Italy has the very best gravel bike routes in the world. Home to the famed Strade Bianche race and these white roads of the world tour, It’s the perfect place for a gravel bike vacation, under the Tuscan sun. Here’s our growing selection of the best gravel bike routes in Italy – with our partners at 3T Bikes!
3T create some of the best gravel bikes in the world. Add this to being Italian and having some of the best gravel biking trails in the world too, and you’ve got a great reason to take a bikecation vacation and ride our new Italian Gravel Bike Coast to Coast route, in partnership with 3T Bikes – inspiring adventure since 1961!
We’re developing a new 4-day challenge route, for both gravel bikes and mountain bikes’ It’ll take you from the mountain resort of Paltinis in Transylvania, exploring the epic trails of Europe’s last great wilderness. Join the ride, on the adventure revolution – with TRIADA mountain bike!
La Montée du Géant is an exciting cycling event organized by the Tour de France and Chez Octave Tourmalet shop. It takes place on the first Saturday of summer each year and attracts cycling of all levels and all kinds of bikes, from road to electric, from around the globe. This event is a dream come true for many cyclists, and I was excited to be invited, and to have the opportunity to ride up such an iconic mountain!
It’s thankfully quite refreshing to know that there is still a place in the world, and an event to really challenge yourself on, and that actually means something – welcome then to the Transfăgărășan Challenge, and the opportunity to cycle up what is correctly described as the most spectacular ribbon of tarmac in the world – the Transfăgărășan Highway, in Romania.
Rat Penat, a translation from the Catalan language meaning “bat,” is an renowned cycling climb in Catalonia that offers a thrilling experience for cyclists. Situated in the Garraf range of mountains, Rat Penat poses a real challenge to every cyclist brave enough to take it on.
“If the mountain won’t come to me, then I go to the mountain.”
Valle Nevado, an epic climb in the city of Santiago, Chile
Valle Nevado (loosely translates to “snowy valley”) is a sky center situated in the middle of the Andes Mountains, 67 kms from downtown Santiago, Chile, it has an altitude of 3,000 masl and it is one of the epic climbs to do when the winter in the south hemisphere is over, mainly between the months of October and April. The route has total 45 kms length and it is not easy, in cycling terms it would be a Hors catégorie (beyond categorization) with gradients up to 17.5%.
Join Nadezhda on a classic northern Spain climb, into the hills close to Girona – a cycling paradise
Nadezhda has been exploring Bilbao and the Basque Country on 2-wheels. Here’s a selection of her favourite rides, as this dynamic young woman finds adventure and culture, on 2-wheels.
Join Nadezhda on this classic road climb near Girona, with epic views. This one starts from Banyoles Lake and takes on the Rocacorba
