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KIT WE LIKE
Read kit reviews, led by Larisa Chinces, Deputy Executive Editor

Kit Reviews
TRIATHLON WITH NADEZHDA
Read great triathlon blogs by Nadezhda Pavlova

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GRAVEL BIKE COAST TO COAST
Gravel Bike C2C: Voom Nutrition & Beau Smith
LARISA CHINCES
Read Larisa’s superb reviews
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Larisa’s blog
CYCLING TOURISM
Let Robert & team guide you to the best places for a cycling holiday

Cycle Tourism
DIANE VILAREM
Lifestyle & Fitness Editor

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

Steve Smales Blog
NADEZHDA PAVLOVA
Deputy Executive Editor, Health & Fitness

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 recently qualified for the TT in the Gran Fondo World Championships. Beau Smith and Christi Byrne will be joining us in 2022, as we expand our partnership with Voom Nutrition, bringing you great advice from these GB Triathletes. On the mountain bike front, Larisa and Beau will be leading the way for us at Trans Alp 2022, riding in our new Pedalnorth Presca colours and writing about the race.

We’ll also be expanding routes all over the globe, with new road cycling routes from Nadezhda and Katya in Florida, Mary Wilke in Europe, and gravel bike and road cycling routes in Colorado and the USA from Hannah. After the tragedies that many will have experienced during the pandemic, we want to bring you more ideas for bikecation vacations too, and we’ll be writing more about places to visit and ride, with Stephan taking a lead on some classics in Europe to provide a personal challenge. Chris is busy developing our new Youtube channel, so take a look at the Pedalnorth videos as we grow our content videos.

Finally, Robert will be off to Verona in the summer too, riding the Alé Eddy Merckx event. There’s so much happening at Pedalnorth during 2022, so join us in turning the wheels forward!

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 – NADEZHDA PAVLOVA

Moving to 2022, Nadezhda takes on the role of supporting Executive Editor, using her numerous talents and dynamic professionalism to develop Pedalnorth further. Our senior editor and triathlon coach, Nadezhda Pavlova has also qualified for the Gran Fondo World Championships in the TT Classification. We’re super proud of Nadezhda, who continues to show the extensive depths of her amazing and inspirational talents and athletic ability.

You can benefit from the wealth of knowledge and coaching experience that Nadezhda and our other triathletes have, simply by reading her training blogs here at Pedalnorth – click the link here 🙂

BEAU SMITH

Post pandemic, we want to develop our work on health and nutrition, bringing even more training tips to our readers, and we’ll be joined by Elite triathlete, Beau Smith from VOOM Nutrition. Beau is an international standard athlete, and part of our own joint race team for 2021/22, and is a huge addition to our blogging athletes.

He’ll be giving tips on training, and linking you in to his own running route suggestions in the Lakeland fells and elsewhere; plus sharing his nutritional knowledge from VOOM. And, Christi Byrne, a GB age group triathlete and sports physio also joins us.

TEAM ‘PEDALNORTH-PRESCA – POWERED BY VOOM’

Despite the setbacks this year due to the pandemic, we’ll be putting our team into several mountainbike, road and triathlon races during 2022, as we write about the very best events from a competitor perspective.

Larisa, Beau, Steve, Rick, Scott and Nadezhda will be riding and racing all over Europe and beyond, as we partner with PRESCA and VOOM Nutrition, with our writers showing their athletic prowess and writing skills just for you. 🙂

Our editorial team, led by Robert and Larisa will taking on the task of actively participating in some of the best mtb stage races and events, in order to bring you the very best writing, and to inspire you to take on your own epic mountain bike challenges.

HEALTH & LIFESTYLE BLOGS AT PEDALNORTH

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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.

READ OUR ELITE INDOOR CYCLING BLOGS

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.

PARTNERSHIP

We’re delighted to announce our new kit partnership with eco-friendly U.K. sportswear brand PRESCA. This dynamic and growing brand will be providing our editorial and team kit, allowing us more freedom to bring you truly independent cycling information, that identifies with our own ethical approach. Meeting with Presca co-founder, Peter Lillie, meant meetings on bikes, with coffee and cake – always a great start to a partnership 😉

Having sponsored leading men’s and women’s teams, both in the U.K. and Europe, PRESCA work tirelessly to show that stylish performance clothing can also protect the planet. Take a look at the PRESCA website and choose your own eco-friendly kit from their modern performance clothing.

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Beau Smith wearing new PEDALNORTH-PRESCA Powered by VOOM team kit

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 🙂

Larisa Chinces
Deputy Ex Editor

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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 🙂

TIME TO TRI WITH 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.