Arctic Bicycle Club Season

The Arctic Bicycle Club Season is a cycling race series in Anchorage, Alaska, with events in late spring and summer. The nonprofit Arctic Bicycle Club, founded in Anchorage in the 1970s as a road cycling club, organizes the series. The club promotes bicycling safety, education, and competition, and operates road, mountain, and cyclocross racing divisions. The series includes individual time trials, pack-based road races, hill climbs, criteriums, gravel and mixed-surface races, and mountain bike events on Anchorage's trail system. The Road Division offers categories for racers with different levels of experience, fitness, and equipment. Event names include the Gravel Grail Cup races, Arctic MTB XCO rounds, stage races, and the Talkeetna Grinder distances. The organizer's race notes state that riders should not arrive with a motor in the bike or top caps on the valves.