Our mission
Preserving the heritage of sport.
Velodromes get torn down. Courses get rerouted. The places that made cycling fade from memory. We rebuild them in 3D, true to their real length, banking and ground, so every rider can race where the legends raced.
Free for every rider, on every platform.
Already riding
The preservation has started.
21real velodromes, from London to Cali
6standing on their real ground
7track race formats, by the real rules
17cyclocross courses inspired by famous towns
The velodromes
Tracks with a century of stories.
Some have stood since the 1800s. Others hosted the Olympic Games: Moscow 1980, Sydney 2000, London 2012, Paris 2024. Every one is in Ride Cave to ride, race and train on. Ride Cave is not affiliated with these venues or their owners.
1891
Herne Hill Velodrome, London, England
Raced on since 1891 and the track cycling venue of the 1948 Olympic Games. It stands on its real ground in Ride Cave.
1927
Kuipke, Ghent, Belgium
The "little bowl": a tiny, steep wooden track, raced on since 1927 and home to six-day racing. Rebuilt on the same spot after a fire in 1962.
1935
Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
Every hour record from Olmo in 1935 to Rivière in 1958 was set on this timber. Fausto Coppi rode 45.798 km here in 1942, in the middle of the war.
1936
Vélodrome André Pétrieux, Roubaix, France
The open concrete oval where the most famous cobbled one-day race has finished since the 1940s, a lap and a half after the cobbles.
1975
Valley Preferred Cycling Center, Pennsylvania, USA
Racing under the lights in the Lehigh Valley since 1975, and one of the great American summer tracks.
1982
Major Taylor Velodrome, Indianapolis, USA
Named for Marshall "Major" Taylor, the 1899 world sprint champion and one of the first Black world champions in any sport.
The disciplines
Every way cycling is raced.
Track racing, by the real rules.
The scratch race, the points race, the keirin and more, down to the Madison: the team race from the six-day era, where partners swap with a hand sling. You and the bots race by the same rules the track always has.
Cyclocross, from the sand to the stairs.
Barriers, stairs, flyovers, sand and mud, the winter sport of Belgium and beyond. Our 17 courses are our own laps, inspired by its famous towns. They are not official race courses and are not affiliated with any race or event.
Mountain biking, off the road.
Trail eRoutes ride like a trail: tabletop jumps, log stacks, rock gardens and berms, each jump asking for the power that lands it.
The great roads and climbs.
The famous passes and the roads the races made legendary, built from the real Earth with their real gradients. Ride them, or make an eRoute of a road that matters to you.
How we rebuild
True to the original.
Research
Histories, photographs and survey records tell us what each place was and what it meant.
Measure
The real lap length, banking and surface, so a track rides the way it rode for the people who raced it.
Place
Outdoor tracks stand on their real ground, built from the same map data as the Infinite World.
Ride
Real-world physics: draft, banking and gradient behave the way they do outside.
Beyond cycling
Every sport has a history worth keeping.
Cycling is where we started. As Ride Cave grows, the same mission comes with every sport we add: the places, courses and traditions that made it, rebuilt for everyone to move through. Where it goes next:
Skiing
The mountains and trails the sport was born on.
Join in
Preservation is a team sport.
Share the history
Old photos, programmes, plans and stories of the places you raced or watched.
Name the lost places
The velodrome that was torn down, the course that changed, the climb nobody rides any more.
Help us get it right
Ride what we build and tell us where it is off. People who were there know best.
Join the preservation.
Our Discord is where the work happens. Bring a story, a photo or a place, and help decide what we rebuild next.
