Name: Frankenmuth Fondo Ride
Start: 2026-08-08
End: 2026-08-08
Location: Frankenmuth, Michigan

About the Event

We hope to see you at our 8th Annual Frankenmuth Fondo on Saturday, August 8th, 2026, and participate on our 100k, 50k or 25k courses. The event is a timed event. Not only can you bike through one of the region's most bike-friendly cities, you get to see some one-of-a-kind beautiful sites. The route is well-marked with color-coded route markers. All proceeds going to the Rotary Helping Hands Fund.

Date: | Saturday, August 8th, 2026

Location: | 925 S. Main Street Frankenmuth, MI 48734

Race Categories: | 100K, 50K, 25K

Race Start Times

100K | 8:00am

50K | 8:30am

25K | 9:00am

Finish Lines Festivities will be held from 10:00am-1:00pm

Packet Pick Up

Date: | Friday, August 7th, 2026 | 6:00pm-7:30pm

Date: | Saturday, August 8th, 2026 | Starting at 6:30am

Location: | Frankenmuth River Place Shops rear parking lot: 925 S. Main Street Frankenmuth, MI 48734

Donate

All proceeds from this event will go to the Frankenmuth Rotary Helping Hands Fund. The Helping Hands Committee was established as a part of the Frankenmuth Rotary Club in 2017 to help struggling and disadvantaged individuals and families in the local area. Your donations have made a huge impact - from replacing water heaters, paying overdue medical bills, helping abused women and children resettle, replace hearing aids for elderly people who are making decisions to eat rather than hear because they cannot afford both and many others. To date we have given more than $70,000 in assistance.

To donate, click on the DONATE tab at the top of the page.

2026 Shirt Orders

Click here to order!

Orders will be taken online only now through August 15th. All shirts will be printed after that deadline and sent to the address you enter.

Races Offered

FONDO 100K

Aug 08, 2026

straighten

Distance — 100K

terrain

Type — —

timer

08:00

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$70.00

FONDO 100K - KIDS

Aug 08, 2026

straighten

Distance — 100K

terrain

Type — —

timer

08:00

sell

$40.00

FONDO 50K

Aug 08, 2026

straighten

Distance — 50K

terrain

Type — —

timer

08:30

sell

$70.00

FONDO 50K - KIDS

Aug 08, 2026

straighten

Distance — 50K

terrain

Type — —

timer

08:30

sell

$40.00

FONDO 25K

Aug 08, 2026

straighten

Distance — 25K

terrain

Type — —

timer

09:00

sell

$70.00

FONDO 25K - KIDS

Aug 08, 2026

straighten

Distance — 25K

terrain

Type — —

timer

09:00

sell

$40.00

Weather Overview

These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for August in Frankenmuth.

Temp (°C)

Feels Like (°C)

thermostat 16.1° / 26.5°

wb_sunny 15.6° / 26.3°

Wind (km/h)

Humidity (%)

air 10.9 /

water_drop 72.6%

Temp (°C)

Feels Like (°C)

Wind (km/h)

Humidity (%)

thermostat 16.1° / 26.5°

wb_sunny 15.6° / 26.3°

air 10.9 km/h

water_drop 72.6%

About Frankenmuth

Frankenmuth is a city of about 5,500 people (2019) in southeastern Michigan, which was settled in 1845 by 15 Lutheran Germans who intended to spread the Christian religion to the Native American population in the area. The town today capitalizes on this German background, billing itself as "Michigan's Little Bavaria", and styling its downtown after an idealized image of a 19th-century Germany village. Visitors may find it to be unbearably kitschy, but there's a great sense of fun and an almost theme-park-like feel about the downtown area.