Welcome to Pedalnorth.com

The home of independent cycling culture & lifestyle

Pedalnorth brings together some of the most talented writers, route developers and photographers within the cycling industry, to bring you exceptional and inspiring cycling lifestyle content and cycling culture blogs.

Wherever you are in the world, Pedal North of home and enjoy the ride, with some of the very best routes in the world and our unbiased information about the best products – only the kit we choose to use ourselves. Our team, all current or former athletes, are connected to the global cycling industry, alongside their role at Pedalnorth. We simply choose to give something back – inspiring, encouraging and influencing cycling, by sharing their own life-cycle with you.

We want to help you to find your own cycling vacation location, with some of the best places to ride, on road or trail. And, as we work with the world’s best bike brands, such as Orbea, iconic and legendary Time Bikes, Ale clothing, Pirelli, Camelbak, Elite and Rudy Project, you can trust our opinions to be based on honesty, and not the marketing budgets of others.

For 2026 we will be developing new cycling and gravel bike routes in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, with new places to find adventure! Isn’t it time for you to join the new cycling revolution and let the team at Pedalnorth inspire you, as you discover your own adventure on 2-wheels!

INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE & INFLUENCE CYCLING

ROAD CYCLING ROUTES

Our road cycling routes provide a great opportunity to take a cycling holiday in some amazing places. With maps and gpx files, all you need is a sense of fun.

GRAVEL BIKING ROUTES

Our gravel bike routes are among the best curated routes in Europe, with multi-day adventures to challenge you – each with maps and free GPX downloads

MOUNTAIN BIKE ROUTES

Our mountain bike routes are all ridden and tested by our team and provide a great day in the hills, in the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Transylvania

THE BEST INFORMATION, FOR FREE

We believe that there’s often too much commercialism within cycling. Route mapping and information for cyclists should be free, not charged for or membership required – which is why all of the GPX files on our website can be downloaded without any login being required, and access to all of our maps is free to you. Best of all, it will stay this way, giving you free access to cycling information all over Europe and elsewhere. We want to help you all to easily find your next adventure on some of the best roads and trails in the world.

Fatima Berton in desert 2026 wide screen

We’re really excited to announce that inspirational cyclist, Fatima Berton from Flanders, has joined the team here at Pedalnorth! Long-term friend Fatima, is creating inspirational VLOGS on her YouTube channel, and will be recording regular podcasts with us here, as she and Ro bert talk ‘Jack sh#t cycling’ and try to put meaning to the often chaotic and varied cycling world. For now though, here’s the latest Vlog from Fatima, as she takes on the Titan of the Desert event – free to view and follow! Simply pop over to YouTube and subscribe there!

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’NEW FOR 2026’

EXCITING CONTENT FOR YOUR CYCLING LIFESTYLE

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be partnering with the Garda Trentino Tourism body in Italy, to bring you the very best cycling tourism information from this beautiful region of Italy! With some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, it’s always time to take a trip to Trentino – with Pedalnorth and Garda Trentino!

We’re also pleased to announce that we will be partnering with iconic TIME Bikes, as we ride some of the best curated routes in Europe, with this legendary brand of bike building artisans.

Finaly, a huge congratulations to Kristi, for here recent win, becoming the new European Women’s Cyclocross Champion in the masters 34-39 category!

BERTONIIII’S VLOG

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CHECK OUT OUR ROAD & MTB ROUTES

We’ve put together a selection of some of the very best high quality road and MTB routes in the U.K., Europe and elsewhere, with new routes being added for Italy, France and Romania all the time. Best of all, our maps and gpx files are all free to download and don’t require subscription. And, we’re now riding and adding some of the best gravel bike routes in Europe too, in partnership with our industry friends.

Our mountain bike coast to coast route is regarded as one of the most popular online, and our new gravel bike coast to coast route went live in summer 2022, taking you from Ravenglass and the Lake District, through the Yorkshire Dales and on towards Ravenscar and the North Yorks Moors coast, with help from Orbea U.K.. All of our U.K. based road cycling and mountain bike routes have detailed Ordnance Survey maps for you to follow too, keeping you on track wherever you’re riding.

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ENJOY A CYCLING LIFESTYLE

WITH PEDALNORTH

We know how important it is for many people, to try and lead a sporting lifestyle, and how difficult it can be to find the right advice – especially for women cyclists. It’s crucial to find information written specifically for the female athlete. Thankfully, for 2024, our multi-talented cyclist and editor, Nadezhda, will be bringing you a wealth of interesting and informative lifestyle articles and cycling kit reviews, specifically for women in sport. There’s lots of great cycling lifestyle planned, along with the best women’s cycling blogs online. Click the links in our menu and become a part of the best website for cycling lifestyle website – Pedalnorth.

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TAKE A BREAK TO SOMEWHERE SPECIAL

Why not use our vast database of cycling routes and our informative blogs to plan your own cycling holiday. We’re more than happy to help you too, and we welcome emails for advice on where to go. For instance, why not take a trip to transfixing Transylvania, with what we believe are some of the best natural trails and the best road cycling climbs in Europe, plus so much history to explore. It’s the home to our MTB Consultant Editor and partner, Tudor Oprea, as well as Alex and Teo, and so we love it as much as we know that you will, once you visit 😉

If you’re looking for a great way to transport your bike safely to all those amazing places, then simply visit the Bike Box Alan website and choose from their amazing bike boxes, regarded by many as the best in the world. Now take that holiday you know that you deserve and enjoy your own bikecation vacation with Pedalnorth.com.

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