Welcome to Pedalnorth.com

LARISA CHINCES
Read Larisa’s superb reviews
& blogs exclusively here

Larisa’s blog
JACK CARTHY #CHAMPION
Schwalbe & Met rider, UCI
champion Jack Carthy

Ride our routes
TRIATHLON WITH NADEZHDA
Read great triathlon blogs by Nadezhda Pavlova

Train for tri here
STEVE SMALES
Read the new section by Steve, as he examines his life in cycling

Steve Smales Blog

Pedalnorth is written and managed by cycling writers and athletes around the globe, bringing you the very best routes and unbiased information. Many of our team work elsewhere within the global cycling community, as well as completing their role at Pedalnorth and want to give something back, by sharing their own life-cycle with you.

Our triathlon and lifestyle editor, Nadezhda Pavlova , is bringing a new buzz to the website and magazine, and our lifestyle blogs. Larisa and the team are developing a new area of road and mtb routes, promoting Transylvania road cycling and the wealth of awesome mountain biking trails in the Carpathian Mountains. Finally, Scott will be adding lots of epic bikepacking ideas for those who are looking for a real adventure on two wheels, and Steve Smales will be developing a new website section on mountain bike stage races.

READ OUR BLOGS

Check out our latest blogs, routes, reviews & holiday tips

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

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.

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.

MTB Routes

Kit Reviews

Road Routes

LATEST NEWS

We want to continue to bring you a limited but meaningful selective of reviews, of only the very best kit, to help guide you to the right kit for a perfect combination of performance and style. Larisa continues to lead the team on this, working with brands from across the globe and helping to drive Pedalnorth forward, with her talent and enthusiasm. As we progress, we’ve also got plans for developing cycle tours with key partners, for you to enjoy biking in places such as transfixing Transylvania and North Yorkshire, two amazingly historic and beautiful places. And, from 2021 onwards, Larisa will be working closely with Redchilli performance bikes from the U.K., racing on their latest carbon bike and using it in her reviews and cycling blogs.

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.

VISIT ELITE TRAINERS

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.

Read our first Elite indoor training blog here

Take a look at the new sections by Steve Smales and test yourself on a mountain bike stage race, as Steve writes about his own cycling life and the multitude of mtb stage events on offer all over Europe and elsewhere. And, make sure that as well as reading our great reviews and blogs, you get out riding too!

Larisa Chinces
Deputy Ex Editor

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.

TAKE A BOOKING.COM BIKECATION

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 🙂

TRIATHLON & LIFESTYLE

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.