Pedalnorth is written and managed by cycling writers and athletes around the globe, bringing you the very best routes and unbiased information. Our team work within the global cycling community, alongside their role at Pedalnorth simply to give something back, by sharing their own life-cycle with you.
Our Triathlon and Fitness editor, Nadezhda Pavlova continues to bring a buzz to the website and was the key person in our award winning year online during 2020. In 2021 Nadezhda will move up to a wider portfolio as deputy editor alongside Robert and Larisa. Our editorial team are working closely with Voom Nutrition and Elite Cycling from Italy, to ensure that we always give you the very best information to support your own training programmes. And we welcome mountain bike racer, Rich Duckworth to the team, as we expand our blogs on mountain bike stage races, supporting our database of the very best routes for riders on the web.
Link to: Mountain Bike Routes
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
Link to: Kit Reviews
KIT REVIEWS
We only review the kit that we’d be happy to use ourselves: ‘kit we like.’ This way, you can trust it to be the best kit at that pricepoint for performance and style.
Link to: Road Cycling Routes
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.
LATEST NEWS
2020 was very different for all of us. However, we were finalists in the U.K. Online Influence Awards for Health & Fitness, thanks primarily to Nadezhda and Larisa and their lifestyle blogs. We want to give you more lifestyle information, and so we’re joined for 2021 by Diane Vilarem from France – a cyclist, yoga instructor and lifestyle specialist. We’re really excited to welcome this dynamic athlete and inspirational woman to the Pedalnorth team, and we’re looking forward to learning from Diane as she inspires cyclists in their fitness lifestyle, taking on the role of Yoga & Lifestyle editor.
We also want to bring you more general fitness articles and advice, including fitness workout videos on social media. Let’s all work together to lead healthier lifestyles in the future, and create smiles for those long cycling miles.
BE MORE BIKE
There’s lots more technical stuff on our website too, as we work with brands like Fenwick’s to bring you the very best advice on bike maintenance and upgrades; and we’re going to be working closely with Elite from Italy, to bring you lots of advice and information about indoor cycle training and how it can help you to reach those far off and beautiful places.
Elite make the very best indoor trainers, and Larisa and Robert will be testing them out and writing about how cyclists of all ages and abilities can benefit from indoor training. Along with advice on nutrition and performance from our friends at VOOM Nutrition, we’ve got lots planned for the future. Indoor cycling shouldn’t simply be about racing others on a screen in a warm and cosy environment. It should aim to make your outdoor adventures even more spectacular, finally achieving that ride on the Stelvio or Park Rash. Nutrition is also a key area and one that not all cyclists fully understand, and so we want to improve your overall awareness, making sure that we include nutritional information where we can in our training blogs.
MTB STAGE RACING
Our team of talented writers will be competing in a series of mountain bike stage races during 2021, as we work to bring you the very best information about the very best races for your own mountain adventure. We’re also pleased to announce our partnership with PRESCA Teamwear from the UK, who’ll be our lead partner as we enter these adventurous mountain bike races. We don’t just want to write about the races for our readers; we also want to give our talented writers & athletes the opportunity to compete. After all, what better way to know how good an event is for our readers, than to race it – in partnership with PRESCA Sportswear and VOOM Nutrition!
Steve Smales will be taking a lead, joined by Larisa Chinces, who regularly races MTB XC at home in Transylvania, and also Rich Duckworth, who has joined us from the U.K. Enduro race scene. Our partners at VOOM Nutrition are supporting us as a lead partner, and Beau Smith from VOOM is joining the race team as a key member. It’s an exciting season ahead in 2021, so tune in 🙂
LARISA CHINCES
Nobody understands great cycling kit as well as Larisa Chinces. This road and mountain bike racer from Romania has trained at the highest of level of sport, and knows the balance between comfort, performance and style. If you’re looking for great kit ideas, then Larisa probably has the answer you need 🙂
TAKE A CYCLING BREAK 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 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 editor, Larisa Chinces and so we love it as much as we know that you will once you visit 😉
You can click the button here or the Booking.com link at the foot of this page and find your own special cycling holiday accommodation with Booking.com and help to support us in being the best truly independent cycling information website for real cyclists. Now take that holiday you know that you deserve and enjoy your own bikecation vacation with Pedalnorth.com.
TIME TO TRI
With internationally qualified, certified triathlon coach Nadezhda you can take on your own triathlon journey. Nadezhda has great training tips and lifestyle blogs to bring smiles to those triathlon miles. Visit the new Triathlon & Lifestyle section and read the regular blogs by this inspiring and amazing athlete, Nadezhda Pavlova 🙂
MAPS & GPX FILES
Our maps have links to road and mountain bikes routes around the world, with hundreds of routes to choose from, in the UK and across Europe and elsewhere. Click the Road & MTB panels at the top of this page, or simply use the interactive map at the bottom of the home page, with links directly to each route by simply clicking an icon on the map for all the information and maps that you need. Here in the UK, we also use the great mapping from the Ordnance Survey.
Have a great time riding and stay safe, as you plan your own next great cycling adventure 😉
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TRANSFIXING TRANSYLVANIA
Take a look at the amazing road cycling & mountain biking in this beautiful corner of Europe
FARAWAY FRANCE
Lose yourself in France with the amazing places to ride and relax amidst the mountains and culture
Italian Mountains
Take an Italian cycling holiday. Amazing mountain roads… great food and coffee 😉
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