The Rally is primarily geared towards road biking. However, the Rally does provide limited off road and mountain biking activities. While there are excellent off road trails for mountain bikers in the Paso Robles area, most of these are located away from the fairgounds where all Rally ride routes begin and end. Participant packets do include 2 mountain bike routes, but these include a significant amount of paved road riding to get to and from the off road portions. To solve this problem, in the past, the local bike shop has led a Saturday mountain bike ride.
Interested riders meet at the bike shop and caravan to a suitable off road area.
In the competitions such as the time trial or hill climb, mountain bikes would be at a disadvantage due to weight. There is a separate class in the Concours De Elegance for mountain bikes. You can bring in RVs of any type. Located at various places around the fairgrounds there are RV hook ups providing electrical power and in a few places, there are water hook ups as well. This fee is collected after you set up camp.