A nice event to end the year!.
Also check out this race report by Mr Wang
See Chain’s / Club100 video introducing the event.
Link to larger gallery.
A special shout-out to Rudong, Miranda and Wang for all the time, energy and passion making this event happen.
others redbook posts…..
x Wildhomestay, October 2025, 185km
A big day out on the bike. Perfect weather and perfect tarmac route through the northern hils of Anhui and Zhejiang.
See the below post for full recap.
Gallery
DIRTYCLEAN x Wildhomestay | The Clean Slate, April 2025!
Due to the somewhat extreme weather on Saturday, the Clean race ended up being our hardest event yet and most of the participant’s most challenging race to date. A real, Day In Hell!
| Slate L | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| man | jul pav | Darcy wu | Matthew GRECH |
| woman | liu shu jing | Kate Taylor | RavenZ |
| XL, Slate XL | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| man | Richard Welch PAS | Shawn Chen ANT | Rob Knight Suzhou |
| woman | Miranda 颖儿 | Vera VV | Joelle Tybon |
| masters | Scott Kirchner | Fabrice Demichel | Luke Webb |
| TEAM | Hong Kong | Suzhou | ANT |
More info on riding in this area check out the wildhomestay.com website.
This Route: https://www.wildhomestay.com/slate-2025/
Many thanks to our sponsor Specialized for all the great prizes!
在活动发布到举办短短1周多的时间内，吸引了大约120人到场，希望这场活动会成为春季经典赛事！三月底在崇明岛，全程75公里的瓜路与人烟稀少的道路。很高兴看到上海对瓜车活动有如此高的热情！About 120 people turned up at short notice for what we hope becomes a spring classic! 75km of gravel and quiet roads on Chongming Island at the end of March. Good to see so much enthusiasm in Shanghai for a gravel event! Congratulations to our podium winners
| 第一名 1st | 第二名 2nd | 第三名 3rd | |
| 女子组 Woman | Michelle | Joelle | 大云子 |
| 26.6km/h | 26.0km/h | 25.9km/h | |
| 男子组 Man | 周诚Johnson | BR-Bicycle 田国卿 | VilleM |
| 31.9km/h | 31.6km/h | 31.0km/h | |
| 大师组（40+）Master | 薛京城 | 200瓦长不了了 | 高干 |
| 30.1km/h | 28.1km/h | 27.2km/h |
Many thanks to our supporters: Specialized, Starry Night Camp, Cafe Du Cyclite, PDHSand wildhomestay
After canceling the last Clean due to weather and this time having to change the course due to a last minute tunnel closure it was a struggle for us but a bunch of fun hosting such a passionate and authentic cycling community. Thanks for all the support from everyone from route selection, to looking after riders who have never done these types of challenges, to providing all the photographs. #realcyclists #sufferingsmiles
Congratulations to the 2024 Clean #2: Daming South, Winners
It was a epic course and an appropriate way to end the Dirty Cycling Challenge series. We’ve decided to stop our Dirty Challenges (this one also came with Dirty Water Stop and Dirty Noodles) after six years as nearly all our dirty is being concreted over and there does not seem to be much interest in a all-surface endurance gravel type races. We will still adventure out, get lost and explore the area, just in a different way and format. Thanks to all the participants and sponsors who have joined over the years.
Congratulations to the 2024 Dirty: Double Dirty Daming, Winners
One group went on a chilled Poshan recovery ride and the other a dirty reservoir revenge loop. Another on a long run through the local bush!
Next Up: Clean #3 Corked Highway & Shangtan Sprint- 16th & 17th November. A little different!
We will also know and present the DirtyClean 2024 Specialized Queen & King awards on Sunday lunch. Many thanks to Specialized China for the great awards.
Clean #1
It rained, then rained more and then stopped raining for the race but rain was still coming off the mountains with rain running down the rain covered roads. This made the little concrete roads super slippery which resulted in people getting a bit too touchy with their brakes and slipping over. Lesson learned for both us and the participants. We won’t run this course again during the spring or wet seasons. Participants need to heed our warnings on tire choice and pressure and work on their steep decent braking skills. Regardless a fun and challenging day was had by all and thankfully nothing was broken, other than an exploding wheel!
The current standings for the Specialized’s bikes King & Queen award: ShawnC and JoelleT are first place and in line to win some great Sworks gear. One race down and three to go so it’s still early days and anyone’s taking!
Many thanks to all our supporters for their great awards, time and energy. A shout out to our long term partner Specialized for their top prizes. To Toby of FeverCycling for his maintenance and group support over the entire weekend. To SpineC for their great stretches and health advice. To Shokz for their prizes and headphone trials. To iGPSport for their GPS devices. To xCadey for their electric pumps and prizes. To D2E for their cleaning produce. To Namedsports for their hydration products. To the entire wildhomestay team who help make this happen. To Miranda for her social media and to all the other individuals who have helped out. Thanks to all for supporting the more adventurous community driving side of our cycling.
Not too hot but lots of water, sweat and hills. I personally think this is the most stunning route but that’s up for debate. 135km of riding with a 1km freshly cut walk down to the river linked various routes we had been doing for a few years. We had our first fixed gear challengers and hopefully next time a ebiker? Very much look forward to expanding on this area and the next Dirty on the 28th of October.
Mens Awards
#1 Scott
#2 Shawn
#3 Eugene
Womens
#1 Joelle
#2 Ingrid
#3 Clair
Masters and best photo to Paul
Best shoe Fail to Dirk
Crazy fixed gear ride to Pengchaowei
Most spectacular crash to Rudong
Best I don’t know how to ride to Blair
Most lost but not to Schalk
Best Gravel passion to 张雨青
And
Many Thanks to our Sponsors for their award prizes:
Many thanks to Paul, Shawn and the rest of the participants for their great pictures!
Many thanks to Shawn for another video giving a great overview of the day!
Something Sharp – The Clean Epic. Probably our most challenging Clean to date. 185km of hills, 7 timed segments, lots of team work, a sprinkling of dirty (but ridable on the day), and full sun led to probably everyone’s hardest day on the bike this year. I’ve been meaning to do this route for some time and have been riding different parts of it for years. The dirty sections in our area are slowly getting lost to concrete and the concrete sections slowly getting tarmac’d and enlarged. A never-ending development of roads! Its progress in most respects and the area remains mostly traffic free with stunning mountain views. The route took the participants between 8 and 12 hours and about 30% of the participants did not manage to complete the long route but still managed cycling PB’s in time and effort! Respect to everyone.
The next Clean will be on the 18th of November. It will be a more traditional format on wider tarmac roads more similar to a traditional road racing course. Many thanks for Specialized for the winner prizes, to Nio for providing a recon and support car and to all our other partners who help make these events possible.
Segment Winners:
Male Overall:
Female Overall:
Masters Overall:
Special awards:
Many thanks for this!!!
Shawns Video Recap
Many thanks to Shawn for making a video diary of the event like this….. Gives a great overview what the day was like.
2023 Ultra & Chill Results
Gallery of Participant Photos
Many thanks to everyone for their great photos!
Sponsors
A fantastic course and great weather for the last Dirty Clean of 2022. The expressions on peoples faces sums up the pleasure and pain 🙂 A huge thanks to our partners for all the great prizes. We hope to announce next year’s calendar in December along with this season’s winners. We look forward to seeing many new faces and old legs again for 2023.
Specialized | the clinic | Coros | Castelli | Chemical Guys | Therabody | Restrap | MelTonic | Anken | Arabica Roasters
Specialized | the clinic | Coros | Castelli | Chemical Guys | Therabody | Restrap | MelTonic | Anken | Arabica Roasters