That’s how we marked the route. After covering over 2500 kilometers along both banks of the river, from its springs underneath Barania Góra Mt. all the way to its estuary in Gdańsk, we chose the parts which best show its might and beauty.
The route leads through roads, paths, rubbles and dikes. Riding along busy roads is limited to absolute minimum, to provide safety and comfort of being in touch with the nature and history, which you will not find in any other place in Europe. On your way, you will pass broad old river-beds and flowage’s full of wild birds, sand dunes and sand bars, climatic villages where time seems to have stopped. RMW1200 is not only Krakow, Warsaw, Torun and Gdansk. We will amaze you with beauty and peculiarity of Janowiec, Sandomierz, Zawichost, Plock, Dobrzyn, Chełmno, Swiecie, Grudziac and Gniew and between them- cyclists strive and overcoming your own weaknesses.
W 2027 jubileuszowa dziesiąta edycja WISŁY 1200. Proponujemy nową formułę startu z zachowaniem dotychczasowego maksymalnego limitu czasu 180 godzin. W ten sposób chcemy umożliwić spotkanie się wszystkich finiszerów na mecie w Gdańsku, by razem świętować jubileusz na Festiwalu Wisły 1200, który dla Was organizujemy. Dlatego w zależności od tego, jak długo zamierzasz jechać, możesz wystartować w wybranym dniu od niedzieli 4. do czwartku 8. lipca 2027. Dla zachowania porównywalnych warunków jazdy starty będą każdego dnia o 9.00. Meta czynna będzie od piątku 9. lipca do niedzieli 11. lipca.
Poniżej ściągawka, którego dnia wystartować żeby spędzić na trasie tyle czasu ile potrzebujesz by bezpiecznie dotrzeć do Gdańska w czasie otwarcia mety:
Przedziały czasu dotarcia do mety od startu w poszczególnych dnia:
- start 4 lipca 9.00: spodziewany czas 124–180 godzin
- start 5 lipca 9:00: spodziewany czas 100–156 godzin
- start 6 lipca 9:00: spodziewany czas 76–132 godziny
- start 7 lipca 9:00: spodziewany czas 52–108 godzin
- start 8 lipca 9:00: spodziewany czas 28–84 godziny
Maksymalny limit czasu wynosi 180 godzin, dostępny jest on jednak tylko dla startujących w niedzielę 4.07.2027. Meta zostanie zamknięta dla wszystkich uczestników 11 lipca 2027 r. o godz. 21:00.
Dla bikerafterów sugerujemy start 4., 5. lub 6. lipca – tak żeby „trafili w metę”
You'll choose your start day freely in a survey we'll send out a few weeks before the start. Of course you can change your choice right up to the start.
ABOUT THE PACKAGES:
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Wolne Rzeki – Entry Package with Support for Wolne Rzeki, Without a T-Shirt
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Wolne Rzeki Plus – Entry Package with Support for Wolne Rzeki and a T-Shirt
Kolarstwo Przygodowe is about cycling and nature – and we owe everything to the natural world. We want to give something back and do our part to protect it. Producing just one T-shirt requires around 2,000 litres of water. Together with you, we want to help keep that water in nature while actively supporting environmental projects. If you choose the “Wolne Rzeki” package, the money we would otherwise spend on producing your T-shirt will instead go towards river restoration projects. This way, we not only avoid using a huge amount of water but also actively help keep water where it is needed most – in nature. You can also choose a package that includes both an event T-shirt and a contribution to the Wolne Rzeki Foundation. Choose your package and help us give something back to nature!
Our conscious choices matter and are important for nature.
Students and people under 26 years of age -30% with the code: STUDENT
- In order to register you must sign in or log in and pay for your participation in the rally
- When paying, the date and time of entering the amount on our account or the date and time of payment by online transfer (Przelewy24) are counted.
- Foreign payment W celu dokonania płatności z zagranicy należy przelać kwotę wpisowego na rachunek: Leszek Pachulski ul. Władysława IV 15/2, 81-703 Sopot SWIFT – WBKPPLPP IBAN – PL95 1090 1102 0000 0001 3544 0948 Prosimy o przesłanie potwierdzenia płatności na mumin@wisla1200.pl
- It is not possible to transfer your spot to another person.
- In case of resignation from participation in the rally, the entry fee will be returned to the sender's bank account or to the bank account assigned to the payment card according to the following scheme:
| RESIGNATION: | RETURN OF THE AMOUNT PAID: |
| No later than 5 months before the start | 100% |
| No later than 3 months before the start | 80% |
| No later than 1 months before the start | 50% |
| Less than 1 month before the start | 0% |
In order to resign from start, please send an e-mail to the following address mumin@wisla1200.pl from the e-mail address provided during registration.
W przypadku, gdy dokonałeś wyboru opcji „Wolne Rzeki” lub „Wolne Rzeki Plus” kwota 50 zł. przekazana zgodnie z Twoim wyborem stanowi Twoją darowiznę na rzecz Podkarpackiego Towarzystwa Przyrodników Wolne Rzeki i nie podlega zwrotowi w przypadku rezygnacji z udziału w imprezie.
Race Rules
WISŁA 1200 BIKERAFTING jest samowystarczalnym ultramaratonem, w którym trasę, wytyczoną wzdłuż i po Wiśle należy pokonać z rowerem i packraftem. Impreza jest adresowana do zaawansowanych i doświadczonych rowerzystów, którzy równie pewnie czują się na wodzie*. Trasa WISŁA 1200 Bikerafting odtwarza szlak, który od wieków był wykorzystywany by przemierzyć całą Polskę szkutami pełnymi soli, zboża, drewna czy skór, czy też po to by w podróży dotrzeć do morskiego okna Rzeczypospolitej – Gdańska. Trasę tę pokonywali kupcy i podróżnicy, ale zawsze w zgodzie z rytmem rzeki, wytyczanym zmiennością pór roku.
The rules of Vistula 1200 Bikerafting race are simple:
- You must complete the entire VISTULA 1200 Bikerafting race Route on your bicycle and packraft using your own muscle power in accordance with these Rules.
- The route is divided into 6 bicycle sections and 5 packraft sections.
- You must have a bike and a packraft with you on the entire route, according to the principle: “packraft on the bike, bike on the packraft”
- The entire Vistula 1200 Bikerafting race route must be completed without external support (self-sufficiency). This means, among other things, that from the start to the finish, you must have a bike, a packraft and luggage with you to cover the route. This rule applies to all aspects of completing the Amber Road Route, including eating, drinking, sleeping, and servicing equipment.
- Niedopuszczalne na trasie jest korzystanie z jakiegokolwiek wsparcia osób trzecich, które nie jest dostępne dla wszystkich na równych zasadach. Osoby bliskie to też osoby trzecie w rozumieniu niniejszych Reguł. Zakaz ten nie dotyczy pomocy w każdej sytuacji zagrożenia bezpieczeństwa na wodzie.
- It is unacceptable to use any support arranged before the start, including making reservations for accommodation on the route before the start.
- Support between race participants is in accordance with these Rules. It is the duty and privilege of each of you and will be an expression of the correct understanding of the idea of this event;
- All bicycle sections must be completed in accordance with their route provided by the organizer as GPX files, respecting the remaining Vistula 1200 Bikerafting race Rules and the law (private property, nature protection, road traffic law, state borders).
- Cycling sections can be completed on any muscle-powered bike. The route runs mostly on tarmac and gravel roads, which can be covered by a gravel bike. There are also forest and farm roads whose passability may depend on the weather.
- Participants, throughout the entire distance, are required to have and use a helmet and appropriate lighting on the front and rear of the bike during the cycling sections.
- If the designated route is impassable, find a detour and return to the trail in a safe place.
- Leaving the Route is always permitted, regardless of the reason, as long as you return to the Route in the same place
- The water sections must be covered using a packraft, kayaking together with your bike and luggage.
- Water sections run along Vistula river and its tributaries used for kayaking tourism. These are water bodies with natural and artificial obstacles and hydro-technical facilities that are impossible to overcome with a packraft. Participants themselves determine how to avoid obstacles (portage). It is necessary to thoroughly familiarize yourself with the water sections and the obstacles located there before the event.
- The state of safety on water often depends on the state (height) of the water. High water levels may cause additional technical difficulties and always require increased attention and caution. Your safety depends on your prudence and humility.
- Mandatory equipment for the entire distance is a buoyancy vest, adjusted to the participant’s size, worn and secured in accordance with its instructions for the entire duration of crossing the water sections. Violation of this provision of the Rules will result in immediate disqualification.
- Water section gpx files are schematic and are used only to determine the starting and ending points of a water section.
- It is not allowed to use gpx files of water sections as a track marking a detailed route on the water.
- Participants are the organizers of their own trip and rafting and are responsible for the route of the packraft rafting, including the selection of exit points and launching points in the event of portages, the method of avoiding obstacles and the selection of a detailed route on the water.
- Water is an element whose power exceeds the capabilities of every human, and swimming in a packraft carries the risk of accidents that may result in the loss of equipment, health or life. Remember that you are the organizer of your trip and your caution and humility towards the elements will constitute the basis for your safety, and the organizer will not be able or obliged to provide or provide you with assistance during the trip and rafting.
- The travel time is counted non-stop from the start to the check-in at the finish line.
- Individual classification will be conducted separately for women and men. The order will be determined by the time taken to complete the Route in accordance with the Vistula 1200 bikerafting race Rules. The maximum time limit for classification is 200 hours. Someone has to win, but no one will lose.
- Confirmation of completing the Vistula 1200 bikrafting race route will be its recording in the GPX format, made by the participant while traveling.
- There is a strict ban on kayaking from dusk to dawn. It is deadly dangerous and illegal. Zmierzch następuje 40 min. po zachodzie słońca a świt na 40 minut przed wschodem słońca, które to zjawiska będą oceniane indywidualnie dla konkretnego dnia i faktycznej lokalizacji poszczególnych uczestników. Dla przykładu podajemy, że pora od zmierzchu do świtu w Krakowie 4/5.07.2026 będzie od godz. 21.36 do 3.53, w Toruniu 8/9.07.2026 w godz. od 22.00 do 3.41, a w Gdańsku 10/11.07.2026 w w godz. od 22.22. do 3.16. Uczestnicy zobowiązani są tak planować odcinki wodne, aby bezwzględnie dostosować się do tej reguły. Przypadki złamania powyższego zakazu skutkują bezwględną dyskwalifikacją.
- The organizers advise against cycling at night or in other conditions that limit visibility and safety. However, if you decide to do so, you must be equipped with front and rear lights to ensure your safety and the safety of others. Remember that in conditions of limited visibility and prolonged fatigue, your ability to realistically assess threats is limited.
- Your struggles along the route will be visible thanks to trackers that must remain constantly turned on during the event. The Participant is responsible for ensuring that the tracker is charged. Traveling with the tracker turned off may be grounds for disqualification. The tracker is not intended for navigation!!!!! it only records your position and sends this data to the ®Dot Maker system, thanks to which you can cheer and “dotwatch” in front of computers and smartphones around the world.
- Participants must ensure that the tracker, their electronic devices and power sources are adequately protected against the effects of the aquatic environment and moisture using waterproof covers.
- We reserve the right to introduce additions and explanations to these Regulations and the right to interpret them in accordance with the spirit of the idea of self-sufficiency and in order to maintain your safety.
* Only adults who guarantee that they will complete the Route without any damage to their health can take part in Vistula 1200 Bikerafting Race. You cannot take part in Vistula 1200 Bikerafting Race without proper preparation of your fitness, equipment and techniques for long-distance cycling and long-distance swimming in watercraft powered by your own muscles, as well as without first testing your abilities in cycling and broadly understood kayaking. You start at your own risk and you have to decide for yourself whether to take up this epic challenge.


Start: Wisła
Finish: Gdańsk
Date: 04.07.2026
Distance: 1200 km (1000 by land/200 by water)


