Andi H.

After breakfast, after a 3km warm-up, we headed straight into the mountain of mountains this year. I have to be honest, it has a few percent too steep a gradient for me in one or two places, so that, if traffic allowed it, I had to ride in a zigzag pattern to get the cadence halfway up. Once at the top

Today we rode very little on the road, but on lots of great cycle paths. First from Bolzano along the Brenner motorway to Brixen, then turned into the Pustertal and had lunch somewhere before Bruneck with a panini and strawberry cake. Then we went on the strade bianche from Bruneck towards Olang with

Straight to the start up the Passo Tonale. A bit of traffic. Anyone who planned to take the parallel, fairly new bike path (still under construction in the lower section) must be a mountain biker, if not an e-biker, because there are ramps from hell. Then just a 50km descent into Trentino and then at

After the early rest day on day 2 of the tour due to the weather, we woke up in Lugano today (thanks to Flixbus, even though I still hate you) and then took the ferry across Lake Como and headed towards the Adda Valley, climbing up to Aprica late in the afternoon and then driving down to Edolo. Then