Prepare yourself on Kinomap's GF Yunnan Challenge

Starting today and as last year, we offer cycling enthusiasts from China and all over the world the chance to explore exciting sections of previous races in Granfondo Yunnan’s history via Kinomap. Kinomap is a training app, also available in China without VPN, that hosts the world’s largest fully geolocated video sharing platform. Contrary to other similar training apps, you are watching real video footage of real places rather than avatars and computer graphics-based scenery. For all those people who will take part in the ‘real’ event in November, this Kinomap virtual challenge will also help you in your preparation for the event, as you will be riding and seeing parts or even the whole Chuxiong course beforehand!

The Kinomap mobile app, available on the app store and playstore, takes control of your bike trainer by adjusting the resistance and inclination according to the elevation. The speed of the video will also be adjusted to your own pedalling speed. Download the app on your tablet and start training on these 4 great stages of our Colourful Granfondo Yunnan Cycling Festival!

The schedule of the virtual Granfondo Yunnan challenge is as follows:

  • 1-7 October : Yuxi

  • 8-14 October: Chuxiong

  • 15-21 October: Dali

  • 22-28 October: Lijiang

All videos produced by Nicolas Raybaud

Win prizes. The fastest riders (male and female) on each of the four stages during the assigned weeks will score a voucher valid for a free entry to one of the 2022 stages of the ‘real’ Colourful Yunnan Granfondo Festival. Each virtual stage will also see one winner of a lucky draw, so anybody can win.

Multiplayer races. Stay tuned because we are looking into offering a live virtual race at a given time (probably Saturdays) when you can compete against others in real-time. These real-time races would be set up on the courses of Chuxiong and Lijiang.

Kris Van de Velde