Take a Ride on the Wild Side

Conversations with cycling friends across Europe renewed our enthusiasm to try and develop a similarly challenging route to our succesful U.K. gravel bike coast to coast ride, taking in the history, culture and beauty that lies between the Italian  Adriatic and the Med, with a jaunt along the white roads of Tuscany, and a cultural visit to Florence.

Our initial conversations also discussed how we might take things further, and then develop our own epic Italian road cycling coast to coast route, tackling some of the famed passes, and maybe taking riders into the beautiful cycling roads of the Italian lakes and mountains  – yes, with a vineyard or two along the way! In effect, we talked about numerous adventure rides, and longer term, we believe that Italy deserves two great gravel based routes across it – one in the centre – which we are currently working on – and one in the north, skirting the lower hills, lakes and mountains of this beautiful country.

As of November 2025, we have a defined draft of the proposed main route, in a state where we will be ready to ride and check out the detail of the various roads and tracks, and establish the viability and how it knits together. It’s still a work in progress, but if you’d like to help us out by riding sections and emailing us, we’d be extremely grateful. Our plan now is to ride the route in its entirety as soon as possible, and to make the necessary changes. If you do ride the current  mapped options, then please bare in mind that we haven’t yet given these a final ride and check over. The decision to ride it at this point is down to you alone. Hopefully, we’ll have it all finalised quite soon.