Gaudens CyclingTeam Dorina
Dorina Vaccaroni riding her time-trial bike across open plains under a wide sky

Gaudens Cycling × Dorina Vaccaroni

Ride further.Live stronger.

Ride with Dorina.

A community built around endurance, discovery, friendship and a lifetime on two wheels — led by an athlete who is still breaking her own world records at 63.

2d 20h 51m

Race Across the West, 2025 — a women's world record, and it was her own record she broke

2×

Race Across America women's winner, 2022 and 2023, taking the division record

100+

Granfondo races since she first took up cycling — at the age of 37

4 Olympic Games

A previous life, in fencing. Three medals, one of them gold. The foundation, not the story

Close-up of Dorina Vaccaroni on the bike during a race

An invitation

“Strength, success and compassion can go hand in hand — on and off the field of competition.”

Dorina rides, trains and races alongside the community. Members follow the preparation as it happens, ride the same challenges, and take on the roads she takes on. Not a highlight reel — the whole block, including the days that don't go to plan.

Dorina

Founding ambassador · Team Dorina

Membership

What you get when you ride with us

A global community

Riders from all over the world. One team, many roads — together in person and online.

Epic rides

From local group rides to iconic routes across Italy, Europe and the United States.

Unforgettable places

Curated cycling experiences in Italy and beyond, at member pricing.

Wellness & lifestyle

Training, recovery and plant-based nutrition from a career spent at the very top.

Founding member kit

The co-branded shirt, for the people who were here first.

Closer than social

Race dispatches, training notes and stories that don't go out to the whole internet.

Dorina riding a Californian road beside a lake, mountains behind her
Current focus

Preparing for an ultra-distance race in Texas

Long solo days, heat adaptation, and a great deal of time thinking about wind. Members see the whole training block as it happens — including the days that don't go to plan.

1,840
km this block
21,400
m climbed
76
hours
31
rides

Latest journal — “Wind, hills, and determination”

Training figures are illustrative until rides are connected.

Gaudens Cycling · the reason to join

This is what membership is for: riding together

Ride the Monuments, the Alps and roads chosen by people who know them — fully supported, and at member prices. The community is how you get there.

Riders descending an alpine pass road at golden hour in the Italian Alps
Featured

Ride the Italian Alps

19–24 July 2026 · 6 days, 5 nights · Boutique group of 8–10 riders

Cycling

  • Four guided rides on the Asiago Plateau and in the Dolomites
  • Routes of 60–75 km with spectacular climbs
  • Guide, mechanic and support van

Fencing

  • Daily clinics with an Olympic champion
  • For youth and for partners who aren't riding
  • Nobody in the family gets left at the hotel

Italian Alpine experience

  • Premium four-star spa hotel in Asiago
  • Mountain hut lunches and Italian dinners
  • Hiking for the rest days
Hosted by
Giovanni Curione· Founder, Gaudens Cycling
Featuring
Andrea Tafi × Dorina Vaccaroni
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On the roadmap

Wherever you ride, it will count.

Rides will come in from the apps members already use. Outdoors, indoors, a commute or a 600 km night — every kilometre feeding the same challenges, the same leaderboard, and the same community total.

2,847
Riders in the community
41
Countries
1,284,900 km
Ridden together this year
318
Rides synced today
Strava

Rides and segments syncing the moment a member finishes.

Coming soon
Garmin Connect

Straight from the head unit. Distance, elevation, time, heart rate.

Coming soon
Ride with GPS

The routes Gaudens plans, on the member's bars, turn by turn.

Coming soon
Rouvy

Winter, weather, a dark evening — indoor kilometres counting the same.

Coming soon
Peloton

Bike, Bike+ or the app. The session in the spare room still counts.

Coming soon

These integrations are planned, not yet live. Nothing on this page contacts an account or moves any data. Community figures are illustrative.

The long road

She started cycling at 37. The records came later.

Dorina Vaccaroni went to her first Olympic Games at sixteen, and to three more after that. She came home from them with a bronze, a silver and a gold. That was one life.

The one she is living now began on a bike at 37, turned to ultra-distance in 2014, and has since taken her across America twice as a winner. The medals are in a drawer somewhere. What carried over is the part that matters: an appetite for a hard day, and a refusal to be finished.

Read her story

Dorina coaching fencing, mid-lunge
Then
Dorina working on her own wheel at a race stop
Now

Join

Two ways to ride with Dorina

Follow along for free, or become a founding member and get the kit, the experiences, and a place on the team from day one.

Community

Free

No commitment

  • Dorina's public race and training updates
  • Community challenges and leaderboard
  • Invitations to open group rides
Join free
The co-branded founding-member shirt
Founding Member

Founding Member

€29

Per year · limited first intake

  • Everything in Community
  • The Dorina Vaccaroni "Maestra" shirt
  • 15% off selected Gaudens experiences
  • Members-only content and race dispatches
  • Early access to camps and group rides
Become a founding member

Pricing is conceptual in this prototype. No payment is taken.