Ride Like King 2026: Community Ride with Tony Martin in Munich

The ride is part of Ride Like King, the Giant Group's annual community campaign, which is taking on a special significance this year.

Registration takes place via grouprides.cc.

Why the whole thing

In 2007, at the age of 73, King Liu cycled around Taiwan in 15 days, a distance of 927 kilometres. The founder of the Giant Group wanted to show what a bicycle can do. The result was Ride Like King. King Liu died at the beginning of 2026. The 18th edition from 11 to 17 May is the first without him.

The motto: Ride the Legacy. Ride Like King.

How kilometres become bicycles

For every 500 kilometres that participants ride together worldwide, the Giant Group will donate a Buffalo Bicycle to World Bicycle Relief. The target is 463,500 kilometres and therefore 927 bicycles. The number is a nod to Liu's Taiwan ride.

Buffalo Bicycles are robust cargo bikes built for unpaved roads. World Bicycle Relief supplies them to schoolgirls, health workers and small businesses in rural regions where long distances cut people off from education and income. The organisation has distributed over one million bikes so far, manufactured by the Giant Group and assembled locally.

Travelling with us, even if Munich is too far away

Warm-up rides will run on Zwift from 11 to 14 May and the Legacy Rides from 15 to 17 May. Those who take part will unlock an RLK18 kit, and limited-edition jerseys will be raffled off at the main events. All events can be found at zwift.com/events/series/ride-like-king.

Giant and Liv dealers around the world are organising further outdoor rides. You can enter your own kilometres in the campaign portal to contribute to the donation target: powerofbicycles.org/event/rlk18.

Under #RideTheLegacy and #RideLikeKing, riders share why they get on their bikes.

All information at giant-bicycles.com/RideLikeKing.