also won that Tour.
In 1974, the Ventoux did not play a major role. Jos Spruyt won the stage, and Merckx his fifth and last Tour.
ORGANISERS
INSPIRERS
Dr. Toon Claes started the Mont Ventoux exercise campaign in 2005, which attracted 2,000 to 3,000 Flemish cyclists and walkers every year After 34,800 participants and more than 1,300,000 kilometres, Sporta decided to end the event, as it was increasingly focused on experienced athletes Now that Dr Claes has retired, he wants to revive the event;
In Philippe Govaert, who for years coordinated the Sporta event at Mont Ventoux logistically, Claes has found the ideal partner Philippe is also the owner and organiser of the very successful Bilbao-Bilbao cycling event in mid-March in Spain Philippe therefore brings with him a wealth of organisational experience.
The strengths of Toon and Philippe are combined for the practical set-up in Bidebike vzw.
WAVE Agency supports Toon & Philippe in all marketing-related parts of La Cannibale WAVE is an international agency that creates personalised and ‘fan-driven’ stories within sports, music and entertainment They help brands connect closely with their fans and convert those fans into customers.
LET’S RIDE HISTORY
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JOIN OUR TEAM • VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers wishing to lend a hand during La Cannibale on Saturday 28 June 2025 are always welcome Send an email with your details to info@lacannibale.com, drop by the information desk at the Village Cannibale in Malaucène on Friday 27 June 2025 and we will look into hours/place/function with you.